Hey everyone, my name is Andrew and you're listening to a bonus episode of the Culeps English

podcast. Thanks for joining me for an English study session. It's awesome to have you here and I hope you're doing well.

If this is your first time checking out Kuleps, welcome. I'm a Canadian

English teacher who lives in South Korea and at Kuleps my team and I we make

audio lessons for intermediate and advanced learners and our philosophy here at

Kuleps is that we believe that to become a really high-level English speaker,

that you need to do hundreds, if not thousands of hours of listening practice.

So our goal is to make that process as enjoyable as possible for you

by making interesting lessons that are just fun to listen to,

so that you're studying and learning with us

without it really having to feel

like you're studying and purposefully learning something.

A question I get asked often is, what does QLips mean?

It's kind of a funny word, right?

It's actually a word that is a blend of two other words. Those words are culture and lips. So culture and lips,

Q-lips. And this word represents what we teach in our lessons. The Lips part stands for

communication and speaking, and that's why our lessons are focused on teaching you the English that you need to know to be an excellent communicator.

And the CU part of QLips, that stands for culture which is our other goal to teach you about the

culture of English-speaking people and English-speaking countries. Now in each

bonus episode I share a story or two about what's going on in my life and I also teach you a useful expression that's great to add to your vocabulary. There's a transcript for this episode that's

available free for everyone and you can download it as a PDF file that's perfect for printing, or you can view the online version, which works

best for computers and tablets and smartphones.

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