Episode 55 Summer Heatwave English: Wilting in the Dog Days

It's a proper scorcher out there — and this week's English Snack is all about surviving the heat while daydreaming about cooler days ahead. Amber shares real personal moments from a heatwave in the French countryside, weaving in natural English vocabulary and idiomatic expressions for talking about hot weather, discomfort, and that particular kind of seasonal longing many of us feel by midsummer.

Along the way, you'll pick up conversational phrases and expressions that native English speakers actually use to describe extreme heat, physical exhaustion, and the small comforts that help us cope — plus a few wistful, poetic phrases for imagining the change of season to come. As always, every phrase is modelled clearly with shadowing practice built right in, so you can repe ...