# English Podcast for Easy English Listening | Habits of People Who Never Give Up Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-english-academy-7784342/english-podcast-for-easy-english-listening-habits-of-people-who-never-give-up Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-english-academy-7784342/english-podcast-for-easy-english-listening-habits-of-people-who-never-give-up.md Podcast: [Everyday English Academy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-english-academy-7784342) Published: 2026-08-30T09:15:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/everyday-english-academy/episodes/English-Podcast-for-Easy-English-Listening--Habits-of-People-Who-Never-Give-Up-e3o04uj Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10b355e38/podcast/play/124834195/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-27%2F430678979-44100-2-42deb5742a902.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everyday-english-academy-7784342/episodes/english-podcast-for-easy-english-listening-habits-of-people-who-never-give-up Duration seconds: 1718 ## Resource Habits of People Who Never Give Up | Intermediate English Podcast (B1, B2) | Everyday English Academy Everybody has a hobby that is still sitting on the coffee table, half started. Today Sarah and Mike talk slowly about the habits of people who never give up, from a harmonica that gets picked up and put down again to a language app deleted on day sixty-two at a rainy bus stop. It is a calm English podcast conversation that gives you the words to talk about your own stops and restarts, at work, at the gym, or in your studies. Have you ever announced on a Monday that you are getting back into something, and then quietly stopped by Thursday? Listening to Sarah and Mike, you'll learn how to describe a setback in simple English, how to say you keep meaning to do something, when to lower the bar instead of planning a huge overhaul, and how to use give up on with a person (which means something much heavier than quitting a hobby). You'll also hear friendly, everyday ways to answer when a neighbour asks how your new hobby is going. This episode is perfect for B1 English learners who want to talk honestly about habits, hobbies and small failures in real-life speaking, using natural everyday vocabulary instead of textbook phrases. πŸ’‘ Tip: This week, lower the bar once: swim eleven minutes, then say aloud what you actually did. πŸ“š Vocabulary in this episode β€’ setback: a problem that pushes you back β€’ slack off: to do less than you should β€’ lower the bar: to expect less of yourself β€’ resilient: able to come back after problems β€’ determined: wanting something strongly, not stopping β€’ halfhearted: done without real effort or interest β€’ cut your losses: to stop before you lose more β€’ attempt: one try at something β€’ trial and error: trying, failing, and trying again β€’ sunk cost: time or… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everyday-english-academy-7784342/episodes/english-podcast-for-easy-english-listening-habits-of-people-who-never-give-up/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-english-academy-7784342/english-podcast-for-easy-english-listening-habits-of-people-who-never-give-up.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.