Simplified Speech #193 – Only children

Culips Everyday English Podcast

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Learn about what it's like to be an only child in this interesting episode of the Culips Everyday English Podcast. Andrew and Kassy will share their personal experiences growing up with siblings. They will also talk about their thoughts on not having any brothers or sisters. This is a great episode for listeners who want to understand more about family life in the United States and Canada. What You Will Learn Family Experiences: Hear different stories about growing up with siblings versus being an only child. Cultural Views: Understand how people in North America view families without brothers or sisters. Personal Stories: Listen to personal stories from Andrew and Kassy about their childhoods and family lives. Family Relationships: Learn about the special challenges, benefits, and relationships in families with only one child. How This Episode Will Improve Your English New Vocabulary: Learn common words and expressions related to family in a conversational way. Listening Skills: Practice understanding how people really speak in casual conversations. Cultural Understanding: Learn the cultural views on family structures in North America. Relatable Content: Become motivated by hearing real personal stories and experiences you can relate to. Speaking Practice: Use the study guide and join the member community to practice speaking about family topics. The best way to learn with this lesson Culips members get an interactive transcript, helpful study guide, and ad-free audio for this episode. Take your English to the next level by becoming a Culips member. Become a Culips member now: Click here. Members can access the ad-free version here: Click here. Join our Discord community to connect with other learners and get more English practice. Click here to join. Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Vitaly Gariev (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.
0:11.6	Welcome back to Kuleps everyone. This is simplified speech. The Kuleps series which features clear, natural and easy to understand conversations between native speakers. Helping me today with
0:26.8	this episode is my co-host, Cassie. Hey Cassie, how's it going?
0:31.6	Hey Andrew, I'm doing well.
0:34.0	All right, good to hear.
0:36.0	Well, Cassie, in today's episode, we're going to talk about a topic,
0:41.0	I think will be a little bit challenging for me and for you as well because we're going to talk about being an only child.
0:50.0	Of course, Cassie, you and I, we both have siblings. I have a brother and a sister, and if I recall correctly, you have a couple of sisters?
0:59.0	Yep, I have two sisters. Two younger sisters?
1:02.0	Yes. One of them, though though she was an only child for her first six years so maybe I can talk about her experience.
1:09.0	Okay, perfect.
1:11.0	So if you're an only child, it means that you have no brothers and no sisters, right?
1:16.8	You're a part of a family that just has one child, an only child in the family.
1:22.3	But this topic is interesting, interesting nonetheless it doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk about it. I was actually trying to find somebody on
1:28.6	Kuleps that you know could bring the perspective of an only child to this kind of conversation and I couldn't find
1:35.4	anyone so everybody has brothers or sisters on the QLoves team but it was suggested this topic. It was suggested to us by Melissa, a user of our
1:47.5	discord server and Melissa wrote a comment on our episode topic suggestion channel and I'll just read the
1:54.9	comment here. She wrote have you ever recorded an episode about only children
2:00.4	the pros and cons your personal personal opinion, depending on the country, your religion, etc.
2:06.4	I think there could be a lot to discuss.
2:09.3	So we'll get into that and we'll talk about those things that Melissa suggested here in today's episode.
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