Today, we’re diving into the topic of swimming. Whether you’re someone who loves the water or maybe you're a bit nervous around it, swimming is a great activity to talk about because it evokes very specific memories. The more memories we can recall, the easier it is to chat! Just thinking about this topic reminds me of so many wonderful times at the pool. Today, I’ll share these stories; they’ll be used as a canvas to introduce words, expressions and collocations related to the topic of swimming. My goal is for you to walk away from this lesson feeling ready to talk to a native speaker about your experiences in the pool! Support Buy Me a Coffee Season 4 (Episodes 150 - 200) = Each episode includes a quiz, the PDF transcript (the text of the audio) with definitions of challenging words and the mp3 file. All Premium Content for Seasons 1, 2 and 3 (Episodes 001 - 150) - and get Season 4 at a discount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hi, everybody.
My name is Shawna and this is the American English Podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful and interesting.
Let's do it.
A while back, I mentioned that my family spent the summer in Brazil.
I mentioned that we worked and enjoyed cultural festivals like Festa Junina.
I also mentioned that I enrolled the girls so my two little daughters in a Brazilian school so that they could be fully immersed in Portuguese.
Every morning.
They took art, math and Portuguese classes.
They lunch at the school cafeteria and they played at recess.
It was a full immersion, which is very special for me because I love cultural exchange and language, as you guys probably know by now.
And in the afternoons while we were in Brazil, we actually spent a lot of time at the pool.
Our Airbnb had a pool, and there was also a pool at the location where Lucas's client lives.
And so, since we don't have a pool in the U.S.
i figured, what a great time to learn how to swim.
Not for me, for my two little girls.
I put them in swim classes and those classes really inspired this five minute English lesson.
Truth be told, it was inspired from my very awkward attempts to speak to Clara and Julia's swim teachers about swimming in Portuguese.
It was almost instantly that I realized I don't know the words in Portuguese for goggles, freestyle diving board.