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Tech English Voices

Tech English Voices

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Tech English Voices is the podcast for non-native English speakers working in tech who want to sound sharper at work — in stand-ups, code reviews, client calls, and job interviews.

Each episode drops you into one real workplace scenario with hosts Alex and Sam: a blocked ticket in a daily stand-up, a tense sprint retro, explaining a bug to a non-technical stakeholder, a job interview panel. Along the way you'll pick up 10 new vocabulary terms in natural context, hear a full role-play dialogue at real conversational speed, a slow-speed replay of the key exchanges, a breakdown of exactly how and when to use what you learned, and a quick quiz to lock it in.

This isn't a coding podcast and it isn't a grammar class. It's the practical, workplace-specific English that developers, QA engineers, project managers, DevOps engineers, and IT support staff actually need to collaborate on international teams — built for B1–C1 level listeners.

New episodes every week. Every episode has a free companion PDF transcript with the full vocabulary list, dialogue, and quiz answers — link in the episode notes.

Whether you're prepping for a technical interview in English, joining a distributed team for the first time, or just want your stand-up updates to sound more natural, this show is built for you.

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This podcast is for language-learning purposes only. Workplace scenarios are fictional and this is not professional or career advice.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 5 — Backlog Refinement: Asking the Right Questions About Requirements

    Ep. 5 — Backlog Refinement: Asking the Right Questions About Requirements
    Oct 14 2026

    What do you say when a Jira ticket has no acceptance criteria and everyone is making different assumptions? Real Agile vocabulary for developers — scope, dependencies, and the questions that save you from building the wrong thing.

    Follow Alex and Sam through a backlog refinement session with product manager Elena joining by video call. A vague "forgot password" ticket forces the team to surface hidden assumptions, define acceptance criteria, and set the scope — before a single line of code gets written. Plus, "edge case" and "pull request" return from Episode 4, and "estimate" carries over from Episode 2.

    10 terms in this episode: refine / refinement, acceptance criteria, scope, out of scope, assumption, clarify, dependency, edge case, estimate, pull request

    This episode is for language learning purposes only. Workplace scenarios are fictional.

    Free PDF transcript + vocabulary list: https://techenglishvoices.com/episodes/5

    Watch on YouTube & subscribe: https://youtu.be/2gMX_6Z4gtk

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    21 mins
  • Ep. 4 — Code Review in English: How to Request Changes on a Pull Request

    Ep. 4 — Code Review in English: How to Request Changes on a Pull Request
    Oct 7 2026

    Code review English for developers: how to request changes on a pull request, and how to answer when someone requests changes on yours.

    Follow Alex and Sam through a live pull request review, with QA engineer Priya joining by video call to flag an edge case. Sam thought her PR was ready to merge; Alex has comments. Learn the difference between a nit and a blocker, why "refactor" lands softer than "rewrite," and how to say "good catch" and "fair point" like a professional.

    10 terms in this episode: pull request (PR), code review, LGTM, nit, refactor, edge case, readable, iterate, root cause, follow up

    Free PDF transcript + vocabulary list: https://techenglishvoices.com/episodes/4

    Watch & subscribe on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DWCO02rBrAg

    New episodes weekly.

    This episode is for language learning purposes only. Workplace scenarios are fictional.
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    18 mins
  • Ep. 3 — Sprint Retrospective English: Saying What Went Wrong Without Blaming Anyone

    Ep. 3 — Sprint Retrospective English: Saying What Went Wrong Without Blaming Anyone
    Oct 3 2026

    Sprint retrospective English for developers: how to say what went wrong in a retro without blaming anyone.

    Follow Alex and Sam through a real sprint retrospective, with QA engineer Priya joining by video call. The login feature shipped, but Thursday's deployment was rough. Hear the team move from "the DevOps team dropped the ball" to "the root cause was no shared checklist," and learn how to give honest feedback that fixes the process, not the person.

    10 terms in this episode: retrospective (retro), what went well, room for improvement, pain point, root cause, iterate, takeaway, going forward, commit, trade-off

    Free PDF transcript + vocabulary list: https://techenglishvoices.com/episodes/3

    Watch & subscribe on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TlwOq0Td8SM

    New episodes weekly.

    This episode is for language learning purposes only. Workplace scenarios are fictional.
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    18 mins
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