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Making New Year’s resolutions stick | Learn English phrase ‘fall short’
Episode 117
A New Year’s resolution is a promise you make to yourself to improve for the coming year. Many people say they will lose weight, sleep more, get a ne…
7 years, 7 months ago
NBA in Mexico; NFL in London: American sports push their brands abroad | Learn English phrase ‘a matter of time’
Episode 116
Basketball in Mexico; American baseball in Japan; football in London: the American professional sports leagues are making a push to play a few showca…
7 years, 7 months ago
Crying is serious business in Japan | Learn English phrase ‘latch onto’
Episode 115
Japanese entrepreneurs have started crying clubs, where men and women get together to watch sad movies and listen to sad songs. The purpose is to ind…
7 years, 7 months ago
Trouble for Huawei after executive is arrested in Canada | Learn English phrase ‘dry up’
Episode 114
Huawei is one the world’s largest manufacturers of cell phones and the equipment that powers cell phone service around the world. However, some peopl…
7 years, 8 months ago
Britain should vote again on Brexit | Learn English phrase ‘bite the bullet’
Episode 113
The deal British Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated for her country’s exit from the European Union did not find the support it needed to pass the …
7 years, 8 months ago
George H. W. Bush, America’s 41st president, dies at 94 | Learn English phrase ‘keep a low profile’
Episode 112
George Herbert Walker Bush, who served as a Navy pilot in World War II and later as a Congressman, CIA director, vice president, and president, died …
7 years, 8 months ago
Yellow vest protests expand to France’s Champs-Elysée | Learn English phrase ‘finger on the pulse’
Episode 111
A spontaneous protest movement has broken out in France, disrupting daily traffic and shaking the government’s plans for additional fuel taxes. A gro…
7 years, 8 months ago
First gene-edited baby is born in China, scientist says | Learn English phrase ‘slippery slope’
Episode 110
Chinese scientist Hu Jinakui says that he edited the genes of an embryo during in vitro fertilization and that the embryo grew to be a girl who was b…
7 years, 8 months ago
Cuba pulls 8,000 doctors from Brazil after spat with Bolsonaro | Plus, learn English phrasal verb ‘make up for’
Episode 109
Cuba has ordered all 8,000 of its doctors working in Brazil to come home after a spat between Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro and the Cuban …
7 years, 8 months ago
Pisa’s famous tower is leaning a bit less | Learn English phrase ‘straighten out’
Episode 107
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is leaning a little less. Scientists recently confirmed that the famous tower has straightened out by about four centimeter…
7 years, 8 months ago