📖 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

A photograph of a group of friends enjoying a meal, this is used an example of a having a meal in the future to help explain future English language tenses.

Learning English-Conversations About The Future Ep 308

Today we will cover tenses in English conversation. If you don’t know what an English tense is, then jump right in as we explain it in the lesson. If you know about the 12 English language tenses, then you probably know it can be difficult using them in English conversation, and this lesson explains why and how to use English language tenses properly.

Published

March 02, 2020

📮 listening

A photograph of glossy hot cross buns, because we all like cake.

Cake Mmmm And How To Learn English Speaking Ep 307

One way Adept English differs from more traditional English language lessons is that we like to keep the lesson interesting in and of itself. Every one of our lessons helps you with learning to speak English, but each lesson should also give you a little insight into how we live here in Britain.

Published

February 27, 2020

📮 pronunciation

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Tips And Tricks To Help You With Shn-Words In This English Tutorial Ep 306

Today we will look at nouns and verbs related through a common word stem. English has a lot of words that end in -ion, over 3000, so today we have some helpful tips on working with -ion or ‘shn’ words.

Published

February 24, 2020

📮 listening

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Improve Your Everyday Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 305

Jumping into an informal conversation with English speakers is easy, you just need something to talk about. It could be an opinion, or some fact, something you feel you know something about and as an English language student, you have the vocabulary and listening skills to maintain the conversation.

Published

February 20, 2020

📮 speaking

A photograph of men smiling as they have a conversation in English together.

Speaking English-Talking To One Another Ep 304

In our English lesson today, we learn about some aspects of conversational English. Talking in casual conversations is different to writing in English. For example, when native English speakers talk informally, they often imply hint and suggest the answers expected when asking questions.

Published

February 17, 2020

📮 idioms

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5 Useful Motion Idioms And Phrases In English Sentences Ep 303

Today we will talk about English sentences that make little sense unless you know an idiom or common phrase is being used in the sentence. The English language is annoying. You're a great English student and you know and understand all the English vocabulary being used but you get the meaning of the sentence wrong, because it’s using an idiom.

Published

February 13, 2020

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