📖 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.

📮 idioms

A vibrant photograph of bright orange carrots, which are the star of our English lesson on an English idiom.

An English Idiom You Should All Know Ep 371

I think it’s true that positive rewards are a better motivation for most people, rather than negative ones. However, if you need someone to do something, and suitable rewards cannot encourage them to act, you sometimes need to highlight negative or even threatening outcomes. Especially if people will not do what you need them to do. Now that took quite a lot of English vocabulary to explain a simple scenario, a native English speaker would prefer to use an English idiom, a metaphor which explains the scenario in a much simpler idiomatic way.

Published

October 08, 2020

📮 speaking

Learn English Speaking As We Talk About Saving UK Football Ep 370

In today’s lesson we are going to pick a topic from the British headline news and talk about it using everyday English vocabulary. It’s about football, and we learn English speaking through listening to the conversation with a focus on how the words are spoken. Listening to this lesson several times will help you with your automatic English comprehension.

Published

October 05, 2020

📮 listening

Neuroscience While We Practice Listening To Conversations In English Ep 369

It’s not every day you get to say you’ve listened to a podcast on neuroscience. If you invest the next ten minutes of your life to this podcast. You will not only practise listening to an English conversation in English, to improve your English comprehension. You might also change the way you live to help keep your brain in tip-top condition as you grow older.

Published

October 01, 2020

📮 speaking

A photograph of a laughing man with headphones sitting at table. Used to highlight one of the English acronyms used in this English spoken natively lesson.

Learn About Acronyms While Listening To English Spoken Natively Ep 368

If you're investing your valuable time learning to speak a new language, like English, you are much better off listening to English being spoken by a native English speaker. If you intend to use your new English language skills, then practicing your English language skills with the people you are eventually going to be speaking with is a much more efficient approach to learning.

Published

September 28, 2020

📮 listening

UK Black Box Car Insurance A Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 367

Frustration with technology, outrageous costs and the freedom to drive are in today’s English listening lesson. Today’s lesson takes the form of a conversation with English listening practice that will engage your interest and keep you interested in listening. All you have to do is sit back and listen, and listen as many times as you can.

Published

September 24, 2020

📮 idioms

A photograph of horses in Iceland. Wild horses in a group. Horses on the Westfjord in Iceland. Discussed in this English lesson when we talked about furry coats to help survive in the cold weather.

Horse Idioms English Lesson Ep 366

A recent comment on YouTube, which suggested that idioms make English interesting, got me thinking about English idioms. It has been a while since I last did an English idiom lesson, so today we are going to talk about a horse idiom I heard being used on BBC Radio 4.

Published

September 21, 2020

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