English Learning for Curious Minds

 Ancient Rome was powered by the blood, sweat and tears of millions of slaves. In this episode, we look at what life was like for really like people unlucky enough to be sold into slavery in Ancient Rome. The capture of a slave in Ancient RomeAristotle & SlaveryHow slaves were recruitedHow many slaves were there in Ancient Rome?Who could become a slave?What happened to slaves after they were captured?The different roles of male vs. female slavesHow much did slaves cost in Ancient Rome?What jobs did slaves do?The most unfortunate type of slave: the actorThe better roles for slavesWorking in the minesSlave uprisingsImproving rights for slavesHow slaves could be freed Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/ancient-roman-slaves ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

 The FIFA World Cup is full of controversy, on and off the pitch. In this episode, we look at five of the most controversial episodes in World Cup history and finish up with five interesting facts about the world's most popular football tournament.  Controversy #1: Diego Maradona & The Hand of GodControversy #2: The murder of Andres EscobarControversy #3: The Kuwait Goal ScandalControversy #4: Zinedine Zidane headbuttControversy #5: Italy decide to play in blackTrivia point #1: The unusual location of the first world cupTrivia point #2: How much beer is drunkTrivia point #3: How many people watch the world cupTrivia point #4: Pickles the trophy-finding dogTrivia point #5: The controversy of the Qatar World Cup Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/world-cup-controversies ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

 He was the undisputed King of Pop, with 13 number-one hits, hundreds of millions of fans and a legacy that will continue to inspire artists for generations to come. But beneath the surface, Michael Jackson's life was plagued by insecurity, loneliness, and deep-rooted demons that would ultimately lead to his untimely and tragic death. The early life of Michael JacksonHis relationship with his fatherThe early success of The Jackson 5"I Want You Back" - the first big hitThe first number one & becoming a child prodigyBreaking away from his brothersBecoming the global King of PopHis unusual private lifeHis accident and physical changesReleasing "Bad"Allegations of child abuseMarriage and childrenHis death and subsequent inquiryThe legacy of Michael Jackson Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/michael-jackson ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

 For centuries, a woman could be accused of being a witch for the simple crime of being too poor, too rich, or too old.For those accused, the trials were deeply unfair, and the punishment was often torture and death.In this episode, we explore the unfair and bloody history of witches.The Salem Witch TrialsThe punishments given for witches at SalemWhat actually was a "witch"?Reasons people could be accused of being a witchBlack vs. White magicWitches & the Black DeathMalleus Maleficarum: The Catholic Church's witch instruction manualHow witch trials workedKing James VI & witchesWhy witch fears declinedWitches in modern cultureFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/witches ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

 For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the dead.But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a simple, biological explanation for it all?The start of Bram Stoker's DraculaThe fundamental characteristics of vampiresVampires in ancient European folkloreWhy people might have thought vampires needed to drink bloodVampires being blamed for the plagueThe Great Vampire EpidemicThe story of Petar BlagojevićJohn Polidori’s The VampyreVampires & Vlad The ImpalerVampires on filmModern vampiresFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/vampires ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

It has been 5 years since the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.In part three of this three-part mini-series, we look at what has happened since then and ask ourselves whether we are any closer to knowing the truth.Recap of the story so farVince Muscat starts talking to the policeMelvin Theuma: the middlemanYorgen Fenech & 17 BlackThe phantom jobMelvin Theuma starts getting paranoidThe arrest of Melvin TheumaThe letter to be passed to Yorgen FenechKeith Schembri's lost phoneThe public inquestPolitical changes since Daphne's deathThe corruption and scandal involved in Daphne's murder investigationWill the killers ever be brought to justice?Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/daphne-caruana-galizia-part-3

A few months after Daphne's brutal assassination, the Maltese police raided a potato shed.They would "find" three men who would later admit to being involved in the murder, but were they really any closer to the truth?The initial investigations of Daphne's murderThe December raid on the potato shedVince Muscat & The DeGiorgio BrothersHow the police caught the hitmenNovember 2019: when everything changedThe arrest of Yorgen FenechThe power goes out and Keith Schembri is arrestedYorgen Fenech promises to "spill the beans"Fenech's pardon request is refusedThe resignation of the Prime Minister, Joseph MuscatFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/daphne-caruana-galizia-part-2

On October 16th, 2017, a 52-year-old journalist was blown up in a car bomb outside her home in Malta.In part one of our three-part mini-series, we'll learn about who she was, and who might have wanted her dead.The assassination of Daphne Caruana GaliziaIntroduction to MaltaWhy small island countries are more prone to corruptionThe early career of Daphne Caruana GaliziaWhy Daphne Caruana Galizia was so popularEconomic growth in 21st-century Malta“Malta is 17 miles by nine and flooded with cocaine, corruption, and filthy money”Daphne's corruption allegations in MaltaWhy Daphne was very unpopular with some Maltese citizensThe attacks and harassment she facedClaims against Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri & Joseph MuscatFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/daphne-caruana-galizia-part-1

 He was the 45th President of the USA and the most controversial in recent history.In this episode, we look at the life of Donald J. Trump and examine how he went from real estate developer to the leader of the free world.The early life of Donald TrumpHis paternal and maternal influencesAccusations of racism against Fred TrumpAvoiding getting drafted in the Vietnam War ("bone spurs")Getting into business with The Trump OrganizationEarly business controversiesGoing upmarket and entering the casino businessA small loan of 1 million dollarsDeveloping the family business and becoming a (self-reported) billionaireBusiness problems in the 1990sBecoming a TV celebrity after "The Apprentice"Donald Trump's business failures & controversiesTrump's political alliances over the yearsHis path to The White HouseA return to politics?Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/donald-trump ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

 It's one of the most controversial topics in modern Spain; some say it's a cultural art form, and others say it's a brutal form of torture.In this episode, we look at the history of bullfighting through the ages and ask ourselves what lies ahead.The matador looks up to the crowdWhat happens in a bullfightThe early history of bullfightingBullfighting in the Iberian peninsulaThe first "anti-bullfighting" legislation in the 16th CenturyThe development of "modern" bullfightingThe different styles of bullfightingGeneral Franco & bullfightingThe opposition to bullfightingBullfighting todayWill bullfighting ever be banned in Spain?Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/bullfighting ---You might like:🔓 Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists✨ 5 Powerful Tips for Learning English with Podcasts (Faster & Effectively!) [YouTube]📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership 📧 Join our FREE weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية