936. How AI can Boost your English with Podcasts ✨🎧 (feat. Alastair Budge)

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m joined by Alastair Budge from Leonardo English to explore how you can use AI tools like ChatGPT to boost your English, especially when combined with podcasts. We go through specific, practical ways to actively engage with podcast content using AI — improving your listening, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and even speaking. Alastair shares a set of very useful prompts and techniques you can try out straight away, and we discuss the pros and cons of using AI for language learning. There's also a bit of fun as I try chatting with an AI version of myself. Download the free PDF in the show notes for all the prompts and ideas we mentioned, plus a full transcript.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit
0:07.7	teacherloop.com.com.com.
0:14.2	Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. Here is another episode about
0:20.7	artificial intelligence, AI. In fact, using AI to help you learn English. We're going to look at some specific ways that AI can help you to do that in combination with this podcast. Now, as I always say, listening to plenty of podcast episodes, for example, is a fantastic
0:41.0	thing to do for your English, but there are other ways that you can push your English further,
0:46.4	other ways that you can apply yourself to your English learning. And I think that AI can
0:51.2	definitely make this easier. And in this episode, the idea is to show you some specific ways that you can do that.
1:00.0	Now, AI is incredible, right?
1:05.0	We live in an amazing time, thanks to the potential for learning that AI gives us. But obviously, artificial intelligence
1:14.1	has its negative side as well. There are controversial points relating to this. As I discussed
1:20.0	not long ago in episode 909, we'll talk about some of those things as well. There'll be a bit
1:26.2	of a discussion about that.
1:30.6	But the main point is learning English with AI.
1:31.9	How can you actually do it?
1:36.8	I'm joined today by Alistair Budge from LeonardoEnglish.com.
1:43.7	And Alistair has been working away, looking at specific ways that you can use AI as a learning tool, and he's come up with a number of
1:46.1	very useful prompts and exercises, and he's going to be kind enough to share them with us today.
1:52.3	So there should be lots of very practical tips and things to learn from this episode.
1:56.7	So get yourselves ready.
1:57.9	As usual, there's an episode PDF, which contains a lot of notes and prompts and a transcript of this episode, which should be very useful to help you to get the most out of the episode. You'll find a link in the description. So, hello, Alistair. How are you doing?
2:14.0	Hello, Luke. I am doing wonderfully today. How are you? Yeah, not bad. Thank you. I'm looking forward to this. I'm looking forward to seeing what you've come up with.
2:22.3	So what have you been doing? You've been just sort of playing with AI then?
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