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.
I can't believe it.
We're on episode number 150.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Wherever you are in the world, I hope you feel productive learning English while you're driving to work, cleaning your house, walking around the block, or even working out at the gym.
I feel privileged to fill the free space in your day, whenever that is, and I hope that continues for season four.
As you may know, this is the very last episode of season three, and I want to reflect on a number of different things.
First of all, I want to talk about some statistics I find interesting, and then I want to go over what we spoke about in the last 50 episodes.
It's been two years since I started season three, which is nuts, and we've covered so many fascinating topics regarding american culture and history.
We've also spoken a lot about the language.
Before we begin, I want to share something personal.
When I started this podcast four and a half years ago, about a month after my first daughter was born, I didn't know much about podcasting.
To be honest, I knew a little bit of nothing about podcasting, so listening to early episodes makes me cringe a bit.
While I still find the story so important in the scheme of american history, and also entertaining, the quality of those episodes is most definitely not up to the standard that I have today.
Thank you to all of you who listened to those episodes and have stuck around till now.
The audio has gotten better and it means a lot that you're here.