2025-03-20
17 分钟Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 11 day 4 of your English 5 a day, the second season.
With this series I aim to give you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so that step by step, bit by bit,
podcast by podcast episode,
you are building your English vocabulary and feeling more confident and more like yourself when communicating in English.
Now today's episode is all on the topic of dreams so I'm going to start with a little snapshot and see
if there's anything here that you don't understand.
After experiencing the same nightmare, three nights in a row,
Maria realised this recurring dream was her subconscious trying to tell her something important.
Through self-reflection and conversations with her therapist,
she gradually understood
that the frightening images were connected to childhood trauma that she had buried deep in her memory.
With patience and professional help, Maria began to process these difficult memories,
knowing that facing them was the first step toward healing.
Okay, now it's time for us to dive into some of that vocabulary.
We start with the noun nightmare, nightmare.
We spell this N-I-G-H-T-M-A-R-E,
nightmare, although to be honest, we often drop the T when we say it in full, nightmare, nightmare.
But if you want to say nightmare, you can, it's just a little extra effort.
That's not really necessary.