Hello, everybody. You're listening to the Earful Tower. My name's Oliver G. And boy, oh boy,

do we have a good episode today. I'm very fortunate, indeed. I've been getting emails recently

from people saying, gosh, Oliver, I want some tips on shopping. And you know what I respond to

those people? I respond, well, I can't help you there. I'm no expert. And then I realized they were

looking for me to get a guest on who could give them tips about shopping. And I racked my

brains, racked my brains. And then I thought, hang on, I know just the woman. And that woman is in

the studio today. She is the head of Dersium Studios, a shoe brand that you can find on the, well, literally

as you walk into the Pantam department store, her shoes are right there in the door.

I'm very excited to have her in the studio and even better still, she's my wife.

Her name is Lena.

She's in the background laughing.

I can hear her.

Lena Norden, Lena Norden, G, you might even say.

And she's going to walk us through everything you need to know about shopping,

where to shop, how to shop, tips, tricks, names of shop,

everything that you need to know.

And that's what we're going to do.

So, I'm going to get started on that in a sec.

But first, I want to say this show is brought to you by French Today. French Today, their audiobooks to help you learn the language of love.

And if you go on Frenchtiday.com slash Earful 9, you will get an around at the end of the episode, I'm going to go

right into one of their audiobooks. I'm going to try and convince Lena to hang around and we're

going to walk through a few words specifically related to shopping and see if we can pronounce them

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