Hello, lovely, I'm Maria.

And my name is Rory and we are the hosts of the IELD Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast

that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.

We're starting this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high-isle-old school.

Your band nine score.

Don't stop me now. I'm having such a good time. I'm having a ball.

Oh, Maria, you're quite good at singing, aren't you?

Nah, not really. Let's talk about singing.

Hopefully you're good at talking about it.

Do like singing?

Listening to it, yeah. Doing it myself, only ever in the comfort of my own home and by myself, I am not good at it.

It's if I sing, it's like someone swinging a bag of cats around.

It's a horrible sound.

What kinds of music do you like to sing?

Oh, anything I know the words are the tune for.

I don't think there's a specific genre, although it's

easier for me to remember the lyrics to pop songs, for example.

Have you ever learned how to sing?

I think we had some lessons in school, but they weren't particularly advanced or in depth.

We learned some hymns and some folk songs to accompany traditional music.

Some students had private lessons, of course, but not me.

Who do you want to sing for?

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