Learn all the English you'll need to sound confident & natural with real English conversations

How do you improve English listening? Not by listening to more things once, but by listening to the same thing more times. Play an episode through without the transcript and get the gist. Play it again reading along, and mark what you missed — it is nearly always words you already know, said fast and joined together. By the third listen you will hear them without reading, and that is real progress.

These are 76 unscripted conversations between real people, in MP3, free to stream or download. Every episode comes with a transcript as a PDF ebook, containing exercises and the vocabulary from the audio.

There are two levels: Intermediate English Listening and Advanced English Listening. For the full audio course, see Free English Audio Lessons.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

Every lesson here is also published as a podcast. Follow the shows on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and each new episode arrives on its own — and you can download them to your phone and listen offline, on the commute, at the gym or anywhere with no signal. It’s free, and you don’t need a paid account.

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