Simplified Speech #225 – Musical education

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Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about musical education! Andrew and Indiana share stories about learning instruments as kids, their music classes at school, and how they feel about playing musical instruments today. You'll hear Andrew talk about jamming on his drum set in his basement, Indiana's experiences in school chorus, and whether they think parents should push their kids to take music lessons.

This episode is perfect for intermediate English learners who want to pick up natural vocabulary and expressions about music, school, and hobbies while listening to a real conversation between native speakers.

In this lesson, you’ll work on:

* Vocabulary: Learn natural English words and phrases about music, school, and hobbies.
* Listening: Build your listening with this clear and easy-to-understand conversation between two native speakers.
* Speaking: Improve your speaking skills by chatting about your own experiences with music education during one of our weekly conversation classes or by talking with other Culips listeners on our Discord server.
* Culture: Discover what music education is like in Canada and the U.S., and why it’s important in schools.
* Fluency: Listening to real conversations and stories helps you think in English and speak more confidently.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to another brand new Culep's episode. You are tuned in to simplified
0:06.3	speech, which is the CULP series for intermediate English learners who want to hit that advanced
0:12.6	level. We're here to help you achieve that goal. And each simplified speech episode features
0:18.5	a clear, natural, and easy to understand English
0:21.5	conversation between native speakers and joining me today as my co-host is Indiana.
0:28.4	Hey there, Indiana.
0:29.4	How's it going?
0:30.5	Do you want to tell us what our topic for today is?
0:33.4	Sure.
0:33.8	So today we are talking about musical education. So we're going to talk about the types of lessons at school that we took growing up if we had exposure to learning music as kids.
0:48.9	We're also going to talk about, you know, the difference in experiences with learning music and lessons
0:55.1	at school or also self-study going out to the library and picking up a book and reading about
1:02.2	music by yourself. We're also going to talk about if we think parents should kind of force
1:10.4	their kids to learn an instrument, how important
1:12.6	is it for a kid to learn an instrument? And our relationship today with musical instruments
1:18.8	and musical education, are we still pursuing the guitar or the drums, for example? So we have a lot
1:25.1	of different topics about musical education that we're going to hit on
1:29.6	today. Yeah. And I should say that this episode was requested to us recently by two different
1:36.9	Culep's members by Priscilla and also by Adidka. So guys, thank you so much for that
1:43.0	awesome episode suggestion. I love it when
1:46.4	our members or any listener really offers a suggestion for a topic for an upcoming
1:52.6	Culeps episode. If you guys have a suggestion that you would like us to cover in an upcoming
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