AEE 2562: We're Watching Your English Like a Hawk
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2562. We're watching your English like a hawk.
Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
What does it mean to watch your English like a hawk?
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. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. What are the things that you watch closely in life, your young children, your dog, maybe even job opportunities in your field? Today, find out how to say that you pay close attention to something or someone in English.
Picture this. You're part of the conversation. Someone jumps in with a fast comment. Everyone reacts, but you're left behind, still processing the words. It's not that you don't understand English. It's that real conversations don't slow down for you.
How can you become fearless and fluent in English?
Slang, speed, tone, it all stacks up fast. The good news, these are trainable skills if you know your English level and what to do to move up. Start by taking our free two-minute fluency quiz to find out exactly what your level is now. Go to allearsenglish.com slash fluency score. That's allearsenglish.com slash f-l-u-e-n c-y-s-c-o-r-e.
Hello, Michelle. How's it going today? Great to see you on the microphone. You too, Lindsay.
I'm happy to be recording with you again. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, everything is good over here. Guys, Lindsay and I were both away. And now we are coming back to the mic refreshed and ready for... All that's to come this year.
Exactly. It's going to be a great year in 2026. So, Michelle, what are we getting into on the podcast today for our listeners? Okay. So, I have a question. Do you ever have to watch Kiefer like a hawk? Sometimes I do because he does this thing where, you know, when you take your dog for a walk, certain people's lawns have pesticides applied. Ah. And he likes the taste of the pesticides. Oh, delicious. Yeah. Really nice. So he'll like, if I don't watch him really closely, he'll lick the grass and then he'll like shake. It's really bad. I'm like, are you getting brain damage? Like what is happening? So it's really bad. And then I'm like, oh my gosh, is he going to die? Like what's happening? And then he's fine after that.
What are the challenges of understanding fast conversations in English?
But I have to watch him like a hawk when he's got his nose down. So he's not eating pesticides.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, that's good. That's definitely important. So yeah, what about how is Kiefer with kids? Like if a kid is to come up to him, are you like, are you confident?
Like, how do you feel? Usually good, usually good, because he has his cousins. So my in-laws, kids, but he, you know, sometimes he thinks a kid is a dog. So he'll like start to play and try to play with and I'll have to pull him back and I have to be careful there. Yeah.
Yeah. I feel like that's a little bit stressful because, yeah. Yeah. And parents probably get nervous sometimes with dogs around. But today we are going to talk about this fun and very useful expression that I just used with you. I said, do you ever have to watch Kiefer like a hawk? Now, what does that mean?
I know. Good question. Because I'm not a bird, right? I'm not a hawk. No, you're not a bird. But I have to act like a hawk in some cases. I mean, what do hawks, what is their behavior, Michelle, in the wild? I mean, well, they're kind of, aren't they kind of aggressive? I guess maybe they're aggressive. Maybe they just like hunt down their prey. I don't know. I'm not a bird expert, right? We might have a bird expert in the audience. But based on the idiom, I would think that hawks really look at, like they track things very closely because that's what we're talking about doing here, right? Michelle is tracking something, right? keeping a very close watch, right?
I don't know if they're aggressive, but what I'm looking at here, just in my hawk research, is that they have very good eyesight.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:18
2
What does it mean to watch your English like a hawk?
0:18–1:28
3
How can you become fearless and fluent in English?
1:28–3:04
4
What are the challenges of understanding fast conversations in English?
3:04–5:39
5
How can you assess your current English level?
5:39–11:43
6
How can watching your dog relate to being attentive?
11:43–13:00
7
What does the expression 'watch like a hawk' imply?
13:00–16:17
Speakers
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