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Explore the top 20 American and British cultural things every English learner needs to know in this episode of English Plus Podcast. Enhance your language skills by understanding the cultural nuances that make the US and UK unique.
Explore the art of small talk with English Plus! Discover practical tips and strategies to enhance your communication skills, build meaningful connections, and navigate social situations with confidence. Perfect for professionals and social butterflies alike!
Tired of bad decisions? Understand the cognitive biases that hold you back and discover strategies to think more clearly.

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.

You’ve probably been in one. The problem creates the condition that reinforces the problem. Round and round, each turn tightening the spiral. ‘A vicious cycle’ is one of the most precise expressions in English for a particular kind of trap — and this episode explores both what makes cycles vicious and what it takes to break them.

An impediment is something in your way. It slows you down, blocks you, makes the path harder. But in this episode, we ask the more interesting question: what if the impediment is also part of the path?

There’s a specific kind of vertigo that comes with doing something no one has done before — or something no map has prepared you for. ‘Uncharted waters’ is an expression born from the age of exploration, and it speaks directly to one of the most human experiences there is: the moment when the known world runs out.

Tracing the earliest known traces of commercial sex in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond, examining the hotly contested theory of sacred prostitution, the economic realities of the ancient world, and what the archaeological record actually tells us.

Every idea we now take for granted was once heretical. In this episode, we explore the word for dangerous thinking — and ask what heretical ideas of today might be the common sense of tomorrow.
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