Rachel's English: For some people, "s" and "sh" sound the same. As Rachel explains, the positions for these two sounds are quite different. Learn the difference in tongue and lip position, and practice with minimal pairs.

Alexander is showing us contractions of the negative forms of the verb "to be".

Finally, The Frog King's curse was broken and the prince and princess got married and lived happily ever after.

In this beloved story, a princess learns that all actions have consequences and many things are not what they seem. Part 1 of 2.

This is the story of Sleeping Beauty. As with most fairy tales, this one too has a happy ending, unless you happen to be a wicked fairy!

An evil fairy puts a curse on a young princess, making it her destiny to prick her hand on a spindle and die! Luckily, there are good fairies too...

Here's another clip from the hilarious Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords off their self-titled debut album. Its serious subject is our current violent world.

Writing a successful CV, also called resume, is no easy task. Find out the basics of what should be included and how to accomplish this task.

Wild Sharks, a film by Sigurd Tesche, follows Professor Samuel Gruber who has been researching sharks for more than fifty years. He founded the Bimini Biological Field Station, called the Sharklab, on Bimini Island in the Bahamas.

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Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and as a location for the headquarters of leading film companies.

Katie Melua's music video "If You Were a Sailboat" taken from the album Pictures.
Melua said of the song: “What I liked about the song is the fact that a lot of love songs tend to deal with the fluffy nice side of love, but this one deals with how you get very selfish when you fall in love with someone, and you don't want to share them with the world, you just want them all about yourself."
There are plenty of examples of the conditional tense in this song. It's common to say "if I was," but it's technically incorrect. It should be, "if I were." We have left it as is in this song.

Learn about the elements and the wonders of chemistry in this fun kids’ video from the American alternative band They Might Be Giants!

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!

Enjoy this episode from The Three Stooges, a long-running American slap-stick comedy act that appeared on vaudeville, television and the silver screen. Along with baseball and apple pie, it's a small slice of Americana!