Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 27 day five of your English five a day,
the second season.
This is the series that helps you to get into the habit of dunking daily into the English language and by doing so you are well on the road to feeling more like yourself when you communicate in English.
Now, all of the vocabulary that I cover in not just this week's episodes but the entire series,
which is now spanning hundreds of episodes,
all that vocabulary is recorded for you with definitions and examples in our Vocabulary Vault,
which is a huge database that you can access for free.
We constantly update it for you and I'll leave the link in the show notes.
But now it's Friday,
so we're going to bring together all the vocabulary we've looked at this week in one big story.
You're going to enjoy this story.
It comes from one of our team members, but I'll read it as if it's my own.
So sit back, relax and enjoy.
Have I ever mentioned the bizarre saga of my bicycle?
It's one of those stories that sounds too strange to be true, yet here we are.
The whole affair began during what was supposed to be a perfectly peaceful week in early summer.
I had just wrapped up an exhausting period at work.
The kind where you barely see daylight and survive on coffee and determination alone.
By the end,