Can you recommend any podcasts for practicing general listening skills?
Yes, of course we can. Podcasts are a wonderful way to engage your listening skills, and they cover a wide range of styles and topics. As such, they can both be entertaining and educational, and they can expose you to a variety of accents and new vocabulary.
You can also get live captions using Google Chrome on your different devices so that you can read and listen to your podcasts at the same if you want to:
How to get live captions for your podcasts
Here's a list of podcasts that you can choose from, with information about each (in parentheses):
- Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all (tech topics and mysteries/discussions/interviews)
- The World: https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world (current events/interviews)
- This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/ (interesting stories about life in America/interviews/often amusing/some adult language)
- Criminal: https://thisiscriminal.com/ (short crime stories/interviews/often amusing/interesting/some adult language)
- Reveal: https://revealnews.org/episodes (investigative journalism/interviews/some adult language)
- Serial: https://serialpodcast.org/ (investigative journalism/mysteries/narratives/interviews)
- S-Town: https://stownpodcast.org/ (investigative journalism/narrative/interviews)
- The Moth: https://themoth.org/podcast (curated stories/interviews/narratives)
- Revisionist History: http://revisionisthistory.com/ (historical inaccuracies/sociology)
- Tim Ferris: https://tim.blog/podcast/ (personal development/stories on a wide range of topics)
- Today in Focus: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus (current events/interviews)
- Ted Talks: https://www.ted.com/talks (topical speeches/videos/transcripts)
- BBC Podcasts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts (a selection of various podcasts)
- British Council Podcasts: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/podcasts (everyday conversational English)
