📖 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.

📮 listening

A photograph of a woman with her eyes closed standing in the middle of a huge collection of old books, with shelves stacked to the roof. The topic of hoarding was discussed in todays English language lesson.

Conversations In English Why Do We Hoard Ep 284

In today's listen and learn English lesson we pick an interesting topic, today it is all about why people hoard, and then we hold a conversation in English on the topic. This English lesson type is probably one of our most powerful learning techniques.

Published

December 09, 2019

📮 speaking

How I learn English Speaking Conversation On Black Friday Ep 283

Looking at an object and hearing the new words used in your target language to describe it is the basis of listen and learn. So here at Adept English we try to always keep our lessons centered on things that will interest you, that you are already likely to be familiar with in your own language.

Published

December 05, 2019

📮 phrases

A photograph of a group of happy millennials having a lot of fun on their getaway road trip. Used to highlight the use of the getaway phrasal verb.

Get Phrasal Verbs Much More Than A List Of Prepositions Ep 282

Why, oh why, do English speakers make simple vocabulary so much more difficult to learn than it needs to be? At some point someone decided that taking some prepositions and verbs, that mean one thing on their own would be a good idea to mean something different when you put them together in a short phrase. Lets talk about get phrasal verbs.

Published

December 02, 2019

📮 listening

A photograph of woman in Victorian dress in a winter park, used to symbolise British upper class.

Posh English Learning Language Through Listening Ep 281

Are you posh? Did you go to a posh school? Today we talk about the word posh in English. Learning a language also means learning more common slang terms used in everyday conversations and today we dig into the English class system while we explain the word posh.

Published

November 28, 2019

📮 grammar

Basic Grammar English Students Should Know Ep 280

Today we will go back to some basic grammar. English language learners really struggle with English grammar, mostly because English breaks its own grammar rules in special cases. You often find that a rule applies 80 percent of the time and then for just 20 percent of the time special cases apply and the rule is different. It’s frustrating to have to learn, and it results in grammar mistakes.

Published

November 25, 2019

📮 fluency

A photograph of a beautiful young woman blowing vape smoke looking cool and making vaping look cool. An image used to help explain what vaping is and also learn English conversation.

A Chat About Vaping Helping You To Learn English Conversation Ep 279

A lesson on vaping? Not really, today the lessons topic might be on e-cigarettes but really this English lesson is about how you learn English conversation. The key to improving your English conversation skills is listening to native English speakers in conversation and not just once but listening to English being spoken lots of times.

Published

November 21, 2019

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