📖 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

Every Adept English lesson will help you learn to speak English fluently.

Hybrid words The Correct Term Is Portmanteau Ep 246

Normally when you get a red line under a word your typing on your computer or phone you think, oh no spelling mistake, I need to correct that. But sometimes (very rarely!) you get to smile and say no silly computer I am right you are wrong! Today we discuss portmanteau and have some fun with made up English words.

Published

July 29, 2019

📮 phrases

English Phrases Shades Of Grey And Black And White Ep 245

Lot’s of English-speaking practice in this lesson, using listen, and repeat to get you to grow the English language part of your brain and learn all about some new English phrases.

Published

July 25, 2019

📮 idioms

English Fruit Idioms Explained With Sentences Ep 244

Today we have some fun with English fruit idioms that you will hear in everyday English conversation here in Britain. There are a lot of fruit themed idioms in use today, far more than you would expect. I guess we all like fruit and it’s something we all have in common so it’s a powerful way of communicating something we would (or should) understand.

Published

July 22, 2019

📮 fluency

Spoken English Let Us Review Something Ep 243

Today we improve our spoken English by listening to a podcast which is all about theme parks and LEGO. Not only will you learn some great everyday English vocabulary, but if you ever decide you want to visit a UK theme park, you will learn all about the Lego Windsor theme park.

Published

July 18, 2019

📮 listening

English Listening Skills New UK Universities Ep 242

Traditional universities in the UK are expensive. The average university student in the UK leaves with a degree and with £50,000 in debt. But what if a university wanted to pay you £18,000+ annually to get your degree at a university? Would you be interested?

Published

July 15, 2019

📮 pronunciation

English Accent Words New Nyoo and Noo Ep 241

Once we have trained our brains to listen to a language and we mimic the pronunciation of that language we forget or just don’t notice that we all pronounce words differently depending on where we are on the planet. So today we cover some English accent word pronunciation.

Published

July 11, 2019

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