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Find out how a 22 year-old year old undergraduate has managed to create a tool that detects AI-generated text with a low margin of error. Is this a dream come true for educators?

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Interested in changing your habits? Start with your beliefs! In this episode I share two books that helped me quit drinking and smoking and how my experience is relevant even if you don't have ANY bad habits to speak of! I also recommend an episode of the brilliant NPR podcast Hidden Brain that is more insightful than 99% of the information on personal transformation out there. As always, I provide definitions and examples for all of the advanced English vocabulary in this week's show. Go to the show notes at https://ethosenglish.com/podcast/ to subscribe to my monthly newsletter for a monthly Quizlet flashcard study set of that month's vocabulary.

This week I explore news reports of advances in nuclear fusion from The Financial Times and The Economist and discuss adjectives that end in -worthy.

In this week's show I talk about how ChatGPT and artificial intelligence more generally will affect language learning. I discuss articles from The Atlantic and The New York Times and explain the concept of neo-Luddites.

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This week I'm going to teach you about the importance of alliteration. From advertising to journalism to fiction, alliteration is all over the place. Listen to become a better English speaker.

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In this episode I discuss my first year of podcasting why I'm happy that my early episodes make me cringe... and why they're still worth listening to!

I go over my some of my favourite episodes and some useful language related to advent. 

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This week I continue my exploration of adverb collocations and share with you two powerful (and free!) online writing tools to dramatically improve your writing.

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Advanced English learners use adverbs in strikingly different ways. (You see, I just did it! Strikingly different - that's an adverb + adjective collocation.) Research has shown that C2 English speakers use not only more adverbs but also a wider range of them. In this week's episode I draw your attention to some key adverb + adjective collocations to help you make the shift from an intermediate to a truly advanced English learner.

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We live in a world that seems to value productivity and external accomplishments over everything else. How can we shift our mindset so that we not only survive but thrive as teachers, students and human beings? Today I explore the deceptively simple insights of Zena Hitz on the true nature of genius. (Hint: think attitude not inborn trait). As a bonus I share one of my favourite websites for thought-provoking essays and articles.

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This week I share with you an entertaining and very unintellectual newspaper column that will have you laughing out loud and ask whether you are as open-minded as you think. I discuss a fascinating New York Times video on the hypocrisy of the political left and how the concepts of belief perseverance and the backfire effect will have you rethinking how you argue with others.

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