Hello and welcome to Culeps. You're listening to Simplified Speech, the Culep series for

intermediate English learners, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand

English conversations between native speakers. My name's Andrew. It's great to be back here with

you again for another English lesson, everyone. I hope you're doing well.

And in just a second, I'll be joined by my co-host, Cassie, and we're going to just catch up

and chat about what's new in our lives. Cassie's got a few exciting updates on her end to share,

and I have a few exciting updates on my end to share, and we're going to let you listen

in and enjoy the conversation, just like you are hanging out in the room right along beside us.

We'll get to that conversation in just a minute, but before we do, let me tell you about the

helpful study guide, interactive transcript, and other learning resources that are

available for this episode. So for each and every Culeps episode that we make, our team here

at Culeps produces an amazing study guide to help you get the most out of the time that you

spend with Culeps. In the study guide, you'll find detailed vocabulary explanations and usage examples

that will help to build your English vocabulary so that you can improve your listening

and speaking skills.

There's also a comprehension quiz, and there are some discussion questions that you can use

for writing practice or for

speaking practice. And speaking of speaking practice, we also have speaking classes for each one of our

episodes. So the idea is that you listen first to the episode, you spend some time with it,

you think about it, and then you join one of

our small group speaking classes, and you'll be able to talk about it with other

Culeps members and with maybe me or our other great teachers, Alina and Indiana as well.

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