Bonus episode #129 – Too much info
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
How this episode will improve your English:
* Listening practice: Practice following real-life stories told in clear, natural English.
* New vocabulary: Learn words and phrases about health, news, and everyday life, such as “in flux,” “flush my system,” and “the nitty gritty.”
* Idioms and expressions: Learn common expressions like “stick your head in the sand,” “doom and gloom,” and “hold up.” Try using them in your own sentences.
* Cultural knowledge: Get a look at South Korean culture, healthcare, and how major events impact daily life.
* Pronunciation practice: Hear Andrew’s natural intonation and pacing to improve your own English fluency.
* Speaking skills: Join discussions with other listeners on the Culips Discord server for additional speaking practice.
Important links:
* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group discussion class schedule (member only)
* Listen to bonus episode 33
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 129 of the Culep's English podcast. How's it going? My name's |
| 0:07.8 | Andrew. I will be your host and your English study buddy here for today. Thank you for clicking |
| 0:14.2 | play on this episode and joining me for this study session. I hope that you will enjoy the next |
| 0:20.7 | 20 to 30 minutes that you spend with me. |
| 0:23.7 | And what we're going to do here, let me explain what this bonus episode series of Culeps is all |
| 0:28.4 | about. I just share some stories from my everyday life as a Canadian living abroad here in |
| 0:34.4 | Seoul, South Korea, where my home base is. And I hope that by listening and following |
| 0:39.9 | along with my stories, you will be able to Big Bee. That is the motto for our series. And Bigby |
| 0:45.9 | stands for build your English fluency, increase your cultural knowledge, grow your vocabulary, |
| 0:51.9 | and become a better and more fluent communicator. So if those are some of your |
| 0:57.2 | goals with your English, then I think you're in the right place and I'm going to try my darndest. |
| 1:03.4 | Try my darndest, try my best to help you achieve these goals. Now for this episode and frankly, |
| 1:10.2 | all of the episodes in the bonus series, |
| 1:12.7 | you will get a free interactive transcript that you can follow along with every word that I say |
| 1:19.5 | in the episodes. There's a complete transcript. It's perfect. It's not machine generated. Okay, |
| 1:25.4 | I make it myself. I check it myself. So everything is |
| 1:28.3 | correct and you can trust it. And it's a really cool study tool. You can just click on any word |
| 1:34.0 | and you'll be able to play the audio from that point. So it's perfect for listening over and over |
| 1:39.7 | again to a sentence or word that's hard for you to understand, or if you want to do some listen |
| 1:44.8 | and repeat practice or shadowing practice, I think it's perfect for all of those things. |
| 1:50.3 | There's also a vocabulary glossary, and what I do for that glossary is I choose maybe 10 to 15, |
| 1:57.6 | depending on how much free time I have, 10 to 15 words or expressions that I think are important |
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