All Ears English
1956 - Fresh Name, Fresh Identity How to Choose Your English Name
Today we get a great listener question from someone who will be working in the US and wants an English name. What can you think about if you choose your own English name? Find out today!
All Ears English
1910 - This Episode is Fan freaking tastic!
Can you be creative with your English? Abso-freaking-lutely! Today you'll learn about infixation and why it is popular in English! We'll teach you slang you can use to be playful and sarcastic so you can build connections in English.
The Guardian
Paris: where street basketball meets hip-hop
Quai 54 is the biggest street basketball championship in Europe, played in the centre of Paris against a backdrop of the Champs-Élysées and the Eiffel Tower. Iman Amrani had courtside access to the event and went to explore the...
All Ears English
2059 - Should You Take a Ride on Someone's Coattails?
Has anyone ever helped you get a leg up in life? In today's episode, our listener asks us what the term ride someone's coattails mean. Plus, we touch on culture and society when it comes to becoming successful in your life and your career.
The Business Professor
Types of Power
French and Raven, researchers at the University of Michigan, identified five bases — or sources — of social power in 1959: legitimate, reward, referent, expert, coercive
Curated Video
Egg Corns: Uncovering Linguistic Mishearings and Language Evolution
This video explores the linguistic phenomenon of egg corns, which are misheard versions of terms that have become popularized. The term "eggcorn" was coined by linguists to describe these quirky mishearings, which often make their own...
Curated Video
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown analyzes the formal end to the Revolutionary War by examining the surrender at Yorktown.
Learn French With Alexa
Improve your everyday French listening skills with REAL French Conversations | Aller au cinéma
In this video, we are going to dissect a REAL French dialogue between two French natives planning to go to the cinema. Let's hear what a natural everyday French conversation sounds like...
Learn French With Alexa
How to speak to a DOCTOR in French
Understanding the French healthcare system can be tricky, but after watching this video, you'll have all the French vocabulary you'll need to be able to speak to a doctor in French. Whether you need to go to doctors in France or a french...
Learn French With Alexa
How to book a doctors appointment in French! FAST dialogue to improve your French listening skills
In this video, we are going to dissect a real French dialogue between two French natives - booking a doctors appointment over the phone. Let's hear what a natural everyday French conversation sounds like...
Learn French With Alexa
Improve your everyday French listening skills with REAL French Conversations | Au restaurant
In this video, we are going to dissect a real French dialogue between two French natives in a French restaurant between a waiter and a customer.
Learn German with Herr Antrim
Bruder Jakob mit Antrim, Antrim und Antrim - Deutsch lernen
This is me singing the German children's song (originally French and there is also an English version) with myself and myself and myself. There is also a possessed version of me singing it at the end.
Learn French With Alexa
Avoir (to have) — Past Tense
Alexa teaches the French auxiliary verb avoir (to have) in the passé composé - past tense.
Music Matters
What Can You Write After an Augmented 6th Chord? - Music Composition
This music composition lesson begins with a reminder of how to form an augmented 6th chord with its three variants, the Italian French and German 6ths. The video goes on to explain which are the most common resolution chords, considering...
Debunked
What Was The Soviet Union's Role In WWII - Ally or Enemy
What Was The Soviet Union's Role In WWII - Ally or Enemy
Curated Video
Speaking Gendered Languages
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, muses on the differences between native speakers of non-gendered and gendered languages.
Curated Video
Subtitles and Societal Perceptions
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, discusses how the use of subtitles can subtly change our perception of ethnic and cultural groups.
Curated Video
Missing the Jokes?
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, suggests that the celebrated English comic tradition might simply be a result of translation.
Learn French With Alexa
Écouter (to listen) — Future Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb écouter (to listen) in the future tense.
Learn French With Alexa
Être (to be) — Present Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb être (to be) in the present tense.
Learn French With Alexa
Être (to be) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb être (to be) in the passé composé - past tense.
Learn French With Alexa
Être (To Be) — Imperfect Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb être (to be) in the imperfect tense.
Learn French With Alexa
Envoyer (to send) — Past, Present & Future
Alexa conjugates the French verb ENVOYER (TO SEND) in the PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE TENSE.
Learn French With Alexa
Entendre (to hear) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb ENTENDRE (TO HEAR) in the Passé Composé.