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What does English feel like?

Nicole talks about some of the reasons that people learn English and how they feel about that.

Welcome to the course!

Watch our video tutor, Nicole, introduce this week’s topic, English as a global language.

Nicole talks about what English means to some of the people we talked to; Fernando from Brazil, Anne-Lise from Denmark and Mahwish from Pakistan. What do they say and which one sounds most like your feelings about English?

There are subtitles for this and all the videos in the course, which you can switch on by clicking on the subtitles icon in the bottom right corner of the video player. You can also find a pdf transcript below.

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