Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 28, day one of your English five a day.
The second season.
This is the series that helps you to build that habit of daily dipping into the English language so that over time you can start to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin, as we always do, with a snapshot.
My flatmate is such a clean freak that she scrubs the toilet system with bleach every single day.
For her, living in what she considers unsanitary conditions is absolute torture.
I've never met anyone who gets so upset about a few dirty dishes in the sink.
Okay, let's dive into the vocabulary, starting with the noun clean freak.
A clean freak.
Two words.
Clean.
C-L-E-A-N.
Freak.
F-R-E-A-K.
A clean freak is a person who is obsessed with cleaning and keeping everything very tidy.
As a teenager...
I lived with a lady who every morning would from very early leave the vacuum cleaner outside my bedroom door and a cloth and she would knock me up about half an hour before I was due to wake up and tell me that I needed to vacuum my room and wipe all the condensation off the windows.
At the time,
I honestly thought she was a clean freak