📖 FREE English Lessons

Each Podcast is its own English lesson

Hello, and welcome to Adept English a NEW & BETTER way of learning to speak English fluently. Here you will find lots of great "listen & learn" podcasts.

My name is Hilary and I created the "listen & learn" method of learning to 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 publish a FREE English lesson in the form of a video podcast, and for people who subscribe to our podcasts on Spotify or Apple Podcasts they get an additional 2 podcasts every week. So listen to Adept English. You'll be on your way to speaking fluent English in no time.

📮 grammar

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Basics Of Grammar In English Managing Your Contractions Ep 383

If you hear the word Contraction and you have no context to the conversation, then you would probably think about pregnancy and giving birth. However, this is Adept English and we are talking about basic English grammar today, specifically English language contractions.

Published

November 19, 2020

📮 listening

A photograph of a woman working online from home, a common thing in the UK 2020

English Lessons That Make Learning To Speak English Easier Ep 382

We like to keep our English listening lessons contemporary and interesting. There is no point learning English vocabulary from a book that’s five years old, everyday English language is always changing, and the vocabulary in use today is very different to that being used even a few years ago.

Published

November 16, 2020

📮 listening

A side view full length portrait photograph of active senior couple running in park along lake. As we talk about longevity in our English lesson today.

Adept English Learning Language Skills Through Listening Ep 381

Living a long healthy, happy and meaningful life is something I assume all of us would want. But imagine if you lived to be 100, or even 1000? In today’s English language listening lesson we talk about longevity.

Published

November 12, 2020

📮 speaking

A photograph of Lochan na Stainge at Glencoe in the Highlands of Scotland, it seems apt for a conversation about Kilts.

Learn English Speaking As We Discuss Scottish Kilts Ep 380

Adeptenglish helps people learn to speak English fluently. We do this using a technique you are all familiar with, as you have already used this language learning approach to learn your first native language. We all learned our first language by listening and interacting with our parent or careers.

Published

November 09, 2020

📮 listening

A magnificent photograph of the stars at night from a camping site in a forest. Learning more than just how to speak English fluently.

Learn How To Speak English While We Talk About OSIRIS REx Ep 379

Humans are quite remarkable. Unhappy with the wonder of travelling through our solar system on a blue spaceship called earth, we seek to go beyond what seems impossible and make it possible. So imagine launching a spaceship from earth, the size of a van, 200 million miles into space to meet a huge rock travelling at over 60 thousand miles an hour. Today we learn how to speak English and find our more about OSIRIS REx.

Published

November 05, 2020

📮 phrases

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Get Phrasal Verbs Much More Than A List Of Prepositions Part 2 Ep 378

One of the challenges of learning to speak English is that native English speakers use short English phrases which often have multiple meanings. The confusion arises when you take some prepositions and verbs, that mean one thing on their own and another when used together.

Published

November 02, 2020

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