Simplified Speech #150 – Have you ever been obsessed with something?

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There are things that we like, and then there are things we really obsess over! But watch out: you don’t want your obsession to turn into an addiction. In this Simplified Speech episode, hosts Andrew and Kassy explore expressions dealing with our obsessions. Simplified Speech is a series featuring easy and natural English conversations. Both beginner and intermediate language learners can benefit from this series. So be sure to go through our full catalogue online! Fun facts As our hosts mention in this episode, Obsession is also the name of a famous perfume from Calvin Klein. It became extremely popular in the ’80s and ’90s, largely due to its iconic marketing campaign. Expressions included in the study guide Flippantly Well put To the detriment of [something] [One’s] thing To trigger Thought experiment Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Image: Clay Bank (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:06.6	Q-Lips English podcast. You are listening to simplified speech, which is the Kulep series which features
0:18.6	clear, natural and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
0:26.1	Today I am joined by my co-host, Cassie.
0:29.9	Hello, Cassie.
0:31.3	Hey there Andrew and hi listeners.
0:33.8	I hope you're doing well.
0:35.8	Andrew and I have a great episode lined up for you today.
0:40.2	We're going to be talking about obsession and discuss the question,
0:45.4	have you ever been obsessed with something?
0:48.7	Along the way, we'll share some stories related to this topic
0:52.0	and teach you some interesting vocabulary and expressions that you can use when talking about being obsessed.
1:00.0	Wow Cassie I am excited for this topic. I think it's going to be a fun episode and I can't
1:07.6	wait to hear what you have to say about it but before we get started with our chat, I want to let all of the listeners know that there is a
1:16.8	study guide and a transcript available for this episode on our website, QLips.com. It's available to all QLips
1:26.7	members and it's a great study resource that we create and design to help you all build your English skills and reach your learning goals faster than ever.
1:38.0	So to sign up and become a QUPS member and get unlimited access to all of our study guides for this episode and
1:46.7	really all of the episodes that we've ever made which is like over 600 episodes there's a lot of content out there. Plus some bonuses like
1:56.4	invitations to our monthly live streams and our fluency file series. There's also
2:02.2	some fantastic bonuses for Q-L-E-L-S members.
2:04.9	Guys, to learn about how to sign up and to sign up, just visit our website, which is
2:11.2	Q-L-I-P-S-O-P-S-O-U-L-I-S.com.
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