Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie. And this is the

Qulips English podcast. Hello friends. Welcome back to Kuleps. This is Catch Word, the series for

intermediate and advanced English learners where we teach you idioms, phrasoverbs, and expressions that will help improve your English listening and speaking.

Today I'm joined by my co-host Cassie and she'll be helping me with this lesson.

Hey there Cassie!

Hey Andrew and hi listeners.

So guys, today we're going to teach you a couple of expressions that you can use to talk about people who

always seem to be one step ahead of everyone else. They know about the latest trends,

fads, or news before anyone else does. I know a few people like this.

Andrew, how about you? Yes, yeah, I definitely do. I have a buddy who knows a lot about like cool indie bands and underground movies that kind of thing

so he's really good at finding these artists way before everyone else does and he's a great guy to get music

recommendations from because he always knows about the cool new music.

Ah, those are great friends to have. My sister is like that. Well, everyone, we'll get started with this episode in just a moment, but before we do, we want to let you know that there is a transcript and study guide for this episode available to all

QLips members. We've designed the practice exercises that are in the guide specifically to teach you the important parts of this lesson that will help build your English fluency and help your English sound natural.

To learn about all the details and to become a Q-L-I-P-E-L-I-P-S-C-E-E-P-S-C-E-E-P-S-C-E-E-P-S-C-E-E-P-S-T-C-E-E-S-TI-S-T I also want to read an Instagram message that we got this week from one of our listeners named

Kristiano because I thought his message was really awesome and very inspiring.

The message was a little bit long, Cassie, so I'm just going to pick some of the

highlights out here and share it with everyone.

So, Kristiano wrote, I started listening to your podcast in December 2019 when I moved from Italy to Ireland.

My English was totally zero for the first two weeks and it was super hard. I cried every day because I couldn't

understand a word. A year later I moved to England and since 2019 I've been

listening to your podcast every day without missing a single episode.

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