Hi everybody.
My name is Shauna 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.
Hello.
Hello.
Welcome back.
How are you?
How's life wherever you are in the world?
I hope you're okay.
It's winter now in Asheville, North Carolina, and the days are icy cold.
Right now I'm looking outside my window and there's frost covering the leaves and the grass.
We have a lot of oak trees in our front yard and early in the morning, like right now, I watch the squirrels chase each other up the tree trunks.
I still see a lot of birds flying around.
It's very much nature here in the Appalachians and I have no idea how these animals stay warm, but power to them.
I'm just happy to be inside with a heater and a cup of warm tea.
Now today we'll be going through the common English expression to keep one's head above water.
This is a two part episode.
In part two, which will be posted next week, we'll talk about a woman who swam from Cuba to Florida.