📖 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.

📮 fluency

A photograph of a young child playing with brightly coloured blocks, used to help describe how we all learned our first spoken language.

How To Learn English Speaking While Making Pancakes Ep 311

We get a lot of emails and messages on Facebook asking us How to learn English speaking? questions. The quick answer is lots of listening to English being spoken by native English speakers and then getting familiar with hearing English being spoken so you understand much more than you can speak.

Published

March 12, 2020

📮 fluency

A photograph of a lady doctor wearing a mask, used to help talk about the vocabulary needed to talk about COVID-19 in English

Online Language Learning With English Podcasts-Covid19 Vocabulary Ep 310

With just about everyone now talking about the SARS-CoV-2 (Virus type), COVID 19 (The disease), more commonly known to all; of us as The coronavirus. It was only a matter of time before we mention it in our podcasts. So today we discuss the typical English vocabulary used when talking about COVID-19. We also describe what stage the UK is in preparing for the disease.

Published

March 09, 2020

📮 listening

A photograph of a young woman with an amazing smile, used to help explain how English comedy requires advanced English language skills.

How To Improve Your English Speaking-Classes Are Old School Ep 309

In this lesson we cut to the chase (An American idiom) and give you some solid advice on how you can practically improve your English speaking. As you might already know, we take a more modern approach to language learning here at Adept English. We always focus on high quality, interesting and engaging lessons that efficiently deliver results using modern learning techniques.

Published

March 05, 2020

📮 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

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