Improve your English listening
Our free weekly podcast is aimed at Advanced English Learners!
About the podcast
Dedicated Wafflers
Dedicated Wafflers
Dedicated Wafflers
Owain and Mike, your English Waffle hosts, are dedicated enthusiasts of the English language and listening skills.
We teach individuals and groups, who need to learn English: online, at companies and colleges. We have 15 years combined teaching experience of English, Spanish and French.
Oh, and we are childhood friends, from a long long long time ago!
Who's it for?
Dedicated Wafflers
Dedicated Wafflers
Our free weekly podcast is aimed at Advanced English Learners!
Just like Camila, a Colombian who lives in China and enjoys listening to the podcast to learn English. See her comment below...
Our noble aim
Dedicated Wafflers
Keeping it real
To give you a platform which helps you improve your English listening by tuning into 10-minute (approx.) conversations between two British English speakers.
To expand your vocabulary by using words and expressions that are found in everyday speech.
To offer support with real conversations between proficient speakers of English.
Keeping it real
We help you by...
Keeping it real
We believe you need to hear authentic conversations to learn English so we try to keep it real.
Even if you live in the UK, you cannot really listen to real conversations and not participate. That's 'eavesdropping'! - secretly listening to others' conversations!
We want you to listen to our conversations so we can try to draw your attention
We believe you need to hear authentic conversations to learn English so we try to keep it real.
Even if you live in the UK, you cannot really listen to real conversations and not participate. That's 'eavesdropping'! - secretly listening to others' conversations!
We want you to listen to our conversations so we can try to draw your attention [see future blog post] to useful things about the language that you don't notice.
Waffle?
We help you by...
We help you by...
to talk or write a lot without giving any useful information or any clear answers
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/waffle
That sounds about right!
We help you by...
We help you by...
We help you by...
- ...providing transcripts of the audio.
- ...creating quizzes for you to check your listening and understanding.
- ...highlighting relevant words and phrases, and providing some explanations to help you learn English.