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Simplified Speech #174 – What do you think about remakes?

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Do you like remakes, or do you believe that nothing can beat the original? In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Kassy discuss remakes of movies and video games, and whether the remakes can be better than the originals of our childhoods. They also talk about why remakes have become so popular lately and share their own opinions on this matter. Tune in to find out what they think while improving your English conversation skills! Fun facts “Perfect Strangers”, a 2016 Italian comedy-drama directed by Paolo Genovese, is holding the Guinness World Record for the most remade movie in the history of cinema. Within three years since it was first released, it was remade 18 times in many different languages! Expressions included in the study guide To drive someone up the wall Let alone Right up [one's] alley Off the top of [one's] head Top-notch Up to snuff Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Evan (Pexels.com)

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0:00.0

Hello everybody my name is

0:04.7

my name is Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the Q-Lips English

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podcast you're listening to simplifiedified Speech, the Kulep series, which features clear, natural,

0:17.6

and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics. Today joining me for this episode is my co-host

0:26.3

Cassie. Hello Cassie. Hey Andrew and hey listeners hope you're all doing well

0:31.6

great to be here. So Cassie today actually this morning we were

0:36.9

talking about what we should talk about on simplified speech for this episode and you came up with a great idea so maybe I'll throw

0:46.0

things over to you to let us hear about what our topic is for today.

0:50.0

Okay, so we are going to talk about remakes. I don't know exactly when this episode will come out, but when we were talking about the idea,

1:00.0

the Little Mermaid live action remake has just been debuted a week ago and the Little Mermaid has been getting a lot of attention in the media.

1:10.4

Some people are really excited about this remake, some are not, and I thought this would be a good topic to talk about, not just the Little Mermaid, but remakes in general.

1:20.0

Yeah, and as soon as I heard your suggestion, I thought it was amazing because I was also reading about video game remakes this week, in fact.

1:29.0

So it was kind of a coincidence that you brought this topic up and I have been thinking about remakes as well and so I think we'll have a lot to talk about and we'll get into our conversation everyone in just a moment but of course before we do I need to remind you all about the study guide and transcript for this episode and in fact it's not just this episode. For all of our episodes, we make helpful study guides,

1:55.7

and they come with a transcript as well.

1:58.3

And we design these to help you build your English skills.

2:01.8

And in the study guide, we really focus on teaching you the most

2:05.6

important parts of the episode that we believe that you need to know to build your

2:10.9

English skills and to reach your fluency goals faster than ever.

2:15.6

Now to get those study guides and transcripts you do need to become a

2:19.9

Qulips member, but as a way to say thank you for becoming a member, we're going to also throw in some nice bonuses for you.

2:28.0

Like some invitations to our monthly live streams and you'll also get access to our member only series which is called the

2:36.0

fluency files and a very nice bonus Cassie I have to say is that you also get add free audio so you don't have to listen to me advertise about the

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