📖 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.

📮 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

📮 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

📮 grammar

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

📮 pronunciation

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

📮 speaking

A slow shutter photograph of busy traffic at night. Used in a native English spoken podcast on UK smart motorways.

Learn About UK Smart Motorways While Listening To English Spoken Natively Ep 340

The last time we were talking about English spoken natively was about the UK shutting down, so it seems appropriate to practice listening to English about something involved in the UK opening up again.

Published

June 22, 2020

📮 idioms

A photograph of a black forest Pavlova cake with a cherry on top, used to help explain the English idiom the cherry on top of the cake.

Three English Idioms Which Are The Same In French Ep 339

Today we examine 3 common English idioms. English idioms are a pain to learn for new English language learners. We try to make it fun and interesting, so much so you might like these awkward parts of the English language when we finish with them.

Published

June 18, 2020

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