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Everyday expressions and real English conversations to help make your English conversations easier. Every week, we teach you a new phrase or expression.

Everyday expressions and real English conversations to help make your English conversations easier.

Every week, we teach you a new phrase or word you can use in conversation with The English We Speak.

And we bring you special series to improve your English conversation.

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Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

Episodes to download

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    Up your game

    Tue 12 Dec 2017

    Up your emoji game

  • To shout it from the rooftops

    Tue 5 Dec 2017

    Have you heard the good news? This programme has something to shout about!

  • To blow the cobwebs away

    Tue 28 Nov 2017

    An energetic phrase

  • A knees-up

    Tue 21 Nov 2017

    Want to go to a party? This phrase might help you get an invitation

  • To put someone on the map

    Tue 14 Nov 2017

    An expression connected to fame

  • Down in the dumps

    Tue 7 Nov 2017

    Is this a rubbish phrase?

  • Excuse me!

    Tue 31 Oct 2017

    A polite phrase – most of the time

  • A sting in the tail

    Tue 24 Oct 2017

    Learn a phrase with a painful ending

  • So done with

    Tue 17 Oct 2017

    Feeling bored of your work?

  • lolz

    Tue 10 Oct 2017

    You might know the slang expression ‘LOL’, but do you know about ‘lolz’?

  • Have a go

    Tue 3 Oct 2017

    Why is Neil being criticised?

  • About

    Tue 26 Sep 2017

    Familiar word, new meaning!

  • Wing it

    Tue 19 Sep 2017

    Learn an informal expression for when you have to improvise

  • Pot luck

    Tue 12 Sep 2017

    Take a chance!

  • It beats me

    Tue 5 Sep 2017

    What's going on?!

  • Jiggery-pokery

    Tue 29 Aug 2017

    Don't be tricked by this phrase!

  • Left, right, and centre

    Tue 22 Aug 2017

    Doing something everywhere

  • Donkey's years

    Tue 15 Aug 2017

    Years and ears!

  • Give us a bell

    Tue 8 Aug 2017

    Someone's ringing!

  • Echo chamber

    Tue 1 Aug 2017

    Echo echo echo echo…

  • Snowflake

    Tue 25 Jul 2017

    Do you melt too easily?

  • The heat is on

    Tue 18 Jul 2017

    Too much pressure!

  • Wet weekend

    Tue 11 Jul 2017

    It's wet and there's no rain!

  • No picnic

    Tue 4 Jul 2017

    Learn a phrase that involves effort

  • A busman's holiday

    Tue 27 Jun 2017

    Learn a phrase about a working holiday

  • Fuddy-duddy

    Tue 20 Jun 2017

    Old-fashioned and set in your ways? Could you be one of these people?

  • No great shakes

    Tue 13 Jun 2017

    Not impressed!

  • Not a sausage

    Tue 6 Jun 2017

    Learn a phrase that means ‘nothing’

  • Long

    Tue 30 May 2017

    Love ironing? Or is it ‘long’?

  • Not half

    Tue 23 May 2017

    Learn a phrase which isn’t half useful

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