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Who on Earth are we? is a series about culture and how it affects us. It explores some of the major differences between cultures and looks at what happens when people from different cultures meet and communicate. The series is presented by Marc Beeby.
Part 3
Language and culture: Marc Beeby looks at language as one of the building blocks of culture and discovers that we don’t all describe the world in the same way.

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Part 2
What is culture? In this programme Marc Beeby tries to answer this question and discover just why culture is so difficult to define and talk about.

Part 1
In this first episode of Who on Earth are we? Marc Beeby introduces the topic of culture and inter-cultural communication. We hear some anecdotes relating to cross-cultural surprises and discover that the more we learn about other cultures, the more we learn about ourselves.

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 Welcome to your weekly podcast! :D

My name is Thiago Eduardo, I’m an EFL teacher in Brasilia, Brazil and my students and I have decided to start our weekly podcast talking about current affairs, jokes and any and everything we want! Here you are our pilot podcast, so that you can get to know a bit more about ourselves!

I’m quite sure we’ll have a blast doing these programmes and you out there will enjoy it as well! If you are listening, send us a feedback!

 

 Podcast programme #1

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