Beginner English Conversations: Free Course

About this course

Build a practical foundation in everyday spoken English with this free BBC Learning English course. All twenty numbered Easy English Conversations episodes are retained, covering introductions, routines, directions, interests, time, feelings, family, comparisons, shopping and home. The lessons are scripted language tutorials rather than an interview or general conversation archive.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Introduce yourself and give simple information about where you live.
• Ask for directions and describe routines, preferences and abilities.
• Talk about time, feelings, family, personality and recent activities.
• Use everyday language for comparisons, clothes shopping and describing a home.

Skills you’ll gain

• Everyday conversation
• Introductions
• Asking questions
• Describing people
• Speaking practice
• Functional English

Course Overview

The series builds a useful set of everyday functions across Episodes 1–20. It begins with introducing yourself and saying where you are from, then expands into routines, directions and activities. Later episodes cover preferences, weather, ability, time, habits and past activities before moving into feelings, family, personality, comparisons, shopping and home. Because the recordings are short, they are well suited to repeated practice with simple personal examples. This classroom preserves the complete published twenty-episode video sequence. It does not promise coverage of every part of a formal English level or include a language examination. The practical aim is to make familiar situations easier to understand and respond to.

How to study the course

• Follow Episodes 1–6 and prepare a short introduction, a description of your town and a simple daily routine. Keep the sentences understandable before adding more detail.
• Use Episodes 7–14 to practise preferences, time, habits, past activities and feelings. Change a few words from a model so that the sentence communicates your own meaning.
• Complete Episodes 15–20 and connect the topics into short exchanges about people, shopping and home. Review an earlier episode whenever a basic phrase still feels difficult.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

The course suits beginners and returning English learners who want structured practice for familiar situations. It can also support teachers or study partners looking for short models that can be turned into manageable speaking tasks.

Before you start

Basic familiarity with everyday English words is useful. Keep a notebook and allow time to speak aloud between videos. No paid textbook is required for viewing, and the classroom does not provide instructor correction or a certified language-level assessment.

Put the lessons into practice

Prepare three short exchanges: meeting someone for the first time, asking for directions and describing your home. Use a few ideas from the relevant episodes while choosing words that fit an invented situation. Practise asking the question as well as giving the answer. Add one follow-up question so the exchange can continue naturally. Check whether a listener could understand the main point without needing a long explanation. Keep a list of five phrases you want to use again and revisit their source episodes after practising.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: BBC Learning English. Videos play from the BBC Learning English channel on YouTube.