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#236 | How To Use Podcasts To Improve Your English [My Favourite Strategies]

English Learning for Curious Minds

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How to Build Your Vocabulary

You can follow the tips iam about to provide without these learning materials, but you will learn more quickly with them. Let's talk first about building your vocabulary and moving words and phrases from your passive vocabulary to your active vocabulary. Here's what i'd encourage you to do when listening to an english podcast, keep a note book open to write down new and interesting words phrases. For most people, there is little value in learning words that you won't need in your day to day life. If you are listening to the episode on wailing, for exampleyou might hear the word harpoon - it was used to hunt whales.

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