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Revisit this classic lesson on cognitive switching from the Plain English archives: What is cognitive switching? It’s when you switch your attention from one task, or one type of task, to another. Cognitive switching could be robbing you of up to 40 percent of your daily producti ...  Show more

Enjoy this episode from the Plain English archives (with a recent update for 2025): The San José, a Spanish treasure ship carrying gold, silver, and valuable jewelry, sank off the coast of Colombia in 1708. The shipwreck, and its treasure, have been untouched for over 300 years. ...  Show more

<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the greatest challenges for Upper-intermediate learners is to continue making progress in their English. We've had countless students tell us about this problem: They already speak English quite well but still have some things to improve. ...

If your goal is to improve the speed of your English practice with real example sentences in today’s lesson. I will teach you about the reductions and accent tricks that American English speakers talk with. Learn these tricks and your English speaking will sound natural and fl ...

This podcast is best viewed on spotify or youtube, to practice the conversation.

If you need an English conversation to practice speaking along with this video is for you! Speak advanced English and role-play a real-life conversation. This is a realistic con ...

When you are at intermediate level, it's much harder to see progress in your English learning. You find yourself in this intermediate zone that seems to last forever. Some people even call it the "plateau purgatory".

But if you want to take your English to a true advanc ...