Podcast English Lessons
Here are some examples of the latest podcast English lessons. If you want to see the full English lesson articles, then you can browse them all here. Or click on an image below to jump to that article.
Horse Idioms English Lesson Ep 366
A recent comment on YouTube, which suggested that idioms make English interesting, got me thinking about English idioms. It has been a while since I last did an English idiom lesson, so today we are going to talk about a horse idiom I heard being used on BBC Radio 4.
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September 21, 2020
Direct And Reported Speech The Basics Of Grammar In English Ep 365
We recently had a question put to us about direct and reported speech. Understanding this is important. It is a basic part of grammar in English. So today we run through lots of examples of both types of speech. Although we try not to spend much time on grammar, as you learn this through listening anyway, sometimes it helps some people and we are here to help.
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September 17, 2020
Lets Talk About Shampoo As We Help You To Learn English Conversation Ep 364
If you’ve listened to Adept English before, you know that we try to make our English lessons interesting. And today, as we help you learn English conversation skills, we talk about hair. Yes, the hair we all have on our heads and if you care about how your hair looks, it’s going to be useful information that could change the way you wash your hair forever.
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September 14, 2020
Learn How To Speak English In Your Own Time Ep 363
There are lots of places that will help you learn to speak English, some are good and some are bad. However, there are very few good ones that help you learn HOW to speak English for FREE, using a modern approach to language learning. So you can do this in your own time at your pace.
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September 10, 2020
Discover Interesting Language Facts As You Learn English Language Fluency Ep 362
In today’s English lesson our goal is to learn and improve English Language Fluency through listening to a topical conversation spoken by a native English speaker. As usual, we try to make the lesson interesting as we expect you to listen to the lesson several times, you can learn more about why we ask you to do this here.
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September 07, 2020
Using A Suffix With Common English Words Ep 361
Today we talk about using a suffix or prefix. We discuss how to spot them in use, how to use them and what they mean. To help explain things, we take a common suffix and explain how to apply it with lots of examples. As usual with the English language, there are some special grammar rules, so we also explain these special cases.
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September 03, 2020
The Rooms In Your House - A Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 360
Today’s English listening practice lesson is all about a typical English home. The lesson is an everyday conversation with English vocabulary and English listening practice in a discussion about the rooms and layout of a British home. With listeners from all around the world, living in many types of home, I suspect that there will be some new English vocabulary to learn.
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August 31, 2020
Thoughts About Chernobyl Miniseries While We Do Some English Listening Practice Ep 359
In today’s English listening practice, we talk about a popular TV mini-series called Chernobyl. It’s a story about true bravery in the face of impossible odds. Although the BBC didn't made the series, it’s really good, so if you like what you hear in today’s English lesson it might be worth checking out.
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August 27, 2020
Listen And Learn English - Learn Grammar The Natural Way Ep 358
In today’s podcast we will focus on your English comprehension. Your ability to listen to English being spoken and your understanding of the conversation. The conversation is about something very British, the BBC, so there will be lots of interesting vocabulary and grammar terms to learn.
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August 24, 2020
British English Speaking Practice A Journey To France Ep 357
For the briefest moment this summer, it was possible to travel by plane within Europe from the UK. As tempting as it is to make this English-speaking practice conversation about the nightmare journey, I will resist temptation and talk about a more positive aspect of the trip.
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August 20, 2020
Practice Conversations In English - How To Mess Up Your Exams Ep 356
Today we will talk about the slow motion train wreak that is the UK A Level exam results for England. Although we will have a measured conversation in English, I really want to shout and scream, because it’s just so unfair.
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August 17, 2020
Discover What I Do For Fun While We Do Some English Listening Practice Ep 355
We’ve done quite a lot of English grammar recently, and although we try to make it interesting, it’s grammar, so for most people it’s a bit boring. Today we will just pick a British topic and talk about something interesting, and all you have to do is listen and practice your English listening skills.
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August 13, 2020
Listen And Learn To Speak English - Learn Grammar The Easy Way Ep 354
It’s hot here in the UK. Much hotter than we British feel comfortable in. Add to the sunny weather a lot of working from home and you end up with a very good looking garden, or plant pots. A while back we mentioned that during lock down we would try to grow some vegetables from seeds and in today’s English grammar lesson we give you an update on how we got on.
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August 10, 2020
English Phrases - What Is Your Comfort Food? Ep 353
In today’s English lesson we explore some everyday English phrases in and around comfort foods. I have a few favourite foods, depending on the situation. So listen to this English audio lesson to help improve your spoken English fluency and find out what type of food I like on a cold rainy day in Britain.
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August 06, 2020
Adept English Learning Language Skills Little And Often Ep 352
Whenever you set out to do something new, like learning to speak English, something you want to do that is not part of your life’s routine at the moment, you need to prepare yourself. If you want to do something new, like learning a language, then you need to decide what things you need to do, and focus on adding this additional set of routines to your daily life.
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August 03, 2020
English Business Vocabulary Flaky British Businesses Ep 351
If your going to speak English at some point you will engage with a company, either as a buyer or seller of some goods or services. Today we will walk through a typical example of an interaction with a small company in the UK. Along the way we will hear and use English business vocabulary that you would expect in an everyday conversation.
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July 30, 2020
ESL English Grammar Lesson Helping You With English Propositions Ep 350
Today we will pick two confusing English prepositions and practise using them. It might be something you need to help with your everyday English speaking practise or maybe your ESL, English grammar can confuse and we are here to help with lots of English language listening practice.
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July 27, 2020
English Idioms That Are Too Big For Their Boots Ep 349
I was talking to a British colleague of mine about Adept English recently and mentioned that one of our English lessons will be on English idioms. They said nobody uses idioms that much anymore, and I laughed because the music on the radio at that very moment was Stormzy, a popular English rapper, was literally rapping a song about an English idiom at that very moment. The English use idioms all the time!
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July 23, 2020
Find Out About British Pets While Learning How To Speak English Ep 348
If you are learning to how to speak English fluently you need to listen to lots and lots of everyday English being spoken by a native English speaker. Finding lots of interesting English audio to help you practice listening to English and understanding English is harder than you would imagine.
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July 20, 2020
English Phrases With Just A Few Bars In Them Ep 347
Keeping up with English phrases can be difficult. Not only do English words fall in and out of everyday use. The English language often uses the same word, but with a different meaning. Lucky for you Adept English focuses on useful everyday English, so we can help you keep up.
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July 16, 2020
Learn How To Speak English While Listening To A Topical Discussion Ep 346
Do you want to learn how to speak English well? What if I told you that to speak English all you have to do is dramatically increase the amount of English you listen to.
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July 13, 2020
Time To Test Your English Tenses In This English Grammar Lesson Ep 345
In this lesson we will work on English tenses, and test ourselves on them. When you learn to speak a language through listening you get the benefit of learning the correct grammar automatically. If you use traditional approaches to study English, learning grammar can be difficult. In todays English lesson we hope to show you how listening can make it a little easier.
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July 09, 2020
Discover Why Pubs Are So Important In This Learn English Language Lesson Ep 344
In today’s lesson we will focus on English language fluency. We often use a news story or something topical to help keep the English lesson interesting, and this week talk about English pubs reopening.
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July 06, 2020
Why Traditional Speaking English Classes Are Not The Best Way To Learn English Ep 343
Did you know that all 7.5 billion of the people who live on our planet earth learned to speak their first language through listening.
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July 02, 2020
Making Esl English Grammar Easier One Tiny Word At A Time Ep 342
We haven’t talked about English grammar in a while, so today we jump in and pick just one English word since and take a thorough analysis into its correct use.
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June 29, 2020
Practise English Pronunciation Help With EEK and OGG Ep 341
It has been a while since we have focused on English pronunciation practise. Today we will focus on words that end with an OGG or EEK sound. Normally, when you listen to enough native English, you will pick up the correct pronunciation, but as always with English there are some words which you pronounce completely differently to the written words.
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June 25, 2020
Learn About UK Smart Motorways While Listening To English Spoken Natively Ep 340
The last time we were talking about English spoken natively was about the UK shutting down, so it seems appropriate to practice listening to English about something involved in the UK opening up again.
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June 22, 2020
Three English Idioms Which Are The Same In French Ep 339
Today we examine 3 common English idioms. English idioms are a pain to learn for new English language learners. We try to make it fun and interesting, so much so you might like these awkward parts of the English language when we finish with them.
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June 18, 2020
Lets Focus On World News While We Listen And Learn English Language Ep 338
How about we talk about the news to help us listen and learn the English language? With the huge reaction to police brutality and racism, the effects of locking people in their homes for lengthy periods of time and the horror of starvation. There is plenty to talk about and lots of listening practise in this weeks lesson.
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June 15, 2020
How The British Are Re-Thinking How They Live In This Speaking English Class Ep 337
In today's Speaking English class podcast we discuss how the British are changing the way they think about property in the UK. Because of the restrictions on movement of people, especially younger people, have spent a lot of time thinking about their lives and the importance of quality of life.
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June 11, 2020
Learn English Speak Fluently With Everyday English Vocabulary Ep 336
In this lesson we will keep it simple and just practice listening to several common English words, used in everyday conversation. Although the lesson focuses on 3-4 words, their meaning and spelling, you are really listening to 1,500+ English words spoken by a native English speaker.
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June 08, 2020
In This Learn Spoken English Lesson We Ask Are You A Lark Or An Owl Ep 335
If you are looking to learn to speak English fluently, then you’ve found a splendid place designed to help you, you have found Adept English. That’s all we do here at Adept English, we focus on helping you to speak English fluently, one of many parts of learning the English language.
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June 04, 2020
Speak Fluent English Learning Grammar The Easy Way Ep 334
Recently Nico messaged us on Facebook asking if we could create some English grammar podcasts that covered things like subject verb agreement. Learning to speak English, learning grammar especially, does not have to be difficult to learn. Listen to this weeks podcast to find out why.
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June 01, 2020
Sensible Learning For English Listening Practice Skills Needed For English Fluency Ep 333
One of the many advantages of using the Adept English listen & learn approach to learning to speak English fluently is you also get to learn about something new that’s not necessarily about the English language. It’s just sensible learning for English listening practice so you have the skills needed to speak English fluently.
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May 28, 2020
Practice English Conversation With A Discussion On Light Nights Ep 332
Today we practise English conversation and the topic is light nights, the last time we talked about light nights was way back in the spring of 2016. We talk about the sun, and its effects on us British and everyone in northern Europe.
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May 25, 2020
Will You Miss Air Travel And Holidays In This English Conversation Practice Ep 331
The Adept English listen & learn system of learning is based upon lots and lots of listening to native English speakers. Today’s English lesson is just a simple English conversation practice lesson, where we talk about something interesting and all you need to do is listen to the lesson, (sounds easy doesn't it!) but the catch is you need to listen repeatedly to get the most out of this lesson.
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May 21, 2020
English Lesson On Popular Idioms That Get To The Point Ep 330
Well, it’s been nearly a month since we last discussed an English idiom, so in today's English lesson we will jump right in and learn some phrases you would almost definitely hear in everyday English conversations at work or home.
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May 18, 2020
Practice Your English Accent-Words Even Native English Speakers Get Wrong Ep 329
In this English language lesson we pick some difficult to pronounce English words and practice listening to them and saying them in a lesson about making scones. Sometimes the best way to practice difficult English vocabulary is to mix them into an interesting context which we all know and understand, in this case cooking.
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May 14, 2020
British Culture And Listening To A British English Speaker Ep 328
I know it's a cliche but the British love a good cup of tea. I once heard someone describe having cake and a cup of tea being like a picnic indoors. So today we talk about a cream tea, and some British culture around drinking tea while we practice listening to English being spoken and practice listening to English speaking in Britain.
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May 11, 2020
Coping With Anxiety While We Do Some English Listening Practice Ep 327
In today's English listening practice we talk about something interesting in these days of self isolation, we cover some new English vocabulary and we practice our English listening skills. Listening to 10 minutes of quality English audio will help in you at least three unique ways and if you repeat listen & learn, you will boost your English comprehension even more.
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May 07, 2020
How English Speakers Give And Take Options Ep 326
Today we will learn about choices, and how English speakers typically talk about choices in English. When we get given a choice in a discussion, it’s handy to know what vocabulary a native English speaker would use to respond.
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May 04, 2020
Common English Words As More Of Us Work Online Ep 325
Communication in English is much more stressful when you do it online. Even for native English speakers, it’s a lot harder. So today we talk about why this happens, the common English words used and how we can reduce the stress involved in communicating online.
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April 30, 2020
Learn English Speaking With Listen And Learn Pronunciation Practice Ep 324
Today we will practice some tricky English word pronunciation. If you listen carefully to the lesson, you will learn one of the key reasons learning English speaking through our listen and learn system is easier than traditional approaches.
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April 27, 2020
Practice Conversations In English Good News Stories Ep 323
To speak a new language, you need to understand a lot of what you hear before you speak in that language. English is no different, you really need to be 10 times as good at comprehending what you hear in English before speaking in English becomes more fluent, more automatic.
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April 23, 2020
Study English Learn Grammar Through Listening-It Is All Conditional Part Three Ep 322
In today’s podcast we keep a promise made back in podcast 202 and finish our work on English conditional verbs. So today's podcast is an English listen and learn lesson on English grammar.
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April 20, 2020
Listen To Learn English How Nature Benefits From Lock Down Ep 321
If you are looking for a better way of improving your spoken English then smile, you just found one of the best sources of free English lessons, totally focused on the learning to speak part of learning the English language.
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April 16, 2020
English Lesson Focused On Ism Words To Help English Speaking Fluency Ep 320
In today's English lesson we will use ism words to practice our English fluency. We could have chosen any words really, but these are interesting and worth learning about anyway, but the point of the lesson is to practice out English listening comprehension and keep practising common English vocabulary so your English listening becomes automatic.
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April 13, 2020
English For Conversation Strange Times Make Unpredictable Popularity Ep 319
Here at Adept English we specialise in helping you with the speaking and listening part of learning to speak English. Our approach to learning to speak English is modern, interesting and delivers results. We have years of experience in helping people learn to speak English fluently, our listen and learn approach to teaching contains all of our experience and gradual improvements over the years in 7 simple steps.
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April 09, 2020
How To Speak English Listening To Native English Speakers Ep 318
Adept English is all about helping you to speak English quickly and fluently, just like a native English speaker. We have helped 100,000’s of students improve their spoken English through our listen and learn approach to speaking English.
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April 06, 2020
English Listening Practice How Technology Helps Us Ep 317
What on earth would we all do if we did not have the internet right now? That’s what today's English listening practice podcast talks about. Listening is the smart way to learn a new language, and we base our whole approach on our listen and learn system.
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April 02, 2020
How To Use And Not Overuse The Verb To Get Ep 316
I hope you are all doing OK. We are one week into the UK lockdown and things are silent in and around London. So if you are like us you will fill your time by listening to podcasts and today in our learn to speak English podcast we will talk about how to avoid sounding boring, or unimaginative.
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March 30, 2020
Relax Your FOMO And Other English Acronyms Ep 315
Today we will talk about English acronyms and abbreviations. This is something we all experience daily, it might be on the TV, radio your email or in an SMS (<- did you spot the acronyms?) and given how many acronyms I’ve been listening to on the news late I think it’s worth spending a time in our short English podcast lessons discussing them.
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March 26, 2020
Get Creative in Quarantine And Learn To Speak English While You Do Ep 314
The UK is finally getting serious about limiting person-to-person contact to help prevent the spread of the Wuhan Virus. This is making it difficult for us to keep Adept English running, but not impossible. We expect to get our podcasts out as we normally do, they just may be a little later some days. So please keep listening.
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March 23, 2020
English Conversation-Harvey Weinstein Still Not Getting It Ep 313
Today we just relax and talk about an interesting and controversial English topic, Harvey Weinstein, and explore the English vocabulary and the style of a typical everyday English conversation.
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March 19, 2020
Improve Your Spoken English-Learn Grammar With Us Today Ep 312
Today we will practice some English grammar, specifically around comparative adjectives. Given all the coronavirus reporting, we thought we would explain the English vocabulary being used, things like Biggest, Strongest and when this language is suitable and correct.
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March 16, 2020
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.
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March 12, 2020
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.
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March 09, 2020
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.
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March 05, 2020
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.
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March 02, 2020
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.
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February 27, 2020
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.
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February 24, 2020
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.
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February 20, 2020
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.
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February 17, 2020
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.
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February 13, 2020
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.
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February 10, 2020
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.
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February 06, 2020
Learn About Your Hairdo And Practice English For Conversations Ep 300
If you are struggling to find something to talk about in English for a conversation, then keep it simple and talk about something that matters to everyone. Today we will talk about hair, which for most people is an important topic. It might be important for religious reasons, for trendy fashion reasons. It might be important because you have little hair or maybe none. I guarantee it will come up in your English conversations at some point so you need to know at least the popular styles so you can talk about it.
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February 03, 2020
Practice Conversations In English-Are Our Devices Spying On Us Ep 299
One of the best ways of conditioning your brain to hear English and understand English is to listen to native English speakers. The more listening you can fit into your life the more automatic the understanding. The important thing it to listen to normal English conversations, the conversation you would have with friends.
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January 30, 2020
Homophones Are A Part Of The Grammar Of English Ep 298
Today we have a lesson designed to help you learn to speak English fluently and to help with some tricky parts in the grammar of English. Here at Adept English we use listening as our main way to learn English, but what happens when words sound exactly the same?
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January 27, 2020
Lets Practice Your English Speaking-Learning English By Listening Ep 297
Today we have an English lesson focused on English speaking. Learning to speak English fluently can only really start when you have done enough English language listening practice and this lesson will help you with this. But before we talk about that I just want to say sorry to the 300,000+ Spotify listeners who have not been getting updates to the podcasts since episode 292, that's since the 6th of January, eek! It's all fixed now.
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January 23, 2020
Online English Tutorial Helping You Speak English Fluently Ep 296
If you are looking for online English tutorials to help you speak English fluently, then you’ve hit the jackpot! Adept English has hundreds of free English tutorials covering English pronunciation, fluently, speaking, listening also common phrases, grammar and finally we have lessons that cover idioms.
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January 20, 2020
Listening To Lots of Spoken English Is Brain Training For When You Talk English Ep 295
Adept English provides English language listening materials designed to help you train your brain to store important English language information in your long term memory ready for when you talk English.
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January 16, 2020
Speaking English Is Simple Once You Know How To. English Speaking Made Easier Ep 294
You can speed up your spoken English learning. Adept English has a free English language course called the Seven Rules Course, which will show you how to. English speaking is much simpler if you learn just a few secrets about how your brain works when learning a new language.
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January 13, 2020
An English Conversation Lesson About UK Wild Swimming Ep 293
Today we have a lesson focused on English conversation, a conversation about wild swimming in the UK. Being surrounded by water means most, around 75%, people in the UK learn to swim at an early age. However, many of those swimmers are turning to rivers, ponds, lakes and the sea to swim rather than use the thousands of swimming pools throughout the UK.
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January 09, 2020
Basics Of Grammar In English A Pronoun That We Use All The Time Ep 292
It’s been almost a month since we last covered the basics of grammar in English, we want you to acquire English grammar naturally through listening alone, but unfortunately, sometimes English grammar needs a little explanation to help answer some obvious questions.
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January 06, 2020