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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. 4 hr ago

    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
  2. 4 hr ago

    Short Stories with Peter: The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde (Abridged B1–B2)

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/169-short-stories-with-peter-the-model-millionaire-by-oscar-wilde-abridged-b1-b2/ 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. An abridged adaptation of The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde (1887), adapted for B1–B2 English learners by Your English Toolbox. Original English work in the public domain in Spain. The story is followed by a short language lesson. No spoiler is needed to enjoy the surprise. Your language toolbox: drop infeel sorry for someonegive awayFinish with active listening or recall practice. The episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, editorial translations and downloadable transcript and vocabulary PDFs. Original text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/773 Level: B1–B2 · Series: Short Stories with Peter · 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.

    Short Stories with Peter: The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde (Abridged B1–B2)
  3. 1 day ago

    Which Platform? A Train Announcement Mystery | English Detective

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/168-which-platform-a-train-announcement-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: instead ofrunning latedepart fromFinish 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.

    Which Platform? A Train Announcement Mystery | English Detective
  4. 2 days ago

    Stop Saying Angry: Annoyed, Frustrated or Furious?

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/167-stop-saying-angry-annoyed-frustrated-or-furious/ 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. Small irritation, blocked progress or intense anger? Martin and Julia compare three precise words through a ticket-machine problem and realistic examples. These words are not interchangeable steps on a single scale. Your language toolbox: annoyedfrustratedfuriousFinish 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: Precision 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.

    Stop Saying Angry: Annoyed, Frustrated or Furious?
  5. 2 days ago

    Come Clean: 4 Idioms About Truth

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/166-come-clean-4-idioms-about-truth/ 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. Continue the free Idiom Toolbox course with lesson twelve: Truth. Learn how to admit a hidden mistake, check information, question a surface explanation and describe deliberate deception. Your language toolbox: come cleantake something at face valueget your facts straightpull the wool over someone's eyesFinish with active listening or recall practice. The episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, editorial translations and downloadable transcript and vocabulary PDFs. Free Idiom Toolbox — Lesson 12: https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/idioms/lesson-12-truth/ 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.

    Come Clean: 4 Idioms About Truth
  6. 3 days ago

    Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? | Curious English

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/165-why-do-songs-get-stuck-in-your-head-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. Learn with this episode on Your English Toolbox: choose your listening speed, follow the transcript and practise the language in context. Why does a short tune return when the music has stopped? Martin and Julia explore earworms, separate established findings from simple guesses, and practise three expressions you can use immediately. Your language toolbox: stuck in your headcatchypop into your headFinish with active listening or recall practice. The episode page includes seven listening speeds, Cinema Mode, editorial translations and downloadable transcript and vocabulary PDFs. Research background: Goldsmiths, University of London — https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/scientists-find-key-to-writing-catchy-pop-hits/ and https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-mind-brain/imis/ 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 Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? | Curious English
  7. 4 days ago

    What to Say After Hello | Small Talk in English, Episode 2

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/164-what-to-say-after-hello/ 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: get the full transcript, vocabulary cards and the three conversation tools from the episode — completely free. Julia fires seven questions at Martin in forty seconds. Where are you from? How long have you lived here? Do you like it? By the end he says he feels as if he is at passport control — and Julia tells him that is exactly what he does to other people. Last time we covered the first ten seconds. This episode is about the second that comes after: you said your sentence, they answered, and your mind went completely blank. So you fire another question. And another. In English there is a phrase for it — to grill somebody — and nobody has ever made a friend by grilling them. The way out is an idea called free information. Every answer a person gives you contains small gifts you did not ask for. “I've just come back from Lisbon” holds at least three possible conversations. “I'm just finishing a late shift” holds several more. Many learners miss them because, while the other person is talking, they are already preparing their next question. And you will meet Juan again — now about five weeks into his new life in Wolverhampton — in a campus café, asking a classmate fourteen questions in a row. He counted them afterwards, walking home. What saved him was what she said after question fourteen. What you will learn: The three-step rule that turns an answer into a conversation: answer, add, return — and why the middle step makes connection possible.Backchannelling: the small signals English speakers often use while listening — “mm”, “oh really?”, “did you?” — and how they help you sound present without building a full sentence.Why even a short silence can feel different across cultures — and why that pause is probably not your English.Four possible topic directions for moments when your mind is empty, and how to use them as a safety net rather than a checklist.Why “What do you do?” can feel direct in some British settings, and the natural alternative “What keeps you busy?”Vocabulary in context: to grill someone, an interrogation, free information, to give something away, to backchannel, how are you finding it?, what keeps you busy?, actually. Sentence of the day: Don't ask another question. Give something back. Next: The Question That Changes Everything — you know a lot of people, and you don't have a single friend. Keywords: what to say after hello, how to keep a conversation going in English, small talk in English, English conversation practice, backchannelling in English, active listening, free information conversation technique, natural English responses, English for expats, slow English podcast, intermediate English listening, English vocabulary in context, Your English Toolbox #SlowEnglishPodcast #YourEnglishToolbox #LearnEnglish #SmallTalk #EnglishConversation 💬 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.

    What to Say After Hello | Small Talk in English, Episode 2
  8. 5 days ago

    Weekly English Recap: Fear, Character & Small Problems — 20 Shadowing Pairs

    https://yourenglishtoolbox.com/episodes/163-weekly-english-recap-fear-character-small-problems-20-shadowing-pairs/ 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: follow every pair on the transcript, review all twenty items and choose from seven listening speeds for a gentler or more challenging shadowing workout. Can you understand an expression, repeat it naturally and recognise the same idea in different words? In this weekly recap, Peter turns this week’s three short episodes into one focused vocabulary and shadowing workout. The two-sentence game is simple: Peter says a short, natural sentence containing one target expression.You get four seconds of silence to shadow it aloud and copy the pronunciation, rhythm and stress.Peter gives you a second sentence with the same meaning but different vocabulary.You then get three seconds to absorb the contrast and prepare for the next pair.You will review all twenty learning items from this week: Precise language for fear and worry: nervous;anxious;terrified.Character idioms from the audio lesson: have a heart of gold;a tough cookie;an open book;a dark horse.Character vocabulary from the web lesson: resilient;determined;easy to read;unexpected potential.Natural responses to small problems from the audio lesson: It’s no big deal;These things happen;We’ll figure it out;Let me take care of it.Extra expressions from the web lesson: Don’t worry about it;We can sort it out;It’s easily fixed;Leave it with me;No harm done.Listen once for meaning. Then play the episode again and begin repeating as soon as Peter speaks, using the four-second silence to finish each sentence. The alternative sentence that follows gives you immediate feedback and strengthens active recall. Level: B1–B2 · Focus: weekly vocabulary review · shadowing · retrieval practice · paraphrasing · pronunciation and fluency Keywords: English shadowing practice, weekly English recap, nervous anxious terrified, character idioms, a tough cookie meaning, it’s no big deal, small problems in English, English vocabulary review, paraphrasing practice, retrieval practice, improve English fluency, slow English podcast, Your English Toolbox #EnglishShadowing #VocabularyReview #EnglishIdioms #EverydayEnglish #SpeakEnglish #SlowEnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #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.

    Weekly English Recap: Fear, Character & Small Problems — 20 Shadowing Pairs

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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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