Thank you for pressing play and joining me for an English study session today.

It's great to have you here.

My name's Andrew and this is a bonus episode of the Kuleips English podcast.

There's a completely free transcript that accompanies this episode and you can get it

just by visiting our website, Qulips.com, and clicking the bonus episode link from the podcast menu.

Or instead, you could just click the link that's in the description for this episode and get it that way. We kick off each week here at

QLips with a bonus episode where I share some stories about what's going on in my life

update you about what's happening behind the scenes here at

Kuleps and teach you a useful expression. And by learning with the bonus

episodes you'll be able to improve your fluency, your cultural knowledge, and even your communication skills.

And if you're looking for even more material to study with, we've got you covered too.

Don't worry. We have hundreds of lessons on our website,

and if you're a QLPS member,

you can even get the study guides for all of them as well,

and also support the work that we do here at Culeps.

Now, before I tell you about what I got up to this week,

I wanted to take just a moment here

to give a special shout out to all of our wonderful listeners from Iran. To be honest, our Iranian

listeners are some of the most passionate English learners that we have, despite

that it's actually pretty hard for Iranians to study with Kuleps.

So for those of you who don't know, our content is frequently blocked in Iran and because of the international sanctions that are in place,

it's extremely difficult for Iranians to become Qubips members and to get access to all of our study materials. Now unfortunately

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