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teacher luke.com.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk.com. Hello, listeners, and welcome back to my podcast

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Anyway, this episode is a conversation episode, and you can hear me talking to an old friend

that I used to live with, my old flatmate.

And there is a full transcript available for this conversation. You'll find a

link in the description. Is that clear? A link in the description, either in your podcast app of choice,

or in fact, wherever you're listening to this, there's a link for the PDF transcript right there.

And you can just download it. You're welcome. So if you like, you could read along

with us or just check it later if you want to consolidate the things you've heard or check that

you understood everything and perhaps make note of any interesting vocabulary that comes up.

And there are loads of little phrases, loads of little expressions and

things that you could spot and collect if you want to. Let me just tell you about my guest and then

we'll get started. So as you may know, I used to live in Japan, right? I might have mentioned that

once or twice before in the past. I spent several

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