Hello and welcome back to your English five a day on the English Like a Native podcast.
This is your daily dunk into the English language so that, with ease,
over time, you can improve your listening skills, increase your active vocabulary and your passive,
and generally become more confident with the English language.
How do we do that?
Simply through stories.
My name is Anna and you are listening to Week 8, Day 4.
of this season, which is season three, where Gabriel is spending time in Glasgow.
Now, yesterday, Gabriel went to a packed live music venue with Isla,
where they broke away from the crowd, bumped into Callum behind the bar,
and discovered that they might have hit it off rather well.
Today, Gabriel reflects on something many visitors notice about Glasgow, the speed and rhythm of the local speech.
As always, supporting materials for this season are available at www.joinelan.com forward slash plus.
Let's begin with a snapshot.
As Gabriel writes about his time in Glasgow, he explains that local speech can be rapid fire,
with words sometimes mumbled together or slurred when people speak quickly.
The thick accent can make it even harder to follow,
and sometimes people seem to blurt out whole stories before he has even processed the first sentence.
All right, let's break down today's target vocabulary.
First, we have rapid fire.