Simplified Speech #136 – How was your 2021?

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For some, 2021 was a lot better than 2020. However, that is not the case for everyone. We’re all still dealing with the COVID pandemic. In this episode, the Culips team looks back at some of the highs and lows of the last year. Simplified Speech is a series meant for intermediate English language learners. This series is designed to help you improve your English skills with interesting and easy to listen to episodes. Fun facts The COVID pandemic has disrupted the entire world. Future generations might not fully understand what we went through. On the lighter side, years from now, they might be asking us why the Tokyo 2020 Olympics took place in 2021! Expressions included in the study guide To recentre To babble A fairy-tale [something] Daunting A win Trouper 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: Clay Banks (Unsplash.com) Links Andrew mentions in this episode: Culips December Live Stream Anna with 2Ns

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone it's Andrew here and you're listening to the
0:07.5	Qulips English podcast. How's it going,
0:15.0	it going listeners, welcome back to Culeps.
0:20.0	This is a simplified speech episode,
0:22.0	and if you're new to Culeps or don't know what simplified speech is let me explain
0:27.8	Simplified speech is the Qup series for intermediate level English learners that features clear and
0:34.7	understandable conversations between native speakers and we design
0:39.2	simplified speech episodes to help you build your English skills and develop fluency faster.
0:47.6	So I'm kind of alone for today's episode.
0:51.8	Kind of. We'll be hearing from the other
0:54.3	Qup's hosts as we go along, but for now I'll talk to you directly. It's only me.
1:01.3	The topic of this episode is 2021 and the plan is to take a look back at this year.
1:09.6	The end of the year is a great time for introspection and gives us an excellent opportunity to reflect,
1:17.2	reenter, and motivate ourselves to achieve our goals and live our best life in the upcoming year ahead. So guys this will be
1:27.1	the last episode of the year and what a busy year it's been here at Culeps. We released over 75 regular episodes this year,
1:37.5	plus many Fluency Files episodes as well. Fluency Files is our series that's exclusive for Kuleps members.
1:46.2	So if you're not a Kuleps member, maybe you haven't heard them, but we also released
1:51.4	a lot of those bonus episodes also. And on top of all that,
1:55.8	Cassie and I also hosted monthly live streams every month this year,
2:01.3	and it was great to hang out and interact with a lot of you who viewed
2:05.7	and participated in the live streams. We also did a lot of tweaks and upgrades to our website. We launched a bunch of new features like a
2:15.9	comment section, a discussion form, and we're just about to release a brand new interactive transcripts feature as well that will make
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