Chatterbox #341 – Talking about frustration
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, you will learn how frustration is different from anger and disappointment, hear real stories you can relate to, and pick up useful expressions like “at the end of my rope,” “bang my head against a wall,” and “it has been one of those days.” You will also train your ear to understand fast, everyday English and get ideas for how to describe your own feelings more accurately.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt so frustrated that you wanted to throw your phone or your laptop out the window? |
| 0:06.4 | If you have, you're not alone. |
| 0:08.7 | In today's lesson, we're going to help you put that feeling into words in English. |
| 0:13.7 | Hey guys, it's Andrew here. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to Chatterbox from Culeps. |
| 0:17.5 | Chatterbox is our series for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to go beyond |
| 0:22.8 | textbooks, listen to real natural conversations, and sound more confident when they speak English. |
| 0:29.5 | So if that's you, you're in the right place. |
| 0:32.1 | Today, Anna, my co-host and I are going to talk all about frustration. |
| 0:37.2 | We look at what frustration actually |
| 0:39.3 | is, the difference between two different kinds of frustration, internal and external, |
| 0:45.6 | and how it connects with other emotions like anger, disappointment, and regret. And we'll talk about |
| 0:52.9 | how we deal with frustrating situations in our own lives. |
| 0:56.6 | And towards the end, we'll also teach you several useful expressions that you can use in your |
| 1:02.0 | English speaking next time you feel frustrated. If you're a Q-Lips member, you can really level |
| 1:08.2 | up your English by using the study materials for this episode. |
| 1:12.2 | First, listen to the episode once without reading. |
| 1:15.6 | Then listen again with the interactive transcript and check any parts that you missed. |
| 1:20.7 | After that, you can review the vocabulary explanations, do the quiz, and then try the speaking |
| 1:26.3 | and writing practice activities. Following these steps will |
| 1:30.0 | help you remember everything really well and actually use it in your own life. You can also join the |
| 1:36.7 | live speaking classes to talk about this episode with one of our awesome Culeps teachers and other |
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