Transcript
Narrator/Announcer (0:00)
This is an All Ears English podcast. Episode 2599. Build Someone's Confidence by fighting this battle.
Podcast Host (Intro/Outro) (0:09)
Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, usa. To get real time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven day free trial at allearsenglish.com forward/app.
Michelle Kaplan (0:59)
Do you ever need to help someone feel less embarrassed or make them feel strong? Today, get a key phrase to personify objects or events and build connection.
Narrator/Announcer (1:18)
You can be technically correct in English and still not sound natural.
Lindsay McMahon (1:22)
Maybe your sentences are grammatically right, but
Narrator/Announcer (1:24)
something feels stiff, a little robotic, not quite how a native speaker would say it. That's nuanced. Fluency lives in collocations, phrasal verbs and word choice, not just grammar rules.
Podcast Host (Intro/Outro) (1:36)
If you keep using the same safe
Narrator/Announcer (1:38)
phrases, it may be time to stretch. Find out your level and what vocabulary skills you're missing in our free two minute quiz. Go to allearsenglish.com fluency score. That's allearsenglish.com F L U E N C Y S C O R E.
Michelle Kaplan (2:04)
Hey, Lindsay, how are you?
Lindsay McMahon (2:06)
Great, Michelle. Glad to be here on the microphone with you. What's going on today?
Michelle Kaplan (2:10)
Well, Lindsay, do you have any trusted cleaning products that can get out any stain?
Lindsay McMahon (2:15)
That's a good question. Sometimes I've had luck with stain stick. You know that the, like the little stick that has the gel that you put on things?
Michelle Kaplan (2:23)
