Do You Know Season 1 – Artists, Musicians and Writers is all about learning about important people from history and practicing your listening while at it.
A Very Short Introduction to Autism
Learn about autism, its causes, symptoms and treatments in this new episode from English Plus Podcast. This is the Plus side of English Plus where the focus is on raising awareness on important subjects alongside providing interesting and beneficial listening skills.
Special Reports | Women’s Rights
In our Special Report and in celebration of the International Women’s Day, we will talk about Women’s Rights in history. How the movement started, evolved, the rights women got, and the status of women’s rights today.
A Very Short Introduction to Baseball
Learn everything you need to know about baseball in this very short introduction. Baseball, competitive game of skill played with a hard ball and bat between two teams of nine players each.
A Very Short Introduction to Russian Literature
Read and listen about Russian Literature, literature of the Russian people, written from the 900s to the present. Russian literature includes some of the most beloved and influential plays, novels, and poems in world literature.
A Very Short Introduction to Planet Earth
Learn more about Planet Earth. Earth (planet), third planet in distance from the Sun in the solar system, the only planet known to harbor life, and the “home” of human beings.
A Very Short Introduction to Culture
Read and listen about culture in this very short introduction. Culture, in anthropology, the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, create, and share.
A Very Short Introduction to Ancient Greece
Learn everything you need to know about Ancient Greece in this very short introduction to Ancient Greece.
Special Reports | Remember the Holocaust
On the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, we have this special report – Remember the Holocaust for us to learn about the history of the Holocaust and to remember the victims and learn never to do or support or stay silent in the face of something like that ever.
Special Reports | The History of Education
In today’s Special Report celebrating the International Day of Education, we will talk about the history of education from ancient times until present day. Listen, learn and enjoy with English Plus Podcast.
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My Life Is Full, Just Not by Your Standards: In Defense of the Quiet, Curious Life
Some people look at a life spent learning, writing, and thinking and see something to pity. Here’s a warm, honest defense of the quiet, curious life — and a look at why the pity says more about the person giving it than the one receiving it.
Contemporary: The Gift and the Responsibility of Right Now
Contemporary means sharing the same time. But it carries something more interesting than a date stamp. In this episode, we explore what it means to be a person of your moment — and what you owe to the time you’re living in.
A Weight off Your Shoulders: The Specific Joy of Putting Something Down
We carry things we don’t always name. Worry, responsibility, guilt, unresolved situations — they accumulate on the shoulders the way nothing visible accumulates anywhere. The moment that weight lifts is one of the most visceral experiences in human life. This episode explores the beautiful, embodied truth of one of English’s most honest expressions.
Emulate: The Highest Form of Admiration
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but emulation is something deeper — it’s not just copying, it’s aspiring. In this episode, we explore the difference and ask: who are you emulating, and what does that say about who you want to become?
A Wake-Up Call: The Unwelcome Gift of Being Jolted Awake
No one asks for a wake-up call. They come uninvited — a crisis, a diagnosis, a loss, a failure — and they deliver a message you weren’t ready to receive. But ‘a wake-up call’ is, in the end, an act of grace. This episode explores one of the most significant expressions in English, and why being woken up — however harshly — is almost always better than staying asleep.
Audacity: The Beautiful Nerve to Try
Audacity is the word for the move that shouldn’t work but might — for the pitch that’s too big, the ask that’s too much, the step that everyone around you says is a step too far. In this episode, we celebrate the beautiful nerve of the audacious.