📖 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.

📮 grammar

Lots of ladies shoes in a shoe shop on a wall display, used to help explain the English preposition in and on.

ESL English Grammar Lesson Helping You With English Propositions Ep 350

Today we will pick two confusing English prepositions and practise using them. It might be something you need to help with your everyday English speaking practise or maybe your ESL, English grammar can confuse and we are here to help with lots of English language listening practice.

Published

July 27, 2020

📮 idioms

A photograph of some walking boots used to help explain the English idiom too big for your boots

English Idioms That Are Too Big For Their Boots Ep 349

I was talking to a British colleague of mine about Adept English recently and mentioned that one of our English lessons will be on English idioms. They said nobody uses idioms that much anymore, and I laughed because the music on the radio at that very moment was Stormzy, a popular English rapper, was literally rapping a song about an English idiom at that very moment. The English use idioms all the time!

Published

July 23, 2020

📮 fluency

Raspberry and blackberry for pet tortoise, part of the discussion on UK obsession with pets.

Find Out About British Pets While Learning How To Speak English Ep 348

If you are learning to how to speak English fluently you need to listen to lots and lots of everyday English being spoken by a native English speaker. Finding lots of interesting English audio to help you practice listening to English and understanding English is harder than you would imagine.

Published

July 20, 2020

📮 phrases

A photograph of seven ballerinas at ballet bar. Used to help explain the many uses of the English word bar.

English Phrases With Just A Few Bars In Them Ep 347

Keeping up with English phrases can be difficult. Not only do English words fall in and out of everyday use. The English language often uses the same word, but with a different meaning. Lucky for you Adept English focuses on useful everyday English, so we can help you keep up.

Published

July 16, 2020

📮 listening

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

📮 grammar

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

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