The best podcast for learning English
Improve your English with 1000+ audio lessons and helpful study guides.
Amazing teachers
Our native English-speaking hosts from Canada, the USA, and the UK are expert teachers and passionate language learners. Plus, they’re entertaining and easy to understand.
New lessons each week
Stay motivated with interesting and helpful lessons uploaded twice each week. Build your English skills and watch your progress continue to grow and grow.
Flexible and convenient
Study with our lessons anytime, anywhere to maximize your learning time. No need to search for material – we’ve got it all here for you.
Huge lesson library
Culips members get access to transcripts, study guides, quizzes, and more for 900+ audio lessons.
Member benefits
Culips makes English easier
Our helpful learning materials will help you reach your English learning goals faster
Helpful study guides
Members get useful study guides for each episode. In the study guides you’ll find detailed vocabulary explanations, real-world examples, a quiz, and speaking and listening exercises. Download as a PDF or digitally on your computer or phone.
Interactive transcripts
Our new interactive transcripts make learning with Culips easier than ever. Follow the transcript while you listen and click on any word to repeat the audio from that point. Available for all our series, including the Fluency Files!
Wonderful community
Connect with our community of English learners from around the world with on our Discord channel. A place where you can practice your communication skills through messaging, voice chats, and video calls. Plus there’s a special member-only channel where you can meet other Culips members!
Ad-free audio
No annoying advertisements or promotional messages, so you can concentrate more on the lesson and fully immerse yourself in the conversation.
Weekly classes
As a Culips member, you can join our exclusive weekly small-group discussion sessions! Each week, practice your English speaking skills and discuss what you hear on Culips with other members just like you. Led by our friendly staff, these sessions provide a helpful and interactive environment to improve your English speaking skills.
Fluency Files
Fluency Files is our member-only series. Each episode features a short story that is designed for repetitive listening and intensive study and comes with a study guide, interactive transcript, and listening exercises. Get fluent faster with the Fluency Files.
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Interactive transcripts and helpful study guides
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Wonderful bonuses
Member-only bonuses like the Fluency Files and invitations to our monthly live streams.
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Our team
Meet your teachers
We're expert English teachers, language learners, and podcast hosts who have been helping our listeners reach their English goals since 2009.
Study with us
Andrew Bates
Host
Canadian English teacher with more than 10 years experience. Based out of Seoul.
Kassy White
Host
American teacher who has lived and worked in Bangkok, Thailand. Co-host of Simplified Speech, Real Talk, and Catch Word.
Anna Connelly
Host
Originally from the UK, Anna now lives and works as an English teacher in Madrid, Spain. Co-host of Chatterbox.
Suzanne Centineo
Host
Suzanne is a voice and speech teacher, podcaster, and actress. From the USA but now in Montreal, Canada.
English learners love Culips
Thousands of people are happily improving their English with us.
I've tried a lot of different resources to learn the language, but I love to learn with you the most. You make our lives easier and better.
Ada
Poland
Culips is always interesting and I learn something new with every single episode. It's the most entertaining podcast to learn English that I've listened to so far.
Bella
USA
I've been listening to Culips for almost 6 months and you're better than all others. Your speech ability, the subjects you chose, even your voice make me keep on listening to you.
Sibel
Turkey
Excellent podcast! I've been listening to Culips for almost 6 months. I also subscribed Culips and found out that my learning has improved so much when I communicate with English speaking people. Thank you so much. Keep up the great work.
Daadahny
Taiwan
I am a high school student and a heavy Culips listener. I love to listen to your episodes every morning. Because of you, I can speak better in my English lessons.
Yuto
Japan
My speaking level is getting better and better because of Culips. You're part of my daily routine!
Chaeharin
South Korea
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know
We teach English through high-quality audio lessons about fascinating topics. Each lesson features clear and easy to understand conversations between native speakers. Learning English with us is an amazing way to grow your listening, vocabulary, comprehension, pronunciation, and speaking. It’s also great for learning about the culture of English speaking people.
We give you everything you need to create your own English immersion environment. By listening to our episodes and doing the exercises in the study guide, you can improve all your English skills including vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension, pronunciation, and speaking!
Of course. After you become a member, we'll share some tutorial videos that will help you start learning with us.
Culips is best for intermediate to advanced level English learners.
Helpful study guides
Our study guides are created by our team of expert teachers to help you become a great English communicator
- Interactive transcripts
- Clear explanations and real-world examples
- Quizzes
- Speaking and writing exercises
Try for free
Try some of our free sample study guides to see what Culips membership is like, and then take the next step and become a member to unlock all of the resources we have to offer. Don't miss out on this opportunity to improve your language skills and fluency!
Simplified Speech #159
Kassy's new hobbies
Kassy talks with Andrew about some new hobbies of hers. Listen in to find out what they are!
Chatterbox #297
Personal finance
Andrew and Anna share their experiences handling finances and give some tips on how to spend less money.
Real Talk #054
Joining a gym
Joining a new gym can be intimidating. There are a lot of things you need to think of. You have to ask about their membership fees.