Language Studio · Deep Dive
Thirty minutes or more.
Extended practice for when you have real time to focus. Multiple clips, deeper analysis.
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OPEN: How to give feedbackHow to Give Hard Feedback in American Business Settings How To Give Hard Feedback Matt Abrahams teaches strategic communication at Stanford’s business school and hosts the podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart. In this episode he sits down with Kim Scott, the author of Radical Candor and a former executive at Google, Apple, and Twitter, to…
How to give feedback
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OPEN: Private Tour: Boring Company Las Vegas LoopThank You to Your Friend Private Tour: Boring Company Las Vegas Loop Farzad Mesbahi, a Tesla-focused YouTuber and investor, got a private underground tour of the Vegas Loop from Steve Davis, President of The Boring Company. The two hadn’t really met before this trip. Davis had asked a friend at SpaceX for a list of…
Private Tour: Boring Company Las Vegas Loop
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OPEN: New $100 million town in Texas focused on hard-techA Good Problem to Have New $100 million town in Texas focused on hard-tech Ashlee Vance, a tech journalist, spent a few days inside Prototown, a Texas ranch where young founders are trying to build a hardware manufacturing hub from scratch. Partway through the tour he stops at Evan’s workspace, a shipping container full of…
New $100 million town in Texas focused on hard-tech
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OPEN: Politically Homeless: Changes That Led To Trump’s ElectionThe People Who Can’t Unsee It Politically Homeless: Changes That Led To Trump’s Election Jeff, a therapist, and Jenny, a writer, discuss the recent political shift in the U.S. and the idea of being politically homeless. In 2025, according to a Gallup poll, about 45% of Americans identified as politically independent. This is the group…
Politically Homeless: Changes That Led To Trump’s Election
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OPEN: Comparing Japan and U.S. when it comes to healthListen to how two Americans explain Japanese food culture, then practice the phrases. Real conversation, listening exercise, shadowing, and situational fluency.
Comparing Japan and U.S. when it comes to health
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OPEN: Inside a $64 Million Prison-to-Apartments ConversionClear Those Hurdles: Inside a $64 Million Prison-to-Apartments Conversion Inside a $64 Million Prison-to-Apartments Conversion David Vos, a development project manager at the Alexander Company, walks CNBC Make It through Liberty, a $64 million conversion of the old Lorton Reformatory prison in Virginia into 165 apartments. It’s a real estate story, but it’s really a…
Inside a $64 Million Prison-to-Apartments Conversion
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OPEN: Why The U.S. Can’t Copy Japanese 7-ElevenHerein Lies the Genius: 7-Eleven Japan’s Counterintuitive Strategy Herein Lies the Genius: 7-Eleven Japan’s Counterintuitive Strategy Stephen Park, host of the channel Asian Boss, walks through how a 1973 licensing deal between an American convenience chain and a Japanese supermarket executive quietly produced a business that now outperforms the original. American 7-Eleven is closing stores,…
Why The U.S. Can’t Copy Japanese 7-Eleven