012: Family Relationships and Idioms

This week’s episode is a companion to the vocabulary builder video published on YouTube and the website.  We discuss more complicated family relationships as well as lots of idioms that use family relationship words like ‘mother’.  Do you know what the phrase “mother lode” means?  What about “grandfather clause”?  Listen here and learn! 

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