Learn English Podcast
The Learn English Podcast helps B2 English learners improve listening, vocabulary, and confidence through engaging, story-based episodes about American culture, world events, and fascinating true stories.
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🎧Robbery, burglary, and heist — do you know the difference?
This episode of the Learn English Podcast uses the real-life Louvre Museum jewel theft to teach essential English vocabulary that comes up constantly in news, TV shows, and movies. The episode explains the key differences between robbery, burglary, and heist — then covers the vocabulary used to describe planned crimes, including recon, mastermind, accomplice, inside job, smash and grab, getaway, lay low, and blow over.
Designed for intermediate English learners (B1–B2), this episode also includes film and TV recommendations — Ocean’s 11, Money Heist, Good Girls, Lupin, and The Italian Job — chosen specifically to help learners practice this vocabulary through natural English conversations.
Learn American English naturally through real stories, current events, and vocabulary in context — not grammar drills.
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📝 Vocabulary list:
1) robbery: stealing from a person using force or threat while the person is present
2) robbery: stealing from a person using force or threat while the person is present
3) heist: a planned burglary targeting something valuable (art, jewels, money)
4) spontaneous: happening in the moment without planning
5) to score: successfully steal something valuable
6) case the place/joint : secretly study a location before a crime
7) case the place: secretly study a location before a crime
8) recon: gathering information before a crime (short for reconnaissance)
9) mastermind: the main planner/leader behind the heist
10) accomplice: a person who helps commit a crime
11) smash and grab: break a display/window and steal quickly
12) lay low: hide and avoid attention after doing something risky/illegal
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Welcome English Learners!
If you’re tired of boring English lessons, you’re in the right place.
The Learn English Podcast helps B2 learners improve listening, vocabulary, and confidence through real stories about culture, history, and everyday life. Each episode gives you English that is natural, understandable, and meaningful—so you learn without stress or confusion.
Here, you won’t memorize lists or repeat unnatural sentences. You’ll hear real English in context, spoken the way people use it in the real world. Bit by bit, your brain starts connecting words, expressions, and meaning automatically. If you want English that feels real—not like homework—join us and start learning through stories you’ll actually enjoy.
The Learn English Podcast
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🎧Robbery, burglary, and heist — do you know the difference?
This episode of the Learn English Podcast uses the real-life Louvre Museum jewel theft to teach essential English vocabulary that comes up constantly in news, TV shows, and movies. The episode explains the key differences between robbery, burglary, and heist — then covers the vocabulary used to describe planned crimes, including recon, mastermind, accomplice, inside job, smash and grab, getaway, lay low, and blow over.
Designed for intermediate English learners (B1–B2), this episode also includes film and TV recommendations — Ocean’s 11, Money Heist, Good Girls, Lupin, and The Italian Job — chosen specifically to help learners practice this vocabulary through natural English conversations.
Learn American English naturally through real stories, current events, and vocabulary in context — not grammar drills.
🔔 Follow us on social media @LearnEnglishPod and visit our website:
Podcast website: https://learnenglishpod.com/
Follow us on social Media: https://linktr.ee/learnenglishpod
Take lessons with me: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/8531387
📚Affiliate link for italki: https://www.italki.com/en/i/ref/GBBdbb
Affiliate link for Lingq: https://www.lingq.com/?referral=msusc
📝 Vocabulary list:
1) robbery: stealing from a person using force or threat while the person is present
2) robbery: stealing from a person using force or threat while the person is present
3) heist: a planned burglary targeting something valuable (art, jewels, money)
4) spontaneous: happening in the moment without planning
5) to score: successfully steal something valuable
6) case the place/joint : secretly study a location before a crime
7) case the place: secretly study a location before a crime
8) recon: gathering information before a crime (short for reconnaissance)
9) mastermind: the main planner/leader behind the heist
10) accomplice: a person who helps commit a crime
11) smash and grab: break a display/window and steal quickly
12) lay low: hide and avoid attention after doing something risky/illegal
