A List of 6 Podcasts to Help You Learn the English Language
The best thing about podcasts is that they can educate and entertain you without you needing to pay attention to them.
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One of the wonderful things about learning English is the fact that you have so many fun ways to learn English. Almost the entirety of the entertainment world is built around the language. Let's look at some fun ways to learn English, shall we?
Gaming
If you love games, then you will probably know that plenty of them are in English. All you need to do is find a game with story-heavy elements to it, and you will be picking up a crazy amount of English. Of course, gaming is just fun anyway.
You get double the benefit if you play a game with some sort of online element to it. That way you can have a chat with people as you are playing. This means more English learning and even more fun!
Music
Music is a cool little way to learn English. This is because you can take an active or passive approach to things. You can either just have the music playing in the background and absorb the language naturally (passive learning), or roll down and start to study the lyrics and focus on a single song (active learning). We recommend you do a little bit of both. It will stop you from getting bored.
Conversations
You can't learn English without learning how to actually speak out loud. Therefore, we recommend that you try and track down some decent websites where you can have real conversations with English speakers. A tutor will go a long way here, but there are plenty of social websites where you can take your conversations to the next level, and that is going to be awesome!
Television & Movies
As we said, the entertainment industry is mainly in English. This means that you have a decent amount of content to explore on the TV and movie front. Try and check out both American and British content. This way you have a mix of the best stuff in the world. It will also expose you to a wide variety of accents.
As with the music thing, you can do television and movie studying 'passively'. Just make sure you turn off subtitles. That can hurt the learning process as 99% of the time, the subtitles will have inaccuracies in them.
Browsing Internet Forums
Finally, why not browse some internet forums? We are sure that you have a hobby, and we can almost guarantee that you will have a hobby that has an internet forum dedicated to it. Track them done and practice your English writing skills. You will learn English, plus it is going to be enjoyable. You may even end up learning something about your hobby!
If you are struggling to find fun resources for learning English, don't be afraid to ask the tutor that you are working with here at Justlearn. Remember, their goal is to help you learn English and in the best possible way. This means that they want you to find resources. They probably have a few awesome ones up their sleeve no matter what your skill level is.
