English Conversation Course

The Christmas holidays are getting closer and so is everlasting tradition of most families: Everyone happily gathers at the christmas table and cheerfully talks about life, job or new neighbour's car. Suddenly uncle Janusz mentions something about Law and Justice, and then nightmare begins. If you have ever experienced such a situation, I'm sure there was a fool or two you couldn't agree with or even you couldn't stand it so much you had to leave a room. Hopefully there's someone who can help you. Robb Willer, social psychologist, clearly explains how to talk with others about politics, have nice, constructive conversation and educate the uncle. Hope you like it!

I ’m sure everyone of you heard about Pegasus (Gra telewizyjna) console. I’m also pretty sure majority of you heard about NES and know very well that Pegasus is in fact NES clone (well, actually it’s Famicom but let’s not get into details) distributed by Hoop Cola guys. But do you actually know how many clones NES had in the past? Well, neither do I but I’ll try to present you some of the most popular clones around the world (excluding China no-names you can buy on Aliexpress even now). Short note for people born in previous age: NES is video game console released in 1983 in Japan and 2-3 years later in EU and US. By many it’s considered the best video console of all time. Pegasus Now, let’s get back to the topic. Of course, the first position in my list is Pegasus I mentioned before. Our precious Pegasus It hit the market in the early 90’s thanks to Dariusz Wojdyga and Marek Jutkiewicz, who are currently on list of 100 richest people of Poland. It was dist...

https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color#t-548179 I’m sure you all have heard about color blindness. But I think not everyone knows how this illness was discovered. John Dalton living in XVIII and XIX century one day decided to buy his mother a pair of stockings. He picked nice light grey ones and imagine his astonishment when his lovely mother told him that she would never wear them, because this color was inappropriate. She explained to him that was not a good idea for an older woman to wear red stockings. That’s when he realized he was color-blind. Nowadays color blind people have a lot of obstacles in their everyday life. They can’t start a driving course, they may wear odd colors (because they don’t realize what they’re wearing) and mainly they can’t see the beauty of nature: flowers, trees and so on. Neil Harbisson is a color blind person, but recently he can listen to colors, what sound even better than observing them. A color detector was...

I’m sure everyone watched  at least one of Disney’s  movies. Now Disney-Pixar makes many new films, not always based on real  stories or books. From childhood we all know movies like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty or The Lion King. But are you aware of real stories behind those movies? Disney didn’t make them up from scratch, they were adapted,  based on fairies; still, with  a lot of modifications. Cinderella Disney presented a nice story of a girl who visited a party, lost her shoe and disappeared, but the Prince found her using her shoe and they got married. What was the real story? The authors of this story are Grimm brothers. Cruelty in their fairies is pretty common in their story Cinderella went to a party, then she come back without ..shoe. But on the other day when the Prince was looking for her and visited her house, Cinderella’s stepmother told her two daughters to cut off their toes in order to fit the sh...

He was born in poor Bosnian family in Sweden. He had a difficult childhood. But hard work and self-confidence made him a hero. His skills and character are admired by millions of football fans. “Swedish style? No. Yugoslavian style? Of course not. It has to be Zlatan-style.” 1.          Do you think Zlatan is arrogant? 2.          Where is the border between confidence and arrogance? 3.          Would you like to work with somebody like Zlatan Ibrahimović?