In today's episode, we'll begin by going through the commentary you guys made on Culture Shock in the United States. Afterwards, I'll tell you a joke, we'll go over the expression "to take it with a grain of salt," and we'll do a pronunciation exercise. Premium Content for this episode is available with both of these: 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) Support the show 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.
Hi, everyone.
Welcome back.
Hope you're having a nice day.
In today's episode, I'll tell you a joke.
We'll go over the expression to take it with a grain of salt, and we'll do a pronunciation exercise.
In part two of today's lesson, we'll do another english story using ten irregular past tense verbs.
The story will be about McDonald's.
I'm guessing you know what McDonald's is.
Be sure to stay tuned for that.
Before we begin today's lesson, let's do a recap.
Last week I posted an episode all about culture shock in the US, and you guys shared so many fun things about your experiences in the United States related to culture shock, both on Instagram and in Spotify.
Comments some of you sent me personal messages.
Thank you for contributing.
Culture shock is experienced differently by different people and it was so fun to read through your commentary.
I'm going to read through some of the messages I received.