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Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast.

How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. It is a grey and rainy and wet day here in my part of the world. Horrible conditions,

but actually perfect conditions for sitting here and recording another episode of this podcast

for learners of English. And yes, that is the idea for this podcast, which you probably have

realized by now. The main aim here is to give you plenty of things to listen to, to help you do

loads of listening in English. And I want to let you listen to a variety of things.

Sometimes it's me talking on my own. Sometimes it's me talking with guests. It's

very important that you listen to a range of different voices, different people, native speakers,

non-native speakers, people using English. There's a big variety of English in the world. It's not

just native speakers. You know, millions of people all around the

world use English as the international language. So it's really important that you get to hear

lots of different voices speaking English in their own way. The more you're exposed to,

the better, I think. And a variety of different topics as well. Hopefully I can cover

various different things, different topics in these episodes. Today on the podcast, it's a

conversation episode, so you'll hear me in conversation with another guest. And today's guest

is Shivorn Dodd. I first met Shavorn fairly recently, actually, when I was on her podcast.

She does a podcast with a friend of mine called Alex. The show is called Following Through. I talked about it a few episodes ago. I mentioned that I've been on the podcast and then there was that tangent about the

phrasal verb to follow through and all the different meanings it has. So that's when I first

met Chivorn when I was on her podcast and I learned in that moment when I met her, I learned

that she is a sign language interpreter, which I think is fascinating.

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