563 : Topical English Vocabulary Lesson With ...

Do you ever catch yourself translating in your head before you speak English? Word by word, sentence by sentence—trying to convert your native language into English before the words even leave your mouth?It's exhausting. It slows you down. And it makes fluency feel impossible.But ...  Show more

Ever feel like your words just... keep going? Like you started making a point, but then it multiplied into three half-finished thoughts, and now you're not even sure what you were trying to say?You're not alone. Upper-intermediate English learners often struggle with rambling—not ...  Show more

Decolonisation is a commonly used term in today's cultural sphere. We regularly hear of the decolonisation of syllabi, of academic institutions, of literature, and of the arts. Yet, there is an ironic dissonance between prevalent agendas of decolonisation in western countries and ...  Show more

On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (U California Press, 2022) examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and ...  Show more

The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Yan Slobodkin traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnat ...  Show more

On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (U California Press, 2022) examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and ...  Show more