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Learn English calmly, clearly and with purpose. Slow English Podcast helps intermediate learners understand real English, build useful vocabulary and speak with more confidence. Each episode uses clear, natural-paced English and turns listening into practical learning. GO BEYOND THE AUDIO AT YOUR ENGLISH TOOLBOX • Interactive transcripts and Cinema Mode • Vocabulary, idioms, phrasal verbs and guided practice • Translations and bilingual resources in Farsi, Spanish, German and French • Free transcript and vocabulary workbooks • Learning Paths, Practice Arena and Learn with Music Explore every free resource at https://yourenglishtoolbox.com WHAT YOU WILL PRACTISE • Listening comprehension with clear, accessible English • Natural vocabulary, collocations and everyday expressions • Pronunciation, shadowing and speaking confidence • English for real life, personal development and meaningful ideas Every lesson is conceived, written and carefully curated by people committed to language education. Advanced AI voice technology supports consistent clarity and natural pacing. Listen slowly. Learn deeply. Speak confidently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. hace 9 h

    “I Live Here Since 2023”: Fix This Common Mistake | Fix It in Five

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/177-fix-it-in-five-for-or-since/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. The sentence in the title is the mistake we correct. Practise I've lived here since a starting point, I've lived here for a duration, and How long have you lived here? Our example runs from October 2023 to October 2026 and assumes Martin still lives there. A focused, friendly lesson, not a complete guide to every present perfect use. Your language toolbox: I've … since [starting point]I've … for [duration]How long have you …?Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox. The complete episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, the transcript and editorial Spanish, German, Farsi and French translations, vocabulary and downloadable learning PDFs. Sources and context: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/free-resources/grammar/b1-b2/present-perfect Level: B1–B2 · Series: Fix It in Five · Your English Toolbox #SlowEnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #EnglishListening #YourEnglishToolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    “I Live Here Since 2023”: Fix This Common Mistake | Fix It in Five
  2. hace 9 h

    Stick Your Neck Out: 4 Idioms About Risk

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/176-stick-your-neck-out-4-idioms-about-risk/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. Martin has a toast-truck idea; Julia has questions. Learn four ways to describe risk through a natural conversation, meaningful contrasts and active recall. This continues the free Idiom Toolbox course with Lesson 13: Risk. Includes a brief recovery of take the plunge, without presenting it as a fifth new idiom. Your language toolbox: play with fireput all your eggs in one basketstick your neck outtake a leap of faithLearn with this episode on Your English Toolbox. The complete episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, the transcript and editorial Spanish, German, Farsi and French translations, vocabulary and downloadable learning PDFs. Free Idiom Toolbox — Lesson 13: Risk https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/idioms/lesson-13-risk/ Sources and context: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stick-neck-out Level: B1–B2 · Series: Idioms · Your English Toolbox #SlowEnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #EnglishListening #YourEnglishToolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Stick Your Neck Out: 4 Idioms About Risk
  3. hace 1 d

    Why Do We Change the Clocks? | Curious English

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/175-why-do-we-change-the-clocks-curious-english/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. Why can your phone and your oven disagree after the clock change? Martin and Julia explain what summer time changes, what it does not change, and three reusable English expressions. The 25 October 2026 date applies here to Spain and the United Kingdom, not every country. Includes prediction, recall and personal practice. Your language toolbox: put the clocks back / forwardan extra hour in bedyour body clockLearn with this episode on Your English Toolbox. The complete episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, the transcript and editorial Spanish, German, Farsi and French translations, vocabulary and downloadable learning PDFs. Sources and context: https://www.gov.uk/when-do-the-clocks-change https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2022-4026 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5801/ldselect/ldeucom/15/1505.htm Level: B1–B2 · Series: Curious English · Your English Toolbox #SlowEnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #EnglishListening #YourEnglishToolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Why Do We Change the Clocks? | Curious English
  4. hace 2 d

    The Question That Changes Everything | Small Talk in English, Episode 3

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/174-the-question-that-changes-everything-small-talk-3/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. Martin and Julia explore the step from polite conversation to a closer connection. Practise a specific question, a follow-up that shows you remembered, and a small piece of honest self-disclosure. Juan and Priya’s story continues in Wolverhampton. Research is discussed as evidence about a structured experiment, not a guarantee of friendship. Sentence of the day: Somebody has to go first. It might as well be you. Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox. Read the transcript in English with Spanish, German, Farsi and French translations. Practise with vocabulary, flashcards, exercises, seven listening speeds and Cinema Mode. Download transcript and vocabulary PDFs in all five languages. Research: Aron et al. (1997), The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness — https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167297234003 B1–B2 · Your English Toolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Question That Changes Everything | Small Talk in English, Episode 3
  5. hace 3 d

    Short Stories with Peter: The Fire on the Hill

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/173-short-stories-with-peter-the-fire-on-the-hill/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. A farmer sees the sea retreating while his neighbours prepare a celebration. What happens next turns a harvest into a lesson in courage, compassion and responsibility. This radio drama is an original abridged learning adaptation of the Hamaguchi narrative in A Living God, from Gleanings in Buddha-Fields by Lafcadio Hearn (1897). It follows the literary telling, inspired by events in Japan, and is not a documentary reconstruction. Includes natural-disaster peril, without graphic detail. After the story, Peter explores useful expressions and a practical question about human values. Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox. Read the transcript in English with Spanish, German, Farsi and French translations. Practise with vocabulary, flashcards, exercises, seven listening speeds and Cinema Mode. Download transcript and vocabulary PDFs in all five languages. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55681 Temple bell: Bonsyou5599.ogg by Jnn, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonsyou5599.ogg), licensed CC BY 2.1 Japan (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/jp/deed.en); excerpted, faded and mixed. B1–B2 · Your English Toolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Short Stories with Peter: The Fire on the Hill
  6. hace 3 d

    Weekly English Recap: Truth, Feelings & Everyday Clues — 32 Shadowing Pairs

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/172-weekly-english-recap-truth-feelings-and-everyday-clues/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. Consolidate useful English from episodes 165–171 through 32 sentence pairs. Peter gives you four seconds after each original sentence, then an equivalent sentence with different vocabulary. Practise truth and honesty, feelings, tunes, travel, visits, the meanings of miss, and collecting deliveries. Some expressions return in a new context to strengthen recall. Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox. Read the transcript in English with Spanish, German, Farsi and French translations. Practise with vocabulary, flashcards, exercises, seven listening speeds and Cinema Mode. Download transcript and vocabulary PDFs in all five languages. Source episodes: 165–171 · Week of 12–16 October 2026 B1–B2 · Your English Toolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Weekly English Recap: Truth, Feelings & Everyday Clues — 32 Shadowing Pairs
  7. hace 4 d

    Where's the Parcel? A Delivery Message Mystery | English Detective

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/171-where-s-the-parcel-a-delivery-message-mystery-english-detective/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox: choose your listening speed, follow the transcript and practise the language in context. Listen to a short everyday message, choose your answer and check the clues with Martin and Julia. Then solve a new case using the same useful language. The solution and explanation are included in the audio. Your language toolbox: leave something with someonepick something upbefore a timeFinish with active listening or recall practice. The episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, editorial translations and downloadable transcript and vocabulary PDFs. Level: B1–B2 · Series: English Detective · Your English Toolbox #SlowEnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #EnglishListening #YourEnglishToolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Where's the Parcel? A Delivery Message Mystery | English Detective
  8. hace 5 d

    Miss: One Word, Three Lives

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/170-miss-one-word-three-lives/ This podcast is created through a human-led editorial process. Every episode concept, educational strategy, narrative direction and final editorial decision is developed and reviewed by people committed to making English learning meaningful. Artificial intelligence supports script development and editing, while ElevenLabs provides the synthetic voices of our hosts. Human judgement leads the process; technology supports its production. Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox: choose your listening speed, follow the transcript and practise the language in context. Follow miss through three everyday contexts: a journey or event you do not catch or attend, a person or experience whose absence you feel, and a target you fail to hit. Includes the figurative expression miss the point and the pattern miss doing something. Your language toolbox: miss a bus or eventmiss someone or doing somethingmiss a target or the pointFinish with active listening or recall practice. The episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, editorial translations and downloadable transcript and vocabulary PDFs. Level: B1–B2 · Series: One Word, Three Lives · Your English Toolbox #SlowEnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #EnglishListening #YourEnglishToolbox 💬 We’d love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this episode, leave a comment, share your thoughts, or tell us how you’re using these tips to improve your English. Your feedback helps us grow and create even better content for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Miss: One Word, Three Lives

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Learn English calmly, clearly and with purpose. Slow English Podcast helps intermediate learners understand real English, build useful vocabulary and speak with more confidence. Each episode uses clear, natural-paced English and turns listening into practical learning. GO BEYOND THE AUDIO AT YOUR ENGLISH TOOLBOX • Interactive transcripts and Cinema Mode • Vocabulary, idioms, phrasal verbs and guided practice • Translations and bilingual resources in Farsi, Spanish, German and French • Free transcript and vocabulary workbooks • Learning Paths, Practice Arena and Learn with Music Explore every free resource at https://yourenglishtoolbox.com WHAT YOU WILL PRACTISE • Listening comprehension with clear, accessible English • Natural vocabulary, collocations and everyday expressions • Pronunciation, shadowing and speaking confidence • English for real life, personal development and meaningful ideas Every lesson is conceived, written and carefully curated by people committed to language education. Advanced AI voice technology supports consistent clarity and natural pacing. Listen slowly. Learn deeply. Speak confidently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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