Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the

Culeps English podcast. cast.

Welcome back to Culeps. You're listening to Chatterbox. Our series for intermediate and advanced English learners that features natural unedited

conversations between native speakers about compelling topics or trending current events or even hot issues.

And today I'm joined by my co-host Anna.

Hello Anna.

Hi Andrew and hello to all the listeners as well

thanks for joining us for an English study session today

how's it going Andrew

what's our topic going to be today

the topic for today's episode is brain drain and we'll get into what that means exactly in just a moment, but as a little spoiler, essentially brain drain occurs when the smartest and the most talented workers in

your country leave to go to greener pastures and as a result it means that you lose the best and the brightest your country has to offer

well at the same time some other country gains the best and the brightest that your country has to offer. I love that

expression you just use there and you actually to to leave for greener pastures.

That's an idiom guys and it means to leave for a more promising or better situation right Andrew

Yeah, that's exactly right the word pasture means well, it's like a field of grass, you know, where animals can graze, where animals

can eat grass. And so you could imagine cows or sheep eating grass in a field, and we'd call that field a pasture. And so just like a

farmer wants to find the best food for his animals, people in life we want to find the best resources for us as well, right?

And so that means that sometimes people leave their home country to go look for the best opportunities that are available to them.

And that's the brain drain in a nutshell,

and we'll be talking more about that in just a moment, everyone,

but before we do, we want to let you know that there is a study

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