Simplified Speech #131 – Squid Game

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Culips English Podcast

Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Language Learning

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Squid Game on Netflix is a Korean show that has become extremely popular around the world. In this episode, Andrew and Kassy talk about the show, sharing their thoughts on the plot, story, and characters. If you liked Squid Game or are thinking about watching it, you shouldn’t miss this Simplified Speech episode! Simplified Speech episodes feature two native English speakers having clear, natural, and easy-to-understand conversations about interesting topics, like popular TV shows. This helps improve your English listening skills and, by listening, helps you speak English naturally. Fun facts The oversized doll from the first episode of the show is real. It now resides in Jincheon County, 3 hours north of Seoul, where it guards the entrance of a horse carriage museum called Macha Land. There is even a smaller, 10-foot replica in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Expressions included in the study guide Spoilers To be invested in [someone] Take the world by storm Zero-sum game Late-stage capitalism To have [one’s] moment Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Photo Credit: Jonas Augustin (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew.
0:05.0	And I'm Kathy.
0:07.0	And this is the Kuleps English podcast.
0:16.5	Hello everyone, welcome back to Q-Lips you're listening to simplified speech which is the Q-Lips series that features clear natural and
0:21.7	easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
0:26.8	And today I'm joined by my co-host, Cassie.
0:29.8	Hey there, Cassie.
0:30.8	Hey there, Andrew, and hello everyone. So Andrew, what's up? How's it going? Well,
0:36.6	Cassie, to be perfectly honest with you, I am feeling a little bit sleepy today.
0:41.6	Ah, that's a bummer.
0:44.2	Did you get a bad night of sleep last night or something?
0:47.1	Well, not exactly that, but I stayed up late last night
0:51.9	and marathoned the last few episodes of
0:55.4	squid game. Cassie did you watch this TV show squid game?
0:59.4	Yeah it's so good I actually stayed up late last week watching it.
1:07.1	Well then that's perfect Cassie because we got a message from one of our listeners from South Korea and his name is Steve who left us a review and a five-star
1:17.6	rating on Apple Podcasts and in the review Steve requested that we talk about Squid Game and since we've both seen
1:26.2	this show and since it's a number one hit around the world it's the most popular series on Netflix at the time that we're recording this episode
1:36.9	Cassie. I thought we could talk about Squid Game here today.
1:41.7	Cool.
1:43.0	Yeah, let's do it.
1:44.0	Sounds like an amazing topic, but before we start our conversation, Andrew, I want to let everyone
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