Fifteen people from around the world, each carrying one big, arguable idea — and fifteen conversations built so that you do almost all of the talking.
Most lessons hand you a topic. These hand you a person — a writer, a scientist, a philosopher, a poet — and the single idea that made them impossible to ignore. The point is not to memorise a biography. It is to think out loud, in English, about something genuinely worth arguing over.
Every lesson follows the same five-part shape: you share what you already know, you meet the big idea in plain language, you pick up the vocabulary and the speculating-and-disagreeing phrases a C1 speaker needs, you wrestle with three timed thought-experiment speaking tasks, and you get the last word. From first minute to last, the talking is yours.
Take them in any order. Each one stands alone.
Newer to English? Four of these minds come in a simpler version too — the same big ideas and the same student-led conversation, but with easier language and a clear grammar focus built into every lesson.