Thinking Out Loud in English

Hi Thinkers! Jedrek is asking Masha this week about the difference between being tired and being exhausted based on the essay 'Burnout Society' by Byung-Chul Han. Our website: https://tolpodcast.com See what we can do for you and your company at: https://studiomentals.com Support our show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/told Have a fantastic day!

Helllooo Thinkers! We're back with a bang for our long-awaited 100th episode! Joining us are two very special guests: Ela and Kasia. Kasia is returning to the show after a year and a half, while Ela, who we've mentioned so many times, is finally making her debut. Both are insightful speakers and sharp thinkers, and since it's the start of a new school year, we're diving into an imp...

Hi Thinkers! We're heading for summer break and we'll be back in September with the episode number 100 😄 Have a beautiful summer!

Hi Thinkers! This week we're considering whether cities have souls and what does that actually mean? What makes up the soul of a place? Why excessive migration and tourism kill the character of a city? Aside from that there is a small talk about the secrets of cycling and the age-old question about the difference between teaching online and offline. Thanks for listening! Our website: https://t...

Hi Thinkers! This week we're revisiting Barcelona and the Innovate ELT conference, reflecting a bit on what happened there. We don't forget to mention the heat wave in India and the upcoming elections to the European Parliment, so it gives you the scope of this conversation ;) We publish a weekly newsletter each Sunday, check it out here: https://tolpodcast.substack.com/ The podcast's...

Hi Thinkers! Hi Thinkers! This week Jedrek and Masha dive into a deep analysis of the sexy girls strolling the streets of Barcelona. All this in the context of another Innovate ELT conference where Jedrek gave a plenary speech titled "⁠ELT and the epidemic of solitude⁠" . Don't get fooled by the title, this is another MEANINGFUL conversation (we hope) 😅 A highly entertaining convers...

Hi Thinkers! This week it's just the two of us, your hosts, and our conversation revolves around education. We are talking about the future of education, which is also the theme of our newsletter this week. With linguistic barriers largely destroyed by technology, there will be only intrinsic motivation left for learning languages. How will this impact education? We mention the lastest book by...

Hi Thinkers! This week we have an enormous pleasure hosting Alona, a psychologist who is joining us from Greece. We're not wasting any minute of this meeting bombarding her with questions: does language hijack our soul? How does it feel like leaving your beloved city? Why do professional athletes seem so mature even if they are barely over 20? What is burnout doing with us? What is the differe...

Hi Thinkers! We're back with another spontaneous conversation between Masha and Jedrek. What is the difference between teaching Ju-Jitsu and English? Is there an equivalent of a native speaker in martial arts? How to find courage to teach your way without looking at others? In the subject of courgage we mention two French journalists Dora Moutot i Marguerite Stern (start at 33:17), the authors...

Hi Thinkers! This Labor Day we have the honor of hosting Agata, the very same Agata who you may know from out newsletter and her column "The Bright Side of Life?" We start in the middle of nowhere, inspired by the PC game Classified France '44 and the potential issues with localization of such a title in Germany. We try to tread carefully not to be politically incorrect. Agata is a f...

Hi Thinkers! Masha and Jedrek are going to Japan, just like the Simpsons, except our stay there is purely virtual and so less prone to disasters. we are joined by Martyna who is based in Nagano (or nearby) and who is living her Japanese dream. We interview her about life in Japan. She's telling us a lot of interesting things, but most surprising and paradoxicall of all is how she found herself...

Hi Thinkers! Each Sunday we're sending out our newsletter called "In The Same Boat" because we're really in the same boat when it comes to learning English. Subscribe here: https://tolpodcast.substack.com/ And now: loneliness is quietly becoming an epidemic with Japan and UK appointing ministers to deal with the problem. There are economic, technological and metaphysical reasons...

Hi thinkers! Our newsletter is being read by over 150 people weekly and the number keeps rising; check out why ! As for this episode, we're two English teachers who rise and grind! 🤣This week we're talking about motivation at large: the shallow one and the deep one. Why the video " Rise and Grind " or the Holstee posters seem shallow to Jedrek? What is the difference between a p...

Hi Thinkers! Subscribe to our newsletter "In The Same Boat" for a weekly dose of motivation, inspiration and education + a bunch of fresh recomendations on what to read, watch and listen to in English. And now: episode 89: Unfrotunately the rumor about Elon musk joining our show was April Fool's prank. This week Masha comes back to Jedrek's text in the 9th issue of our newsletter...

Hi Thinkers! We have a newsletter for all of you who would like to keep in touch with English in between classes. Original texts (no AI generated content!), phrases of the week, stories from our subscribers, a carefully selected song of the week (with lyrics), some jokes and a bunch of recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to in English. Visit now: https://tolpodcast.substack.com/ And...

Hi thinkers! First things first: you don't want to miss out newsletter. Each Sunday morning our team of teachers and learners prepare a set of original texts and recommendations (including really cool music!) sign up! And now, this week's episode is finally about taste. The concept has been haunting us ever since Ezra Klein talked about it on his show, and later Jedrek read the lastest boo...

Hi Thinkers! Check out our newsletter full of motivation, inspiration and education! And now for this week's episode: Jedrek and Masha discuss in the introduction how painful writing really is, and what is good writing anyway; and in the main part (aka Thinking Out Loud Proper) Masha is facing the difference and the relationship between high self-esteem and big ego. What is the best way to bui...

Hi Thinkers! Each Sunday we're curating a special newsletter to make sure the English you consume is meaningful! Sign up, we're on substack . But this week on ToL we sat down with Maciek, who is revisiting our podcast one year later (check out his linguistic progress!), to talk about the technical aspects of listening to podcasts (why does he stick to Pocket Casts, what it's like to li...

Hi Thinkers! Did you know we have moved with our newsletter to Substack ? It's a weekly dose of motivation, inspiration and education in English, you simply can't miss it. And now to this week's episode which announces itself really great because we're hosting Julia, a teenager from Poland, who is telling us about her experience with homeschooling, dissipating by the way a lot of m...

Hi Thinkers! Did you know we have launched our newsletter? Each Sunday morning you get a dose of motivation, inspiration and education straight to your mailbox! Sign up if you haven't yet! And now let's talk about the current episode of ToL: we are hosting a fantastic interlocutor, Ania, who we take into a crossfire of questions: about her English and going from bad to great, about Austral...

Hi thinkers! Sign up to our newsletter at tolpodcast.com before we grow and become impersonal and indifferent. But till it happens we're small and we care! Now, this week it's just the two of us and we talk about the concept of hard work: is hard work linked with high salary? Does it lead to a job well done? How does it differ from difficult work? Masha is kicking this concept down the roa...

Hi thinkers! Subscribe to our newsletter "In The Same Boat" for motivation and inspiration for learning! https://tolpodcast.com/#subscribe And now, let's talk about the current episode: Maciek Olszowy, our very special guest this week, is an entrepreneur, a podcaster (yay!), a father and an occasional practitioner of the Vipassana meditation technique. We start out asking about what...

Hi Thinkers! We have launched our newsletter! Sign up if you haven't yet at tolpodcast.com! And as for this week, Masha selected question number 105 from The Compleat Thunks Book by Ian Gilbert, which goes like this: "Can you hurry love?". We know Phil Collins said You Can't but we still enjoyed our conversation about the concept of the 5 languages of love by Gary Chapman, about poliamorous relati...

Hi Thinkers! Is Thinking Out Loud more on the fun side of the podcast scene or is it more serious? You'll find the answer in the intro before we jump straight to round 2 (that's right!) to discuss the difference between citizens and mere population. What seems like a pretty straightforward question for Jedrek, turns out to be a gateway to a much more serious conversation about the rights a...

Hi Thinkers! Did you know we're about to launch our newsletter: https://tolpodcast.com/#newsletter ? Sign up for a weekly dose of motivation, inspiration and education from Masha and Jedrek. Aprat from the said newsletter, this week we're discussing the power of the internet over the books and longer texts in general. What makes the screens so irresistible? Check out our thinking out lound...