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📮 listening

A photograph of Antwerp sewer. In todays English conversation listening practice we talk about the sewers of London.

Conversations In English Be Careful What You Put Down The Sink Ep 449

Listening is one of the fastest ways to pick up a new language. It’s how we all learned our first language as an infant. Every single human on the planet has this sophisticated language learning mechanism built in! Here at Adept English we provide lots and lots of quality listening material to help you acquiring the English language and learning to speak English fluently.

Published

July 08, 2021

💬 Words: 2198

Length 11 min

📮 listening

A doctor examining an MRI scan. Today's practice English conversation is all about new neuroscience that could help us look after our brains.

You Need To Look After Your Brain Starting Today Ep 444

Our brains are amazing biological machines, and if you’ve listened to my English language learning podcasts, you know I like to understand how our brains work. To help me build and design better language learning techniques.

Published

June 21, 2021

💬 Words: 2303

Length 12 min

📮 listening

A photograph of a woman working from home with her children bothering her. This looks like an interesting English listening comprehension lesson on WFH

Working From Home WFH A Practice Conversation In English Ep 442

Working from home has gone from being rare to commonplace during the pandemic. There are positive and negative aspects to this new way of working, and in today’s English lesson we will focus on the positive. This contemporary and topical English listening lesson is full of useful conversational English vocabulary and phrases. Remember to listen to the conversation several times using spaced repetition.

Published

June 14, 2021

💬 Words: 2296

Length 12 min

📮 speaking

A customer paying for goods at a checkout. Being polite in English conversation takes a little understanding of British culture and the use of softened English language.

How To Have A Polite English Conversation Ep 440

How to be polite is important to us British. The British, as a rule, go out of our way to maintain polite English conversation, even when we are complaining. It’s about maintaining the high moral ground and keep up your manners. We expect people to behave in a decent and mannered way, and we notice when people are not conforming to the expected standard of polite interaction.

Published

June 07, 2021

💬 Words: 2565

Length 13 min

📮 speaking

A man sat down using a computer. Computers are growing more important in everyone's lives, but what happens when they go wrong?

An English Conversation About Miscarriage Of Justice Ep 432

Looking back at this podcast, I worried I was covering an English topic that was only useful for people who were in trouble with the legal system! Although that was not my intention at all. I was reading a story about a miscarriage of justice here in the UK, and the actual issue was how errors in computer software ruined the lives of innocent people. I thought you might be interested in the English vocabulary used as legalese is a strange thing and worth exploring.

Published

May 10, 2021

💬 Words: 2370

Length 12 min

📮 listening

Photograph of a young lady undertaking a brainwave EEG or Electroencephalograph Examination in a Clinic. As we discuss what goes on in a language learners brain?

What Is Going On Inside A Language Learners Brain Ep 431

For most of us, thinking about how our brains work is pretty low on the day’s to-do list. We just let our brain get on with the thousands of jobs it does every day, and we ignore just how amazing our brains are. Well, in today’s conversation in English we are going to talk about some interesting science about how language learners’ brains actually work when learning a language.

Published

May 06, 2021

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