Hello Sunshine, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory and we are the host of the IEL Speaking for Success podcast.

The podcast themes to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.

We started this podcast because I want you to use high-level words and gorgeous grammar in your

IEL speaking and in your English life.

Rory, tell me, what did you do at the weekend?

I was in the Russian countryside, or at least what passes for it.

I went to Dom Jedava.

It's a small town outside of Moscow.

Let's talk about the countryside, shall we?

Yeah, it's a nice coincidence, isn't it?

Almost like I manufactured the whole thing.

Rory, do you like going to the countryside?

I love it.

The fresh air, the lack of pollution, the people I'm with, like everything fills me with

satisfaction. It's cool. Although I'm glad I

only do it every now and then because I would lose all sense of being productive and just chill there

all the time. How often do you visit the countryside? Just enough to stop myself from being

burned out by the city life I currently have. I think when I go back, I'll be doing it more often,

though, since I want to

reconnect with nature and the people in my life. And the countryside seems to be the ideal

place to do that. Who do you visit in the countryside? Well, now I visit my friends. They have

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