AEE 2567: Make a Photo or Take a Photo?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast episode 2567. Make a photo or take a photo. Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
What is the focus of the episode: making a photo or taking a photo?
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 slash app.
You know that make versus do is tricky, but what about make versus take? Find out when to use these two verbs to clean up your English.
Do you feel like you know English, but you're always using the same basic words? You can't find the precise or professional phrase when it matters. Maybe you only hear sounds when natives speak. Without subtitles, you're lost. Fast speech, similar sounds, accents, it all blends together. And when you do speak, you hesitate, you overthink every sentence, you worry people don't understand you or that you don't sound natural.
How can I become fearless and fluent in English?
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Hey, Michelle, I'm feeling good. I am fresh off my trip to Italy and feeling refreshed, I guess.
Yeah, that is great. I love Italy. Did you take a lot of pictures when you went?
I did take a fair amount of pictures and it helps when you have the camera phones now, right? You don't need another camera anymore.
It's amazing.
You can create albums. Yeah, but the weather was nice. It was sunny. No complaints, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's great. So yeah, tell us a little bit more. You went on a wine tour? Um, usually the, the language is English. The language of the tour is English. And usually the tour guides are really high, have very high level English. And this tour guide had very high level English, a hundred percent. But for me being a linguist, I'm always listening in for, um, not so much mistakes because I don't, you know, we're not all about mistakes, mistakes, we're about connection, but I'm always interested in kind of mistranslations and what happened there. I always think, huh, I wonder what happened there. Right. So there was a moment we were at a vineyard and the sun was just setting and it was gorgeous right outside of the vines, watching the vines.
And he said, come on, everyone, get together. Let's make a picture. And I thought, oh, okay, that's not quite right. We knew exactly what he meant. We all got together. We had a beautiful photo. But it wasn't quite right, Michelle.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. And of course, it didn't take away from the connection. You had a wonderful time. Yes. So again, guys, we don't want to stress that all these things are going to ruin everything.
What are common English phrases that confuse learners?
But what Lindsay is saying is like that it's interesting to analyze after and to see if we can use this to help our listeners. 100%. 100%.
Because there are just little things around the edges that when we're translating directly, and that's what my hunch is what was happening. that we can make some small mistakes. So, I mean, this is why we travel, right?
What is the difference between 'make' and 'take' in English?
Because we understand connection goes so much deeper than just the choice of words. Right, Michelle?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, this is really interesting. And if you think about it, it's very understandable why someone would say make a picture. I mean, you're getting together to make a picture. Exactly. Yes. So it makes sense. But here is the difference. So basically, when you say take a picture, I'm thinking of physically someone is pressing the button, you're gathering together. It doesn't matter who's in the picture or who's pressing it. It's just that someone is taking the picture. So the tour guide, what would have been correct would have been, let's stand together and take a picture. So the focus is on the actual posing for the camera.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:17
2
What is the focus of the episode: making a photo or taking a photo?
0:17–1:43
3
How can I become fearless and fluent in English?
1:43–4:07
4
What are common English phrases that confuse learners?
4:07–4:30
5
What is the difference between 'make' and 'take' in English?
4:30–10:19
6
How does context affect the use of 'make' and 'take'?
10:19–20:06
Speakers
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