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.
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
Use Your Brain for Language Acquisition Smart Learning For English Ep 291
Time to get back to basics and explain why language acquisition works so well over language learning. If your new to us, welcome to a new way of speaking English fluently and if you’re a regular listener, hello, and jump in and listen and learn your way to better English.
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January 02, 2020
English Lessons For English Speaking~Weather Extremes Ep 290
I hope you are all well and resting to prepare for a new year. Although that might be difficult for some as the world seems to experience more extreme weather. Some places are hotter than ever and come are colder than ever, the UK is wetter than ever, so lets use this as our English lessons topic.
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December 30, 2019
Holiday English Lesson The Twelve Days of Christmas Maths Puzzle Ep 289
Today's English lesson is proof of several things. One, Adept English is always trying to be on time with its lessons, and two mathematics is all around us. If you just expect Adept English to be reliable and are not that keen on maths, then maybe learning about a UK song that’s hundreds of years old and still just about everyone in the UK could sing along, will get you listening.
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December 26, 2019
2019 Has Been Much More Than Free English Tutorials Ep 288
Adept English wants to help people learn to speak English fluently. We want to help as many people as possible learn to speak English fluently using modern language acquisition techniques. We believe that learning a language should be easy and fun and should focus on getting this done quickly. That’s our mission.
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December 23, 2019
Practice English Speaking While We Talk About UK 2019 Election Ep 287
Today's lesson focuses on practicing your English speaking. We use that tried and tested formula, pick a topic everyone is talking about in the UK right now and talk about it using everyday English. All you have to do is listen and learn.
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December 19, 2019
Adept English~Learning A Language Made Simple Ep 286
If you are a new listener who has just found us or if your back here because you like our podcasts, welcome and get ready to listen and learn your way into understanding English, learning a language using the Adept English method is just easier. So today we talk all about Christmas cards while we learn our everyday English vocabulary.
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December 16, 2019
Discover Some Christmas Idioms While We Learn English Speaking Ep 285
It’s nearly Christmas, and the UK is in full on shopping frenzy, it seems the commercial side of Christmas is bigger than ever. As we come to a close of 2019, we thought some English Christmas idioms might interest you while you learn English speaking.
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December 12, 2019
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.
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December 09, 2019
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.
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December 05, 2019
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.
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December 02, 2019
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.
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November 28, 2019
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.
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November 25, 2019
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.
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November 21, 2019
Talking English About The 2019 Brexit Election Ep 278
In this talking in English lesson we cover the British 2019 general election, and why this election is different. Along the way we explain how elections work in the UK and how things are changing because of the Brexit referendum result. So an interesting opportunity to dust off vocabulary specific to elections and democracy, great for conversational English practice.
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November 18, 2019
How To Learn The English You Need To Understand A British Bonfire Night Ep 277
If you are new to Adept English then you might not know the answer to this question; How do I learn the English required to hold a sensible everyday English conversation? If you are a regular listener, then I hope your shouting (in your head). If you want to learn to speak English: 'You need to listen to lot's of English language being spoken by native English speakers.' If you catch yourself saying that in your head, then full marks to you!
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November 14, 2019
British Accent Practice 2-Learning English Speaking Accents Ep 276
To speak English fluently with a British accent, you need a lot of listening practice. Not just any old listening, you will need to listen to natural English speakers with variations in accent. Today we focus on a Welsh accent, but as the lesson explains, even Welsh has several accent variations. So listen to this podcast and test your English listening skills!
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November 11, 2019
Just Listen To Learn English-Electric Cars Please Ep 275
Adept Englishis here to help you learn English speaking using improved and modern learning techniques. If you have never listened to one of our English lessons before you might not even notice you are listening to an English lesson designed to help you learn to speak English fluently.
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November 07, 2019
How To Learn To Speak English-And He She Or They Ep 274
Our goal here at Adept English is helping you to speak confidently and fluently in English. We spend a lot of time making the steps needed to improve confidence and getting to speaking English fluently fast and easy. We cover how to learn to speak English and practical steps in improving your speaking here in our free 7 rules of Adeptenglish which is free and if you haven’t tried it, you should.
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November 04, 2019
Learn English Speaking Through Listening Ep 273
If you think listening is not important to helping you speak English then you are wrong! Listening to native English speakers is one of the most important things you can do to improve your English speaking. If you are not making progress with the English-speaking part of your English language learning, then it is probably because you are not listening to enough English.
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October 31, 2019
Listen And Learn Your Way to Speaking The English Language Ep 272
How to become more confident when you speak English? If you want to learn to speak the English Language, you need to listen to it being spoken by native English speakers. You need to listen and be able to understand what is being said, this needs to be a smooth operation, fast, fluid and automatic with no translation.
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October 28, 2019
Practice Your English - Talking About Britains Biggest Dating Turn Offs Ep 271
With the Internet, social media and dating apps on you phone it’s never been easier to find and talk to people online. The problems start when you meet in the real world, the rules for dating are always changing and dating using a new language will be harder than using your native language. So today we practice our English language listening and talk about the dating scene in Britain.
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October 24, 2019
Learn English, Speak Fluently And Understand Everything You Hear: Homophones Ep 270
Do you want to improve your English-speaking skills? If you are learning to speak English and you want great quality free English language lessons which focus on the speaking and listening part of learning the English language, then you just hit the jackpot! Adept English specialises in helping you to learn English, speak English fluently. We use a learn through listening system” which is a fun and an easy way to learn to speak English.
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October 21, 2019
Are You A Spanish Speaker Learning English Palabras Inglés Ep 269
If you are a Spanish speaker, then I begin this audio English lesson by asking your forgiveness, speaking English words is easy for me but Palabras inglés well you need to listen to the whole podcast to understand why, trust me when I say it is worth it! This English lesson is all about pronunciation and why speaking a new language is difficult for everyone not just you.
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October 17, 2019
Helping You With Learning English To Speak Fluently And Have Fun Ep 268
We design all Adept English lessons to help you with learning to speak English and English language fluency. We spend a lot of time thinking up new ways to make your lessons fun to listen to. Our goal is to help you improve your English-speaking skills while learning about something interesting enough to talk about. We want you to practice using what you have learnt in an English conversation. If you are learning English and want to speak fluently, you’ve come to the right place.
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October 14, 2019
You Are The Important Part Of Learning How To Speak English Ep 267
One of the least talked about parts of improving your English-speaking skills, is the self belief and self esteem needed to do that. If you don’t feel confident in yourself and your abilities, then you will find speaking in English for the first time, very hard. Much harder than it needs to be.
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October 10, 2019
How The English Speak Out About Climate Change Ep 266
You want to learn how to speak English fluently, but do not know where to start? Rather than force you to read a lot, I will give you the answer up front. To improve your English-speaking skills, you need to listen to native English speakers.
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October 07, 2019
Talk In English Fluently Climate Activism Ep 265
I will not lecture you on how to talk in English today, if you are interested in why we are so popular for learning to speak English then check out our free 7 rules course https://7rules.adeptenglish.com/ Although it is tempting to jump into a massive monologue about why our learning system works, like those bad guy monologues in the movies where they explain the plan to the good guys :)
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October 03, 2019