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Learn Vietnamese with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at VietnamesePod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever!
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InnerFrench

innerFrench

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Learn French naturally through topics that matter . You can find all the transcripts at https://innerfrench.com Do you enjoy our podcast? Let us know! https://ratethispodcast.com/innerfrench/
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We ask native English speakers real exam questions from previous B2, C1, C2 and IELTS papers and analyse the answers for the best bits. You'll learn lots of great vocabulary and useful expressions to use in your exam as well as tips on writing, grammar and much more. You get to listen to really interesting speakers from the UK, USA, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, which is something you need to practice lots of before the exam. For more information check out: https://realex ...
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🇬🇧 EXCITING topics in EASY English ❤️ Pre-intermediate & Intermediate Listening. 📆 Podcasts every 1st + 15th! ✅ Subscribe! ✍ Lessons, Stories & Transcripts: www.simpleenglishbooks.com ☕ Buy Me A Coffee: https://bmc.link/simpleenglish On this podcast, I tell stories and speak about interesting topics in easier, slower English. It is perfect to help intermediate A2, B1, B2, C1 learners naturally pick up the language. 🌎 English: Your PASSPORT to the world! My name is Tristan, from England. I've ...
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Host Niall Mackay takes you on a journey through the vibrant and diverse culture of modern Vietnam. Niall focuses on personal stories and experiences of both himself and guests, sharing insights into the everyday life of people connected to Vietnam. From artists and entrepreneurs, locals and Viet Kieu, expats and Vietnamese worldwide and members of the LGBTQ community, this podcast offers a unique perspective on this rapidly developing country. With engaging discussions and thought-provoking ...
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Vietnamese Learning Accelerator

Language Learning Accelerator

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If you're trying to think your way into learning Vietnamese, you're doing it wrong. Learn Vietnamese like you did English: by hearing a huge amount of it. (With at least a vague idea of what it means!) Thousands of Vietnamese Phrases, along with the English translations, presented directly to your brain: from practical to philosophical to flirting. Just phrases, no filler! Go way beyond the Vietnamese language basics to not just communicate, but actually become an interesting person in Vietn ...
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Vietnam Introduced

Perpetually Abroad

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This podcast covers everything related to Vietnam. Topics include food, travel, society, culture, history, contemporary issues and everything else. I also make videos on YouTube with the channel name Perpetually Abroad If you have any suggestions about the podcast, don't hesitate to contact me directly via instagram at Perpetuallyabroad. You can support the podcast on this link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PerpetuallyABRO
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CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine is a lively, wide-ranging mix of topical long-form conversations, engaging ideas and more. Each week, host Piya Chattopadhyay takes time for deep exploration, but also makes space for surprise, delight and fun.
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Truyện đêm muộn

Truyện đêm muộn

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Podcast mang tên "truyện đêm muộn", khởi đầu với chương trình "đọc truyện đêm khuya" của kênh VOV2, đài tiếng nói Việt Nam. Chúng tôi chỉ để 5 podcast gần đây nhất. Note: The language of this podcast is Vietnamese, not English. We only keep 5 latest episodes available. Be sure to tune in before it's too late! – This is, currently, a syndication to the "Doc truyen dem khuya" program, bi-weekly broadcasted by VOV2. We are not endorsed by them however. Link to their program's website is here: h ...
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SSEAC Stories

Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

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SSEAC Stories is a podcast series produced by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney. Experts join us in every episode to explore the latest research and share their insights on a wide range of topics pertaining to Southeast Asia.Visit our website for more information or to browse additional resources: sydney.edu.au/sseac.
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Welcome to the "Fidinam Podcast", your gateway to the vibrant world of business and investment opportunities worldwide. Fidinam is a private consulting firm founded in 1960 in Lugano, Switzerland, that provides tax, business, real estate and digital consulting services to companies, entrepreneurs and individuals. We are dedicated to helping businesses navigate the landscape of different jurisdictions. Throughout our podcast, we'll explore the appeal of countries like Vietnam, China and many ...
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FORMERLY "Journeys With Elliott" now "ETJ English Podcast" Join Elliott from ETJ English, a pronunciation expert, English teacher, and communication coach, for intermediate to advanced English learners seeking comprehensible input. Tune into relaxed, chilled-out conversations that dive deep into life, travel, communication skills, and language learning. Whether you’re looking to improve your English pronunciation, gain cultural insights, or simply enjoy engaging stories from around the world ...
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What do you know about Vietnam? Didn’t they have a war or something? I think they eat Pho, but I’ve no idea how you say it. On this show we dive into the culture, history and life of Vietnam to uncover the disruptive ideas that are coming out of this fast-growing hotspot of Southeast Asia. If you're planning to visit, work or do business (or if you’re just curious), come join us for some serious and not-so-serious discussions and interviews with people, foreign and local, living and making i ...
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The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan airs regular conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. The podcast has welcomed Booker and Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, such as Bernardine Evaristo, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Karen Joy Fowler, Carla Power and Maaza Mengiste. The choice of writers is representative of the world around us, naturally. https:/ ...
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While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language knit the region together in …
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If you've ever owned an iPhone, iPad or Mac, you may have noticed these words printed on the back: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." But there’s a bigger story behind that simple tagline. Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee tells Piya Chattopadhyay that few understand just how key China and Apple have been to each other's …
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“In the south it's always more dynamic. Everyone is just moving around all the time. In the north, it's slower. People are a bit meaner.” - Viet Anh For nearly ten years now, I've called Vietnam home, and while I've experienced the incredible energy and warmth of the south, Viet Anh's perspective on the north offered a viewpoint I hadn't fully cons…
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"So those bastards bumped the bridge down so that nobody could use it, and the locals got pissed off at that 'cause they enjoyed having a bridge. So they rebuilt it." This trip was one of the most fun and immersive ones we’ve recorded so far. Pai has this laid-back charm and unexpected beauty that really took us by surprise. Adrie and I take you al…
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Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Vatican journalist Charles Collins about the path ahead for Pope Leo XIV, Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee gets to the core of Apple and China's symbiotic relationship, journalists Shannon Proudfoot, Rob Benzie and Jason Markusoff explore how Prime Minister Mark Carney might approach competing provincial …
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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Rubina Raja, professor of classical archaeology and art at Aarhus University in Denmark. First, we go back to May 2015, when the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria was about to fall to Jihadist fighters and how of a group of men risked …
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Quand on entre dans une boulangerie française, on peut avoir l'impression que rien n'a changé depuis des siècles. La bonne odeur du pain qui cuit dans le four, les baguettes croustillantes, les viennoiseries dorées, les conversations avec la boulangère... Pourtant, depuis une vingtaine d'années, les boulangeries traditionnelles sont forcées d'évolu…
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In the latest edition of our monthly challenge That's Puzzling!, Piya Chattopadhyay competes against one familiar voice and one clever listener in a battle of brain games devised by puzzle master Peter Brown. Playing along this month are CBC News reporter and videojournalist Brett Ruskin in Halifax, and Dundas, Ont. listener Brenda Bjarnason.…
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"I think the Scottish accent's been voted one of the sexiest, but it's also, some of them, one of the most disgusting" - Craig This bonus episode was a hilarious trip down memory lane. Craig and I just let loose with our Scottish accents, sharing stories about growing up in Glasgow that we've never really talked about on the main show. The cultural…
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In this special extra episode of A Vietnam Podcast, I take you through a day filled with various adventures. Starting with a cold sunrise bike ride where the stunning beauty of the dawn was well worth the early wake-up. Then, I recount our challenging yet exhilarating hike to a waterfall, where we navigated through icy waters and tricky paths. Alon…
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Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Economist's Rob Russo, Le Devoir's Emilie Nicolas and The Hub's Sean Speer about our post-election political reality, science journalist Laura Spinney explains how one ancient dialect inspired scores of languages we speak today, veteran political columnist Andrew Coyne talks about the "crisis" he sees in Cana…
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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service about the Vietnam War and the invention of the hugely popular mobile phone game, Snake. Don Anderson, a former BBC TV reporter during the final days of Vietnam, discusses the atmosphere in Saigon as the North Vietnamese forces closed in. We also he…
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🚀 Easy methods to improve! 📖 Exciting podcast—More lazy strategies to improve your English. Explained in B1 level English. 👍 This podcast is perfect for intermediate (A2, B1, B2) English learners. 🗣️ One-to-one lessons: www.simpleenglishbooks.com ⭐ Every 1st & 15th day of the month. ☕ Support the Podcast: Buy Me A Coffee ✅ Subscribe ✍️ Transcripts …
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This Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The conflict led to more than one million people fleeing the war-torn countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Canada accepted approximately 200,000 refugees from the region between 1975 and the 1990s. Canadian author Vinh Nguyen was among them. He speaks with Piya Chattopadhy…
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"I planned to do six months. I planned to do like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, that kind of bit of Southeast Asia and never left Vietnam.... It's so unlike any other place I've ever been." - Craig Haggart This episode was a long time coming, and it was more than worth the wait. I've been trying to get Craig on the show for over six months, and sitting…
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Ernest Plange Kwofie drops by the studio to discuss ASEAN, or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Kwofie talks about the interpersonal politics of the organization and how it differs from similar Western organizations like the European Union. He looks at the organization's effectiveness in responding to threats as well as its ability to imp…
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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson (Community College of Baltimore County, USA) about her 2018 paper, The Case for Heritage ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers. The conversation focuses on heritage signers, differentiated instruction, and sign language interpr…
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"My mouth is on fire. My tongue is totally burned, but I want another one… ’cause it’s so good." This episode was such a wild mix of adventure, confusion, and food. It’s one of those travel days where you don’t really know what’s going to happen next, and I loved every second of it. From riding a half-broken bike through the hills of Northern Thail…
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Star. Stjarna. Setareh. Thousands of miles apart, humans look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see. Listen to these English, Icelandic, and Iranian words, and you can hear echoes of one of history's most unlikely, miraculous journeys. For all of these languages – and hundreds more – share a single ancient source. In a…
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Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Economist's Rob Russo, Le Devoir's Emilie Nicolas and The Hub's Sean Speer about what we've learned during the federal election campaign, writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson talks about the meaning of water for Indigenous communities, Vatican expert Massimo Faggioli looks at the politics involved in electing a…
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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is World War Two military historian and archivist Elisabeth Shipton. We start by concentrating on two events from the last year of the Second World War. Exercise Tiger took place in April 1944 in preparation for the D-Day landings of All…
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An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Princeton University Press, 2025) tells the stories of the w…
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Ingrid vous parle de ses romans préférés (et vous lit un extrait à la fin de l'épisode). Au XIXe siècle, un génie de la presse a inventé le roman-feuilleton : des histoires sous la forme d'épisodes publiés quotidiennement dans le journal. Les romanciers de l'époque ont donc dû créer des œuvres accessibles à un public très large et avec du suspens q…
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For people who work in the business of political satire and news comedy, there’s no shortage of rich source material these days. But misinformation, disinformation and leaders who can seem stranger than fiction are complicating the craft. Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with two veterans of the scene – The Beaverton’s Luke Gordon Field and a founding mem…
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Dr. Wannasarn Noonsuk joins Dr. Nam Kim to discuss early civilizations in what is now Vietnam and how uncovering creations of the past sheds light on the shifting cultural landscape of ancient Mainland Southeast Asia. They also examine how changing views of the past help to inform local and academic understandings of the region today. Dr. Nam Kim i…
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Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Routledge. The book is an introduction to research on language and digital communication, providing an overview of relevant sociolinguistic concepts, analytical frameworks, and methodological approaches commo…
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“I love Thai food… but Vietnamese food just hits different—it’s the balance, the freshness, the herbs. It’s something else.” This episode was a fun, spicy, and slightly controversial one: Thai food vs. Vietnamese food. As someone who’s lived in Vietnam for years and has also spent time traveling through Thailand, I get this question all the time—wh…
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Host Piya Chattopadhyay sets up the final week of the federal election campaign with political journalists Rob Russo, Emilie Nicolas and Ryan Jespersen, The Beaverton's Luke Gordon Field and The Onion's Christine Wenc talk about the craft of satire in an age of misinformation, linguist Michael Erard reflects on what our first and last words say abo…
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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. It’s 50 years since soldiers of the communist Khmer Rouge party stormed into the capital, Phnom Penh. It was the start of a four year reign of terror which resulted in up to two million people being killed. We hear two stories from people affected…
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Native English speakers answer questions about advertising from previous B2, C1, C2 and IELTS exam papers. In this episode we have loads of nice advertising vocabulary, including some colloquial expressions from the US, the UK and Australia. We also look at how to make your speech more cohesive and we focus on different ways to use the verb do. For…
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“I can always return and do the same thing here, but I need to go somewhere and experience a different culture.” This episode with Alenka Moze was a beautiful journey across cultures, creativity, and finding purpose. Alenka is a Slovenian actor, singer, writer, and teacher who has made Vietnam her home. Her story is one of courage, reinvention, and…
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What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology and psycholinguistics, Writing for the Reader’s Brain (Cambridge University Press, 2025) provides a practical, how-to guide on how to write for your reader. It introd…
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U.S. President Donald Trump's bluster about making Canada the 51st state has sparked a surge in Canadian patriotism, just in time for the federal election. But what does it really mean to be Canadian? The current wave of national pride tends to play up nostalgic tropes about hockey and hosers. But Canada is changing, and a new sense of Canadian ide…
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😱 Today's listening is Joseph's true ghost story in upper-intermediate B2 English. Conversation between native speakers about real-life horror & the PARANORMAL 👻👽 👍 This podcast is perfect for intermediate (A2, B1, B2) English learners. 🌎 Joseph's Travel Youtube 🪶 My Beautiful simple books: www.simpleenglishbooks.com 🗣️ 1-to-1 conversation lessons …
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Every year, World Wildlife Conservation Day is observed on 4 December. It reminds us of the importance of protecting our biodiversity, a message that is all the more urgent in the face of polycrises intensifying across the globe. At the foundational level of our ecosystems lie insects, which provide invaluable services to maintain healthy environme…
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Dr. Muzakki Bashori sits down to discuss his new book “When the Rice Cries” a children's story that uses rice idioms to teach about the importance of reducing food waste. Bashori discusses Javanese language conservation and his mission to promote the use of Javanese among children in Indonesia. Dr. Muzakki Bashori is a Lecturer and researcher at Un…
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8th May 1945 was a day of rejoicing in Britain, the US and many other countries: Germany had surrendered, and World War II was over, at least in Europe. Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone: for the vanquished Germans, it marked the end of bombings and of Nazi rule. But it was also a time of deprivation and chaos, fear and soul-searchin…
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Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies (Gorgias Press, 2024) publishes the papers presented at the round table on Syriac lexicology and lexicography held at the 13th Symposium Syriacum (Paris, 2022). An international group of scholars approaches this field from several new angles and shows how much remains to be done, fr…
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