Speaking English Classes

You will find the full article, lesson audio file and transcript here: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/speaking-english-classes-2/

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.

Some of you might ask, what does this have to do with learning a language like English? So let me break down the value of this English audio lesson and how it adds value to your language learning journey.

We design the quality of this recording for learning, there are no distractions like music or special effects during the lesson. To keep comprehension simple, we only have one voice to follow. We design the speed of the lesson for learners to follow; we are not talking at full speed.

The lesson comes with a full English transcript. This is not some auto-generated script full of AI (artificial intelligence) mistakes. I’m sure are some point automatic translation will be so good we can rely on it, but until then it’s very important when you learn that you are being given the correct words as you listen.

This lesson type is listening practice, where you will enjoy shadowing, this is where you will train yourself to mimic an accent. A London, South East accent, the accent most used in the UK by the most people. The UK has many accents, but learning to mimic the most used is an excellent idea when you start out. You will also learn pronunciation, even if you are not speaking out loud, just listening.

The lesson is a story, a brief story that stays in a single context, it’s very important that what you listen to is comprehensible. By this I mean, if you were to talk about a list of colours that are just related because they are colours then that is not great context, however a story about a walk through a garden that talks about the colours of flowers and grass and walls, and wood is the same colour information, provided in a story which maintains a single context. Humans have developed to treat stories as an important means of communicating information we take much more notice of information in this format.

One key to our Listen & learn approach to learning is repeat listening. Spaced repetition is an important part of encouraging your brain to store language learning information, like vocabulary, accents, pronunciation grammar etc. in your longer term memory, which we know it needs to be for automatic language recall.

The lesson also explains a little about contemporary culture in the UK, it provides hundreds of vocabulary words, it’s using everyday English not some dry text book English from 100 years ago. Keeping you interested and focused on the lesson is critical, we need you to want to listen to the lesson again and again without getting bored.

I’ve not even covered half of the things that are going on in one of our English language podcast lessons. Like the way this learning approach tackles anxiety and self esteem.

Just know that this way of learning is much more in-depth than it may look at first glance.