AEE 2614: Don't Turn Your Back on the Weather as a Great Connection Topic
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2614. Don't turn your back on the weather as a great connection topic.
Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
What is the importance of discussing the weather in conversations?
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. What is the difference between cloudy and overcast or humid and muggy? Today we go next level on the weather topic and explore why this topic still gets you deeper into connection in English.
Many English learners focus on grammar. They want their sentences to be correct. But fluency isn't just about correctness. It's about sounding natural, choosing the right phrase, responding quickly without translating every thought in your head. That's why someone can know a lot of grammar rules and still feel uncomfortable in conversations. Real fluency comes from understanding patterns, tone, and natural expressions. Our free two minute fluency quiz helps you discover your level and what skills will move you forward. 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, Michelle, how are you today? How's it going? I'm good. How are you, Lindsay? Good, Michelle. What's the weather like where you are today on the East Coast? Is it cold, cloudy, overcast, sunny? What's it like?
It's cold and I would say it's overcast today. Okay. It's not, not. outside. Not beautiful. Not the worst, but certainly not inspiring.
What about you?
Well, it is sunny today. It's sunny a lot in Colorado. Yesterday, it sort of rained like a tiny droplet. And then I asked my partner, I was like, did it rain yesterday? And I just, I don't know. It doesn't really rain out here. And we do, we get a lot of sunshine, a lot of blue sky. They call it the Colorado blue, where it's just this pure blue a lot of the days. Yeah. Oh, that's nice. But it means we have high rates of skin cancer out here.
Oh, that's not good.
Yeah, but I do like it. I like it. It's nice. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, Lindsay, talking about the weather is actually... I mean, we've talked about the weather a lot on this show. It's an important skill for connection. And it is always this joke that this is like boring small talk. Yeah.
How can understanding weather terminology improve fluency?
But sometimes... We need to have that skill. And people do talk about the weather. I mean, they really, really do. So it's a great way to ease your way into a conversation, especially in English. And the weather is relatable. I mean, we here where I live, we had terrible storms and we had it was it's been freezing. So, I mean, what better? I mean, everybody experiences it. So it's a great connection topic.
Everybody experiences and everybody hears about it, especially in different parts of the country and the world. We hear when there are like earthquake. Well, I guess earthquakes isn't technically weather, but like we hear when there are big storms in certain places in Europe. um flooding maybe and i know that there were big storms on the east coast like i that was just in the new york times today right so i would bring that up to you if i hadn't seen you in a while you know how are those big storms right yep i know it seems mundane it seems kind of basic and we we talk a lot about more interesting things on this show but we still talk about it as human beings Definitely.
We would be doing a disservice if we didn't teach you guys about this, even though it seems mundane. Right. So today we're going to talk about different ways to describe the weather, which we definitely have touched on about this on this show before. But. Somebody asked us a great listener question that we're going to answer. So when somebody asks you, how's the weather? You don't always have to say the same exact thing. You can be more precise.
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