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.
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Sometimes I get confused by simple things. It often happens when I get a phone call from an unknown number. I always answer these, though I might start answering them less often, because they are usually not friends calling. Usually they’re sales people. People trying to sell something, like security cameras, that I don’t really want.
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Do you know the phrase “To get by” ? It’s an important one, and has (at least) two different meanings. Listen to this episode to hear and understand both of them.
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There are some mountains near where I live in Haytown, with lots of trails for walking and lots of streams full of rocks and fish and beautiful waterfalls. One day, not too long ago, I drove over to the mountains with my dog, Shelby, to go for a nice, long walk there…
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Have you ever wished you had done something differently in your life? Have you ever looked back and said, “I should have done this and not that?” Have you ever just wondered what would have happened if you had made a different choice?
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I didn’t feel like going to work today. That happens. I bet it happens to you. You just don’t feel like it sometimes. I woke up, and I was tired. I didn’t feel like going to work, I felt like going back to sleep. I didn’t feel like going to work, I felt like going for a walk with my dog. I didn’t feel like going to work, I felt like making some tea and watching a movie. But I knew there were a lot of people who were counting on me going to work.
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Welcome to Boxcar English,
where there’s always room for you.
My name is Karl. Mm! It’s good to see you!
Come on this train, let’s ride together.
I’ve got another story to tell.
[0:35]
Hi there. I was hoping to see you today – just had something on my mind. There was this funny moment I had yesterday, and I wanted to tell you about it. I was at work, you know I work as a janitor, cleaning a school. I have this big broom that’s about a meter wide, and I push it up and down the hallways. Well, yesterday I was pushing this big broom down the hallway when Ms. Geist came out of her classroom, and walked towards me.
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[0:00]
Welcome to Boxcar English,
where there’s always room for you.
My name is Karl. It’s good to see you.
Get on this train, let’s ride.
I’ve got another story to tell.
[0:33]
I woke up this morning, as usual, at 6 o’clock. I need to wake up at 6 to get to work at 7, so everything can be ready for school to start at 8. When I wake up now that it’s May, the sun is already almost out. The mornings are getting brighter. Birds are singing out there – I can hear them through the walls. I was wondering what the day would be like. And as I was wondering, as little thoughts ran through my head, I had a feeling that it would be a different kind of day. I felt a little excited, and a little scared. I wondered, what will be different about today?
[1:24]
I got dressed, had some coffee, and I thought about breakfast. I usually have a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. But, today, when I was getting the box of oats out of the cupboard, I saw a carton of eggs. And I stopped my hand before I grabbed the box of oats, and redirected it towards the carton of eggs. Wow! This day was already going differently than usual! I boiled an egg and ate it with salt and pepper. I wondered, am I doing this to the day? Or is the day doing this to me?
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It’s impossible to know where you were born. Have you ever thought about that? Being born is something that nobody remembers. Well, everybody that I have ever asked has told me they don’t remember being born. And they always act like it’s a strange question to ask. I can tell because they laugh a little bit when they say, “No, I don’t remember being born.” It seems silly because it seems obvious. Everyone knows that no one remembers being born. But, at the same time, almost everyone believes they know where they were born. Really, the best we can do is believe we know where we were born. (to continue reading, see our Patreon page!)
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