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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 454: Hailing and Taking a Taxi.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast number 454. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Hailing and Taking a Taxi.” To “hail a taxi” means to stop a taxi, to get a taxi’s attention so that the car will stop. This episode is going to be using some very typical vocabulary that you might use if you take a taxi in the U.S. Let’s get started.

My company sent me on my first business trip, and I was supposed to travel around the city in taxis. Having never ridden in a taxi before, I had problems from start to finish.

First, I had trouble hailing a cab.