Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week four day three all your English five a day.
The second season.
This is the series that is dedicated to expanding your vocabulary so
that you can feel so much more confident and more like yourself when communicating in English.
There's no need to take notes because we do all that for you.
You can access every item of vocabulary from the entire series in our database.
I'll leave the link in the show notes.
Now, today's episode as always begins with a snapshot of what's to come.
So listen carefully.
I sipped on hot tea to soothe my raspy voice from hours of speaking during the meeting.
I wanted to rest my voice and my mind.
But colleagues continued to fire difficult questions at me and they expected a swift reply.
I tried to stay composed but the chaos made me stutter a lot.
Now if anything in that snapshot confused you don't worry.
This is exactly why we're here.
So let's begin with the verb soothe we spell this s-o-o-t-h-e soothe.
To soothe is to make someone feel calm or less worried or it's to make a part of the body feel less painful so it's about easing discomfort or easing mood.
You soothe.
Here's an example sentence.