Hi everybody, this is Hoel Sarate.

In this brief message, I want to let you know that I am taking a break until the end of

August or the first week of September.

I usually take June and July off to spend time with family and friends and prepare new

episodes across the podcast. However, this year, 2024, at the end of July, I'm

having a surgery and I might need a couple of weeks to get things ready for it and a few weeks to recover.

I suffer from a rare ear illness and the surgery is hopefully going to help me with that.

But I might need physical therapy after that, so I'm giving myself enough time to recover.

I also suffer from a condition called chronic tenitis, which is a ringing sound that I permanently hear. According to the

American Tenitis Association, about 10% of adult Americans suffer from some

level of tenitis from very mild to very severe endobility. Mine is very loud and affects my short-term memory, my ability to focus and concentrate

and it is like being sleep deprived permanently.

And the reason why I am sharing this with you guys is because some of you have emailed

me or message me to tell me about errors I made like forgetting to leave the link to a transcript

on a given episode or having an incorrect link and taking you to a different transcript that corresponds

to another episode. Some misspellings and little things like that that some of you have found.

So if you find mistakes like that, please let me know and I'll fix it with your help.

I can iron out those mistakes and I do appreciate when you tell me and help me to polish

what I create for you to learn Spanish. Now, since the podcast keep growing,

I'm getting more and more messages and emails,

and I don't have a team to help me to manage all of that.

So if you contact me, I might not be able to respond

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