Simplified Speech #234 – The Holidays 2025
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Indiana chat about the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Indiana shares how she hosted a vegetarian Thanksgiving potluck, talks about classic U.S. traditions like turkey, parades, football, and turkey trots, and compares them with Canadian Thanksgiving. Then Andrew and Indiana discuss Christmas: when the Christmas season really starts, decorations in the USA and in Seoul, Christmas cookies and holiday baking, Christmas music, and the stress of buying and choosing gifts for family.
What you’ll learn with this episode:
- How to talk about Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions in natural English
- Useful holiday vocabulary, such as potluck, parade, stocking, turkey trot, and Christmas carols
- How native speakers describe hosting guests, giving gifts, and feeling stressed or excited about holidays
- Real examples of small talk and storytelling about family, food, and celebrations
This episode is perfect for you if:
- You want to speak more naturally about holidays, family gatherings, and special events
- You want to build your vocabulary for English conversations about traditions and culture
- You want to improve your listening skills with clear, natural speech from native speakers
- You want to feel more confident joining English conversations about Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the holiday season
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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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