Carrie and Roger continue their discussion about the quirks and pitfalls for non-native speakers when dealing with English. Today they dive deeper and come to the conclusion that phonetics and accent are not the biggest problems to overcome for a student

You may have recognised the title as a modified version of the saying \"Think before you speak!\" We have changed it into a good piece of advice for English learners, based on what today\'s guest tells Roger about her research on phonetics for foreign lea

Heike is back with Roger for a more detailed look into gender studies. They are discussing what this particular field of social sciences is about, who does and who maybe should study it, and what aspects there are in terms of research topics and interdisc

This time Roger invited Heike, an expert for gender studies. She is going to explain to us, how the term gender evolved from a mere grammatical phenomenon to what may very well be the most discussed topic of social and linguistic sciences in the last deca

Peter is back in jazzy 2018 for another episode with Saul Rubin, his guitar teacher from New York. Today Peter asks about the jargon of Jazz music and how that differs from other styles\' vocabulary. Talking about music is not an easy task afterall. F

You probably remember our Christmas specials about holiday traditions and music from the past years. This December we thought we\'d make music our topic again (this time as a regular episode) with a focus on some music vocabulary. Peter\'s guest today i

Roger and Neil continue their discussion of the \"Teaching Excellence Framework\" that has been established in England and Wales to judge the quality of teaching in higher education. Neil illustrates how increasing competition between education instituti

Roger is talking to his brother Neil, who\'s back for another episode. This time they look into ways of measuring the quality of university teaching, the approach taken in the UK and potential problems affecting the \"measuring process\". Can the result

After last episode\'s discussion about cultural values in fixed expressions, our two hosts return to a topic they\'ve already delved into a long while ago: Proverbs. Peter mentions a new cool proverb that he\'s come across but Roger reminds him, that pro

Did you ever wonder where the Rolling Stones got their name from? Peter did and asked Roger about it. Roger suspects it's derived from an English language expression, which he explains to Peter. That explanation leads to a discussion about how much of