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The Weekend Listener is a monthly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Edward Sapir, American anthropologist and linguist Also known as the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis posits that …
The Weekend Listener is an eclectic list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE Idioms Idioms are a very peculiar feature of ‘natural language’. Defying the rules of syntax and semantics, they usually don't make much …
There are many different kinds of beans, from kidney beans and string beans to pinto and lima beans. Apart from being the key ingredient in many popular dishes all over the world, did you know that beans also happen to be an ingredient in a number of phrases and idioms in English? Let’s learn a …
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