Welcome to the Listening Time podcast.
I'm Connor from polyglossa.com, and you're listening to episode 18 of the Listening Time podcast.
This podcast is designed to help english learners practice their listening skills.
So if you're in the process of learning English and you're having trouble understanding native speakers when they speak fast at normal speed, then you can listen to this podcast to help train your ears and give yourself more practice for your comprehension.
In this podcast, I talk about different topics each episode, and in each episode I speak normally, naturally, using normal words and phrases and expressions.
But I speak a little bit more slowly and a little bit more clearly than the average native speaker.
So I'm speaking using natural words and phrases, but a little bit more slowly so that you can understand a little bit better.
So eventually, after listening to this podcast for a while, your ears will start to get better, become more skilled at understanding me, and then hopefully you'll be able to transition and start listening to normal podcasts made for english speakers.
Also, remember that for each episode, the transcript is available.
You can access it in the details part of the episode.
So you can listen to each episode multiple times.
And maybe the first time you don't use the transcript, and then the second time you use the transcript to help you understand the words and phrases that you missed the first time.
And then maybe you can listen again without the transcript to see if you can understand those words and phrases the third time.
That's just one example of how you might want to use this podcast.
And remember that I'm not reading a script, so everything I'm saying is natural, and I'm just speaking as the words come to my mind.
So this podcast should be a good resource to help you understand English better.
And I just want to note that in some episodes, my voice sounds a little worse than in other episodes.
This is because sometimes I record this podcast early in the morning, like today, and so my voice is just barely waking up, so it doesn't sound as great as in other episodes.
And also, I want to note that I think the schedule for the podcast has become pretty regular.
So you might have noticed that I'm uploading an episode every week now, one episode per week, and I upload each episode on Monday.