📖 English Lessons Section

Each Podcast is its own English lesson

Hi there you are listening to Adept English and this is a listen and learn podcast. My name is Hilary and I created this listen and learn method to help you speak English fluently. It's much more enjoyable if you learn English in the way that your brain naturally wants to learn. I live in the United Kingdom. I'm a native English speaker. And I love helping the hundreds of thousands of students who listen to us every month.

Every week we give you two English lessons in the form of podcasts. So listen to Adept English. You'll be on your way to speaking fluent English in no time.

📮 listening

A photograph of a woman wearing masks and gloves while buying bananas in a food shop during the lockdown, a topic for English listening practice.

Learn How To Speak English While Listening To A Topical Discussion Ep 346

Do you want to learn how to speak English well? What if I told you that to speak English all you have to do is dramatically increase the amount of English you listen to.

Published

July 13, 2020

💬 Words: 2302

⏳ Length 12 min

📮 grammar

A photograph of a lady painting a room, used as part of the English grammar lesson on English tenses.

Time To Test Your English Tenses In This English Grammar Lesson Ep 345

In this lesson we will work on English tenses, and test ourselves on them. When you learn to speak a language through listening you get the benefit of learning the correct grammar automatically. If you use traditional approaches to study English, learning grammar can be difficult. In todays English lesson we hope to show you how listening can make it a little easier.

Published

July 09, 2020

💬 Words: 2414

⏳ Length 13 min

📮 fluency

A photograph of friends drinking beer at the counter in pub, used in this English language lesson about pubs.

Discover Why Pubs Are So Important In This Learn English Language Lesson Ep 344

In today’s lesson we will focus on English language fluency. We often use a news story or something topical to help keep the English lesson interesting, and this week talk about English pubs reopening.

Published

July 06, 2020

💬 Words: 2049

⏳ Length 11 min

📮 listening

Doctor arranging neurology scanning headset for tests on a female patient, seeing what parts of our brain are used in speaking a language fluently.

Why Traditional Speaking English Classes Are Not The Best Way To Learn English Ep 343

Did you know that all 7.5 billion of the people who live on our planet earth learned to speak their first language through listening.

Published

July 02, 2020

💬 Words: 2166

⏳ Length 11 min

📮 grammar

Summer on an organic farm. A young woman in a field of flowers, the cover images used for this ESL English grammar lesson.

Making Esl English Grammar Easier One Tiny Word At A Time Ep 342

We haven’t talked about English grammar in a while, so today we jump in and pick just one English word since and take a thorough analysis into its correct use.

Published

June 29, 2020

💬 Words: 1916

⏳ Length 10 min

📮 pronunciation

A photograph of London bridge at night. Used as the cover image for our practice English pronunciation lesson on OGG and EEK sounding words.

Practise English Pronunciation Help With EEK and OGG Ep 341

It has been a while since we have focused on English pronunciation practise. Today we will focus on words that end with an OGG or EEK sound. Normally, when you listen to enough native English, you will pick up the correct pronunciation, but as always with English there are some words which you pronounce completely differently to the written words.

Published

June 25, 2020

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