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Simplified Speech #249 – iPod Archeology
What do you think is hiding on a 20-year-old iPod that someone forgot in a drawer? In this episode, Andrew and Indiana share three news stories and trends they came across recently. The first is about a woman who buys old iPods and shares the playlists she finds on them, like a small window into strangers’ lives. After that, they talk about a new idea for spending less time on your phone, and a surprising change in what makes food popular today. To build your fluency, try listening to the episode more than once and saying the ne...
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B1 · Intermediate
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- 92% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 167 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 71 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Hello and welcome back to Simplified Speech, the Q-Lip series that features clear, natural, and easy to understand conversations between native speakers. My name is Andrew and in just a second I'll be joined by my co-host, Indiana. And in this episode, we're going to do something a little bit different.
Over the last little while, Indiana and I have been keeping our eyes and ears open for some interesting trends and interesting news stories. And we're going to share what we've seen and heard and learned with you all. We're going to share them with you.
So I picked a story and Indiana picked a couple as well. We're going to introduce them and then chat about them together. So we'll get started with this fun conversation in just a second. But before we do, I want to let you know that if you are serious about improving your
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