Do podcasts help you learn English? | English Listening Practice
Why bother?
I don’t often ask myself that question, but every once in a while, it crops up. Why bother making a podcast if I don’t get a thousand downloads?
In today’s English listening episode, number 49 🙌, I remind you of the value of listening to podcasts for English language development, in addition to their psychological and social benefits. For example:
learning new pronunciation, expressions, and advanced English vocabulary
getting exposure to different English accents and "messy" English
improving active listening skills
sharing personal stories that build connection
fostering our imagination
bolstering our cognitive abilities
While Hear You Go will never be the most famous podcast in the world (and that’s OK!), it's my way of offering you authenticity, interesting topics, and this year, it was a vehicle to highlight and elevate the voices and work of women in the English language teaching community.
As season two starts to wrap up, I encourage you to reflect on the topics shared and my wonderful guests who offered tips and guidance, and moving stories about their love of learning English.
💫 Listen right to the end to learn more about my upcoming courses.
I’ll be offering two starting in September: WILDE and TIDES are courses that focus on listening skills, language development, and pronunciation.
Click on the links for more info:
1️⃣ Are you WILDE: A Woman Interested in Listening to & Discovering English through podcasts?
2️⃣ TIDES: Teachers Into Decoding English Sounds.
Thanks for listening, and stay tuned!
📥 You can receive a copy of the transcript when you sign up to receive my newsletter. It's colour-coded to highlight all kinds of things to explore like advanced vocabulary, pronunciation, and a ton of collocations and idioms.
⏰ I'll be accepting new clients and offering new courses, in September. You'll get all that news in my newsletter too, and if you follow me on Instagram.
🎶 Amos the Transparent provides my theme song. They're an awesome group of talented musicians. Give them some love and check out their music.
Please share the podcast and spread the knowledge!
Catherine
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