Learn advanced English in this episode of The Aussie English Podcast where I chat with Kel about what Aussie English achieved in 2018 and what the plans are for 2019. Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS Download MP3 + Transcript AE 520: A 2018 Recap & 2019 Plans for Aussie English Let me just get it rolling. Kelly, can you put the slang book down. She’s reading a little book on Australian Slang. I didn’t know you were recording already. I just started it, YOLO, you know? You only live once. So, I thought I would get it going, in fact, I’m going to turn my voice down because I tend to speak a lot louder than you. So yeah. To balance it out, bring it close to the mouth, bring it closer to the mouth. That’s it, that’s it…you can move it around. So, we’re still getting used to the set up here and I know that there’s a bit of an echo in the background I’ve ordered some…sound dampening foam. Wow. Right? So, I mean, it sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. It is like… special foam, like you know if you were to buy a microphone or a guitar or some kind of equipment, when you get it usually comes in foam that’s been had a part of it cut out so, that it fits perfectly in that, right? That kind of foam. You can put that on the wall on surfaces that are flat and it disperses the sound. So, it absorbs the sound, but it also doesn’t let the sound reflect back towards the microphone. How are you going to stick it to the wall? It comes with double sided tape. Ah nice. So, you put that on there and so what you guys won’t hear is that, when I get away from the mic, when I speak like this, you can hear that there’s a bit of an echo, right? And that’s really annoying me and probably Kel more than me because every time she edits the audio and so, I’m sort of like… I can keep hearing this in the background and when I edit it, I can see on your channel the reflection of my voice off the wall behind you and into your microphone. So, when I don’t talk, if I mute my channel, I can hear myself still through your microphone because it’s bouncing off the wall behind you and going into your microphone. Crazy. I know. That was pretty boring, but there you go, what an intro! video. So I thought that we could chat all about 2018. How we went, what we accomplished and then plans for 2019 and obviously plans for us personally, plans for Aussie English as well. So, 2018. So how was it for you? Did you have fun? Was it a rollercoaster? It was a rollercoaster. How so? I think memory is a tricky thing because I’m sure there were other like years in my life where I was struggling with something and I would say, back then, all that was the hardest year of my life, but because now I don’t remember so much of those years that went by, I would say 2018 was the hardest… Well, it’s always the most recent stuff, right? Why was it so hard for you? I think there was a lot of change, personally, for me, so… I think the difficult side of that was not necessarily the fact that there was change, but the fact that there was no certainty. True.