👉 Anna built her fluency and confidence inside the Deep Dive English community. Start the same journey with group speaking calls and personalised feedback. Try it for free here!

How good is your English vocabulary? In this episode, Sam tests Anna on 25 words taken from the Oxford 5000, with five words from each level: A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1. For each word, Anna has to give a definition and use it in her own sentence, and you can play along at home.

Pause after each word, try to define it and make your own sentence, then see if you got it right. Can you beat Anna's score? Let us know how many you get in the comments.

This episode is perfect for intermediate and advanced English learners who want to build their vocabulary and test their knowledge with real, natural conversation.Oxford 3000/5000: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/wordlists/oxford3000-5000

👉 Anna built her fluency and confidence inside the Deep Dive English community. Start the same journey with group speaking calls and personalised feedback. Try it for free here. How many languages do you really need to speak? In this episode, Sam and Anna talk all about languages and communication, from why English speakers struggle to learn a second language to whether AI translation will make language learning pointless.Along the way, we discuss learning German and French at school, Polish words that don't exist in English, why English only has one word for "love," the hardest parts of English for Polish speakers, accents and what they reveal about you, and how being direct changes between languages.This episode is perfect for intermediate and advanced English learners who want to improve their listening skills with real, natural conversation.

👉 Anna built her fluency and confidence inside the Deep Dive English community. Start the same journey with group speaking calls and personalised feedback. Try it for free here: https://www.skool.com/deepdiveenglish/about

How different is it to grow up and go to school in England compared to Poland? In this episode, Sam and Anna compare their two education systems, from the age children start school to exams, university, and everything in between.

Along the way, we talk about starting school at five vs seven, why grouping children by ability can be harmful, the Polish "gymnasium" that no longer exists, comprehensive vs specialised subjects, and why Sam questions whether his expensive politics degree was really worth the money.

This episode is perfect for intermediate and advanced English learners who want to improve their listening skills with real, natural conversation.