Simplified Speech #255 – Halloween 2026
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Simplified Speech #255 – Halloween 2026

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 25, 202630 min
  • Language learning

Is Halloween a big deal where you live? Andrew and Indiana share their favorite childhood Halloween memories and the costumes they’re most proud of, and Indiana explains how trick-or-treating works for anyone who didn’t grow up with it. Along the way, you’ll learn useful English vocabulary like “to go hard,” “to liven up,” “to be over something,” “a gripe,” “to wane,” and “groundless.” 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 This Episode:</p...

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Q-Lips English podcast. My name is Andrew and if you're new here, Q-Lips is a podcast for people who are learning English. This is our Simplified Speech series and in this series, my co-hosts and I have real conversations in clear, natural English that's just a little easier to follow. And if we say an expression or a word or some culture comes up that might be new to you, then we stop and explain it.

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so that you can improve your English fluency. Now this is episode number 255 and we're talking about Halloween today. Halloween is just around the corner

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and that's what Indiana, my co-host, and I are going to discuss in this episode. We'll get started with our conversation in a second, but before we do, I wanna say something

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