AEE 2602: This Was Just an Episode and Now It’s a Gold Mine!
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2602. This was just an episode, and now it's a goldmine.
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
What is the significance of the phrase 'just a house' versus 'now it's a home'?
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Hello, Aubrey. How are you today? How's it going? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Feeling good today. Feeling good. Aubrey, when did you move into your current house?
About 11 years ago, we moved into this house.
It's been a while. And so for you, how long did it take until your house felt like a home?
Ooh, that's a great question. Pretty quickly, once we had our stuff in here and our kids in here, I would say it felt like a home pretty quickly. But interestingly, when we moved in, there was tile everywhere, these big kind of tan tiles that were very slick. If there was any water on the floor, the kids would come in from the pool and just slip and fall. And so we replaced that as quickly as we could. So that maybe had a, you know, something to do with it. Once we got rid of that tile, I'm like, okay, this feels more like a home.
Nice. I love that. I mean, I would also argue that maybe it's not even about time. It's about the right people and your pets are in the house, your kids are in the house, and you're putting your memories on the wall maybe and you're customizing the house like you said with your time. Exactly, right?
When you have your things, your furniture, your stuff on the wall and your family's there, it's going to feel like home.
Yeah, totally. Totally. So I'm excited to see if any of our listeners caught the question here, right? Because I asked you, when did you move into your house? And when did it start to feel like a home? Right?
Yes, right. When does your house start to feel like a home? A lot of people might be surprised and think that's the same word, but it does have a little different meaning.
It does. And so we have a question that came in from a friend of the show, and I will go ahead and read it today. Shall I? I hope you're doing well. I was watching Queer Eye over the weekend, and one of the heroes walked into their newly designed space, Awestruck, and said, it was a house, now it's a home. I've been enjoying that sentence a lot over the past few days, and it struck me how confusing those words might be for someone new to English. Throwing this out there for an idea if you haven't covered it already. Great.
Love this idea. And yes, this is a great phrase. And I'm excited to teach this because it's flexible. We don't just use this with house and home. We use this with a lot of things.
Ooh, yeah, I'm excited for this. We're going to get into some good stuff today. But first, as we always try to do, I want to call out our amazing listeners that took the time to go and leave us a review. So thank you to Lisa from Iran on CastBox on February 11th. Thank you to Mohamed Vasete, also from Iran on February 11th in CastBox.
How can you show the evolution of importance in your life?
So guys, when you leave us a review, we will do our best. Well, certainly we'll read it, first of all, and that really matters to us. Right, Aubrey? I mean, we do this for our listeners, right?
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