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!
I rode my horse, whose name is Happy, a long way.
Until my horse got sick.
I was stuck on the side of the road, playing with my blue hat.
Then, something great happened…
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I wanted to paint my room, but I wasn’t sure which color to choose…
So I went to the paint store and tried to pick out a color.
But it’s hard to pick just one when there are so many choices.
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I found something strange today.
It was outside my front door. It was a bottle — an old bottle.
The bottle was very interesting to me, but I didn’t know why…
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How are your eyes?
How well do you see?
Has the way you see changed?
I’m thinking about my eyes, and what it’s like to get older.
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Are your shoes perfect?
What would your perfect shoes be?
Where do you look for shoes?
Karl looks for shoes in used clothing stores. They aren’t easy to find.
Sometimes he dreams of shoes.
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Karl stays with his grandfather and all his dogs and cats in the mountains.
Time slows down.
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Karl drives a long way to visit his grandfather in the mountains.
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Learn English with easy, funny, warm, and human stories set in the United States. Your host is Karl, a nice man with a dog.
Hi, I’m your host, Karl.
I work at a school. I’m a janitor there.
These stories are my little bits of life. I want to share them with you, because I heard you’re learning English.
But if you’re not learning English, these stories are for you, too.
It’s a whole universe. The universe where I live. It’s a good place. And you’re welcome here.
The way we get there is a train. An old train. So, come on board. Let’s get on this train and ride together…
I got a text from my old friend, George.
It was the first time I’d heard from him in years.
There was a link to a cute animal video in it.
I was happy to hear from George, but I didn’t know what the video meant…
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