The story of the creation of the social media giant, Instagram, and why it was acquired by Facebook for what seemed at the time like a ridiculously large sum of money. 

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Slice of English 

Welcome to Slice of English

ADEL ALBANNA: A PROFISSIONAL ARABIC TEACHER

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Today we welcome back my friend Marisa for the second part of our two part series. Last week we talked about Marisa’s life, her background with language learning, where her family is from, and growing up as an English language learner. This week we discuss her career and her successful YouTube channel!

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Stairway to English: Short easy to understand episodes to improve your English grammar and fluency

Part 2: English Conversation Edition: Careers and YouTube with Marisa Vallbona: English Listening Practice: Part 2/2

Jag berättar om min resa till Cypern. Det bra! Det dåliga! Och allt annat.
Patreons får bilder och videos 😃.

Easy Swedish with Viktoria

Ep. #19 - Cypern - Del 1 Generellt (lätt)

Neste episódio vamos falar de um tipo de luta popular no Brasil!

Portuguese Audios for Intermediate Advance B2 -Áudios em Português para Intermédios Avançados B2

Lúcia está aprendendo a lutar

Speaker 1: For me, having a dumbphone would be …dumb. I really like surfing the web on my phone to find out about things. If I hear the name of an actor I don’t know about, I can look them up, or if I‘m in a new place and I want to find a restaurant to go to, I can find somewhere easily. Plus, I love Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I follow loads of celebrities and I love to watch concerts and live-tweet what is happening. Without my smartphone, my friends wouldn’t know what I was doing. It would feel very strange.

Speaker 2: I’m seriously thinking about getting a dumbphone. I hate how the battery on my smartphone is in control of my life. I always have to find somewhere to charge the phone when I’m out and I’m always worried about it. I also don’t like the way search engines record your history and use it to sell you things. I feel as though my attention is always taken away from everything I do with my smartphone because I use it so much. I was with a friend the other day and after a while, we were sitting there not talking, just looking at our phones. It was like our phones just killed the conversation. We didn’t even realize it was happening.

Speaker 3: I like the idea of a dumbphone. I’m just not sure if I would like it in practice. I travel a lot with my work, so it really helps being able to access my inbox when I’m out. If I didn’t, I would spend all my time in the office answering emails. I also have a favorite podcaster who I listen to all the time when I’m traveling. I can download his latest episode and pass the time when I’m on a flight or a train. I do enjoy being offline as I feel as though I am always using my phone to communicate, with email, Skype, phone calls, and text. But I think if I didn’t have access to the Internet most of the time, I would worry.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

DUMBPHONES

A Few Motivational Thoughts (with transcript)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xh0luMdhIl9JL-0moeHBmOZlEegtbmt2/view?usp=drive_link