AEE 2576: Lindsay's Language Adventure on the Spanish Steps
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This is an All Ears English podcast episode 2576, Lindsay's Language Adventure on the Spanish Steps. 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. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Today, let's find out what a cop said to Lindsay in Italy and why this was slightly incorrect English. Listen in to fine tune your grammar and vocabulary today.
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Hey, Lindsay. How are you? Hey, Michelle. Glad to be here. How are you? How's it going? I'm doing well. So you recently went to Italy. I did. And I'm just curious, where's your favorite place in Italy to visit? Probably Rome is my favorite city in Italy just because it feels like the most authentic city to me in terms of touristy cities, let's say. I'm sure there's some dreamy city in some small town that I would love. But Rome is really cool because, you know, you're just... you're taking like a city bus or you're just taking an uber or something or you're walking maybe you're on your way to work and you turn left and there's these ancient ruins right there in the middle of the city it's wild yeah i love rome too i really do um and one of my favorite places that when i visited rome i couldn't believe how beautiful the spanish steps were like yeah
I was just, I could have been there all day. So nice, especially in the evening. And it was gorgeous. When we were there, it was really crowded. I'm not going to lie. A lot of people on vacation in the week between Christmas and New Year's, right? And so we were around crowds a lot, which is not my favorite thing. But still, the Spanish Steps are beautiful. And we just took a break and we sat down right on the steps, right? Mm-hmm. Um, so we're sitting there for about 10 minutes, um, you know, and a lot of other tourists were also sitting on the steps or sitting on the little blocks of cement next to the steps. So it seemed like an okay thing to do. We thought we were okay. We were tired tourists, you know, that kind of thing, deciding where to go next.
And then, um, a cop, a policeman came up to us and said, it's not possible. Yeah. right so michelle what comes to your mind when you so he said it's not possible and then he kind of gestured for us to move to stand up and kind of walk away or just stand up to not sit there what comes to your mind when you imagine this scenario like a like kind of confusion and awkwardness because it's not possible it's it's just it's not it you know, where I guess what we would have said is you can't sit here or you're not able to sit here, something like that, rather than just it's not possible. Yeah. I will say I really think I sat on the steps and no one bothered me. I don't know. Maybe things have changed.
What does Lindsay's language adventure in Italy reveal about English usage?
Maybe because it was so busy and so crowded or who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Yeah. Because I got some nice pictures there anyway. Yeah. But yeah, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did it feel like a little awkward for you? And I'm really interested in language. And I think the thing is, like, we understood and we got up and we walked away. Right. Like we got it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:33
2
What does Lindsay's language adventure in Italy reveal about English usage?
4:33–5:10
3
How can understanding English impact your career and promotions?
5:10–13:00
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What was the misunderstanding with the cop on the Spanish Steps?
13:00–20:38
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What are more accurate ways to express prohibition in English?
20:38–21:48
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