The Words of the Year 2025 📖 with Amber & Paul [968]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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[968] The Collins Dictionary Words of the Year is a list of 10 words which capture the cultural zeitgeist - the spirit of the times that we are living in now. These are new words, picked by Collins, which reflect big issues that people have been talking about over the last 12 months. In this conversation, Amber, Paul & I discuss the impact of AI, the ways social media is affecting people's behaviour, how people are using technology to control their health, the strange habits of tech leaders, and more. Pick up new words and listen to conversation about big issues in society. Full transcript available.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.com. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. So I'm publishing this episode on the 25th of December, which is actually Christmas Day. Merry Christmas. Hello. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, I will wish you all the best for this end of year period. And yeah, this is a funny time of year for a lot of people. It's kind of like, |
| 0:39.8 | yes, the end of 2025, the beginning of 2026. I'm assuming that you're listening to this |
| 0:45.5 | around the time that it's published. Most of the time, most episodes of my podcast get most of their, |
| 0:53.2 | that most of the listening happens. I mean, most people listen, |
| 0:58.2 | a rambling introduction already. Most people listen to a new episode within the first couple of |
| 1:04.8 | weeks that it's published. So I imagine that you're listening to this at the end of 2025, |
| 1:09.9 | beginning of 2026. And it's at this time of |
| 1:12.5 | year, you know, at the end of the year that we look back on the year that we've just had and |
| 1:18.2 | kind of reflect on it. And then we start to look forward to the upcoming year. That's certainly |
| 1:25.5 | where I am. You know, we have our New Year's Eve and New Year's |
| 1:29.5 | Day at the end of December, beginning of January. So it's, to an extent, it's a weird limbo land. |
| 1:36.6 | I mean, a kind of in-between zone. So it can be a slightly funny time of year, a bit of a strange |
| 1:42.5 | time of year. It can be nice at this time of year |
| 1:44.9 | to just kind of get away from everything and just cocoon yourself somewhere nice and |
| 1:50.5 | cozy and maybe escape from all that family madness and take some time maybe just to listen to |
| 1:58.9 | this new episode of Luke's English podcast. so I'm very happy to be with you |
| 2:02.9 | here today, here and now. So this episode is all about the words of the year, which is always an |
| 2:09.9 | interesting subject and relevant subject for an end of year episode of the podcast. I'm actually |
| 2:15.3 | reading from paper notes here. I actually wrote these notes down |
| 2:20.8 | with a pen on a piece of paper, which seems like it's from some ancient past time, like some old |
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