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Culips Everyday English Podcast

Bonus episode #130 – Words of the year

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8968 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s bonus episode, Andrew talks about the Oxford Dictionary’s top English words for 2024. Follow along as he breaks down each word, explains how to use it naturally, and shares why these words capture our changing culture. As a special treat, he even introduces a brand-new word he created himself!








How this episode will improve your English:

* Listening: Get better at understanding spoken English as Andrew clearly explains each word’s meaning and usage.
* New vocabulary: Learn words and phrases tied to modern life and culture.
* Idioms and expressions: Pick up new expressions and learn how to use them into your own sentences.
* Cultural knowledge: Discover how language reflects what people care about today.
* Pronunciation: Listen closely to Andrew’s natural speech and copy him to practice sounding more fluent and confident.
* Speaking: 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)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 130 of the Culep's English podcast. How's it going?

0:07.5

My name's Andrew. I will be your host and your English study buddy for today. And here in our

0:13.1

bonus episode series, I just hang out with you and I chat with you and I tell you some stories

0:18.3

from my life. And I hope that by listening to these stories,

0:22.4

you will be able to Big Bee. That is our acronym. That is our motto for this series. It stands for

0:29.0

build your English fluency, increase your cultural knowledge, grow your vocabulary,

0:34.2

and become a better and clearer English communicator. So if those are some of your

0:39.2

goals with your English, then you're in the right place. And I'm going to try my best to help you

0:44.2

achieve those goals. Now for each and every episode in our bonus episode series, there is a 100%

0:51.5

absolutely free interactive transcript and a vocabulary glossary.

0:57.4

You can get those free tools just by clicking the link in the description for this episode.

1:02.1

And I hope you'll check them out.

1:03.9

I do think that they are very helpful tools and that you'll really find them useful when you are studying with this episode.

1:11.6

Plus, if you're a Culeps member, then you'll also get a comprehension quiz.

1:15.9

So you can take the quiz after you listen just to see how much of this episode you were able to understand.

1:22.4

And the quiz is nice because it highlights what you know and what you don't know.

1:27.0

And knowing what you don't know and knowing what you don't know

1:29.7

can actually be really useful when learning English. It means like, oh, I miss this part of the

1:35.6

episode. I should go back and listen to it again. I know that when I study Korean, the foreign

1:42.0

language that I'm learning, Sometimes I convince myself that I understand

1:47.2

something or that I know something, but then when I'm pushed about it, then I really find that I

1:53.0

can't explain it too well at all. And that is always humbling. But it's also useful because I know that it means that I have to go back and study

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