Simplified Speech #226 – What we’re bad at

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Indiana explore a topic everyone can relate to – the things we’re bad at. They share funny and honest stories about their struggles with tasks like assembling IKEA furniture, drawing, handling insects, recalling movie details, parking while chatting, and even stretching. Through your hosts’ lighthearted conversation, you’ll hear how these challenges show up in daily life and how they react to each other’s skills (or lack of them).

This episode is perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build everyday vocabulary, improve listening skills, and gain confidence talking about personal experiences in a natural way.

What you’ll learn with this episode:

* Vocabulary: Learn everyday English words and expressions for talking about skills, weaknesses, and funny life situations.
* Listening: Build your listening skills by following an easy-to-understand conversation between two native speakers.
* Speaking: Practice sharing your own stories and experiences about things you’re not very good at.
* Culture: Discover how Canadians and Americans talk about their strengths and weaknesses in a casual and humorous way.
* Fluency: Listening to real conversations will help you respond more quickly and naturally in English.

The Best Way to Learn with This Episode:

* 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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Culeps.
0:02.6	My name is Andrew.
0:03.7	How's it going?
0:04.6	This is a simplified speech episode.
0:07.8	And simplified speech is our series, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations between native speakers.
0:17.6	Joining me today is my co-host from the USA, Indiana.
0:21.6	Hey there, Indiana. How are you?
0:24.6	Hey, Andrew. I'm doing pretty good. And this episode, we're going to be talking about something that maybe everybody who's listening can relate to things were bad at things were bad at yeah it kind of
0:43.8	seems a little bit weird to talk about right because usually when we talk to other people we
0:50.2	sort of stick to the things that we know really well maybe we like to brag a little bit or boast a little bit about the things that we're good at.
0:59.8	But Indiana, recently I was listening to a different podcast in the Korean language, which is my second language, the language that I study.
1:08.0	And just like you guys who are listening to an English podcast to improve
1:11.8	your English, I do the same thing for Korean. So I was studying with this Korean podcast, and they
1:17.0	were having a conversation about this topic. The two hosts were discussing things that they're
1:22.4	not so good at. And it inspired me, and I thought, I got to steal this idea and talk about it on Culebs.
1:29.1	So here we are.
1:30.7	And Indiana, I thought we could just go back and forth and talk about some of the things that we're not so good at, some of the things that were bad at.
1:38.8	But just before we get started with this conversation, Indiana, I want to let everybody know about the study guide and
1:44.6	interactive transcript that's available for all Culeps members over on our website, Culips.com.
1:50.9	Guys, the interactive transcript is a great tool. You can just click or tap on any word and you can
1:56.6	hear the audio from that point. So it's really great if you need to review a section or maybe if you
2:02.4	want to follow along and repeat after what you listen to. It's perfect for that kind of situation.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Culips English Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Culips English Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.