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#180: Winston Churchill & The English Language
Manage episode 298732216 series 2576053
He is considered by many to be the greatest public speaker in British history, and his words and speeches were a defining force in the British war effort.
In this episode, we'll learn all about how Winston Churchill used the English language to inspire a nation.
- Winning the 1953 Nobel Prize for literature
- Early obstacles to being a great orator
- Completing his education on his own
- Studying the great English orators
- Spending four decades as a member of parliament
- Churchill's gift for storytelling
- The medium: the radio
- My grandfather's memories of Churchill's speeches
- Background to Churchill's speeches
- How Churchill wrote
- Writing more words than William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens combined
- Speech #1: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat“
- Speech #2: "We shall never surrender"
- Speech #3: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
- Why Churchill's words are so powerful
- Churchill's wit (and some funny jokes)
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/winston-churchill-language
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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
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Manage episode 298732216 series 2576053
He is considered by many to be the greatest public speaker in British history, and his words and speeches were a defining force in the British war effort.
In this episode, we'll learn all about how Winston Churchill used the English language to inspire a nation.
- Winning the 1953 Nobel Prize for literature
- Early obstacles to being a great orator
- Completing his education on his own
- Studying the great English orators
- Spending four decades as a member of parliament
- Churchill's gift for storytelling
- The medium: the radio
- My grandfather's memories of Churchill's speeches
- Background to Churchill's speeches
- How Churchill wrote
- Writing more words than William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens combined
- Speech #1: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat“
- Speech #2: "We shall never surrender"
- Speech #3: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
- Why Churchill's words are so powerful
- Churchill's wit (and some funny jokes)
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/winston-churchill-language
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📹 A look inside Leonardo English membership
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✍️ Free English Grammar Checker
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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
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