Chatterbox #343 – Goodbye 2025

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🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the last Chatterbox episode of 2025, you’ll listen to Andrew and Anna look back on the year with 15 fun reflection questions. You will hear them talk about surprising news, happy moments, new habits, travel stories, things they bought, and upcoming goals for 2026. Their conversation is relaxed and full of real, everyday English, so you can learn how native speakers look back on the past year and share personal experiences.

What you will learn in this episode:

How to talk about your year in English, including highs, lows, and things you did not expect
Useful phrases for giving opinions, agreeing, and reacting with surprise or humor
Natural ways to talk about habits, goals, and plans for the new year

This episode is perfect for you if:

You want to learn natural ways to talk about goals and habits, including routines that fell apart and new habits you want to keep
You want to practice English for small talk topics that come up a lot, like travel, food, buying things, trends, and social media
You want ideas and language you can use as inspiration to talk about your own 2025 and your plans for 2026 with friends or coworkers

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Culeps. You're listening to Chatterbox, the series where we have
0:06.2	completely natural, unedited conversations between native speakers, and this series is designed
0:12.6	for intermediate and advanced English learners. So if you are one of those people, then you're
0:18.5	in the right place, and I think you'll enjoy our conversation.
0:21.6	My name, of course, is Andrew.
0:23.3	And today I'll be joined by my co-host, Anna, and we are going to do a massive year-in-review-style
0:30.4	episode.
0:31.1	We have 15 rapid fire questions to talk about, and we're going to cover everything from
0:37.0	surprises that definitely weren't on our
0:39.5	2025 bingo cards to our biggest goals for the year ahead. It's going to be a fun conversation,
0:45.9	and we'll get started with it in just a sec. But before we do, I want to give you a heads-up
0:51.3	about something huge that's coming your way. I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
0:56.1	In just a few days here, our 2026 New Year sale is starting.
1:01.3	If one of your resolutions for 2026 is to improve your English and hit the next level,
1:06.9	then you'll want to be ready for this.
1:09.1	For the first two weeks of January, 2026, we'll be offering a 25% discount for yearly
1:16.2	memberships or membership renewals.
1:19.2	It's our only sale of the year, and it's the best way to get full access to our
1:23.9	interactive transcripts, our helpful study guides, our speaking classes, and all the tools
1:29.4	that you need to succeed at English for a super affordable price. So make a note in your calendars
1:35.7	and get ready to grab that discount as soon as the sale goes live. Okay, and now let's get
1:42.2	started with this episode. Here's my conversation with Anna. Enjoy.
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