At Home 🏠🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 | Slow English Podcast | Episode 173 | English With Us Podcast | With Subtitles

Home is where most of our daily life happens, and the English we use there tends to be simple, repetitive, and practical. In this episode of the Slow English Podcast, hosts David and Emma walk through the vocabulary and phrases needed to talk about rooms, furniture, chores, relaxing, hosting guests, and handling household problems. The throughline is that home English is everyday English — you don't need complex grammar or rare words to describe what you do in your living space. The episode is structured as a teaching conversation, with each segment introducing a room or activity, defining key terms, and offering example sentences that learners can use immediately.

Rooms and Furniture

The episode begins with the basic rooms of a home. The living room is where people sit, talk, or watch television; it typically contains furniture like a couch, chairs, and a table. The kitchen is where food is prepared and cooked, with a refrigerator, stove, sink, and cabinets for storage. David clarifies the difference between a stove (the hot cooking areas on top) and an oven (the closed space for baking or roasting). The bedroom contains a bed and often a nightstand — a small table next to the bed. A closet is a storage space for clothes and shoes, and the bathroom has a toilet, sink, and either a shower or bathtub. For each room, the hosts offer a natural sentence: "I