Name: Learn English FAST: The Essential Podcasts for Learning English
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A lot of you are here because you  love learning English on Youtube  

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but you also know the more ways you  expose yourself to English, the better.

Podcasts are a great resource and today,  I'm going to introduce you to 13 Podcasts  

that I think is absolutely  fantastic for learning English.

We have two different categories. First, Podcasts  created by English teachers for learners like you,  

non-native speakers. Then, we'll get  into some Podcasts in American English  

created for native speakers that  you could also learn a lot from.

Let's head to my computer  to go over these Podcasts.

The first one I'm going to talk about is  “All Ears Podcast”. I love their tagline,  

“Connection not Perfection”. Just do it, don't  worry about mistakes, get yourself out there. It's  

a daily podcast, all sorts of topics. Vocabulary,  Idioms, Business English and as you can see,  

they're not too long. Ten, twenty minutes,  you can definitely take that on a daily basis.

The next on I want to recommend is “The  In Fluency Podcast”. It's weekly and again  

the episodes are pretty short. It's not a big  commitment, I mean they're short as three minutes  

but there are also some longer episodes too. She  covers topics like pronunciation and grammar.

Speaking of podcasts something that I did not  know, you can now get podcasts on Audible, you've  

heard me talk about Audible before, it's where I  get all my audio books and I think audio books,  

in addition to podcasts, are a great way to learn  English and increase your vocabulary and listening  

comprehension, so huge thanks to Audible for  sponsoring this video and supporting my channel.  

We've just discussed two podcasts you can use for  learning English, and we'll cover eleven more.  

But first I want to recommend a title that I just  finished and tell you how you can get it through  

audible. They're offering a free 30-day trial  to new members, visit Audible.com/rachelsenglish  

or text rachelsenglish to 500-500. So visit  the site, send the text, because the title  

I want to recommend, it is one of the most  riveting stories I've heard in a long time,  

it was recommended to me by my colleague Tom, who  listened to the audiobook with his wife, and it's  

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It's a true story  about Louis Zamperini whose bomber, in World War  

II crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Sharks are  circling, he survives at sea for weeks. The story  

is just incredible and it's so well told. Every  night I would sit down with David and be like,  

oh my gosh, this is what happened. So please,  get it, listen to it – Audible.com/rachelsenglish  

or text rachelsenglish to 500-500. It's a  new year, a time to start making new learning  

goals. I strongly encourage you to add audiobooks  and podcasts to the resources you use to learn  

English, and audible has the most extensive  offering that I know of. Find something you're  

really into, like me with 'Unbroken', and  you'll want to listen to it every night.

I also want to mention my podcast. Now, I'm not  making new episodes so it's discontinued but there  

are twenty-five episodes there worth listening  to if you haven't already. These episodes are a  

little bit longer usually around a half hour  and we're discussing pronunciation topics,  

my favorite topic but also things like  vocabulary and idioms and some cultural stuff.  

Most of these episodes are with my husband  David where we're just discussing our lives  

so it's just a good way to get to know me  and us better as well as you learn English.

Breaking news! If you miss my podcast,  I'm going to start sharing audio lessons  

again. I'm so excited about this way  of communicating with my students,  

and I'm launching it next week, Tuesday,  January 18, through the YouTube membership,  

that's the join button you've seen next  to the subscribe button here on YouTube.  

So look for a video next week, and for  the button on my channel, to sign up.

Next we have “Espresso English”, updated almost  every week and again these are short episodes,  

easy to take in, one tip or trick when  it comes to speaking English at a time.

The “Real Life English Podcast” is great  because you get exposure to both American  

accents and British accents. Now you can see  that these episodes are a little bit longer,  

there are multiple episodes each week  and they focus on all sorts of topics.  

Conversation, vocabulary and general tips for  learning a new language. One time,  

I sat down with Ethan from this podcast for an  interview, so be sure to check out that episode.

I also love “Learning English News Review” from  BBC World Service. They have new episodes once  

a week and they go deep on one topic. The  podcasts are each around ten minutes long  

and they have quizzes on their website, you can  really test your listening comprehension here.

“Grammar Girl” is for all you language nerds  out there. She goes over some pronunciation and  

vocabulary but also the “why” of language.  And I find it a really fun way to explore  

different aspects of English. Now this podcast  isn't necessarily made for non-native speakers.  

It's also made for native speakers who  just enjoy learning more about English.  

Each Episode, about fifteen minutes long  and just a place to learn along little  

interesting tidbits and facts about  the English language and grammar.

Now, moving on to podcasts that are  in English, not about learning the  

language but about interesting things. My  biggest tip: Follow something you love.  

Something that already interests you, maybe  something that you already know about.  

My friend Stacy, who has been on this channel is  a master knitter. And she has a podcast for people  

who love knitting. Or look for podcasts that  are relevant to what's happening in your life  

now. Really you name it. Gardening, cooking,  wrestling, religion and spirituality, anything. My  

husband listens to a podcast that's just two guys  talking about the Philadelphia 76ers. He loves the  

team and keeping up on news and people's opinions.  Whatever you're passionate about, find a podcast  

in English on that topic, it's going to draw you  in you're going to learn so much more from that.

There are a lot of different podcasts that I like  listening to and I'm just going to go over some  

of them here. First “The Moth”. I love this one  because it's an episode of many people telling  

shorter stories maybe around 8 minutes about their  lives, some sort of transformative experience.  

So they're really interesting from that  perspective and they're live. They're  

often shot Infront of an audience. So you get  very authentic English here. People can't edit  

something out. And it's a great way to  study how to tell a story in English.  

What are some of the phrases that you could  use to connect one thing to the next? What's  

some of the vocabulary that you could use to  talk about an event in your life and so on.

Next, “This American Life”. As you  can tell here from the time stamps,  

I've been listening to a lot of these  lately. This is probably the podcast  

that I've been listening to the longest. New  episodes each week about an hour. Sometimes,  

it will be someone sharing a personal essay but  more often it's interviewing and back and forth  

different ideas on different topics. And I just  love the variety of voices that you get here.  

One of my favorite episodes that I listen to  recently is number 218 and it's called “Act  

V” and it's about a theater company that  brings theater to high security prisons  

and lets the people in the prisons act. It was very powerful, very moving, a great story.

Another one I love is Radiolab. Again, about an  hour, weekly episodes covering a range of topics  

often focusing on Science. It's sometimes  challenges me to think about something  

differently. I like that challenge. For example,  in an episode about killing endangered species,  

the Rhino hunter made it clear that  things aren't always what they seem.

If you don't have an hour to devote,  what about ten or fifteen minutes.  

I recommend “NPR Up First”. This  is a daily podcast and they cover  

three of the most important  news stories of the day.

If you love news, you also want to follow the New  York Times, “The Daily”. Guess what? It's daily.  

Each episode is about thirty minutes  and they go deep on one news story.

I also like to podcast, “Being Boss”. This  is a great podcast to listen to if you're  

interested in business topics and you want to  study some of the vocabulary that people use  

when talking about these things. Interesting  interviews, weekly, about an hour.

If you have a favorite podcast in English,  please put it in the comments below.

Now, we'll take a little bit one of my Podcast  

and we'll use it to learn some  English. I'll study with you.

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