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Hello there, How are you? I hope you're well. I hope you're fine. I hope you're in

great condition. In this fairly short episode, basically I'd like to tell you about transcripts and to invite

you to take part in a transcript writing collaboration which I've set up using Google

Documents okay I have many which I've set up using Google Documents.

Okay? I have many different types of listeners to the podcast

with many different levels of English.

Some of you like to just listen and sort of pick up language that way.

Others like to be able to read what I'm saying as well.

For them, being able to read a transcript is really useful.

I know how important it is. You can read new words that you don't

understand. It helps to bridge the gap between spelling and pronunciation and so on. The

problem is that I don't usually transcribe my episodes before I record

them. This is because I prefer to keep my speaking natural and authentic. I'm trying to train your ear to hear real English as it's spoken.

So if I'm reading from a script it's not quite the same kind of English. In fact I'm doing it now. I'm

reading from a script now and you can probably tell it somehow doesn't feel as

normal and as natural.

In some of my episodes, like perhaps this one, I do write a script first, but that's just

because for those particular episodes I need to do more careful research or more careful preparation in order to plan my words carefully.

All right?

But for the vast majority of episodes of Luke's English podcast, they're not written in advance. I just speak naturally.

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