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Are you an advanced learner of English? These podcasts from Saarland University offer challenging listening opportunities and fascinating topics to do with the English language and culture. Get your new enhanced five-minute episode once every two weeks.
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Folge vom 05.04.2010Etymology Quiz
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Folge vom 15.03.201036. The ups and downs of wordsSometimes life is good to you and sometimes things just keep going downhill. This does not only happen to people, words too can go from rags to riches – or fall from grace. This RoPeCast traces back the career paths of some not so succesful words but also introduce you to one that really made it.
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Folge vom 02.03.201035. Around the world with wordsDo you know where the word “pyjamas” comes from? This RoPeCast will take you on a linguistic trip around the globe to find out! Fasten your seatbelts, lean back and we’re ready for take off.
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Folge vom 15.02.201034. To kiss or not to kiss...... that is the question (with apologies to Shakespeare). When to shake hands, to kiss on the cheek, to speak to a stranger – this podcast suggests some dos and don’ts for visitors to Britain. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour A bestseller in the UK, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look English Society.