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伴随益康糯米和朋友理查德在伦敦的小书店项目 Hoxton Books 的启动，文化土豆决定尝试在未来几个月尝试每月录制一期慢速简单英语的节目，记录书店的成长，也希望大部分文化土豆的听众能够跟上。这期节目是我们第一次录制，希望大家多提意见。

节目中提到的作品信息：

Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve

https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74

为了帮助部分听众的理解，下面是 Otter.ai 制作的文字整理。（两人同时说话时错误比较多，但是基本够用！）

Yifan 0:00

Welcome to culture potato, a new hope this is a brand new, slow English speaking podcast where my friend Richard and I are going to talk about our brand new project a bookshop in London. Yay, Hi Richard!

Richard 0:19

Hello

Yifan 0:20

Could you introduce yourself to our listeners, and maybe say one interesting thing about our friendship.

Richard 0:28

So Hello, everyone. My name is Richard. I've been a friend of the fans for about 15 years. He described me as bookish because I grew up amongst lots of books. My father's in the book business. I've worked in bookshops, I've worked in publishing companies. I've even worked for my father. And I'm always always wanting to buy books and reading them. So that's roughly why I'm here.

Yifan 1:05

And I just want to add until very recently, because we have to work on this bookshop project. Richard had no internet at home.

Yeah, that's right. Indeed.

No Internet how hardcore?

Richard?

Richard 1:26

Yeah, sceptical of all the inventions after the book. So if and what's the what's the latest? Or at least how, how is the bookshop looking? How are the how's the the site progressing towards completion?

Yifan 1:43

So, I have been in this project, our division of labour or what each of us do is I have been taking charge on the decoration, buildings work of the bookshop, while Richard is preparing on the content and what books to choose.

So in the last month, I have been working with builders and interior designer on the site, our bookshop is tiny, it's about 25 or 30 at a push maybe 25 square metres somewhere in England, it's probably in square feet have no idea what what that is.

We currently have strengthened all the walls to make it stronger because we have some hanging bookshops. So we have one bookshelf that's freestanding, and two shelves are hanging so screwed on to the war. So the war needs to be able to bear heavy weight strong. Yeah, yeah. The builders have put plaster on the war now so it's now painted white. But we are going to paint it give it another coat of paint. So we have been choosing paint colours over the last week. I forget what colour we have settled on.

Richard 3:11

I think it was called something like ash grey. And what was it?

Yifan 3:15

No that's for the floor.

Richard 3:17

No. As Gray 's for the wall and for the full floor was a good light

Cree or something

Yifan 3:24

scree

Richard 3:24

scree.

Yifan 3:25

Okay, so we have a concrete looking floor and we have a bluish I think it's not is it gray to me Yes. blueish wall anyway. Yeah. yet to be done are lights, installing spotlights and a hanging pendant light in the middle. That looks like a book actually. You haven't seen them.

Richard 3:51

I've only seen photos. Okay, it was very nice. very tasteful.

Yifan 3:56

That's half of our budget

Richard 3:57

as as as is to be expected from you.

Yifan 4:00

And then I have ordered the checkout machine. So it's like an iPod iPad? No, it's like an iPhone thing where people can swipe their credit card or contactless card and I'm hoping to get alipay and WeChat pay a machine to do that as well because there are a lot of Chinese students in London who may benefit from that or we may benefit from that.

Richard 4:24

We may right.

Yifan 4:27

What else is to be done? I think the toilet Yeah, we have a small toilet and the toilet needs to be

Richard 4:34