E272: 🎙️ Welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast with me, your host, Anna! Tune in to Week 29, Day 2 of Your English Five a Day, where we aim to enrich your vocabulary with five new words or phrases every weekday.

🏇🏽 First up, we delve into the idiom "to hedge your bets", Next, we unravel the adjective "independent" and then we delve into another idiom "to catch wind of something".  Moving on, we inspect the noun "contraband" and finally, we take a look at the noun "respect".

🚬 Join us for pronunciation practice and engaging memory exercises, as we reinforce these newfound linguistic treasures in your repertoire. Then make sure you stick around for today's riveting tale with Sandra, a seemingly ordinary building site manager turned international smuggler. Sandra's foray into the world of contraband began innocently, but soon spiraled into a risky venture fraught with legal repercussions.

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