Special Episode: Idioms & English Expressions

<p>Illy - Papercuts Song <br />Illy - Papercuts Lyrics <br />Welcome to accented the podcast. This series exposes English learners to real conversations between native and second language English speakers. It&apos;s important that you understand a variety of accents. In each episode, we interview a guest who has a distinct English accent. Enjoy the series, and I know that your English will improve just by listening to Accented. <br />Thanks for joining me for another episode of accented. Now, when I released the series on the 15th of February this year, I did mention that I would be releasing episodes on the 15th and 30th of each month. Now I have a dilemma because it is the 29th of February. There is actually no 30th in this month. So today I have a short episode with no guest, but next episode will be released on the 15th of March, and I will have a new guest. So today I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that has downloaded the Accented series. Feel free to leave me a comment asking questions. I&apos;m happy to help you with your English learning journey. <br />I also want to know what accents you want to hear. I have quite a few interviews coming up. We have the Canadian accent, Mexican, Lebanese/Australian, so please just send me a message and tell me what accents you want to hear. Now I&apos;m absolutely blown away by how many countries have downloaded the series in the last 14 days. There are over 90 countries. That is incredible. I am so pleased that the series is getting out to as many people as possible. So the top country listening to accented is India. I&apos;m getting so many downloads from there, followed by Australia, then the United States, the United Kingdom, and then Pakistan is in fifth place. Wow. I&apos;m just speechless. <br />So in today&apos;s episode, what I want to briefly talk about is idioms. Now you&apos;re all aware that I&apos;m an English teacher from Sydney, Australia, and of course I&apos;m very proud to be Australian and unfortunately in the last couple of months, there h