Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Zendaya is given a series of Disney related questions and she has to choose her favorite answer.
Difficulty: Beginner
Northern Ireland
"The Bit That I Don't Get," sung by Katie Melua, is from her fifth studio album, Secret Symphony. She sings about breaking up, and trying to make sense of it.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
The letter K is easy to pronounce, but there's an important exception when it's combined with one other letter in particular. Can you guess which?
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
From the emperor's council to the townspeople, everyone is pretending that the garments exist. Hopefully, someone will eventually have the courage to speak up!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Kaley Cuoco talks about the terrifying trip to New Zealand with her boyfriend's family that ended in her swinging through a canyon.
Difficulty: Beginner
Denmark
Here is the video for the song "Friends" from "Before the Dinosaurs," the second studio album from Danish singer-songwriter Aura Dione .
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This very entertaining animated version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" has a moral that is applicable in society and politics to this very day. And though looking good is important, that is most definitely not the moral of this story!
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
"Hey Jude," from 1968, topped the charts in Britain for two weeks and for nine weeks in the U.S., where it became The Beatles' longest-running No.1 hit single. It was also the single with the longest running time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Canada
In a TEDx Talk, brain researcher Dr. Lara Boyd talks about neuroplasticity, how we learn, and how short-term and long-term memory work.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
From TV news: Bob Dylan won't be going to Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature. Leonard Cohen has died after a fall in his home, and Teri Hart chats with stars of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk & Nocturnal Animals.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
Watch this video featuring Alexander Pointer to learn the many ways of greeting people in English.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Here is the trailer for the first season of the TV series “Merlin,” an action drama inspired by the legend of King Arthur. The late great John Hurt provides the voice for the Dragon.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
J has just one pronunciation, except for foreign words. It usually sounds like a soft "G."
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Douglas Adams was a writer and author best known for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Sadly, he died of a massive heart attack in 2001 at the young age of 49. Each year, fans of his work celebrate the 25th of May (or “Towel Day”) as a tribute to the author.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Bush, a British band led by guitarist-vocalist Gavin Rossdale, perform the hit song from their album The Sea of Memories.
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