E168: 🎙️ Welcome back to The English Like a Native Podcast with your host Anna! Get ready for Week 14, Day 3 of Your English Five a Day, where we delve into five intriguing words or phrases to boost your vocabulary.

🍴 Today we step into the kitchen and take a look at words ranging from culinary terms to idiomatic expressions. Our list starts with the verb "marinate". Next are two loanwords borrowed from other languages; the adjective and adverb "al dente" and the noun "connoisseur".  Moving on to the fourth item on the list, which is the fun idiom "cool as a cucumber", and finally we finish off the list with the phrasal verb "dig in".

🍝 In today's tale, we visit a dinner party enthusiast who tries their hand at catering for a friend's wedding. Despite not being much of a food connoisseur and encountering a few bumps in the road, they manage to deliver a delicious meal and a successful event.

⭐ ENGLlSH LIKE A NATIVE PLUS ⭐

Join English Like A Native Plus - a membership allowing you to access the bonus episodes, plus a weekly email with the most recent podcasts' transcript.
Become a Plus Member here: https://englishlikeanative.co.uk/elan-podcast/

Five-a-Day Database
Access all the vocabulary covered in the Five-a-Day series. This database is constantly updated.
You can even make a copy and personalise it with your own example sentences.
Get access now by joining my ELAN Newsletter 👈

🔥Early Bird Black Friday Sale! 🔥
English courses up to 50% OFF this week only.

https://www.joinelan.com/elan-black-friday-2025

🚀Take Your English Further with Podcast+!

Get more from the Five-a-Day podcast with Podcast+!

✅Course-style format with the latest episodes

✅Quiz & writing task for deeper learning 
✅Full episode transcript for extra support 
✅Engage with fellow learners 

All for less than a monthly cuppa and a packet of biscuits! ☕️🍪 

Join today: https://community.englishlikeanative.co.uk/checkout/podcast

------------------------

Discover the new C1 Course and finally feel at home in your English:

https://bit.ly/pod-c1

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.