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Bonus episode #091 – Little penguins

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8968 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Andrew talks about his recent trip to Australia. He shares stories from his time in Melbourne and about some wildlife encounters he experienced on Phillip Island. He also talks about returning to a snowstorm back home in Seoul. Andrew’s stories are fun, easy to follow, and full of everyday English words and expressions. Listening to them is like hanging out with an English-speaking friend. It will help you: Hear and understand English as it's really spoken Learn new words used in everyday life Discover fun facts about English-speaking cultures Study with the interactive transcript: click here Join the Culips Discord server: click here Become a Culips member: click here

Transcript

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0:00.0

What a week it has been? I'm finally back in Seoul. If you've been listening to the last few bonus episodes here on

0:07.1

Kuleps, you'll know that my wife and I have been away for the last several weeks in Australia but we're finally back here in

0:16.4

Seoul it was an amazing trip an amazing time away most of the time like I said in Australia but we also spent a very brief stint in Singapore as well.

0:28.1

On our way home we flew out of Melbourne and then we stopped over in Singapore for two days a brief stint there and

0:36.6

that word stint is a good one to add to your vocabulary if you don't know it already

0:41.5

which is why I repeated it there for you.

0:44.0

Stint means a brief period of time.

0:48.0

The spelling of the word is STI N T.

0:51.0

And let's see if I can make an example sentence for you off the top of my head.

0:56.6

You could say something like, when I was a college student, I worked at a restaurant as a dishwasher for a brief stint and yeah so

1:06.4

stint in that context as well means a short period of time so we had that short

1:11.6

stint in Singapore and now we're back in Seoul where our home base is.

1:17.2

And it's been an adjustment traveling all that distance for one and also going from travel mode into regular life mode again.

1:28.3

You know you have to unpack your bags and reorganize your life and start everything up again and that's always an adjustment.

1:38.0

There's also been a big weather adjustment because in Melbourne and in Australia, of course that's in the southern hemisphere

1:45.6

so it is summertime down there so the weather is very warm and pleasant perfect

1:52.0

weather to be honest with you while we were in Australia.

1:55.4

There were only a few days where it was extremely hot and there were maybe just a couple of

2:01.6

days where it was a little bit chilly and rainy but for the

2:06.1

vast majority like 90% of the time it was just perfect weather not too hot not

2:12.0

chilly and just amazing. So the weather was perfect in Australia for the most part. Of course, in Singapore, it's wintertime there, there in the northern hemisphere, but it's wintertime there there in the northern hemisphere but it's extremely hot

2:25.4

it was really hot in Singapore so it felt like summer even though it's technically

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