Podcast Episodes

Exaggeration and hyperbole

Episode 593

In this podcast, you'll learn thousands of expressions of exaggeration and hyperbole so that you can make your English more colourful and engaging. Well, maybe not thousands! 

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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Blood sports

Episode 591

In today's podcast, we speak about blood sports. You'll learn vocabulary connected to bull fighting, fox hunting, cock fighting and dog fighting and we'll give you our personal opinion on this contro…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Uses of the word 'light'

Episode 590

Today you'll learn lots of vocabulary connected to the word 'light' and we hope that this podcast will help you widen your vocabulary so that you see this word 'in a new light'!

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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Car boot sales and second-hand shops

Episode 589

What would you expect to see at a car boot sale? If you're thinking of boots in a car, you'd be wrong! Also, we'll give you a first-hand account of second-hand shops in this podcast episode.

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Published on 3 months ago

How to be happy - 16 quotations about Happiness

Episode 588

In today's podcast, we've selected some famous, and some not so well-known, quotations about happiness. We hope they will help to make your life happier and improve your English.

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Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Five Fables from Aesop

Episode 587

A fable is a very short story that usually teaches a moral or lesson about life. Some of the most well-known fables were written by Aesop. Who was Aesop and how can fables improve your English? Keep …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Architects and architecture vocabulary

Episode 586

In this podcast, you'll learn some technical vocabulary related to architecture. These words are not only useful for architects. They're also handy for more advanced students who want to talk about a…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Consonant clusters

Episode 585

In this podcast, you'll learn how to improve your English pronunciation. Specifically, how to pronounce consonants when they are together in a word, like 'stop' and 'twelfth'. 

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Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Broligarchy in Technology

Episode 584

In today's podcast, you'll learn some useful language to talk about the world of the broligarchs - those tech-savvy men who partly control the world.

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Published on 4 months ago

Stoicism - AIRC583

Episode 583

In this podcast, you'll learn a few things about Stoicism. What is it? Where did it originally come from? Who were the main Stoic philosophers and how could Stoicism possibly help us in our modern da…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago