30-Minute C1 English Listening Practice || Improve Your Advanced English Skills 🎧

Where can I find the article you are using in your podcast ?? I want to read it than listen to you deep dive

This video was amazing, learned a lot.

Gringos talking about history. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

I think the woman pronunce more clearly than the man.I am not native speaker and I almost can't follow him.

Definitely the French Revolution has the biggest effect on our daily life. Democracy, basic human rights, education, travelling.. treating others like human beings, respecting their dignity, creating a better world 🌎

Can you provide us with subtitles, please 🙏?

My first language is English. I thought c1 level is something more difficult even to a native speaker?

i can't belive that this listing level is C1because i can understand it without problem 🥹
what does it mean? my level is C1😢

i have always wanted to be C1
😢 every day i try to be better than before ❤

11:08 Thank you for your video, very interesting and usefull

Thank you it's so fruitful , i'll be pretty grateful if you give us the full podcat conversation written if you have it so that i extract the new vocabulary and phrases easily to learn them since extracting them simultaneously via watching the video is tireful

Can you drop the podcast script

Printing books in it's time made a s big differens in humen's life as internet does😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

In the podcast, they speak very much slower than the real C1 test I would recommend to play at 1.25 speed to be more useful

Your content is very helpful for practicing English.
However, I felt that the perspective on World War II and the atomic bomb reflects a very typical American viewpoint😢

70%❤>... I can understand the main idea 😜

I got a lot of advertisement . that's bad experience

Amazing job, thank you so much, great channel!!!

I appreciate it 🥰🥰

I’m a geography teacher and every time I see a topic in a lesson connected to a climate change and what a human can do to help our planet I always discuss it with my students, so I can teach them to behave good to our “home” so I hope it helps haha

The back sound is awesome ❤

Thank you for sharing this potcast ^^

Oh my god more bs propaganda.

Yeah, it's odd how history gets selective. Maybe because the West wrote more books about itself, or because those old empires faded without leaving the same kind of guilt – no one alive feels Mongol today, do they? The Ottomans killed more people in one weekend than some nations in a century, but we romanticise the silk road instead. And you're right, the Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans – literally kidnapped sailors off boats, sold 'em in Tripoli – but try bringing that up and suddenly everyone's like, oh, slavery started sixteen-ninety-eight. Nah, humans were always brutal. Point is, blame shouldn't stay frozen on one colour. Every tribe did awful stuff – the point is to learn, not just point.

Historical Patterns of Conflict and the Emergence of Modern Freedom

Across all continents, warfare, territorial expansion, and internal conflict were part of human societies long before the modern era. In Africa, political entities such as the Benin Kingdom, the Kongo Kingdom, and the Sahelian empires engaged in organised warfare and rivalries. In pre-Columbian South America, the Inca Empire expanded through conquest, and numerous societies — including the Moche, the Mapuche, and various Amazonian groups — experienced intergroup violence. These developments were not exceptional but reflected universal human patterns in the formation of states, resources competition, and cultural dominance.

The European Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries introduced a transformative intellectual shift that profoundly influenced modern concepts of governance, law, science, and human rights. Philosophers such as John Locke, Voltaire, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Immanuel Kant, Denis Diderot, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Baruch Spinoza articulated principles that later shaped democratic institutions — including individual liberty, equality before the law, religious tolerance, and the separation of powers. Scientific thinkers like Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, and Johannes Kepler established empirical methods that redefined global knowledge systems.

Many freedoms considered self-evident today — constitutional rights, scientific inquiry, and personal autonomy — originated from these Enlightenment debates and were later realised through political reforms and social movements. Modern societies often overlook the historical foundations of these liberties and the intellectual efforts required to establish them. The Enlightenment demonstrates that social progress is neither automatic nor universal; it is the result of sustained institutional development, critical examination of tradition, and the rejection of dogmatic authority.

This historical perspective highlights an essential point: the freedoms enjoyed in many parts of the world today are the culmination of long, complex processes. Their preservation depends on continuous civic awareness, education, and the protection of open, rational discourse.

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Tks

Keep going... Perfect;)

Really interesting. But, please share your sources, I would like to read the articles you mention. Thanks a lot.

And we all know that the world would be way better off if Columbus had never discovered America

Impeccable !

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We are too late we are enterned in sixth mass extinction

great

I’m able to understand 90% of all of the information that you’re sharing normally, Does it suggest that my english level in the sense of the listening is C1?.

Can you share with us the pdf article please !

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