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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 481: Listening to Music.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 481 – can you believe it? My name is Dr. Jeff McQuillan, I’m the host of ESL Podcast, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful – and I do mean beautiful – Los Angeles, California.

We have a website, yes we do. It’s eslpod.com. On it, you can find a Learning Guide for this episode that will help you improve your English even faster.

This episode is a dialogue between Victoria and J.D. It’s going to talk about listening to music and uses a lot of vocabulary we use to describe music. Let’s get started.

Victoria: I see that you have a really extensive music collection.

J.D.: Yeah, I like a lot of different genres of music.

Victoria: Do you have the new J.McQ album? He’s my favorite artist. I just got it and I like all of the tracks on it.

J.D.: No, I haven’t heard it yet. Do you have it on your MP3 player?

Victoria: Yeah, here, I’ve cued up the first track.

J.D.: Hmm…I like the beat of the first