Simplified Speech #248 – Life lately
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What have you been up to lately? In this Simplified Speech catch-up episode, Andrew and Kassy share stories from the past month. Kassy talks about a family visit to Jeju Island, where rainy weather didn’t stop them from hiking Hallasan, the tallest mountain in South Korea, and seeing some of the island’s stranger attractions. Andrew shares what happened during his birthday and fifth wedding anniversary, which fell in the same week and involved more cake than one person should eat in seven days.
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🔑 Key expressions
Keep an ear out for these phrases during the episode:
- to put words in (someone’s) mouth
- niche
- to call for (rain)
- (one’s) legs are like jelly
- to get away with (something)
- to go ham
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to simplified speech, the Culep series, which features clear, natural, |
| 0:05.7 | and easy to understand English conversations between native speakers. |
| 0:10.8 | Joining me today as my co-host is Cassie. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, Cassie, what's up? |
| 0:16.7 | Hey, Andrew, I'm doing great. |
| 0:19.3 | How about you? |
| 0:20.5 | I'm doing good as well. And Cassie, we're going to do just one of our classic episode styles, a catch-up episode. |
| 0:29.2 | It's been probably a month or so since we got together to record Cassie. |
| 0:34.4 | And I'm curious what you've been up to in that time and I'm sure our listeners |
| 0:38.7 | are as well and maybe I don't want to put words in your mouth or thoughts in your head but |
| 0:44.6 | maybe you're curious about me as well so we'll go back and forth and share some stories |
| 0:52.0 | about what we've been up to over the last little while. |
| 0:56.0 | And yeah, that will be the foundation for our conversation here today. |
| 1:00.6 | But before we get started, I want to talk to our listeners for a second. |
| 1:05.0 | So guys, I hope you're doing well. |
| 1:07.5 | And I want you to get the most out of this episode today. |
| 1:12.6 | So to help you with that, |
| 1:19.4 | to help you build your English fluency with this episode, we have prepared fantastic study tools for you. We have an interactive transcript that is totally clickable. You can click on any word in the transcript |
| 1:26.7 | and hear the audio from that point. |
| 1:29.8 | It works great on your smartphone. It works great on your tablet computer. It works great on your |
| 1:35.0 | computer. Whatever device you want to use, it works for that. And I think it's really great if there's |
| 1:41.2 | a part of the conversation that's maybe difficult for you and you want to hear |
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