Simplified Speech #215 – Indiana’s operation

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you’ll hear Andrew and Indiana talk about Indiana’s recent surgery and recovery. They use real-life English to discuss medical vocabulary, including words like “cartilage” and “labrum,” and explain how to describe pain and injuries. Indiana shares her experience of getting a diagnosis, deciding on surgery, and going through recovery. This is a great opportunity for you to learn medical terms in context, improve your listening skills, and hear how native speakers talk about health and personal experiences.

How this episode will improve your English:

* Vocabulary: Learn useful medical terms like cartilage, anesthesia, and physical therapy to talk about injuries and treatments.
* Listening: Train your ears to understand natural English as Andrew and Indiana discuss healthcare, pain management, and exercise.
* Speaking: Build confidence by joining small-group English classes by practicing how to talk about personal experiences, ask about someone’s health, and describe medical issues.
* Culture: Compare different healthcare systems and understand how medical treatments work in different countries.
* Fluency: Exposure to real conversations will help you think in English and express yourself more easily.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. How is it going? My name's Andrew, and it's great to be back here with you for another
0:05.9	edition of simplified speech. Simplified speech is the Cubell series, which features clear,
0:12.2	natural, and easy to understand English conversations between native speakers. Today, in this episode,
0:19.7	I'll be joined by my co-host, Indiana, in just a moment, and we're
0:24.2	going to talk about a bit of a difficult topic today, to be honest with you guys. I think this
0:30.2	is kind of pushing the boundaries of simplified speech. We're getting into a little bit of a
0:36.5	tricky topic, but don't worry, we're going to do
0:39.2	our best to explain this topic as we go through it along the way. And of course, there will be a helpful
0:45.3	study guide available for this episode as well. And our topic for today is about an operation
0:52.4	that Indiana had recently. Now, as a runner, this is one of my worst
0:58.3	nightmares. Indiana is also a runner, and she recently, over the last year or so, was injured
1:05.3	while running. Actually, it wasn't a running injury per se, but it started and she noticed it because of running.
1:13.5	And so this injury was something that was very, very painful to her and could only be fixed by having surgery.
1:21.3	So she's going to join us here in a minute.
1:24.1	And she's going to tell us about the whole story, about how she was injured, about her
1:29.3	surgery and going to the hospital, about the recovery and rehabilitation process post-surgery,
1:36.7	and also she's going to tell us a little bit about the health care system and the medical
1:41.0	insurance system in the USA. So as I said, it's a little bit of a difficult topic for today, but I think you can do it.
1:49.4	And as I mentioned, there's a helpful study guide for all CULIPS members to accompany this episode.
1:55.5	And also, guys, don't feel ashamed ever if you need to listen to an episode more than once it's not like you have to listen
2:03.0	only one time and then perfectly understand everything nobody can do this when they're learning a
2:09.1	language in fact repetition is extremely helpful when we're learning english and building our
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