Simplified Speech #168 – The ballet

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Do you like ballet? In this episode, Andrew and Suzanne talk about this unique style of dancing. They discuss its origins and characteristics, and explain some specific vocabulary along the way. Suzanne, a former professional dancer, shares her own story and what ballet means to her. Simplified Speech is a Culips series that features two native English speakers having clear, natural, and easy-to-understand conversations about interesting topics. These episodes are designed to help you improve your English listening and speaking skills in a fun and exciting way. Fun facts In this episode, Suzanne mentions breaking new ballet shoes. The process can include soaking them in water, pounding them with a hammer, and shaving the sole with a razor. However, despite all the effort, ballet shoes don’t last long before they need to be replaced: they lose their shape and wear out within a few weeks or sometimes even days! Expressions included in the study guide Intricate To eat, breathe, and sleep [something] To get sucked into [something] I’ll tell you what To break in [something] To dig deep Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Pixabay (Pexels.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew. Hey guys, I'm Suzanne. And this is the
0:09.6	Culeps English podcast. Welcome back to Culeps, you're listening to simplified speech.
0:16.0	The Culeps series, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics and today joining me is my co-host
0:28.0	Suzanne. Hello Suzanne.
0:30.4	Hey Andrew, hey everybody.
0:33.0	So, Suzanne, could you tell us what we're going to be talking about today?
0:37.0	This episode topic was actually your suggestion, so I'll let you introduce it. Yeah absolutely. So today's topic is
0:47.3	da da da da da. The ballet. I recently went to a ballet performance and I really enjoyed it so I thought we could talk about this wonderful form of dance and expression together and yeah kind of share our thoughts and opinions and maybe some about my experience with dance and ballet.
1:08.0	Sounds great. I don't have too much experience with ballet myself but I know you do Suzanne so I am
1:15.6	excited to hear what you have to say and we'll get into all of that in just a
1:20.7	moment but before we do get started I want to remind all of the
1:24.8	listeners out there about the study guide and interactive transcript for this
1:30.6	episode. And in fact, fact everyone we make study guides and transcripts for all of our
1:36.5	episodes and they're designed by our team of English teachers to help you build your skills and reach your English
1:44.4	learning goals faster than ever. As a Q-Lips member you'll also get some very nice
1:50.8	bonuses like invitations to our monthly live streams, full access to our
1:56.9	member only fluency files series and a lot more so to become a Q-L-E-L-I-S-M-T-L-I-S-C-E-S-C-O-L-I-S-C-O-T-O-L-I-S-C-C-O-T-O-T-O-L-T and you can sign up. Yeah and we'd also like to give a shout out to one of our
2:16.0	QLips members who goes by the nickname Nemo,
2:20.0	that's a great name.
2:21.0	Now Nemo sent you an email recently, right Andrew?
2:24.4	Yeah, Nemo sent me an email and as you may know Suzanne I host a live stream for all of our
2:31.5	tulips members each month and during the live stream for all of our Kuleps members each month and during the live stream sometimes
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