🌍 Travel, culture and local life

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Travel, trip, journey and voyage

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Four commonly confused travel words
• How to use travel
• Journey versus trip
• How to use voyage
• Full video

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Rip-offs, scams and con artists

7 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Rip-off, scam and con
• An expensive drink in Venice
• The obituary scam
• The inheritance email scam
• Selling the Eiffel Tower

+ 2 more lessons

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Beaches and coastal life

9 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Brazil's desert lagoons
• Exploring a Sardinian island
• Life on the island
• Protecting the coastline
• Oahu's seven-mile miracle

+ 4 more lessons

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Life with a dog mayor

10 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Meet the dog mayor
• Why the town elects animals
• Managing the mayor's messages
• A day at the mayor's office
• Mayor Max arrives

+ 5 more lessons

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Brooklyn Christmas homes

8 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Buying decorations without limits
• Spooky nutcrackers and lavish displays
• A display in her husband's memory
• Inside the Believe house
• Family stockings and tree traditions

+ 3 more lessons

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Forging Forgotten Ancient Greek Armor

2 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Forging Forgotten Ancient Greek Armor
• Full video

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London's Pearly tradition

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• The Pearly costume
• Charity across London
• A family Pearly suit
• The meaning of the tradition
• Full video

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Ancient tea culture in China

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• The oldest way to drink tea
• The pinnacle of tea culture
• Climbing ancient tea trees
• Sorting tea leaves by hand
• Full video

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Star Wars shadow puppetry

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Darth Vader meets wayang kulit
• Combining Star Wars with tradition
• Introducing Star Wars to a puppet master
• Reviving an ancient art form
• Full video

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Cooking with invasive species

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Eating invasive species
• Foraging wild lettuce
• Collecting European snails
• Making backyard sushi
• Full video

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Yunnan’s stretchy potatoes

4 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Finding the right potatoes
• The secret local ingredient
• Grandma’s mashed potatoes
• Full video

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Barranquilla's sound system culture

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Music for Barranquilla's dancers
• How sound systems bring joy
• From small speakers to mobile systems
• Sound system art and family tradition
• Full video

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Grandmothers studying sea snakes

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Meeting the sea snake grandmothers
• Collecting data for research
• Building the volunteer team
• Photographing curious sea snakes
• Full video

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Inside The Last Bookstore

10 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Choosing the bookstore's name
• Meet owner Josh Spencer
• Family life and reading
• Finding secondhand books
• Unusual books and hidden covers

+ 5 more lessons