AEE 2588: We Wish For You to Master English
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What is the focus of mastering English in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2588. We wish for you to master English.
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. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. When you state your hopes, are you talking about what you want for dinner or what you wish for the rest of your life? The vocabulary you choose matters. Learn more today.
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.
How can you identify if you're stuck with your English skills?
It's that real conversations don't slow down for you. 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.
What does it mean to focus on connection, not perfection in English?
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.
Hey there, Aubrey. How's it going today?
I'm great, Lindsay. I have a question for you. This is a pretty big question.
Okay.
What is something you wish for your future?
Oh my gosh. That is a really big question, Aubrey.
And not everything, but like one thing.
I think just balance, right? So a good balance of not going too heavy in any one area, not overloading it with career and getting obsessed, but also having a good family life, a good social life balance.
Love that. Yes. So that's a pretty big, right? It's very overarching. Why wouldn't you answer that with like, I wish to eat dessert tonight or something small like that? Maybe I should have. I don't know. I would kind of want ice cream.
immediate and small right unless you're trying to be funny or something yeah that's true you could do it to be silly yeah yeah this is really though you gave me some cues right that meant you were looking for a big answer about the future right so you said future you said wish right right?
And just this chunk, wish for, what do you wish for your future, implies these like bigger wants and wishes, right? So this is interesting. This was inspired by a question asked in our Q&A by Elizabeth, one of our amazing students. And she had said to a friend, I wish for my son to be an upstanding citizen. And the friend corrected her and said, that's much too formal. And so then she was asking, you know, could I say I would like for my son to be an upstanding member of the community or should I be saying something else? We had an amazing conversation about it and I'm excited to share that with you guys today.
All right, good. I love it. So the Q&A is what our students get when they join a personal coach plan in any of our courses and that's you're invited to an extra day each week. Aubrey, you're running them and you sit down with other students from other courses. You get to ask direct questions. from that course, right?
And they're always amazing. All of these students have such insightful questions, things that are coming up as they are building fluency or things they're learning in their course that they're taking through All Ears English. And it's always a really, really interesting conversation.
Totally cool. Really good stuff. So let's walk us through, Aubrey, if you could walk us through what we need to know for today.
Yeah. So we're going through a few phrases because some phrases are best for big wishful thoughts and some are more appropriate for smaller wishes or just things that you want, right?
Yes. Good. So the first example is I wish for a life that feels meaningful. And just by signaling, by putting I wish for a life that X, you're already signaling that you're talking about something big.
Exactly. Exactly.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the focus of mastering English in this episode?
0:00–1:18
2
How can you identify if you're stuck with your English skills?
1:18–1:32
3
What does it mean to focus on connection, not perfection in English?
1:32–5:14
4
How can you assess your current English level?
5:14–7:34
5
What is the significance of the phrase 'I wish for' in English?
7:34–13:15
6
How do different phrases express wishes or desires in English?
13:15–14:28
Speakers
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