listening time

Episode 1 Transcript - Listening Time

Welcome to the Listening Time podcast. I'm Conner with polyglossa.com, and

you're listening to Episode One of the Listening Time podcast. This podcast is for

English learners who want to practice their English listening. This is a good resource for

you if you're not able to understand real native speech spoken at real speed, but you're

more advanced than just a low beginner level. If that's your case, then this is a great

podcast for you. So, today, in this introduction episode, I'm going to talk to you about a

few things. I'm going to talk to you about the format of this podcast. I'm going to explain

how it works and the structure of it. And I'm going to talk to you about how to use this

podcast, how it can be most beneficial to you. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about

me, Conner. So we're going to go ahead and get started. So, let's get to it.

Alright, so first let's talk about the format of this podcast. This podcast will air on

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At least that's how I plan to air the podcast right now,

but most likely it will be three days a week, so you should have plenty of podcasts to

use to practice your listening, and each podcast will be about 25 minutes in length.

Some of them might be shorter. And some of them might be longer. But in general, each

podcast will be somewhere around 25 minutes long. So, you have a pretty long podcast,

and a lot of material to practice your listening.

So, in each podcast. I'm planning on talking about two or three different topics

each time. For example, maybe today, I want to talk about travel and food, or maybe

tomorrow, I want to talk about cars or other everyday routine topics. Really, I'm going to

talk about everything. So, hopefully, the topics will be interesting for you. And they'll be

new each time, and it will be a good resource for you, overall. I'm gonna be speaking

very clearly... as clear as I can. You can hear an example of that with this intro podcast.

I'm speaking pretty clearly. Right. My voice is relatively easy to understand... easier than

most native speakers. And so, I'm going to be speaking pretty clearly. And I'll be

speaking just a little bit more slowly than I would normally speak with other Americans

or other native speakers. So, I'm not speaking really slowly. I'm not speaking at a really

unnatural pace, but I'm speaking just a little bit more slowly and a little more clearly than

the average American.

So, with each podcast, you'll also have access to the transcript. So, the transcript

will help you understand all the words and phrases you missed the first time around.

Maybe if you listen to me right now, you can understand most of what I'm saying, but not

everything. And so the transcript will help you fill in the gaps for those missing words, or

missing phrases, etc. The transcripts will be auto-generated, so they won't be perfect. I'll

try to edit them a little bit before uploading them. But honestly, I probably won't have the

time to