Welcome to the Rachel's English Podcast. I hope that by listening to this podcast, you will increase your listening comprehension for Americans and you will also speak better American English.

If you would like a free transcript of this podcast, please visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and look for this episode. In today's episode,

we're just going to be having conversation. And as we are speaking naturally about things,

we're going to try to identify all of the interesting idioms, phrasal verbs, weird vocabulary

words that we're using. And we'll stop and we'll define them. And the idea

about doing this is that when we catch how we use these kinds of phrases and words in

natural conversation, then we can start to better understand how they're used. It also just

helps provide context for what you're hearing.

Sometimes when you hear an idiom in context, it's a lot easier to understand what it means than when you're just learning definitions.

So David and I have each put together a couple of questions that we're going to ask each other to get this conversation going.

David, I'll start.

Okay. So my question for you is,

what are some of the great things about living in Philadelphia? Oh, yeah. Well, as you know,

I've lived here for a long time since 2001. And there's a couple things that I really love.

It's an old city, and so it's really love. It's an old city.

And so it's very dense.

It's walkable, meaning that in comparison to some other American cities where there's more sprawl and things are spread out and are a lot more car dependent.

In Philadelphia, it's really easy to walk to a lot of different things.

Sprawl. That's a great vocabulary word. a lot of different things. Sprawl.

That's a great vocabulary word.

That is a good one.

Sprawl is, yeah, when things are spread out, oh, we talk about urban sprawl sometimes.

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