Simplified Speech #189 – Company’s coming

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Kassy and Andrew are having company over! No, the companies they work for aren’t coming to their houses—“having company” means having guests such as friends and family come and visit your home. In this episode, Kassy and Andrew talk about how they prepare their homes when they have company over. They discuss cooking, cleaning, sleeping accommodations, and an attempt of Kassy’s to make a homemade air freshener that went horribly wrong. Listen and find out what happened! Fun facts Although the first thing that may pop into your head when you hear the word “company” is your workplace, there are many idioms that use the word “company” to mean “being with other people.” For instance, have you ever heard the old saying “misery loves company”? This means that people who are unhappy get comfort in spending time and talking to other people who are unhappy. Expressions included in the study guide To have company [over] To stroke [someone’s] ego To overstay [one’s] welcome To couch surf To impose Your mileage may vary (YMMV) Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: fauxels (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. You're listening to simplified speech, the Q-UPS series which features clear, natural,
0:19.7	and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
0:24.8	Today I'm joined by my co-host Cassie.
0:27.7	Hey there, Cassie.
0:28.8	Hey Andrew and hey listeners.
0:30.5	Hope you're all doing well.
0:31.8	It's great to be here today and I'm excited for this
0:35.0	episode because we're going to be talking about company, specifically having
0:39.4	company over to your house, having guests over. And this is a fun topic for Andrew and I because I had my family come visit me recently and Andrew is having a guest over this weekend.
0:52.8	Yeah, exactly.
0:53.8	So I think we both will have things to talk about,
0:57.2	Cassie, you with your experience,
0:58.8	and me anticipating my experience.
1:01.8	Just before we get further into this episode, maybe we should talk about this
1:05.4	word company because I have a feeling like if I were talking with my wife who is also an English
1:12.0	language learner and I use this word company,
1:15.2	she would immediately think about her office. She would think of that kind of business
1:21.0	context for the word company.
1:22.8	What do we mean in this context though?
1:25.2	So we're not talking about work or the office or business or anything like that.
1:29.3	What does company mean in this kind of situation?
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