English, please

English, please is a podcast designed to help improve your English by listening to clear, intermediate English about many different topics like history, culture, art, music, travel, and language.

Episode 75: New England, and a Color Scientists Can't Fully Explain
This episode takes you to a region where three weeks in October can decide whether an entire year was good or bad: New England, during fall foliage season. You'll learn the real (and still slightly mysterious) science behind why the leaves turn such a vivid red, discover the surprisingly recent origin of the word "leaf peeping," and pick up real English about risk and business, including the word for a very specific kind of tourist: a "leaf peeper."

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English, please is a podcast designed to help improve your English by listening to clear, intermediate English about many different topics like history, culture, art, music, travel, and language.

Episode 74: Las Vegas: A City That Doesn't Feel Like the United States
Today's episode takes you to one of the strangest cities in the country: Las Vegas, built from scratch in the middle of the desert. You'll learn why the city is full of fake landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals, pick up real English expressions about risk and luck like take a risk, the odds, and hit the jackpot, and hear what life is actually like for the people who live there once the lights go off.

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Want more structured practice? Try a free sample lesson from the English Listening Accelerator at comullen.com/listen.

I'm on YouTube! I share short, practical English content on my channel!

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English, please is a podcast designed to help improve your English by listening to clear, intermediate English about many different topics like history, culture, art, music, travel, and language.

Episode 73: How to Read in English Without Stopping to Translate
This episode tackles something almost every learner does without thinking about it: stopping to translate every unfamiliar word while reading. You'll learn a simple three-stage approach to break that habit, why finishing the sentence first often gives you the answer before you even reach for a dictionary, and how fiction and nonfiction each hand you clues in slightly different ways.

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Want more structured practice? Try a free sample lesson from the English Listening Accelerator at comullen.com/listen.

I'm on YouTube! I share short, practical English content on my channel!

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English, please is a podcast designed to help improve your English by listening to clear, intermediate English about many different topics like history, culture, art, music, travel, and language.

Episode 72: How to Understand Podcasts and Audiobooks Without a Transcript
This episode tackles something almost every learner runs into: understanding podcasts and audiobooks without any help from a transcript. You'll learn why conversation-style podcasts (with multiple speakers) are genuinely harder than single-speaker shows, and pick up practical ways to handle both: catching repeated ideas, reading small words like "so" and "anyway" as signals instead of clutter, and holding onto longer sentences in audiobooks as they unfold.

Want to keep practicing after you listen? Subscribe to the free English, please newsletter at comullen.com/free. You'll get English practice tips and activities with every new episode, plus three FREE resources delivered straight to your inbox: a free sample lesson from the English Listening Accelerator, 60 Phrases Native English Speakers Use Every Day, and 25 Idioms Native English Speakers Use Every Day.

Want more structured practice? Try a free sample lesson from the English Listening Accelerator at comullen.com/listen.

I'm on YouTube! I share short, practical English content on my channel!

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Get the English Listening Accelerator!

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English, please is a podcast designed to help improve your English by listening to clear, intermediate English about many different topics like history, culture, art, music, travel, and language.

Episode 71: Guess Before You Know: The Trickiest Word Pairs in English
This episode is a little different. You'll work through word pairs that trip up English learners constantly: since/for, say/tell, borrow/lend, take/bring, lay/lie, and make/do. You'll hear a sentence, get a chance to guess the right word, and then hear the answer explained. Some of these have a real rule you can use right away.

Want to keep practicing after you listen? Subscribe to the free English, please newsletter at comullen.com/free. You'll get English practice tips and activities with every new episode, plus three FREE resources delivered straight to your inbox: a free sample lesson from the English Listening Accelerator, 60 Phrases Native English Speakers Use Every Day, and 25 Idioms Native English Speakers Use Every Day.

Want more structured practice? Try a free sample lesson from the English Listening Accelerator at comullen.com/listen.

I'm on YouTube! I share short, practical English content on my channel!

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