RAMBLEMANIA 🗣️ 3+ Hours of English Listening & Learning with Luke [976]

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 215 minutes

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Here's an epic rambling episode in which I talk about learning English with BBC Radio and TV 📻 vocabulary expressions with the word 'thumb' 👍 the story of how I became a taxi driver on the streets of Paris 🚖 the grammar of Yoda 🐸 fantastic haikus written by my listeners ✍️ and getting pecked in the face by a swan 🦢. 3h30min+ of English listening and learning from me to you. #learnenglish #britishenglish #englishlistening

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📺 The Office UK - Big Keith's Appraisal https://youtu.be/IkYUDQCYGHA?si=T1Hz0VQ9HIrhLOSw

📺 Downton Abbey clup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAnsGZCahlU

📺 Monty Python - The voice of God - https://youtu.be/z-iWe4qXUD8?si=za7e_XF3CsGjuDjm

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit
0:07.4	teacher luke.com.com.com.
0:14.0	Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing
0:20.5	fine. Welcome back to my podcast for learners of English all around the world. This is here to help you get regular English input into your life through listening. So join me as I talk to you in English, which is clear, easy to understand, but not basic. I do attempt to speak normally
0:40.7	and naturally on this podcast in order to help you become used to hearing the sound of spoken
0:49.6	English and you can notice and pick up various phrases and bits of vocabulary.
0:57.0	Yes, I try not to make my English basic.
0:59.9	I try to speak in the same way that I would normally speak.
1:03.5	But I think that, yes, I think you'll find that my English is pretty clear and simple to follow and yet not basic. This is what people
1:13.6	often say in comments. They comment on the fact that they can understand me easily. And that's
1:20.5	part of the plan, you know, that's part of the method. I want this to be accessible. I want this to be a
1:26.3	way for you to connect with English in a meaningful
1:29.5	way for more than just 15 minutes. You know, my episodes are quite long. And this is an important
1:37.5	part of your process for learning English. Right. So this is a rambling episode recorded and published in February 2026. I will be talking for some time about lots of different things throughout the episode.
1:53.2	So coming up in this one, there'll be some responses to recent episodes. I'll be talking about listener comments and things in response to some of the
2:03.0	episodes I've published recently. I'll tell you a few little stories and anecdotes and various
2:09.3	other ramblings, including stuff relating to learning English with TV and radio, all fingers
2:16.5	and thumbs, the expression, fingers and thumbs, but I'll be talking about fingers and radio. All fingers and thumbs, the expression, fingers and thumbs,
2:18.8	but I'll be talking about fingers and thumbs.
2:22.1	That is in response to a recent story that I told on the podcast.
2:27.2	Anyway, stuff about fingers and thumbs.
2:30.2	How I became a taxi driver on the streets of Paris.
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