Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2580.
Chapter 2: What tips can help you avoid sorrow, worry, and fear?
Avoid sorrow, worry, and fear with these tips. 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 host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer.
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Chapter 3: How can focusing on connection improve your English skills?
Hey, Aubrey, what's going on? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you today? Feeling good. Feeling good. Aubrey, I'm curious. Are you a person that worries a lot? I'm not. I actually just had an interesting conversation with a friend who also has teenagers who said that she stays up until the teenagers are home late at night. I was like, couldn't be me. I'm sound asleep. I'll wake up at 2 a.m.
and check Life 360 to see if they got home safe. Ah. If they don't have their location shared, then I have to go upstairs and make sure they're home. But I don't stay up. I don't make them wake me up. I don't really worry. I just hope that they're safe. That's really good. Wow. I love that. That's fantastic. Gosh, because worry does really weigh on you, doesn't it?
That personality trait really does weigh on you over time. Yeah. Yes, absolutely.
Chapter 4: What is the difference between sorrow and worry?
And this is really interesting. This is inspired by an error we sometimes hear English learners make where they use the words sorrow or sorrowful when describing fear or worry. I recently heard someone say they said, I feel sorrowful that I might lose my job to AI. So it was an interesting conversation of why instead you would say worried or fearful. Yes. Yeah.
So just to be clear, we can't say that, right, Aubrey? It feels like an incorrect use of the vocabulary sorrowful. Reserve sorrowful for, for example, the death of a loved one. Sorrow is such a stronger, sad emotion when we feel sorrow about something. Yeah. It's kind of grieving to the extreme, right? Exactly. Right.
And these words that are for bigger emotions like that, we don't use often in casual conversations to say we're worried about something. So we're going to cover all of these terms today with examples so that you can make sure to use them to convey the correct emotion. Yes, we're going to get this right today. I love it. Guys, if you love our show, our style is connection, not perfection.
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So for all of these, we're going to cover both the noun and the adjective, which are used differently. So we'll share examples for both. And let's start with sorrow as a noun, Lindsay. Yeah. So this is a deep feeling of sadness, right? Which is caused by loss, disappointment, hardship. Yeah. A death of a loved one. So lost, you know, what else could be Aubrey? Yeah, that's really it, right?
Maybe intense regret about the past. Like if you, you know, you'd be like, oh, I'm sorrowful that I wasn't able to spend more time with my grandma, something like that, or you're sharing sort of regret about the past. Yeah. So we often say this in the sense of feeling sorrow, right? So she felt great sorrow after losing a close friend, or there was a sense of sorrow.
So sense of sorrow in the room when the news was shared. Maybe also a big world event like 9-11, right? Created a real... I remember, I don't know where you were, Aubrey. I was on campus in college, a sophomore in college.
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Chapter 5: How can you effectively express sorrow in English?
And I remember... Because my college was 45 minutes south of Washington, D.C. So a lot of the parents worked in the Pentagon, worked in D.C. And it was like so – you could hear a pin drop on the campus. No one was talking. People were staring at the ground walking around campus that day. You could tell like there was a lot of sorrow on campus there. Yeah, definitely. Oh, yeah, I was in Quebec.
So it was strange to not be actually to be so close to New York, but not be in the States. But same even I mean, of course, no matter where you were in the world, you were devastated by that. And you felt sorrow and you felt the sorrow of the people around you that something like that could happen. Yeah. So these big events, plane crashes could also evoke a sense of sorrow. Right.
So it's not just losing someone, you know, it could be just tragedies, let's say. Or the general state of the world. You might say, like, I feel real sorrow for and then just something that's happening, political war, some atrocity. It's just a deep emotional sadness. For sure. So then we turn it into an adjective. And this is what we heard our listeners say with the wrong usage.
What does that look like, Aubrey? Yeah. So sorrowful is the adjective, which means feeling or showing that deep sadness. So for example, you could have a sorrowful look, like you just look like you're extremely sad. You could say he gave a sorrowful look as he spoke about his past, or he had a sorrowful look. Mm-hmm. Or the music had a sorrowful tone. Sorrowful. That's kind of hard to say.
I wanted to say sourful, but it's not sourful. It's sorrowful. Yeah. Tone that moved everyone.
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Chapter 6: What examples illustrate the use of 'sorrowful'?
Certain singers just sing in that tone, I guess, a little more than others, right? Yeah. And we often, you know, in casual conversation, most often you'll just hear very sad, right? The music had a very sad tone, but this means the same thing. It's a more, it's just a less common way to say that. Yeah.
If you want to just choose a different word or maybe be a little more extreme in what you're saying, you might go for sorrowful instead of sad. Yes. Okay. And then we're going to talk about, yeah, worry and then fear, which this is where the mistake could be made.
If you don't realize that sorrow is quite a bit different from worry, fear, nervousness, you might try to use them interchangeably, but they do have very different meanings. Yeah. I mean, worry is a feeling of anxiety or concern. I asked you, you shared a great example, right? You're able to go to sleep and not worry.
So the noun form about a possible problem or a future event, it's not about what's happening now, it's about what could happen, right? That's the key. Exactly. Right. I don't worry that my kids are safe. I try not to, or I would never be able to sleep, like you said. Yeah, for sure. Or another example, her biggest worry was whether she would arrive on time.
I've been stuck in traffic so many times and that's, am I going to make it on time? I know. Or money became a constant worry for the family. Right. That's heavy. When someone loses a job, maybe is laid off and then suddenly money is a big worry. Right. Yeah, absolutely.
And then the adjective form of this is just worried, to be worried, to feel anxious or concerned, like I'm worried about my exam tomorrow, or he looked worried when he didn't get a response, right? So this is just taking the noun, making it an adjective to describe a feeling, okay? Right, exactly.
So for example, if you are talking with a friend about being worried that AI might take over your job, this is the word that you would use, like I'm worried about the future with AI and the unknown, not knowing what will happen. Yeah. A lot of people are having those thoughts right now. Right. In our global economy, of course. And so share it. Connection moments here.
Use these words to be a little bit transparent. Show what's on your mind. That helps people get to know you, what you value. And I don't know, there's just something about being a little bit vulnerable that's kind of endearing because it shows that you're human. Don't you think, Aubrey? Yes. Absolutely. Right. It is an interesting thing to connect about. And that's why.
So when I when I heard this mistake, I'm like, OK, I would say instead worried or fearful because we also use fearful. It's interesting. We use it to talk about things we're afraid of, but also things we're really worried about it. Right. I'm fearful that I could take over my job means very worried. Yep, exactly. Or the child was fearful of the dark hallway. Kids are afraid of the dark.
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