#467: How Learning English Helps with Loneliness, Anxiety & Depression

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Have you ever scrolled through social media feeling connected to everyone, yet somehow more alone than ever? In this episode, Ethan and Ksenia discuss how modern technology impacts our mental health and explore how language learning can become a powerful antidote to loneliness. 

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Practical ways to turn social media into a springboard for genuine, global friendships.  
• How social media and AI chatbots affect our mental health, focus, and critical thinking.
• Key idioms and advanced phrases like doom scrolling, jump-start, echo chamber, springboard, and devil’s advocate.

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Words You’ll Learn in the App

• Crummy
• Underlying
• Growing body of research
• Takeaway
• Perpetuate
• Come out of one’s shell
• Crave
• Exacerbate
• Come up short
• Doom scroll

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