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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 69: Why It's Harder to Speak Than to Understand
You understand more English than you can say out loud, and that gap is confusing. In this episode, you'll learn why listening and speaking are two different skills that build at different speeds, and four practical ways to close the gap between them.

Want to keep practicing after you listen? Subscribe to the free English, please newsletter at comullen.com/newsletter. 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!

Episode transcript

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    Show cover

    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 69: Why It's Harder to Speak Than to Understand
    You understand more English than you can say out loud, and that gap is confusing. In this episode, you'll learn why listening and speaking are two different skills that build at different speeds, and four practical ways to close the gap between them.

    Want to keep practicing after you listen? Subscribe to the free English, please newsletter at comullen.com/newsletter. 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!

    Episode transcript

    Podcast website 

    Get the English Listening Accelerator!


    Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.