Simplified Speech #234 – The Holidays 2025
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew and Anna talk about what curiosity is, why you feel it, and how it can help or hurt you in everyday life. You will hear real stories about things they have been curious about lately, how curiosity can help you discover new ideas, and how it can sometimes distract you. They also explain the different types of curiosity (diversive curiosity and specific curiosity) and share useful idioms related to curiosity like “curiosity killed the cat.”
What you will learn in this episode:
- Natural English phrases to describe what you want to learn, what interests you, and what catches your attention.
- Common words and idioms connected to curiosity, such as “childlike curiosity,” “healthy curiosity,” and “my curiosity got the better of me.”
- How Andrew and Anna talk about what interests them, respond to each other’s stories, and describe curiosity in clear, everyday English.
This episode is perfect for you if:
- You want to think in English more easily when talking about what interests you
- You want to sound natural and confident when sharing your own stories and questions
- You want to learn clear, useful expressions to describe curiosity in everyday life
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another simplified speech episode here at Culeps. |
| 0:06.0 | For those of you who don't know, simplified speech is our series that features clear, natural, |
| 0:11.6 | and easy to understand conversations between native speakers. |
| 0:15.9 | Joining me today as my co-host is Indiana. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello, Indiana. |
| 0:23.9 | How are you doing today? I'm good, Andrew. Happy holidays. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, happy holidays. Feels still a little awkward for me to say that because I think we're like very, very early into the holiday season, in my opinion, Indiana. We're recording this on December the 2nd, and listeners will probably hear it a few days later. |
| 0:48.3 | So, yeah, kind of early for me, but I guess it's that time of the year when we have to start saying it. |
| 0:48.8 | Happy holidays. |
| 0:50.8 | And guys, that's what we're going to talk about in this episode today is we are going to talk about the holiday season. |
| 0:58.3 | So Indiana and people in the USA, they just celebrated Thanksgiving. |
| 1:03.8 | So we're going to do a Thanksgiving recap and learn about how Indiana spent Thanksgiving. |
| 1:09.4 | And then we're going to shift to Christmas and talk about |
| 1:11.6 | how we're preparing for the upcoming Christmas and holiday season and all of the things that we do |
| 1:17.9 | to celebrate this holiday. And I have to give a shout out to one of our awesome Culeps members, |
| 1:23.7 | Aditka, who requested this topic. So thank you so much, Aditka, for this great suggestion. |
| 1:30.5 | And listeners, if you have a suggestion for an upcoming episode that you would like us to talk |
| 1:35.5 | about, then just head on over to our Discord community. The link to join is in the description |
| 1:40.4 | for this episode. Of course, it's free to join for everyone as well. And you can |
| 1:44.5 | leave a message there and let us know. We actually have a channel, Indiana, on the Discord, just for |
| 1:51.0 | this. It's the episode suggestion channel. So guys, if you go there and you leave us a little |
| 1:56.4 | message, we'll take it into consideration and do our utmost, do the best we can to help make it |
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