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These posdcasts cover stories, various topics, including health and lifestyle, science, technology, culture, and news, which can be particularly helpful for chatting to friends in English. 

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In a universe of randomness 

Addiction

One Minute Challenge: Confidence

What is confidence for you? 

How do you define it?

Can you name some people that are confident?

What make them stand out for you?

Listen to this one minute podcast and be inspired to think (outloud) and therefore - to speak!

To Your Success,
Anatoly

#jobinterview #confidence #speakenglish #communicationskills #interview #presentationpreparation #success

One minute speaking challenge - Challenge yourself to speak English daily!

One Minute Challenge: Confidence

聊中西文化，也聊很多东西！
第四期，我们聊聊办公室恋情，你会不会和你的同事谈恋爱呢？

聊聊东西 - Talk to Me in Chinese

004. 和同事谈个恋爱吗？Do you date your colleagues? - ttmiChinese

An online quiz might tell you that you're more outgoing if you like hip-hop, or that you're more conservative if you like classical music.

But is it true?

A number of studies have looked into this over the years.

For example, a 2010 study from Scotland's Heriot-Watt University asked over 36,000 people about 104 different types of music from around the world.

It found some connection between people's personalities and their musical tastes — in particular, creative people were more likely to enjoy classical music.

However, connections for other personality types weren't so strong. Instead, people's gender, income and age had more connection to their musical taste — with older people more likely to enjoy folk and jazz, and less likely to enjoy dance music, for example.

In fact, when researchers in Germany compared the results of 30 different studies in 2017, they found nearly no connection between musical taste and personality. Instead, they noted that age seemed to be the most important factor — since people tend to have the strongest connection to the music they heard as teens and young adults.

However, these results haven't satisfied everybody.

In 2022, for example, researchers in Israel, the UK and the US looked at data from nearly 360,000 people across six continents. And they said they did find connections between music and personality.

Creative people were again found to prefer classical music — as well as jazz, opera and dance music. Outgoing people preferred things like hip-hop and reggae. And empathetic people preferred country and gospel — as well as pop.

So that's it, right?

Well, not exactly.

Other studies have found different results — for example, that empathetic people prefer gentle music like soft rock and R&B, or that outgoing people enjoy folk and country.

So what does your taste in music say about you?

Well, it depends on which study you trust — and it might just tell people how old you are!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

What Does Your Taste in Music Say About You?

Как вы относитесь к незваным гостям? 

Russfriend  (all about russia) 

А.П. Чехов "Дачники"

Nick discusses both sides of this topic today.

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

Should governments control what is shown on TV and the internet?

¿Estamos bien comunicados o bien incomunicados? ¿No te pasa que todo y estando la persona no más lejos que la distancia que hay entre tu dedo y el icono del contacto, se te hace muy difícil presionar el cristal de tu teléfono? 

AUDIO-ARTÍCULOS (Nivel B2-C1)

Sistemas de (In)Comunicación

Hay muchos españoles que han cruzado las fronteras del país y se han hecho un hueco en el panorama internacional. En el episodio de hoy te hablo de algunos españoles que son reconocidos internacionalmente. Algunos de ellos son más antiguos, y otros más recientes.

Escucha el episodio y dime después:

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