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Culips Everyday English Podcast

Simplified Speech #200 – Decluttering your life

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8968 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Indiana talk about the topic of “decluttering” – in other words, removing and tidying up disorganized objects in your home. They discuss different methods of decluttering, including the concept of Swedish death cleaning, and share their own experiences with organizing their homes and lives. On a scale of 1 to 10, how organized do you think Andrew and Indiana’s workspaces are? Listen and find out!








What you will learn

* Decluttering techniques: Discover different methods of decluttering, including the unique concept of Swedish death cleaning.
* Personal experiences: Hear Andrew and Indiana share their personal stories and challenges with decluttering.
* Practical tips: Learn practical tips and strategies to help you organize your own space and minimize clutter.

How this episode will improve your English

* Vocabulary building: Learn key words and expressions related to decluttering and organization.
* Listening skills: Improve your listening by hearing native English speakers talk in a natural, conversational setting.
* Real-life learning: Understand how to use the new vocabulary and expressions in real-life situations and conversations.
* Cultural Insights: Learn about what Canadians and Americans think about decluttering and organization.

English speaking practice: Join discussions with other listeners on the Culips Discord server for additional speaking and communication practice.

Important links:

* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group discussion class schedule (member only)

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to simplified speech, the Culep series where you can hear clear and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics by native speakers.

0:11.0

My name's Andrew, I'm a Canadian based in Seoul, South Korea, and today I'm very

0:16.7

excited to have a special guest host joining me. While some of our other regular Q-ups hosts are on their well-deserved summer

0:25.1

vacations, Indiana from the USA will be helping me out with this episode. So

0:31.6

Indiana works as one of our study guide writers and as a

0:35.6

conversation class teacher and I'm really excited to have her co-host here with me

0:41.6

today. In today's episode Indiana and I are going to

0:45.8

chat about decluttering your life and also a unique concept known as Swedish

0:52.4

death cleaning. Have you ever heard of that? If not, don't worry, we'll explain it in the episode.

0:58.0

Now, this interesting topic was suggested to us by Jin the English marathoner on our discord server actually.

1:06.6

So thanks to Jin for the topic suggestion and we'll talk all about how we keep our houses

1:11.8

and workspaces decluttered or at least try to keep them

1:16.7

decluttered in this episode so I hope you will enjoy the conversation. But before we get started with it, I want to remind

1:25.6

you that the best way to study with this episode is by using our interactive transcript tool

1:32.3

and helpful study guide and as a QUPS member you can

1:36.4

get unlimited access to these really helpful tools that will improve your

1:41.1

English learning experience.

1:43.2

The interactive transcript is really cool.

1:46.0

It allows you to click on any word and hear the audio start at that point.

1:51.1

And in my opinion, it's perfect for shadowing or for listen and repeat practice or just for

1:57.6

reviewing and listening to a specific part of the episode over and over again and of course these are all great techniques for

2:06.0

improving your fluency and the study guide will go into more detail and explain the key

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