ESL Pod

English as a second language (esl)

English as a foreign language (efl)

PODCASTS

Podcasts are one of the most useful ways to improve your listening skills and comprehension.

Using your smartphone and a Podcast app such as Stitcher or Apple i-tunes can allow you to subscribe to a large number of ESL or EFL podcasts.  This will make listening to Egnlish for shrot periods of time much easier and contribute to developping a regular routine of English languag elistening.

Apart from podcasts aimed directly as students of English there are 100s of others in the English languge on almost any subject from art, history, or simply current events or daily news.

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ESL Pod

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The English as a Second Language Podcast has a vast library of episodes (more than 900 and still going strong). The host for the ESL podcast is Dr. Jeff McQuillan and the other voice you will often hear belongs to Dr. Lucy Tse.  Both have PhDs in applied linguistics.  The core of each podcast is an acted out dialogue between two characters.  The rest of the episode then concentrates on key words and their uses and meanings.  The English is spoken at about half normal speed and is therefore, quite easy to follow.  Each podcast is accompanied by a learning guide.