Simplified Speech #245 – Robots and fantasy investing
4/10/202623 min
Are robots about to take over our houses? In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Kassy catch up and share what’s new in their lives. Kassy talks about the new robotics program at her school and the family members coming to visit her in Korea, and Andrew explains the strange little experiment he tried to finally get over his fear of the stock market.
Kassy also mentions an older episode about the GameStop story, which you can hear in Chatterbox 261 – “Meme stocks”
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First 90 secondsAndrew· Host0:00
Hello and welcome to Culips. You're listening to Simplified Speech, the Culips 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, Kassy, and we're gonna just catch up and chat about what's new in our lives. Kassy'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 gonna let you listen in and enjoy the conversation just like you were 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 Culips episode that we make, our team here at Culips produces an amazing study guide to help you get the most out of the time that you spend with Culips. 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