BBC The English We Speak

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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The English We Speak

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Put down your textbook for a moment and learn from some of the most knowledgeable experts of the English language, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). This English language learning podcast series focuses on everyday phrases and slang.  What you will hear is the kind of English spoken by real people all the time and will help you to speak more like a native speaker.

The podcasts are published weekly, and each one has a bite-sized duration of 3-4 minutes.  Examples of common English expressions explored in the series are: “use your loaf”, “skeletons in the closet” and “take the mickey”.

The English is spoken at a slightly slower speed than normal.  Every syllable is enunciated clearly.  The typical format involves two presenters having a conversation with each other.  Sound effects are frequently used to give the impression that the teachers are in different locations.