Sting performs his hit "Englishman in New York" with Charys Green, Jo Lawry, Dominic Miller, Rhani Krija, Ira Coleman, Piotr Mania and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adam Sztaba, for the 85th Anniversary of Polish Radio.

Many of us are familiar with this story, which might make it easier to follow the plot in a different language. By listening to Sigrid's version, you'll be able to get plenty of practice with verbs in the past tense.

The Ugly Duckling bravely goes forth alone into the big wide world and faces some daunting challenges as he searches for friends. After a lonely winter, spring comes, bringing with it a big surprise.

The Fleischer & Famous Superman cartoons are a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman.
This is "The Mad Scientist," which was released on September 26, 1941. Enjoy!

It’s a warm, sunny day, so what is making everything so cold? It’s Doctor Spooky, operating a giant robot! Can the Superzoo team stop to his plan to freeze the planet?! Catty and Monky jump straight into action.

Someone is creating a thick cloud of smoke that is polluting the planet… It’s evil Doctor Spooky again! The Superzoo team needs a solution fast so that they can thwart his horrible plan!

It looks like Kit will be late for school today, as a lot of strange events seem to be conspiring against him. But the worst is yet to come! When Doctor Spooky’s picnic goes wrong, he sets his robot to destroy the forest.

No sooner have the Superzoo team put the forest back the way it was, and Doctor Spooky is up to his tricks again! What’s his plan this time? To control people’s minds and make them drop litter on the beach!

Somehow the team needs to get the control baton away from Doctor Spooky, before the whole environment is trashed! How about distracting him by appealing to his vanity?

Marc Bolan from T. Rex on Top of the Pops in 1971. One of the legends of the UK glam rock era of the early 70’s.

Barbara is a retired French teacher who happens to be Sigrid's sister. The two have a conversation about language in general and about how Barbara became interested in the career path she followed.

Barbara talks about her studies and other experiences that led to her career as a French teacher. Immersion played a crucial role for both sisters in learning new languages.

Barbara talks about the different jobs she had teaching both French and English. Later, she also had a job supervising teachers of foreign languages, though she notes that these are now referred to as "world languages."

Barbara talks about a mistake she made as a language supervisor. Sigrid talks about how people in the U.S. speak English even when they have a very strong accent and it's OK. They both agree that learning with a native speaker of the language is the best way to learn.

Both Sigrid and Barbara like grammar and they talk about some of their pet peeves. The also agree that grammar isn't the most important thing. Using the language to communicate is more important.