Simplified Speech #148 – Where did you grow up?

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🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Hometowns: everyone has one! In today’s Simplified Speech episode, hosts Andrew and Kassy talk about where they grew up. One of them grew up in Canada, and the other grew up in the United States. You will hear about the interesting similarities and differences the two have to share with you. Come and join them! Simplified Speech is a Culips series with easy to understand conversations designed to help beginner and intermediate English learners improve their listening skills. We have quality study guides and transcripts available for all Culips members. Fun facts In this episode, Kassy says her hometown of Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, was founded by a group from the Chautauqua movement. This movement toured hundreds of communities throughout the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in rural areas. Expressions included in the study guide Teeny-tiny Nowhere near Ghost town To flock Can’t believe [one’s] ears To add up To have a ring to it Remiss 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: Victor Clime (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone I'm Andrew and I'm Cassie and you're listening to the
0:06.6	Q-Lips English podcast. Welcome back to Q-ps. You're listening to simplified speech. The
0:17.4	Culeps series which features clear, natural and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
0:27.0	Today I am joined by my co-host Cassie.
0:31.0	Hello Cassie. Hello Cassie.
0:35.0	Hey Andrew and hi listeners. The topic for today's episode is
0:38.0	Where did you grow up?
0:40.0	Andrew and I are going to answer this question and chat about the neighborhoods where we grew up and what they were like.
0:48.0	Exactly. Now, this topic may sound a little familiar to some of our listeners because
0:56.0	Cassie and I recently covered it on our latest QLips member live stream.
1:02.0	So if you're out there and you are a QLips member and you missed
1:06.1	that live stream well then you can go and log on to your QLips account and watch the replay because we shared a lot of
1:15.6	pictures during that live stream video has the amazing power right we can share
1:21.2	images and words not just words like on the
1:25.1	podcast and I think sometimes pictures say a thousand words, right? That is the
1:30.8	expression, Cassie. Pictures say a thousand thousand words so if you're a Q-Lips member don't miss it go watch that replay
1:38.5	but Cassie our conversation was so fun during the live stream that I thought we could continue our chat here in an
1:45.9	episode of simplified speech and share some stories about where we grew up with the entire Culeps community.
1:55.0	Yeah, totally.
1:56.4	Let's do it.
1:57.4	But of course, before we get started,
2:00.2	I want to let everyone know that there is a study guide and a transcript that you can get for this
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