Chatterbox #336 – Talking about our sense of sight

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Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Do you rely on your eyes more than your other senses? In this episode, you’ll hear a real conversation between Andrew and Anna about vision, eyesight, and learning styles. You’ll find out why Andrew wears an eye mask at night, what Anna would do in a zombie apocalypse without her contact lenses, and whether either of them would get laser eye surgery.

If you’re at the upper intermediate level, this is the perfect episode to build your English confidence. You’ll learn natural ways to describe habits, talk about effort, and express strong opinions, all with real vocabulary that native speakers use every day.

In this episode, you will learn:

Learn six natural expressions and idioms, including break the bank, seep through, and hardwired to, with clear context and usage.

Hear a real conversation about eyesight, contact lenses, and laser surgery to build vocabulary related to health and the senses.

Understand how to describe learning preferences, especially visual learning, using everyday English.

Discover how to talk about memory techniques like the “memory palace” and share opinions about study habits.

Practice listening to spontaneous, fluent English with common sentence patterns, filler words, and real-life storytelling.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another Chatterbox episode here at Culeps.
0:05.7	Chatterbox is the series for intermediate to advanced English learners that features
0:10.0	interesting conversations between native speakers that are designed to improve your English
0:16.1	listening and speaking fluency. Today, Anna and I are going to continue our series about the senses.
0:23.4	We've talked about hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling in previous chatterbox episodes.
0:29.9	And today, we are going to talk about seeing and our sense of sight.
0:35.3	So we'll get started with this conversation in just a moment.
0:38.7	But before we do, I want to let you guys know that there is a helpful study guide and an
0:42.9	interactive transcript to accompany this episode.
0:46.2	It's a great way to get the most out of listening to this episode is studying with the
0:50.8	guide.
0:51.6	Inside the guide, there is a quiz, there are discussion questions that you
0:55.8	can use for speaking practice or journaling practice. There are detailed explanations and
1:01.3	breakdowns and examples of some of the key vocabulary that you'll hear Anna and hear me use and much,
1:08.3	much more. So to get the guide, you do need to be a Culeps member.
1:12.3	You can visit our website, culeps.com, and sign up and become a member today.
1:17.0	And you get so many other benefits and bonuses as a member as well.
1:20.6	I won't list them off here, but you can check those out on our website.
1:25.1	And thank you to all of the members out there for your support. Guys,
1:28.6	Culeps wouldn't exist without you. So thank you so, so much. Okay, Anna, welcome. I should say
1:35.0	hello, by the way. Hey, Anna, how's it going? Welcome to the show. Hello, Andrew. I'm very well.
1:40.1	How are you? I'm doing really well, Anna. And I think that this episode is a very, very timely episode talking about our sense of sight
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