Hello, thanks for listening to the Learning English Conversations podcast.

This next episode is part of our music series, My Song, My Home,

where we meet a musician who tells us about their hometown and plays a song for us.

It's a great way to practice listening to real English speakers,

and you'll learn lots of English expressions

from the music in the programme.

We hope you enjoy it.

So I learnt my first proper song on guitar when I was about 13.

I literally started busking at the moment I could kind of do that.

This is Josh, a musician based in London.

Josh is a busker, someone who performs songs in public places like street corners and train stations.

And yeah, I guess I was really nervous when I first started, just because I thought people

think I'd be weird, just setting up in a random spot. But it was fine and I really enjoyed it.

And I just played one song on repeat because it was the only song I knew how to play.

Welcome to My Song, My Home from BBC Learning English.

In this series, we meet musicians around the UK and learn some English from their songs.

Today, Josh will tell us about busking and starting a music career in London and perform

one of his songs at the BBC.

Listen to the end to learn vocabulary from his song

and find a transcript for this episode to read along on our website,

BBC learning English.com.

I take it on myself.

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