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All right, let's get started with the podcast.

As I mentioned last time, as I said last time,

I have a new format, a new style for my podcast.

One podcast, One episode will be about slang, just some easy slang,

and the next one will be a more serious topic about learning English and then the next one's slang the next one learning English

So an easy one and maybe more difficult easy than difficult may be more funny more serious funny, more serious. All right, so today it's a serious topic.

Okay, today we're going to talk about social and cultural effects on learning English.

Whoa, what does that mean?

Okay, cultural, first of all let's talk about culture, culture and learning English.

Culture is very important if you're learning English. Culture is very important.

If you're learning English, you need to learn something about the cultures of the countries

where English is spoken, where it's a native language especially.

So what does that mean?

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