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The weekend is here!
I take my Grandpa to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate.
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One of the best and most pleasant ways to learn English, Boxcar English is a podcast for English learner spoken in warm, relaxed voice with a vocabulary range carefully chosen for English learners. A positive, uplifting podcast full of good energy and human experiences.
The series are designed for different levels of English learners. The podcast focuses on stories that are interesting, funny, sometimes beautiful, sometimes strange, so the listener engages with the meaning, rather than the surface level of the language. The “For beginners” podcast focus on basic phrases and vocabulary.
The philosophy of the podcast is to provide the good, positive energy needed for learning a new language, with much of the content for free or low cost, and for all of it to be made by a human, and not impersonal AI-based creation.
It’s based on the language-learning theory of “Comprehensible and Compelling input,” which says that you should listen and read to a lot of materials that are 1) Easy to understand (you know 95% of the vocabulary), and 2) Interesting to listen to. Boxcar English is designed to be fun, welcoming, & refreshing to different levels of learners.
At Boxcar English, there’s always room for you!
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This story is about my Grandpa visiting my house.
My grandpa has a lot of dogs and cats, and he brought them all to my house — including a tiny kitten!
Sometimes English learners get confused by the words “fun” and “funny.” This episode can help you out. Read this: “I noticed that Shelby was acting funny. That’s my dog. Shelby is her name. She was acting funny. I mean, she wasn’t acting normally.”
This type of language is easiest to learn through stories like the ones you hear in Boxcar English. I hope it’s useful to you!
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A drive in the country.
Let’s take a look at three of the natural, American-style phrasings used in this episode:
1–“It sounded like they hadn’t had a chance to speak in a long time”
You can say “it sounds like” in the same way as “it looks like” or “it appears”!
“to have a chance” – to have an opportunity
“to speak” in this case means the birds haven’t had a chance to speak to each other!
2. “We drove off” — we drove off? That means we started driving, and sounds like the drive will go a long way!3. “I just listened to my feelings the best I could.“
“The best I could” means “to the best of my abilities!” Note that this is used in the past tense. If used in the present/future you’ll use “can” — for example: “I’m doing the best I can” / “I will do the best I can”
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I could not find my username.
I could not find my password.
And, I admit it, I cried.
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This episode is about how our lives are full of magic.
I saw a star in the hole in the clouds, and it seemed to want to say: “Hey Karl, don’t forget that your life is full of magic.”I want to hear from you: what’s an experience you’ve had of the magic of life?
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I had a dream about eating some very delicious blue fruit.
It was so inspiring. I felt good all day.
And I took my dog on a walk in the woods.
We saw a dead deer.
That’s the type of story you get on Boxcar English, ones that show thinking and feeling in the English language.
No AI is used in the creation of this podcast — it’s a human production!
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Karl talks to a friend about prisons. And something unexpected happens. Who is responsible? No one knows.
This episode includes some adult themes, so be aware of that if you feel any sensitivity to those things.
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Thanks for listening!
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It’s no fun to have car problems. Karl wants to leave work, but his car won’t start.
It’s cold outside, and there’s nobody around to help.Then, a possum comes through the parking lot…
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If you haven’t listened to Grocery Store (Part 1) I recommend you do before listening to this episode!
More essential vocabulary-in-use in this video!
Do you know a lot of words but have trouble putting them together so they sound natural?
That’s exactly what this podcast is meant to help with.
I mean, every episode of it, not just “Grocery Store (Part 2)!”
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Karl skips lunch and is very hungry after work.
But, having no food, he has to go to the grocery store!
What do you think he will cook?
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