While Australia Day is the official name, January 26th is also widely known as Invasion Day or Survival Day.

Welcome to Daily English with Sarah.

Daily English is a daily podcast in simple English. Each episode describes a holiday, festival, or other important day around the world.

The average episode is around 5 minutes long, and uses grade 5 level English. Most of the vocabulary should be familiar to learners who have completed A2 in the CEFR.

Your host, Sarah, is an Australian-born native-speaker of English. She has a PhD in linguistics, and holds a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education. Before leaving to travel the world, she worked as a university lecturer.

The Daily English podcast theme is by James Rampant.