Ze English Podcast by Ecsplicite

Welcome back to  The English Podcast . After recording our World Cup special with Desirée, we realised we'd left some great conversations on the cutting-room floor. So here's a short bonus episode with some of our favourite moments—from trying to pronounce a South African footballer's name to discovering why millions of people become so passionate about the beautiful game.

With the quarter finals of the World Cup looming, in this month's episode, we are talking football. We would like to shift our attention away from Mbappe, Kane, Haaland, Messi & Ronaldo to talk to our colleague Desiree, a recently converted football enthusiast, about  Mbekezeli Mbokazi , the inspiring central defender of the national team whose meteoric rise to international competitions and t...

With football increasingly dominating the headlines, in this month's episode of Ze English Podcast , we are taking you away from it all to visit a remote part of Spain in the company of our colleague Henrietta who tells us what it is like living 'off the grid' in Galicia.

It's the Cannes season again and today we step into the glamorous — and sometimes brutal — world of cinema festivals. Lawrence talks to Zac, a sound engineer who recently worked on his very first feature film and experienced the stressful race to try to get it selected for the Cannes Film Festival. c How hard is it to get in? What happens when thousands of films compete for just a few places?...

In today’s episode, we are slowing things down as we explore the relaxing world of  handicrafts . Our colleague Laurence tells Sue how simple handcraft activities help reduce her stress, boost her creativity, and bring a calming meditative sense of accomplishment that reflects her past achievements.

In this episode, entitled  The revenant   Sue interviews Sophie who tells us how her views about France changed for the better after she had spent a few years living in the UK.   Sophie talks about 5 key areas that made her feel more positively towards here native beloved France.   Can you guess what they are ? Listen and find out.

This week we celebrate Valentine’s Day — a day of romantic gestures and declarations? But how deep do they go?  In today’s episode, we’re talking about  body language  and how it can sometimes reveal more than words ever can. From eye contact to nervous gestures, we’ll explore a few clues that might help you decide whether your Valentine is being completely honest.

In January, like us, you may like to look forward and inject positive new energy into your life and work, or perhaps you prefer to look backwards to review the year that is passed and draw positive conclusions. For the first podcast of 2026, our colleagues Caroline and Sue have chosen to look back at 2025 and single out a number of positive break-throughs which serve as cause for optimism and cele...

Welcome to this special Christmas edition of  Ze English Podcast ! This month, Sue and Lawrence dive into one of Britain’s most mysterious festive traditions:  the Christmas pudding . Sue reveals her  granny’s secret recipe  — a recipe so old-fashioned it takes  three days , a lot of stirring, a Christmas wish, and even something called  suet  (don’t panic, we explain everything). If you love good...

This week, on the last Thursday of November, is Thanksgiving day. For this special occasion we have a bonus edition taken from the archive in company with our dearly missed former colleague Regina, who talks us through the meaning and mood music that accompanies what is one of the most popular holidays in the American calendar.

In today’s episode, we speak with our colleague Floyd in Jamaica, which was directly hit by Hurricane Melissa about three weeks ago. Floyd tells us what daily life has been like since the storm, describes the damage in his hometown of Montego Bay, and explains how people are slowly rebuilding with courage and determination.

France is the land of butter, cheese, and steak tartare — so it’s no surprise that only about  2% of the French  actually call themselves vegetarian. Across the Channel, more than  15% of adults in the UK  now follow some kind of meat-free diet. In today’s episode, Hazel tells us why it's important to her and how she has handled raising her children as vegetarians.

La langue française évolue au fil des années pour s’adapter aux enjeux de demain. L’ idée du langage inclusif est de rendre la langue plus égalitaire. Mais tout le monde n’est pas d’accord. Alors, découvrons pourquoi avec Emilie, notre collègue qui explique ce phénomène, son impact et la controverse qu'il a suscitée.

Ciao e benvenuti alla primissima puntata della nuova stagione del podcast ECSPLICITE, in cui discutiamo di un argomento comune a tutte le lingue e culture. Le nostre colleghe Giulia e Alessia approfondiscono il tema dell'uso del linguaggio neutro dal punto di vista del genere in italiano, la sua importanza, le difficoltà pratiche che incontra e i modi per evitare il linguaggio di genere.

In den letzten Jahren in Deutschland gab es viele kreative Ideen, wie man geschlechtsgerechter und weniger diskriminierend sprechen kann – vor allem wenn man über Gruppen spricht, die gemischt oder nicht genau definiert sind oder wenn man über Minderheiten jeglicher Art redet. Heute, zum Start der neuen Saison, befasst sich unsere Kollegin Bianca mit dem Thema „inklusive Sprache”, seiner Bedeutung...

Lo normal sería pensar que las nuevas generaciones utilicen más el lenguaje Inclusivo y que las personas mayores no, pero la realidad es muy diferente. Su uso no se divide por generaciones, sino por ideologías. Nuestro colega Guillermo profundiza en el tema y comparte sus opiniones sobre lo que significa utilizar un lenguaje inclusivo, por qué es importante y, inevitablemente, los problemas que pl...

To celebrate the 4th season of ECSPLICITE podcasting we have chosen a topic about language, culture and society that is relevant to all the languages we train : Inclusive language.   Our world is changing and the language we use along with it.  We asked our South African colleague Deonne, currently living and working in Korea, to share her ideas about what it means to use inclusive language in Sou...

To celebrate this final episode in this season and to anticipate the summer, we have added a companion piece to our last episode about the association  Les Minots de l'Hosto  at the Children's Hospital in La Timone in Marseille, as we talk to the school's director Benjamin, who's going to tell us all about the school and its collaboration with the association we support. Here's the link again for...

In today's episode we come to the children's hospital in Marseille, La Timone, to support the Association  Les Minots de l'Hosto  and the amazing work they do organising after-school care & extra-curricular activities for the child patients. We talk to children and teachers who inspired us with their upbeat, bright and cheerful attitude to their environment and treatment.   This ep...

As Republicans and Trump supporters in particular celebrate the first 100 days of the the new Trump administration, we travel to Texas to talk to our colleague Evelyne, French born naturalised American, who's been living in Houston for many years, as she shares her thoughts and feelings about the present as well as her hopes and fears for the future in the new reality that is Trump's versi...

Today we're talking about the thought-provoking Netflix series  Adolescence , which in only four short weeks since its release has been viewed in millions of homes in 70 different countries, and sparked serious public debate as well as political reactions, with the UK Prime Minister himself talking about it in the media. So what is all the fuss about. We asked our colleague Sophie, who was recentl...

Today our podcast is about social media and its effect on our children, toddlers, teenagers or young adults. Colleagues Sue and Mireille share experiences about dealing with the impact of social media on the family and family life and how to handle things when influencers affect habits and behaviour in their children.

Are you a 'baby boomer', a millennial perhaps, or maybe a recently graduated "gen Z".  And why does it even matter?  Our guest contributor this month, Inger, is going to take a quick, fun dive into the quirks, facts, and history of people from different generations and share her own feelings about what makes the generational gap so, well ... engaging !

Welcome to the first episode of the year. Today's subject is maternity leave and the work life balance, as we hear from Sophie, our colleague, who having just experienced maternity leave, came back to work recently and had to strike a new balance in her life with two children and, of course, a career.

The sentences fell this morning in the Mazan rape trial that has shocked the nation and dramatically shifted the way France is talking about rape, rapists and their victims.   Today in conversation Sue & Sandra honour the heroine at the centre of this traumatic story : Gisèle Pelicot, who braved public scrutiny to make sure that shame swapped sides. Sue mentions a tribune in the newspaper Libé...