Simplified Speech #253 – What’s your Achilles Heel?
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Simplified Speech #253 – What’s your Achilles Heel?

B1IntermediateSeptember 26, 202629 min

What’s the one thing you just can’t say no to? Andrew and Indiana share their biggest weaknesses when it comes to food, shopping, screen time, and a few basic life skills, and Andrew tells a story about an unexpected visitor at his desk. Along the way, you’ll learn how to use “Achilles heel,” “a goody two-shoes,” “mid,” “cooked,” “your own worst enemy,” and “a coping mechanism.” The brand-new Culips app is live! Study this episode with an interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary: Open this lesson in the Culips app. The Best Way to Learn with Thi...

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Hey everyone, it's Andrew here. Welcome back to Simplified Speech, the Culep series which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations between native speakers designed to help you build your English fluency and hit that next level with your English. Today helping me as my co-host is Indiana and she'll join us in just a second and today we're going to talk about

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our Achilles heel. Achilles heel. Do you guys know this expression? Your Achilles heel? It comes from an old Greek myth about a warrior named Achilles who is really strong and unbeatable everywhere on his body except for one spot on his heel. So an Achilles heel is your one weak spot. It's the one thing that trips you up or causes you to make an error or mistake even though you're pretty much

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