Simplified Speech #164 – Socializing with coworkers

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever gotten together with your coworkers on the weekend? In this episode, Andrew and Kassy talk about their experiences spending time with their colleagues socially. They discuss the kinds of activities they participate in, cultural differences regarding socializing with coworkers, and the idea of drinking alcohol with the boss. What do you think English teachers living abroad do for fun with their colleagues? Give this episode a try and find out! Fun facts While many Americans would feel uncomfortable with the idea of going out to the bars with their boss and coworkers, this is an important part of business culture in both South Korea and Japan. It’s called hoesik in Korean and nomikai in Japanese. Expressions included in the study guide To talk shop Slowly but surely Next level Common ground To not be one’s thing At play Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Jopwell (pexels.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:07.6	Culeps English podcast. Today we have a simplified speech episode prepared for you, which is our series that features
0:20.6	clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics and helping me with today's show is my co-host Cassie. Hello Cassie.
0:33.4	Hey Andrew and hey listeners, how's it going?
0:37.6	I'm good Cassie and I'm looking forward to our conversation that we're going to have today. I think it will be a really interesting
0:46.4	discussion and that's because we're going to talk about some of the ways that we can have fun with our coworkers.
0:55.7	Some of the ways that we can have fun with our coworkers.
0:59.7	Wow.
1:01.0	It'll be a good discussion, I think. Yeah, that's right, but maybe we should first explain what we mean by that topic because you know it's a little bit vague
1:11.0	So everyone will be talking about some ways that we personally spend time socializing
1:19.7	with coworkers outside of the regular
1:23.4	professional working relationship.
1:25.6	You know, we see our coworkers every day in the office,
1:29.6	but today we're gonna talk about times
1:31.8	that you might hang out with coworkers outside of the office.
1:36.7	So we'll talk about some things that we personally do with our coworkers and things that are
1:42.1	common for coworkers to do together in workplaces in North America.
1:47.0	Yeah, so everyone will get started with this conversation in a moment, but before we do, we want to let you know that
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