Charlie Baxter

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5,455 appearances 22 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

Charlie Baxter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The British English Podcast · Want Better English? Stop Trying So Hard! · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

So let's uh let's picture an ice cube sitting in a room that's slowly warming up. podcast-host

So, you know, you've just taken the ice cube out of the freezer, so it's probably about five minus five degrees. podcast-host

five degrees, right? podcast-host

So it's sitting there, then it drops down, drops down, goes up, I suppose, goes up to minus four degrees, then minus three degrees, and nothing's happening. podcast-host

It just sits there looking extremely cool. podcast-host

Um exactly the same block of ice that it was when you got it out of the freezer. podcast-host

Then it crosses zero and only then does it actually start to melt. podcast-host

All that warming from minus five up to zero is podcast-host

It i it wasn't nothing happening, even though it looked like nothing happening, it was the necessary part of podcast-host

But almost invisible to the naked eye, right? podcast-host

And this is why you can listen to British podcasts for two months and feel like nothing's sinking in. podcast-host

And then if you keep going, one day you realise that you've understood an entire conversation out in the real world and and you've got no idea when that podcast-host

clicked when that switch flipped. podcast-host

It wasn't like there was that day you realised, oh podcast-host

I can understand English the way natives speak it. podcast-host

It it came from all of the invisible days of listening practice that came before it. podcast-host

So that's the invisible bit, the compounding, the plateau, why it can feel like nothing's working when something actually is. podcast-host

But now let's talk about the part you can actually control on podcast-host

On a random Tuesday. podcast-host

And I'll start with a line from the book that I think about more than almost anything else I've read in this book. podcast-host

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