Bonus episode #157 – Universal translator

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What if you could speak with anyone, in any language, in real time? In this bonus episode, Andrew explores that idea with a clear, step-by-step look at live translation. He reads a news article and explains the key ideas and terms in easy to understand English, showing how Apple, Google, and Meta are pursuing the “universal translator” and what it could mean for travel, work, and daily life.

What you’ll learn

* Meanings of “universal translator,” “seamlessly,” “coherent,” and “simultaneously”
* Tech vocabulary like “selling point,” “battleground,” “purpose built,” and “friction”
* Useful expressions such as “usher in,” “spurred by,” “paired with,” and “home field advantage”

How it will improve your English

* You expand your vocabulary with clear definitions and natural examples from the article
* You understand complex sentences because Andrew pauses to explain key lines in plain English
* You can review and reinforce with the interactive transcript and glossary, and members can take a short quiz

Important links:

* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group speaking class schedule
* Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science fiction gadget: The universal translator

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Culep's English podcast. How's it going? My name is Andrew. I will be your
0:05.9	host and your English study buddy for today. And today we are going to study with another news article.
0:13.4	We learned with a news article around a month ago, maybe a little bit over a month ago. And I asked
0:20.3	you guys if you would like to do
0:22.1	this on a somewhat regular basis where we do a deep dive into a news article together.
0:28.5	And the response was very positive. And many people said that they would like to do this again.
0:33.6	And so here we are. I've prepared another article for you. In fact, I didn't really do any preparation.
0:39.5	The article that we're going to read is completely 100% the same that you can find on the website.
0:45.3	It's an article by a writer named Keith Leswing. And so I'm going to put the link to this article in the description for this episode.
0:53.9	So you can go to the website and see it for yourself.
0:56.5	It's a 100% unedited or unchanged document.
1:01.6	And the plan here for this episode today is that we are going to read through the article together.
1:06.8	I will read it to you so you can hear my lovely voice and my perfect pronunciation.
1:12.2	And then I will break down and explain some of the difficult or useful English vocabulary
1:17.2	that we will encounter in this article together.
1:21.5	And so for our last article study, we actually read about a murder case.
1:27.4	And we've got something completely different for you today.
1:30.2	This is a tech and AI related article and it's about live translation, live translation. So this is a new
1:39.4	technology that's coming about and it's really starting to hit the market in a big way now.
1:44.7	And so this article is all about that.
1:46.9	And I think it's relevant to us as language learners.
1:50.5	You're learning English.
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