Bonus episode #137 – The adventure before the adventure
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
How this episode will improve your English:
* Listening: Hear natural English as Andrew describes a real-life story with excitement and detail. Pay attention to how he tells the story and expresses emotions.
* New vocabulary: Learn useful words and phrases related to travel, problem-solving, and making quick decisions, like get the wheels in motion and rifling through.
* Idioms and expressions: Discover expressions like go with the flow and in the midst of and see how they make storytelling more engaging.
* Pronunciation: Listen to how Andrew changes his speed and tone to create suspense and keep the story interesting.
* Speaking: Join our Culips Discord community and share a time when you had to deal with an unexpected situation. Practice using the new words and expressions in your own sentences!
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 | Hey everyone, welcome to bonus episode number 138 of the Culep's English podcast. How is it going? |
| 0:07.7 | I hope you're doing well. My name's Andrew and I'm happy to be back here with you for another episode. |
| 0:13.3 | If you're new to our bonus series, let me quickly explain what it's all about. So in this series, |
| 0:18.5 | I tell you some stories from my everyday life. I'm a Canadian guy, |
| 0:22.2 | but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea. And I hope that by listening to these stories, |
| 0:26.9 | you will be able to improve your English fluency. That's what it's all about. We're here. We're |
| 0:32.7 | spending some time today listening to English so we can improve our fluency, build our vocabulary, |
| 0:39.3 | learn about the culture of English speaking people, and ultimately become better communicators. |
| 0:45.0 | So to accompany this episode, there's an absolutely free interactive transcript and vocabulary |
| 0:50.3 | glossary. You can get that just by clicking link that will put in the description for |
| 0:55.1 | this episode. And if you are a Culeps member, then we're also going to throw in a comprehension |
| 1:01.0 | quiz and add free audio. Now's a great time to become a Culeps member if you're not already. In |
| 1:08.1 | addition to those bonuses that I just told you about, you'll get so |
| 1:11.5 | much more, including our Fluency Files series, our weekly speaking classes, our helpful study |
| 1:17.6 | guides and interactive transcripts for all of our lessons, plus add free audio and extra bonuses |
| 1:24.0 | as well. |
| 1:25.1 | It's a great day to sign up and become a Culeps member and support the work |
| 1:28.8 | that we do here at Culeps. To do that, just visit our website, Culips.com. |
| 1:35.8 | Okay, so let's get into this week's story, guys. I've got a fun one for you, I think. And to tell |
| 1:42.0 | you the truth, it's a little bit embarrassing for me to share this story with you |
| 1:45.8 | because it's about me being a little bit irresponsible. But in the end, everything worked out. |
| 1:52.5 | Okay. So I won't spoil any of the details. Let's get started right now. Here we go. |
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