The Power of Podcasts

Am. English is a weekly podcast that aims to help people learn more than just language. The first episode was released in September and has been downloaded over one million times. This year, the show will be trying out different styles of porcasas as part of its content.

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You're gonna learn

why using podcasts is a great way to learn languages and
how you should use them to get the most out of it.
With the help of podcasts you can easily level up your target language - in an interesting way.

We got Alastair Budge (creator of the English LEARNING For Curious Minds PODCAST) onto My Fluent Podcast to talk about using podcasts as a means of learning a language.

The whole philosophy behind Leonardo English is to help people improve their English in a more interesting way. In over 250 episodes, Alistair shares stories about people's lives and how things work. He kind of explains how things work.

Video version of the podcast:

https://youtu.be/VdheWK7u11w

Time stamps / topics

1:47 Alastair learning Italian

6:05 Why learning languages with podcasts?

13:27 What podcast apps we should use to learn languages

18:02 Language skills that can be improved by listening to podcasts

19:57 The shadowing technique

23:36 Alexander Arguelles and shadowing

24:46 The IPA system (International Phonetic System)

29:32 What inspired Alastair to creat Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts

36:40 How Alastair comes up with new episodes