Today in History, Strange News & Listener Questions
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Today in History, Strange News & Listener Questions

B2Upper-intermediateFebruary 17, 202620 min
  • Language learning

TRANSCRIPT (follow along while you listen) A fun, varied little mix. We're starting off with the first Human vs Machine chess duel (1996), followed by the story of a family that tried to scam a restaurant in Sydney by putting armpit hair in their food, and then we're finishing off with questions from listeners who are understandably looking for advice. A bunch of great vocabulary and expressions in this one, too. Try Spoken for FREE

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logo. Hey, what's up? What's going on? Welcome to another episode of English with Dane, a podcast designed to help you enjoy the process of perfecting your English. As always, I'm your host Dane, and you can find me on Instagram and TikTok at English with Dane. Real quick, we've changed the full day immersion to the 8th of March, which is a Sunday. So if you already had plans

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on Saturday 7th, and that's why you couldn't make it, then good news for you. Sunday 8th of March, a full day of speaking English and working on breaking through any obstacles you're facing with a beautiful nature setting. What more could you want? If you're up for it, let me know. Email me at englishwithdane at gmail.com or message me on Instagram at englishwithdane.

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OK, on this episode, we're going to do a little bit of everything. We're starting off with today in history, which is a segment I haven't done in a while, where we take a look back to see what happened on a day like today, many years ago. Then we're doing strange news, where we read through an unusual news story

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