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Listen to everyday conversations recorded by native British English speakers in our LearnEnglish Podcasts series, and improve listening skills. Listen to podcast hosts Tess, Ravi, Adam and Rob chatting with different people and talking about different everyday topics, such as their favourite celebrities, making plans for the weekend, having a dinner party and which cities they like to live in.
The app helps you learn everyday English by providing 60 episodes and over 20 hours of free listening about a wide range of topics, as well as great new features that help you listen and understand the conversations.
LISTEN, READ AND CHECK THAT YOU UNDERSTAND
In every episode, listen and read along with a moving audioscript. The audioscript gets highlighted to help you focus on listening. Comprehension questions come with each episode so that you can check your listening and whether you understand the conversation.
HOW THE APP HELPS YOU LEARN EVERYDAY ENGLISH
The best way to improve your listening skills is to listen to a little bit every day and try to listen to a wide range of different topics in English. When you’re listening, try to remember or write down as many of the main points as possible.
FEATURES BACKGROUND PLAYING AND OFFLINE ACCESS
The audio plays even when the screen is turned off. This is a popular request from our users – thank you all for your feedback.
You can also:
- download episodes onto your tablet or phone and listen offline
- delete episodes after you’ve listened to them to create space on your tablet or phone. Re-download episodes when you want to listen again.
We love to hear from our users! If you have any feature requests, feedback or need technical support, get in touch with us through the Feedback and Support button in the Help screen in the app.
PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY
Your privacy is very important to us. We do not collect any personal information about you. We do track how the app is used, such as which episodes are most but we only use this information to improve the app and the podcast content. Learn more about the British Council's privacy policy here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/how-we-work/policies/privacy
LEARN ENGLISH WITH THE BRITISH COUNCIL
Learn English in our classrooms with the world’s English experts. We’ve been teaching English for more than 80 years and have helped more than 100 million people in 100 different countries improve their English skills and build their confidence. Visit www.britishcouncil.org/english to find out more information.
ABOUT THE BRITISH COUNCIL’S ENGLISH LEARNING APPS
The British Council creates top English learning apps for learners of all ages. You can download our apps to practise grammar, vocabulary and listening. Visit our website to see all our apps www.britishcouncil.org/mobilelearning.
Listen to everyday conversations recorded by native British English speakers in our LearnEnglish Podcasts series, and improve listening skills. Listen to podcast hosts Tess, Ravi, Adam and Rob chatting with different people and talking about different everyday topics, such as their favourite celebrities, making plans for the weekend, having a dinner party and which cities they like to live in.
The app helps you learn everyday English by providing 60 episodes and over 20 hours of free listening about a wide range of topics, as well as great new features that help you listen and understand the conversations.
LISTEN, READ AND CHECK THAT YOU UNDERSTAND
In every episode, listen and read along with a moving audioscript. The audioscript gets highlighted to help you focus on listening. Comprehension questions come with each episode so that you can check your listening and whether you understand the conversation.
HOW THE APP HELPS YOU LEARN EVERYDAY ENGLISH
The best way to improve your listening skills is to listen to a little bit every day and try to listen to a wide range of different topics in English. When you’re listening, try to remember or write down as many of the main points as possible.
FEATURES BACKGROUND PLAYING AND OFFLINE ACCESS
The audio plays even when the screen is turned off. This is a popular request from our users – thank you all for your feedback.
You can also:
- download episodes onto your tablet or phone and listen offline
- delete episodes after you’ve listened to them to create space on your tablet or phone. Re-download episodes when you want to listen again.
We love to hear from our users! If you have any feature requests, feedback or need technical support, get in touch with us through the Feedback and Support button in the Help screen in the app.
PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY
Your privacy is very important to us. We do not collect any personal information about you. We do track how the app is used, such as which episodes are most but we only use this information to improve the app and the podcast content. Learn more about the British Council's privacy policy here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/how-we-work/policies/privacy
LEARN ENGLISH WITH THE BRITISH COUNCIL
Learn English in our classrooms with the world’s English experts. We’ve been teaching English for more than 80 years and have helped more than 100 million people in 100 different countries improve their English skills and build their confidence. Visit www.britishcouncil.org/english to find out more information.
ABOUT THE BRITISH COUNCIL’S ENGLISH LEARNING APPS
The British Council creates top English learning apps for learners of all ages. You can download our apps to practise grammar, vocabulary and listening. Visit our website to see all our apps www.britishcouncil.org/mobilelearning.
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What's Changed
v3.7.1.1.0
We’ve fixed a couple of bugs that were reported:
* Audio controls not appearing correctly in the Android 7 notification tray
* Copy button not copying the final audioscript block
These should both be working perfectly now… Thanks for your feedback! ????
v3.7.1.1.0
We’ve fixed a couple of bugs that were reported:
* Audio controls not appearing correctly in the Android 7 notification tray
* Copy button not copying the final audioscript block
These should both be working perfectly now… Thanks for your feedback! ????
Version update LearnEnglish Podcasts - Free English listening was updated to version 3.7.1
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Version update LearnEnglish Podcasts - Free English listening was updated to version 3.6.0
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Well, the app works really good, but I don't topics, they are a bit boring. Anyway, great app if you wanna improve your listening skills. And I like the idea to offer a sort of questionnaire for each podcast with which I can verify if I understood well. Great job!
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This is really a nice app. A person can learn a lot from these podcasts about their professional activities. These videos are easy to understand and enjoyable.
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Superb application. This app is helping me to learn English and getting habituated with the British accent at ease. Really great app and definitely recommend to all my near and dear ones for learning English.
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It's so helpful application acually , it helps me learn british accent and the grammar as well . It also makes me learn new words , it's amazing , thank you.
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Really a nice application to improve your English learning strength. It is useful for those who are looking forward to study abroad, migrating in a english speaking country or joining some job in which one need to talk to international clients.
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It's great. I don't see any apps same as this, useful and easy to use and i completely enjoy, thanks
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That's really quite fantastic app for learning English. I have been learning so many new things. The most interesting part is grammar section. Moreover it's easy to understand.
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App is very good, but sometimes the series 1 disappear so I can't completely listen series 1.(I tried to uninstall app and re-install) Hope team fix it. Thank you! Android 7.0, sony xperiaXA
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Why is that app auto quite? Full of memory or. Did it had some error? Plz check it again and reply my comment ty u
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Awesome App. I love Britain its my country. All British Council materials are wonderful. It helps alot to improve your english.
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Am not actually very interested in the British way of talking but this app helped (still) me a lot with my english...
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Los podcast son muy nutridos, tocan diversas temáticas. Útil para practicar el listening y aprender ciertas reglas para el idioma.
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This app is very useful. Superb! must download and listen while doing any stuff. I'm really looking forward to the next series (5) of the elementary podcast. Thank you! More power!
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Very useful It teaches the english in a very simple way, it helps us enhancing listening skills, grammer rules, vocabulary and finally conversation skills. I find it the most helpful app i have ever used
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Awesome app! I prefer this educational application then any other, because it's so easy to use and to understand what the are saying. We can slow down the podcast too. And I have one suggestion for the owner of the app, please add more podcast because it much efficient app than any other. Thanks!
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I have downloaded this app about 3 times, when i did the series 1 episode 1 and 2 it's all good, but when i want to open the episode 3 or another episode they can't be opened.it doesn't work, i really need this app to help me prove my english. Please solve that problem. Thank you.
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I think this app gives an opportunity to listen to authentic English conversation and it is very useful for foreigners who have trouble understanding the accent. Personally, I shadow read the podcast and try to correct my pronunciation. The podcast helped me work on stressing and pausing too. I loved this app.
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Finally, I found my favourite app. So, let the English speaks English, and let the American speaks American. I was lost in the American English because I thought it is much easier and more popular. Nonsense of Hollywood. Really, It is Not. As I said " let the English Speaks English". Just one more service. Could you please add more conversations with graded levels?.
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This's a useful app for listening especially for IELTS exam , but the problem is that after listening to one Episode I can't return and choose the next Episode. So that, I have to restart my Tablet in order to be able to listen the next one. What's the problem with returning? Please solve the problem ????
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I think it is very necessary application for English learners. It has interesting, nice podcasts. It useful application I have ever seen. I hope the developers will not stop improving this app. Please add some intermediate podcasts. Good luck.
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It ia a very good app and i really loved it. Before this i never liked to heard any podcast i'm getting bored whenever i try to listen them but when i use these app and heard them i really loved it and it becomes my one of the favourite app.
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It is a wonderful app. But I need to play some words again & again to recognize them but the Controlling of the seek bar is inaccurate, I mean if you scroll the seek bar to back 5 second it will change around 30 second so pls add rewind & forward button to change the seek bar almost 3 sec ????. Please Please Please ????????
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When I tried to download it, it said installing and then suddenly it said unable to download.. Please fixed it quickly because I really want to use this app.. I will change 5 stars if you fixed it
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I like this app because this app really help me for me to learn english. Sorry if my english is bad
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This is one of the best app for learning english but whenever i open podcast its start loading and directly close the app i m unable to listen any podcast, please hwlp
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It is great but has a bad problem: forward or rewind buttons act wrongly in most cases. Also sometimes I need to press 4 times on a paragraph to adjust the audio in a correct position.
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There is one more thing i want you to develop: that is the case i want to repeat one podcast again, and again, and again, so i think you should develop REPEAT TOOL. By the way, its even greater if you make podcasts in one serie continuously play, i dont want to have to change podcasts in the manual way (by hand). Two tools will make the app become very excellent. Thank you!
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I like it. It is great app. Thanks a lot. Sometime ads not work at finish the episode, it's take me descontinue downloading. I have to close the programm and open it again...
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I like this podcast because I can listen to different subjects. Also, the guys talking in different ways, such as playing games and telling jokes. It is so nice!
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It improves your listening and reading, on the same time. Negative point: you already need to have some comprehension in English, because the podcasts aren't slow (guys speak in normal velocity). It has been very good for me!!!
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So helpful and interesting! Short and useful podcasts. You can find your favorite subject, and listen to it. I highly recommend you to install this app ????
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I love this app, it is really useful in order to improve your listening English. To be honest I think that series 1 and 2 are much better than series 3 and 4, perhaps because I like Tess and Ravi, Gordon's jokes and Tom's the teacher explanations.
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It is an amazing application ,it's really beneficial . But i will be pleased if you could make the topics more various because you tend to talk more about management , business and human resources and something like these which sometimes make us feel tedious .but in general it's one of the best ways to learn accent, pronounciation and more.
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High quality media but afoul bugy application. I can not correctly install episodes in this version unlike the early version.
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It was really helpful in listening to English conversations. Very educative thumps up everyone that's involved with this app both the academics and software guys
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It's really a great way to learn English. I can practice my listening skill well and since I'm looking for some stuff that can teach me about British accent, podcast really worth it! Moreover, I got new knowledge from it every single episode. Love it so much
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Wow! I love it! It has helped me a lot with my listening and speaking skills. The Podcasts are very interactive and the broadcaster are phenomenal; I live Gordon's jokes! An excellent app. Thanks to the British Council for offering this sort of apps for free; we, learners, really appreciate it!
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It's really interesting and useful...but sometimes it stops itself...so I always have to re-download it!!! But it's good at all.
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Podcasts are really good. Advertisements are annoying.
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Come in handy application, mostly on the go. The pronunciation section would be a plus to the app, as we the users learn both listening and pronunciation...