American English Podcast

L.E.O EDUs

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About this app

Learning American English Podcast with English language lessons from Voice of America (VOA) Learning English. VOA Learning English helps you learn English with vocabulary, listening and and comprehension through daily VOA news. VOA Learning English presents news and feature stories, audio, video about the U.S. and the world in American English. The stories are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level.

- VOA Learning English categories:
* As It Is - As It Is takes a daily look at issues in the news in the United States and around the world.
What's Trending Today? - What's Trending Today focuses on daily conversations on social media in America.
* Arts & Culture - Arts & Culture is our weekly program about music, pop culture, society and life.
* Science & Technology - Science in the News tells about news from the worlds of science and the environment.
* Words and Their Stories - Words and Their Stories programs explain idioms and expressions that many learners of American English find difficult to understand.
* America's Presidents - George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. John F. Kennedy. Millard Fillmore? Some U.S. presidents are better known than others. “America’s Presidents” tells each of their stories: when they lived, what they were like, how they governed, and why Americans remember them.
* Education - Innovations and trends in education in the United States and around the world.
* American Stories: Learn English as you read and listen to a weekly show with short stories by famous American authors. Adaptations are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level
* Ask a Teacher: Do you have a question about English? Go ahead and Ask a Teacher.
* Health & Lifestyle: Learn English as you read and listen to news and feature stories about health, medical and lifestyle topics. Our daily stories are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English.
* Everyday Grammar: How Americans use English grammar in everyday conversation.
* Personal Technology: Learn English's Personal technology provides news and feature stories about personal and mobile technology.
* People in America: VOA Learning English interviews and profiles interesting Americans and immigrants
* U.S. History: U.S. History explains the history of the United States. Each report tells how the country and its people have developed.
* US News: Learn English as you read and listen to news and feature stories about the U.S. and American life.
* This Is America: This Is America looks at major issues in American life and society, and explores popular places across the United States.

* American Mosaic: Weekly program about music, pop culture and life in the United States.

* What It Takes: A podcast of conversations with well-known people in almost every field. The interviews have been recorded over the past 25 years by the American Academy of Achievement.

VOA Learning English TV series:
* VOA60 Watch & Learn: Video reports about the United States or events around the world.
* Everyday Grammar TV: Video series to teach grammar for learners of American English.
* English in a Minute: A short video explaining an expression used in American English"
* News Words: A short video explaining a word or term used in news stories.
* Let's Learn English - Level 1, 2: New course for English learners.
* How to Pronounce: How to Pronounce is a series to teach pronunciation for learners of American English.

App’s Features:
- Lesson with Audio, Video & Transcripts
- TV with videos.
- Translate with Google Translate, Wikipedia, Dictionary.
- Search & Recent lesson.
- Bookmark manager.
- Download manager.
- Background Audio.
- Day Night Mode.
- Speed Control.
- Two listen mode: Online or Offline.

Let's improve all of your English skills: English Listening, English Vocabulary, English Grammar and English Speaking right now.

Ratings and reviews

I got this because I'm tutoring ESL students. They need practice in listening to clear, concise, American English language. This app not only provides stories, but it also teaches grammar, phonetics, customs and a bunch of other things that a student will find useful in the classroom or in real life.

I installed this app and began to explore it. I clicked a button with a blinking email symbol. It opened a site at the browser on my phone to show me some very suspicious advertising with an offer to download a file on my phone and "to receive" some "gain". Uninstall the app immediately. Cannot recommend.

It's great overall, the contents, pronunciation, style, organisations... but the only 2 drawbacks are : the reading (the audio) rate is slow and the other drawback is: it's not decided the level like: A1, A2, B1, C, C2.... I hope that the developers of this app kindly refer to design this characteristic of this situation.

What's new

- Thanks for using American Learning English & Podcasts. This released includes bug fix & improve performance.