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Talking about language - How we learn - Part 4

Difficulty: Beginner

USA

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.

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Talking about language - How we learn - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

USA

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."

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Ed Sheeran - American Town

Difficulty: Intermediate

United Kingdom

Ed reminisces fondly in a song about the time he spent living in the United States, and an English girl that he spent time with.

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Basic Vocabulary - Common Words in Context - Part 20

Difficulty: Newbie

USA

As the series draws to a close, we have learned the one hundred most commonly used words in the English language. Maria and Spencer can relax and walk happily in the park, where nobody will bother them... or so they think!

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Traveling with Annette - Life on a Narrowboat

Difficulty: Beginner

USA

Annette welcomes us aboard her narrowboat home for a taste of a uniquely peaceful lifestyle that consists of navigating canals in the heart of the beautiful English countryside.

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Basic Vocabulary - Common Words in Context - Part 1

Difficulty: Newbie

USA

Welcome to this beginner series, in which the one hundred most commonly used words in the English language are used in context. Master them, and you will be on the way to becoming an English speaker!

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Accents - One language, three accents

Difficulty: Intermediate

Australia, United Kingdom, USA

There’s a lot of variation in the way native English speakers pronounce words, and some variety in vocabulary too! In this video, speakers from England, the US, and Australia compare and contrast their accents and vocabulary.

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Spotlight - The Spelling Bee - Part 2

Difficulty: Newbie

USA

Sigrid talks about "The Elementary Spelling Book" by Noah Webster, which was the basis for the American English dictionary and a big part of the development of spelling bees in the United States.

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The Navvies - Follow me up to Carlow - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

Ireland

"Follow Me up to Carlow” is an Irish folk song, celebrating the famous victory of Irish “firebrand” Fiach McHugh O'Byrne and his countrymen, over a much larger force of English troops at the Battle of Glenmalure, which took place in 1580, high in the Wicklow Mountains. Carlow, from the title, was believed to have been an English fortress. Many of these lyrics will be hard to understand at first, even for a native English speaker. So try to follow along as best you can and enjoy the music!

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Horrible Histories - Scary Schools - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

United Kingdom

Not long ago, in Welsh schools, the pupils weren’t allowed to speak their native language, Welsh! There was no choice but to learn English. In the Victorian classroom, learning is dull and repetitive, but today’s lesson is not going exactly as the teacher has planned.

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My Guide to London - Camden Town

Difficulty: Intermediate

United Kingdom

“English Hipster” Tom grew up around here, so who better to introduce us to this lively and colorful North London area, with its famous market and fiercely alternative soul.

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Sigrid explains - Looking at Verbs in The Ugly Duckling - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

USA

In English, we use a lot of phrasal verbs. Let's see how they work using some examples from the story of the Ugly Duckling.

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Sigrid - Enough is Enough - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

USA

Lots of English words can serve as nouns, verbs, or adjectives depending on the context. Sometimes even the pronunciation changes. Let's look at the slogan "Black Lives Matter" in both a grammatical and historical context.

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Parts of Speech - Nouns

Difficulty: Beginner

USA Northeast

Nouns are usually the first words we learn. The good news is that with nouns, we don't have to worry about gender in English. We do, however, have to be aware of gerunds that act like nouns but look like verbs, and countable or uncountable nouns.

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Sigrid - Think Fast! - Part 3

Difficulty: Beginner

USA

It's time to think fast again! This time it's a little harder, but focus on the words you know or recognize, and you might be able to guess the answer, even if you don't know the exact word in English. If you don't get all the answers, just watch the video again!

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Caption 60 [en]: English.
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