What's up? How is it going? This is Bonus episode number 42 of the Culeps English

podcast. My name's Andrew and I'll be your host and your English study

companion today. Thanks for clicking play and joining me here. I think you made

a great choice to focus on improving your English skills and I'm going to do my best to

try and be of service in helping you reach that very important goal.

So in our Bonus episode series, I tell you a few stories about what I've been up to over the last week. And then towards the end of the

episode I'm going to focus in on one of the interesting expressions that you'll hear me use

while I'm telling my stories,

and then I'll teach you some more details about that expression

and how English speakers use it in our everyday lives.

There is a 100% free transcript that we've made to accompany this

episode and it's available on our website, QLips.com or you could just follow the link that's in the description, and the

transcript comes in an interactive version that's best for using if you study on your phone or

computer or there's a PDF version that's great

for printing out if you'd prefer to study in that analog kind of way. So please

feel free to follow along with the transcript as you listen to me today

if you think you'd find that helpful. And with that being said, I think it's time we get started,

so let's do it.

Spring is in the air.

It's right around the corner, and that means that it's the start of a lot of new things.

Soon the flowers will be blooming and the birds will be singing and the cold

temperatures of winter will say goodbye for another season.

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