Bonus episode #144 – A Little Bit of Everything
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
How this episode will improve your English:
* Listening: Improve your listening by following a natural, unscripted story told in clear, easy-to-understand English.
* New vocabulary: Learn words and phrases related to language learning, technology mistakes, and home improvement.
* Idioms and expressions: Hear everyday English expressions like “work your magic,” “wasn’t meant to be,” “doom scrolling,” “DIY,” and “know a thing or two.”
* Pronunciation: Listening to real spoken English helps you get used to natural sounds and rhythm. This makes it easier for you to speak clearly and with better pronunciation.
* Speaking: Join our Culips Discord community and practice using new words and expressions in your own sentences!
Important links:
* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group speaking class schedule
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 144 of the Culeups English podcast. How's it going? My name's |
| 0:07.5 | Andrew. I'm your Canadian English study buddy and it's great to be here with you for another week and |
| 0:13.8 | another bonus episode. If you're new to the series, let me quickly explain what it's all about. |
| 0:19.5 | As I mentioned, I'm Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea. |
| 0:23.6 | And what I do each and every week here is just tell you some stories from my everyday life. |
| 0:29.0 | The idea is that you're going to spend some time with me and we're going to hang out and speak English, |
| 0:34.2 | just as if I were your friend in real life telling you about some updates about my life. |
| 0:39.9 | Through listening to my stories, you'll be able to hear and learn natural vocabulary, |
| 0:45.1 | natural expressions, and improve your English listening fluency, which eventually then will |
| 0:51.2 | translate to thinking in English and speaking more natural English as well. |
| 0:56.5 | All of these stories are totally unscripted. I do have my notebook here with some notes to help me |
| 1:02.4 | so that I can remember some interesting things to tell you guys, but I don't write a script. |
| 1:07.2 | Okay, everything just comes out of my head in a natural way and you're going to be listening |
| 1:12.9 | to natural English in this series. So if you're down for that, if you're up for that, |
| 1:17.8 | these are two expressions that we can use to say like, I want to do it. So if you're down for it or |
| 1:23.1 | if you're up for it, it's kind of weird how we have those two expressions that mean the same thing |
| 1:27.3 | with opposite directions, but that's just the way English works. up for it. It's kind of weird how we have those two expressions that mean the same thing with |
| 1:27.8 | opposite directions, but that's just the way English works sometimes. If you're down for it, |
| 1:34.0 | if you're up for it, then let's continue on. And to accompany each and every episode, there is |
| 1:39.3 | an interactive transcript and a vocabulary glossary that is free, 100% free for everyone. You can get it |
| 1:46.6 | just by clicking the link in the description for this episode. Plus, if you're a Culeps member, |
| 1:52.6 | and I have to say thank you to all the Culeps members out there, guys. We really, really appreciate |
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