English C2: Mastery level
C2 is mastery of English: you understand almost everything and notice nuance, humour and register. These lessons use rich, idiomatic texts to sharpen the finest details of the language.
What you can do at C2
- Understand virtually everything you read or hear.
- Summarise information from different sources.
- Express fine shades of meaning precisely.
About 16,000 words and roughly 1,000–1,200 hours of study to reach this level.
English lessons for C2
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EducationC2UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals
Premium of nearly 10% paid by housebuyers comparable with cost of a cheaper private school over seven yearsA house near a top state secondary school costs an extra £40,000 on average, according to research that reveals education premiums that rank alongside some private school fees.The average property in a postcode district that includes a top 50 state secondary commands a price tag of £415,791, compared with £375,217 across the wider local authority areas in which those schools are located, a UK-wide analysis by the estate agent Yopa found. Continue reading...
Business & careerC2Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report
After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.
SportsC2Arsenal edge past troubled Aston Villa 1-0 as Saka scores only goal
Victory lifts Arsenal to six points along with Man City, Hull City and Chelsea, while Villa remain without a point.
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C218:05Travel
Why We Go: From the Grand Tour to the TikTok Itinerary
Humans have been leaving home for no practical reason for at least six hundred years, and every generation has told itself a different story about why. Jack and Emma trace the restless impulse from Chaucer's pilgrims and the eighteenth-century Grand Tour to Thomas Cook's temperance excursions and the fifteen-second itinerary, and ask whether wanderlust is a hunger, a status game, a genetic quirk, or simply the most elaborate way we have of avoiding ourselves.
C221:50Love & family
Fifty Years and Still Arguing Well
Jack's grandparents just celebrated their golden anniversary, and their marriage has become something of a running family mystery: how do two profoundly stubborn, occasionally combustible people remain devoted after five decades? Jack and Emma tease apart the anatomy of durable love, drawing on relationship research, philosophy, and a fair amount of dry humor.
C220:49Society
The Third Place Is Disappearing
Jack and Emma trace the quiet disappearance of the informal, unstructured gathering spots, cafes, pubs, barbershops, that once glued communities together, drawing on Ray Oldenburg's 'third place' concept and Robert Putnam's social capital research.
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