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Want to understand what on earth British people are talking about? You've come to the right place!Not The Queen's English is a weekly podcast, in which we have a casual chat about a topic relating to British English or life in the UK. We’ll be covering everything from making small talk about the weather to understanding the jokes in classic British sitcoms. We’ll be speaking the way we do in real life, using lots of colloquial British English, and explaining the slang and cultural references we use along the way.Whatever your relationship to the English language, there’s ...

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens: Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive - and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At 16, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies - men who said: "The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth."

Light, laconic, graceful language of the genius; it is the language of Pushkin. We present the most famous of Pushkin's works in the world: "Tales of Belkin" and "The Queen of Spades".

This Queen's English is a podcast for intermediate-advanced English learners hoping to learn about things not found in textbooks. This podcast covers topics ranging from LGBTQ+ issues to song lyrics.

Meet Frédéric and his valet, poor Mr. Martin, who lives across from a pastry shop, and Maxime, who can open any lock, among others. This is a French graded story, advanced level, for students learning French. This is the fifth book in the Je Lis Bien series of graded books for adult students learning French Book 5 is at an advanced level and each chapter contains one grammar point to review.