Simplified Speech #228 – Overrated or Underrated? Fun English Expressions Explained

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andrew and Indiana continue their fun conversation about things that are overrated or underrated. They share their opinions on topics like walking 10,000 steps a day, biohacking, pineapple on pizza, vinyl records, and even the idea of being famous. They compare their different views, tell stories, and explain why some things deserve more love while others are praised too much.

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What you’ll learn with this episode:

* How to use the words “overrated” and “underrated” to share your opinion
* Real-life examples of these expressions in conversations about health, music, food, and culture
* Helpful phrases to agree or disagree politely and naturally
* Extra vocabulary you can use when discussing popular trends and everyday topics

This episode is perfect for:

* Intermediate English learners who want to improve their speaking and listening skills
* Anyone interested in learning how to sound more natural when sharing opinions
* Students looking for fun vocabulary and examples to use in conversations about everyday topics

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Simplified Speech, the Culep series, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations between native speakers.
0:11.1	Joining me as my co-host for today is Indiana.
0:15.4	Hey, Indiana.
0:16.2	How's it going?
0:17.6	Hey, Andrew.
0:18.4	I'm doing great, and I'm excited to revisit this topic again because it was a lot of fun last time.
0:24.4	Yeah, it was a lot of fun and our listeners enjoyed it as well. Guys, we're talking about overrated or
0:31.5	underrated. And we'll put a link in the description for the first overrated, underrated episode that
0:37.4	we recorded
0:38.0	a little while ago.
0:39.4	So if you haven't heard that one yet, maybe you can go back and listen to that one and
0:43.1	we explain the concept.
0:44.5	We explain what overrated and underrated means.
0:47.9	But Indiana, maybe just in a nutshell, we could catch listeners up if they didn't hear
0:52.3	that first episode.
0:53.8	What does it mean to be overrated or to be underrated?
0:58.0	Sure.
0:58.8	So there are things that are popular that are well deserved, but there's also things that are popular
1:05.1	that you might think, why do people like this?
1:08.2	Like this actually isn't very good at all.
1:10.1	So if something is overrated,
1:12.8	that means over, this prefix over, it's too much. People like it more than it's worth.
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