AEE 2600: Grammar That Won't Keep You From Connecting in English
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2600, grammar that won't keep you from connecting in 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. We all have temptations like eating too much dessert and more. How do you keep yourself from giving into them? Today, learn key vocabulary and the grammar that goes with it to have these conversations in English.
You can be technically correct in English and still not sound natural. Maybe your sentences are grammatically right, but something feels stiff, a little robotic. Not quite how a native speaker would say it. That's nuance. Fluency lives in collocations, phrasal verbs and word choice, not just grammar rules. If you keep using the same safe phrases, it may be time to stretch. Find out your level and what vocabulary skills you're missing in our free two-minute quiz. 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, Lindsay.
How can focusing on connection improve my English fluency?
How are you today? Hey, Aubrey. Welcome to episode 2600. Oh, my gosh. We forgot to plan a party.
This is the party. 2600 episodes of All Ears English. I actually was just looking on Spotify. It popped up the very first episode, which has all these comments. It was so fun. People were just saying like, I'm here at number one. I'm going back to the beginning and listening to them all.
Yeah.
And it was fun to read through those comments. And it made me excited for people that have 2,600 episodes ahead of them.
Yep, that was the Meet Your Teachers episode, right? Yes, exactly. That was one of our most popular episodes. I love it. And so you guys have, if you're starting with episode one, and you have a lot in between today and episode one to enjoy. I know, right?
And if you're here at 2,600, so exciting. It's been an amazing journey. I know we have listeners who have listened to all 2,600 episodes. That's awesome.
Yeah. And you know, the reason that we're able to continue doing this is we know that language learning is about more than just the words, the grammar, the vocab. It's so much bigger. It's connection, right? It's human connection that we're talking about in every episode here. So this is why we keep doing it because we really care. We want people to be connected. We want to be connected, right?
What common temptations do we face in our daily lives?
As human beings. We know you guys do too.
In a world that's going more and more toward AI, I think we're not the only ones who feel more and more of a pull and a need for that connection. We don't want that to go away.
Yes, 100%. So guys, connection, not perfection. It is our motto. If you agree with that too, hit the follow button, right?
Absolutely. And I'm excited to connect here because these phrases are really interesting. But I have a question for you, Lindsay, to start us out.
Okay.
What is something you try to keep yourself from doing?
Oh, sometimes when we buy like at Whole Foods, the chocolates, different chocolates with salt or something. It's tempting when I have candies or chocolates at home to not eat them too much.
You're constantly keeping yourself from devouring them.
Yeah, I try to live like I can only have one a day, but it's very hard to keep it to one a day, right?
I just prefer for that to not be in my house so I don't have to constantly be keeping myself from doing it.
That's why I don't really buy sweets. I don't really keep ice cream in the house. I don't keep cookies because I don't think I'd have the self-control. It's a constant temptation. Like I think about it constantly. It's true.
It's so bad.
Yeah.
Well, this is great. We have some amazing phrases here. This one to keep yourself from doing something and related phrases.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:58
2
How can focusing on connection improve my English fluency?
1:58–3:09
3
What common temptations do we face in our daily lives?
3:09–6:31
4
How do I keep myself from giving into temptations?
6:31–12:49
5
What are some phrases for resisting temptations?
12:49–14:34
6
How does self-control affect our daily decisions?
14:34–18:44
Speakers
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