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Hello everyone, and welcome to bonus episode  number 121 of the Culips English Podcast. My  

name is Andrew. I will be your host and your study  buddy for today. And, in our bonus episode series,  

what I do is I tell you some stories from  my everyday life as a Canadian guy living  

abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and I hope that  by listening to my stories, you will be able to  

B.I.G.B. That is our motto for our series. Those  are the goals that I try to help you accomplish  

with this series. So B.IG.B stands for build  your fluency, increase your cultural knowledge,  

grow your vocabulary, and become a clearer and  better English communicator. So, if those are  

your goals, then you are in the right place. And,  in this episode, what I'm going to talk to you  

about some of my favorite things about fall.  It's finally fall. I couldn't be more stoked,  

and I'm going to talk about it in this episode.  But before I get to that, let me tell you about  

the free interactive transcript and vocabulary  glossary for these episodes. They are fantastic  

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actually be really helpful for showing you where  you should focus your attention. Right? I don't  

know if you are like me at all. Long time Culips  listeners will know that I am a Korean learner,  

so I'm learning the Korean language and have  been for over a decade. And from time to time,  

this is what I'm curious to ask you guys about.  From time to time, sometimes when I'm listening to  

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if I reflect on that, I'm like, oh actually,  there are big chunks of that podcast or big chunks  

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guys. We really, really do appreciate it. One more  announcement here quickly before we get started,  

and that is about this week's speaking  classes. So, each week here at Culips,  

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potentially of extra English-speaking practice  that you could do each week with our classes,  

and of course, each class is hosted by one  of our great teachers as well. So, this week,  

we have classes on October 15th, 16th, and  17th. We will be discussing on the 15th Real  

Talk episode number 63, which is how to talk  about being unemployed, a useful episode indeed,  

a useful lesson indeed. And on the 16th and 17th,  we're talking about Catch Word episode number 279  

where we taught you the expression "over my dead  body" and some related expressions as well. So,  

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us this week for those speaking classes because  they're a great opportunity for you to connect  

with the Culips community and our teachers and to  practice and improve your English speaking. So,  

with that being said, it's time to get started  with this episode in earnest, and in this one,  

I'm going to talk about fall and some of the  things I love about fall. And if you are a  

fall lover out there, I hope that you will enjoy  this episode, so let's get right to it. Enjoy.  

Here in the northern hemisphere, it is finally  fall! And the reason I say it is finally fall  

is that it has been a very, very, very, very  hot and long summer here in Korea. In fact,  

all the way until the end of September, it was  really hot, really humid, and in my opinion,  

really uncomfortable. I love the summer… usually.  As a Canadian, I love the summer. In my opinion,  

in western Canada, where I grew up, the  summer is amazing. It's hot but it's dry,  

and it's not like unbearably hot. Maybe in the  summer, we'd get into the mid 30s as a peak,  

but usually, it's pretty comfortable. The sun  can be strong, so you have to be careful about  

sunburns or sunstroke or just getting too  much sun, but otherwise, it's lovely. I love  

the summer back home in Canada. However, here  in Korea, I have to say that summer is one of,  

well not one of, it is my least favorite season,  and that is just because it's too hot, it's too  

humid, it's too rainy, and it's just not that  pleasant to be outside in the summer. And in fact,  

also inside unless you have a strong fan and some  air conditioning, it's pretty unpleasant. So,  

I'm very, very excited, very, very happy that  summer is finally gone for 2024, and yeah,  

it's fall now, and I love the fall. I would say  that fall is my favorite season in Korea, although  

maybe ask me this question again at the end of  winter when spring is starting up, and maybe I'll  

change my tune and I'll say spring is my favorite,  but those two shoulder seasons, unfortunately,  

they're also the shortest seasons here in Korea,  but fall and spring are the most pleasant,  

the most lovely, in my opinion, and I love them,  and I'm so excited about fall. I have made a list  

here of the top six things that I love about the  fall and that I'm excited about for this autumn,  

and I'm going to share those six things with you.  I don't think they're in any particular order,  

guys. I think all of these are awesome, but  I will count down starting with number six,  

and we'll go down to number one. Although,  like I said, I just randomly jotted these down,  

and I didn't really put them in order of favorite  to least favorite or anything like that. So,  

they're not in order, but let's get started with  my list, and we'll talk about some of my favorite  

things about fall, and I want to know your opinion  as well. Do you share any of these things with me,  

or are these particular to me? What do you think  about fall? Maybe depending on where you live,  

you have a different style of fall than the one  that I experience. But to be honest, Canada's  

autumn and Korea's autumn are pretty similar, so I  think there's a lot of similarity between the two,  

and it feels pretty much the same for me, no  matter where I am, which country I'm in. OK,  

so let's start with number six. Number six is the  back-to-school mindset. I guess this is a pretty  

nerdy way to start my list, but the back-to-school  mindset. Because in Canada, we always start the  

school year in September. So, after the summer  is finished, and it's time to go back to school,  

September rolls around, fall is here, usually  in Canada, September signals the start of fall,  

and that's when the weather starts to get a little  bit cooler and crispier, and yeah, it feels like  

fall. And so, what I like about the back-to-school  mindset, when school starts up again, is really,  

you can just get into that groove of learning.  And I don't know, when I was growing up, I always  

never studied during the summer, of course, that's  like our free time, we have our summer vacation,  

no matter if you're an elementary, middle, or  high school student, or even a university student,  

I really didn't study that much during the summer.  But then fall comes around, and it's time to get  

back into that learning mindset and start studying  again, and that has stayed with me even as an  

adult. So, whenever fall rolls around, I feel like  it's time to double down on my study of Korean,  

maybe double down on reading books, and just  spend more time learning and studying. And  

I always think it's really easy to focus and  concentrate in the fall for whatever reason.  

The summer is just too chaotic, too hot, it's  just not a good time for studying for me. So,  

I try to take the summer as a time to refresh and  relax and rest, and then in the fall, it's time  

where you can double down and really get into some  learning. And now that fall has started, I've been  

doing this in my own life. I've been studying  Korean more, I've been reading more books,  

and I've been trying to spend more time learning,  and it just, I don't know, maybe it's like the  

time that you take as a break in the summer helps  you get focused again in the fall. I'm not sure  

exactly what it is, but for me, I love that about  the fall. I always get down and get back to work,  

learning things in the fall, so that is my number  six, the back-to-school mindset. I love that about  

the fall. OK, and let's move on to point number  five. Fall holidays. Some of my favorite holidays  

occur in the fall. The ones that immediately come  to my mind are Thanksgiving and also Halloween,  

and here in Korea, we celebrate a holiday in the  fall called Chuseok. And Chuseok is similar to the  

Thanksgiving holiday, I guess is the most similar  comparison that you could make. It's a fall  

harvest celebration, just like Thanksgiving is,  and both of the days, Thanksgiving and Chuseok,  

are centered around having a delicious  meal. And I love eating delicious meals,  

so maybe that's why I enjoy both of those days.  Unfortunately, here in Korea, I don't really get  

to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving the way that  I would back home, just because the centerpiece  

of a Thanksgiving meal in Canada is turkey. And  turkey is rather hard to come by here in Korea, so  

it's not like I have a turkey that I can roast in  my oven over here, but the… the memories remain,  

and yeah, I always just enjoy that holiday. So,  Thanksgiving, Halloween, Chuseok. I love all of  

these days, especially Halloween. I don't even  really celebrate anymore, to be honest. It's not  

like I'm getting dressed up and going to a costume  party or anything like that. I think those days  

are behind me now, but I still love Halloween.  It holds a fond place in my heart, and I have a  

lot of great memories about celebrating Halloween  as a kid, and it being one of the most exciting,  

fun days of the year. And so, yeah, because of  those great memories growing up, Halloween will  

always hold a special place in my heart, and  I'll always love Halloween. And it's kind of a  

fun time to watch some scary movies or something  as well, not that I'm a huge horror movie fan,  

but something that's not too scary, sometimes  if I am gonna watch a horror movie, it will be  

around Halloween. OK, point number four about why  I love fall is fall fashion. Fall fashion. Now,  

you guys maybe have seen me before if you're  watching the YouTube version of this video,  

definitely, you have seen what I look like. If you  look at our Instagram page, the Culips Instagram  

page. There are many photos of me up on there. You  can see what I look like. You can see my style,  

and if you look at those resources, you'll be  able to see that I'm not really a fashion person.  

I just enjoy basic, simple fashion, and I just,  yeah, I have nothing against fashion. I think it's  

cool. I just personally don't have any talent when  it comes to putting outfits together or the time  

or the money to be too invested in fashion, so it  just is what it is. But that being said, I still  

really enjoy fall fashion. It's like the season  where you can dress up a little cozier, right? You  

can bring your pants out again and start wearing  pants as opposed to shorts. You can put on some  

sweaters. You can layer. You can get that cool  layered look, maybe even wear a jacket again,  

scarves in the fall, especially later in the fall,  boots, maybe you can wear, so you get to have  

more options, more creativity with your fashion.  Like here in Korea, in the summer, it is just so,  

so hot and humid that really, it's like shorts and  a t-shirt, maximum. You don't want to be wearing  

any more than that, and in the fall, then that  changes, and you have more things that you can  

wear, and more creativity and more freedom. And  also, I think I personally just look better in  

those kinds of clothes that you wear in the fall.  I'm not one of those people with an amazing body  

that looks great in summer clothes. You know,  some people probably love when the summer rolls  

around because they get to show off the guns.  Remember that expression that we talked about  

not too long ago on Culips, “Sun's out, guns out”  right? When the sun comes out, then you can show  

off your muscles and show off your great body. I'm  not one of those people that has an amazing body  

that I want to show off anyways. So, when the fall  rolls around and I can kind of cover it up and be  

cozier and also have a little more creativity  with the outfits that I put together and with  

the looks that I create and how I walk around  in the world with my fall fashion. I don't know,  

I just love it. As a person who's not really  into fashion, fall fashion is my favorite. OK,  

let's go to number three. Point number three about  why I love the fall is outdoor activities. Yes,  

outdoor activities, and you guys know me probably  by now if you're a regular listener of Culips,  

you'll know that I love running. It's one  of my hobbies. I also like cycling. I like  

hiking. I like doing many things outside, and  to be honest, I do them year-round. Sometimes  

it's much more uncomfortable than other times,  like in the hot summer or the crazy cold winter,  

sometimes it's like, yeah, a little bit  uncomfortable to be doing outdoor activities  

during those times. But I still do them, just  because I like being outside, but fall is perfect,  

right? It's not too hot, it's not too cold, and  it's just an amazing time to spend outdoors. Now,  

because I do outdoor activities year-round, this  point, I want to emphasize, is more about I get to  

do outdoor activities in the fall with my wife.  Things like hiking. It would be impossible to  

convince my wife to go for a hike with me in  the summer. OK? It's just too hot, too humid,  

too wet. Here in Korea, we have a monsoon season,  which means that it rains a lot, especially in the  

earlier parts of the summer, like in July, and  that means the ground is often wet. And in fact,  

sometimes it can be even dangerous to go up  into the mountains in July when it is the rainy  

season because of landslides or floods, those  kinds of things. So sometimes it's off-limits,  

but assuming that the weather technically is OK  and it's safe to go for a hike, it's just like,  

there's no way that my wife would join me for  a hike in summer. Or, yeah, even in the winter,  

maybe when it's too cold and too icy. So doing  those activities, and I love going hiking with my  

wife, it's just, yeah, a great way, in my opinion,  to spend time with your significant other or with  

friends, with anybody really. It's just a great  activity, again, my bias, but I love it. So yeah,  

when the fall rolls around, and my wife is not a  huge hiking fan, so it does take a little pushing,  

a little convincing, a little twisting of the  arm to get her to go for a hike. But whereas  

a hundred percent of the time, she would say no  in the summer, and maybe no in the winter, in the  

fall and in the spring, then I have a chance. So,  I love that! And usually, we haven't done it this  

fall yet, but I threw it out there the other day,  like, “Hey, we should go for a hike.” And she was  

like, “Yeah, that sounds good, like, let's do it.”  So, I think probably here pretty soon we will be  

going for a hike at one of the local mountains,  and yeah, I just love that, pack a picnic, hike  

up the hill, hike up the mountain, stop, have a  nice lunch, see some great views, enjoy that crisp  

fall air. Maybe the trees here in Korea, at least  where I'm recording and when I'm recording at the  

moment, the leaves haven't changed color yet, but  they'll be changing colors pretty soon. And that's  

not on my list, but that's another thing that I  love about fall, is the fall colors. And yeah,  

it's just beautiful here in autumn in Korea  when all of the leaves change colors in the  

mountains. You have a lot of the not so many pine  trees in Korea or the evergreen trees, you have a  

lot more of the deciduous trees where the leaves  change colors. So, it's just beautiful in the fall  

time when the mountains are ablaze with color.  I love it, I love it. And let's move on now to  

point number two. Coming in at number two is fall  food. So, this is one of the things that I love  

just about life, is like the seasonal change. I'm  lucky that I come from a country where there are  

four seasons, and now I live in a country where  there are four seasons. And it's just nice to  

have a change every three or four months, you get  to cycle through the changes of the season, and  

with each new season comes some different foods  that you can eat and enjoy. But one of my favorite  

things about the fall is the delicious food that  comes in the fall. I'm thinking about things like,  

like fruit and vegetables, apples, pears, pumpkin,  squash, sweet potatoes, all of these vegetables I  

really love. I love roasting vegetables. This is  something that you can't really do in the summer.  

I mean, you could do it, but I don't do it because  if I roast vegetables in my oven in the summer,  

it just makes my whole house even hotter than it  already is. But in the fall, when the temperature  

cools, you can roast these vegetables, especially  like root vegetables, turnips, sweet potatoes,  

those kinds of vegetables. Delicious! If you roast  them in the oven, they taste absolutely delicious.  

Also, you know, I'm not a huge tea drinker. I  go in and out of drinking large amounts of tea,  

in the summer, I rarely drink tea, even cold  tea, it's just not something that's on my  

radar or something that's appetizing to me in the  summer, per se. But as soon as fall rolls around,  

and the temperatures start to drop, then it's  tea time, and I find myself brewing and drinking  

ungodly amounts of tea. It's just one of those  things that I like to do in the fall and winter  

is consume and drink a lot of tea. What else,  of course, Halloween is a nice excuse to eat  

some sweet treats and some candy. I'm not a huge  candy guy, but I'm one of those people, like if I  

get some candy in the house, then it's for sure,  I'm gonna eat it. I'm really good at controlling  

myself with staying away from junk food when  it's at the store, but if I get it into my house,  

it's game over, and I'm totally gonna eat it.  And so yeah, I allow myself to buy some sweet  

treats to celebrate Halloween around Halloween. So  yeah, Halloween candy, I really like to eat in the  

fall. And apple crisp, that's one of my favorite  desserts, apple crisp and apple pie, maybe even  

banana bread, is something that I usually make in  the fall. Again, it has to do with the oven, it's  

just too hot to run the oven in the summertime.  But when fall comes around, then it's bake time,  

and I do enjoy doing some baking. So, maybe even  some cookies too, and I would like this fall to  

experiment with baking bread, which is something  I've dabbled with a little bit in the past and  

haven't had much success. So, I'm sure we have  some amazing bread bakers in the Culips community,  

so if you are a bread maker, maybe you could share  some tips with me because that's something I would  

like to experiment with a bit as well. So yeah,  in general, fall foods, they're very delicious,  

they're hearty, yeah, even like some soups  or some chili, I love, I love it in the fall,  

it's just like fills you up, warms you up,  makes you feel good, those comfort foods,  

right? Fall is a time for comfort foods. So, I  really enjoy that about this time of the year. And  

let's get to point number one. In fact, it's very  serendipitous that I'm talking about this on today  

because today is the first day of the new hockey  season. The 2024-2025 NHL, National Hockey League,  

hockey season. And as a Canadian, of course,  I love ice hockey, and I, yeah, I've liked it  

my whole life, but I've really been obsessed with  ice hockey for the last maybe three or four years.  

I've really focused in and got in way more into  it than I have in the past. And so, the ice hockey  

season takes a break in the summer, just like  the school year does, actually, it really mirrors  

pretty closely the school year. And so we've had a  nice three or four month break from hockey during  

the summer and spring, and now it's back. And  so, my favorite team, the Vancouver Canucks,  

they're actually playing their first game on the  day that I'm recording this, which happens to be  

October the 10th. So yeah, probably a few days  in advance of when you guys are watching it, that  

game will be long done by the time you're watching  or listening to this episode, but yeah, I'm really  

stoked again to enjoy some hockey. I find it's a  nice distraction from some of my other commitments  

in life, and it's a good way that I can connect  with my friends back home. I can connect with my  

family back home. It gives us all something to  talk about, and it's something that we can share  

in common, even though we may have other interests  or other hobbies or other things that are going on  

in our lives, we can connect over this one sport  of hockey. And it's just really fun to watch,  

so I'm really geared up for today's first game of  the new season. And this season we have 82 games,  

so it's going to be a long season, but our team  is looking good. My team. It's funny that we use  

those words to talk about a sports team that I  have no involvement with whatsoever other than I  

cheer for them. But we call them “our team” or “my  team,” so yeah, my team is looking good this year.  

I think we have a nice lineup, some good players,  and I think we'll have a pretty successful year,  

knock on wood, assuming that everybody can stay  healthy, all of the players can stay healthy,  

and yeah, looking forward to enjoying some time  watching ice hockey. Just as a way to connect with  

my Canadian culture back home, even though I live  abroad, it's a nice way to maintain those ties,  

and who knows, maybe I can even get some of my  Korean friends to be interested in the sport.  

It's funny, I spend during the hockey season,  I spend probably too much time on the Vancouver  

Canucks Reddit community, which is a social  media community where everybody talks about  

the team. And yesterday I saw posting by a Korean  person, not sure who they are exactly, but it's  

all anonymous, Reddit, so you don't know exactly  the age or the gender or anything like that. But  

somebody made a post, and they said, “Hey, I  live in Korea, I'm a Korean fan, what's up?”  

And I thought I didn't, I didn't respond to that  person, but there were a few other people that  

did respond, and they said they were in different  places in Korea. Of course, I'm here in Seoul, but  

there was a Canucks fan that replied from Busan,  down at the tip of the country, the southern tip  

of the country, and another person that replied  from Gyeonggi-do. So I don't know, there are a  

few fans here in Korea as well, and it could be  cool to maybe connect with them during the season,  

who knows, but yeah, I'm stoked, and it's one of  the things that I get excited for in the fall. So,  

I'm looking forward to a good season here up  ahead. Coconuts glow! That's what Vancouver  

Canucks fans say, because it sounds like, “Go  Canucks go!” Coconuts glow. I don't know, there's  

a lot of memes around the Vancouver Canucks  fan community. So, coconuts glow, and yeah, I'm  

looking forward to a nice season here up ahead to  enjoy throughout the fall, throughout the winter,  

throughout the spring, and hopefully all the way  to the Stanley Cup championship. So, everyone,  

I think I will wrap this up here. Those are the  six things that came to my mind immediately when  

I thought about what I love about the fall. I  would be super interested to hear your thoughts  

as well. What do you like about the fall? Do you  like the fall? Do you have a fall in your country?  

Depending on where you live exactly, you might  have no fall, I guess, if you're like around the  

equator or something. But let me know about your  thoughts about this topic. What is your favorite  

season? All of that information, let me know in  the comments for this episode. You can leave it  

here on our YouTube page if you're watching on  YouTube, or if you're listening to the audio,  

then our Discord community is a great place to  connect with all of our Culips community. We  

have thousands and thousands of people who are  practicing and improving their English on our  

Discord community, which is absolutely free to  join. We'll put the link to join the Discord in  

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community and to improve your English even more  and to make some good friends at the same time.  

Discord is a place where we can do that, so yeah,  come on over and join us on the Discord. Now,  

I also have to leave a completion code for you.  So, let's go with the completion code for this  

episode. Probably you're thinking, “Oh Andrew  is going to say autumn or fall, right?” If you  

are thinking that you're completely wrong. The  completion code for this episode is going to be:  

“Coconuts.” Coconuts. Because I told you about  that meme chant that the Vancouver Canucks fans  

say just a second ago, which is “Coconuts glow.”  So, the completion code for this episode then is  

going to be: “Coconuts.” And I would like you  to leave a comment with that word or make an  

example sentence using “coconuts” and leave  it on one of our social media services like  

Discord or YouTube or Instagram, and that will  show me and that will show our Culips community  

as well that you listened all the way to the end  of this episode and completed this week's study  

assignment. So, you got your homework.  You know what you need to do. Go go go:  

“Coconuts.” And with that being said, it's time  for me to take off. Thank you for completing this  

English study session with me today. I gotta say,  I'm proud of you. You did a great job, and you can  

pat yourself on the back for that. Up ahead here  during the next week, have a great week of English  

learning. Please take care as always, and I'll  talk to you in the next Culips episode. Bye-bye.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
stoked /stoʊkt/ B1	adjective - very excited or enthusiastic
glossary /ˈɡlɒsəri/ B2	noun - a list of difficult or specialized words with their definitions
comprehension /kɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən/ B2	noun - the ability to understand something
serendipitous /ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtəs/ C1	adjective - occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way
fluency /ˈfluənsi/ B2	noun - the ability to speak or write a language easily and accurately
mindset /ˈmaɪndsɛt/ B1	noun - a person's way of thinking and their opinions
crispier /ˈkrɪspiər/ A2	adjective - having a hard, dry texture that makes a cracking sound when bitten
chaotic /kəˈɒtɪk/ B1	adjective - completely confused and disordered
refresh /rɪˈfrɛʃ/ A2	verb - to give new energy or strength to someone
double down /ˈdʌbəl daʊn/ B1	phrasal verb - to increase one's efforts or commitment to something
serendipity /ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪti/ C1	noun - the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way

Key Grammar Structures

• I will be your host and your study buddy for today.

  ➔ Future Simple with 'will'

  ➔ The phrase uses 'will' to indicate a future action or role.

• I hope that by listening to my stories, you will be able to B.I.G.B.

  ➔ Subjunctive Mood with 'hope that'

  ➔ The sentence uses the subjunctive mood after 'hope that' to express a wish or desire.

• I don’t think they’re in any particular order, guys.

  ➔ Present Simple with 'think'

  ➔ The sentence uses 'think' in the present simple to express an opinion.

• I always think it’s really easy to focus and concentrate in the fall.

  ➔ Adverbs of Frequency (always)

  ➔ The adverb 'always' is used to indicate a habitual action.

• I’m not sure exactly what it is, but for me, I love that about the fall.

  ➔ Comma Splice with 'but'

  ➔ The sentence uses a comma splice to join two independent clauses with 'but'.

• I’m looking forward to a good season here up ahead.

  ➔ Present Continuous for Future Plans

  ➔ The present continuous is used to express future plans or arrangements.

• I would be super interested to hear your thoughts as well.

  ➔ Conditional Mood with 'would'

  ➔ The sentence uses 'would' to express a hypothetical or polite request.

• Please take care as always, and I’ll talk to you in the next Culips episode.

  ➔ Future Contractions (I’ll)

  ➔ The contraction 'I’ll' is used for the future tense of 'I will'.