📖 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.

📮 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

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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

📮 speaking

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Improve Your English Fluency Listening To English Spoken Natively Ep 302

The key to acquiring a language through listening is listening to the language, in this case English, spoken at the right pace for language learners, with the correct pronunciation. Native English speakers are the best source of English listening materials and ideally you want a single voice, with no other noises to distract you.

Published

February 10, 2020

📮 grammar

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Correct Vocabulary For English Grammar-English Made Simple Ep 301

It’s 2 degrees Celsius here in London today and it feels colder because there is a steady wind. I hope you're all warm and safe and ready to tackle the boring part of learning a language, and that is grammar. English like any other language has its own vocabulary to describe its own grammar rules. It helps to know what the most common of these words is and what they mean. In today's English lesson we cover the most important and frequently used.

Published

February 06, 2020

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