AEE 2617: From a Distance? Or in the Distance? How to Talk About Concerts, Sporting Events, and More
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2617, From a Distance or In the Distance, how to talk about concerts, sporting events, and more. 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. We'll 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.
How can small words change the meaning of what you're saying?
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Just a few small words can change the meaning of what you're saying. Find out how this plays out when it comes to a few very similar phrases and build new skills to talk about events and points of view.
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you? I'm feeling good today. Everything's good.
Michelle, what's going on in your world today? Not too much. Not too much. Lindsay, have you ever thought you recognized someone but only from a distance?
Oh, yeah. This can happen sometimes, right? Because everyone has a doppelganger. Yes. Like a twin in the world, it seems like.
What are the differences between 'at a distance' and 'from a distance'?
And yeah, sometimes I could swear it's that person, but it's not when I get closer, you know?
Yeah. well I this is kind of funny so I've had a couple times where I've been in my kitchen once it was when my mom was visiting and she and my daughter have blonde hair and they're sitting like I looked over and I saw hair of blonde a head of blonde hair on the couch in front of me and i thought it was my mom i thought it was my mom like sit like like sitting like very low on the couch okay and then i looked at it with my daughter that's really funny michelle it's hilarious vision you got to improve that Yeah. No. And she, because they have like the same color hair. And so she, she was also like, and then it happened again. So it's just, it's just kind of funny, but like from a distance. So Dan always, he'll say somebody looks like something like someone.
And now he's really proud if I agree with him, because usually I just tease him. I'm like, what are you talking about?
He's always saying people look like celebrities.
Yeah.
Or something like, oh, Jerry Seinfeld over there. And I'm like, oh, yeah.
What? Like, no.
Well, I mean, you guys were living in New York for a long time. So, you know, maybe it was Jerry Seinfeld at some point. Right. Maybe.
Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, but I tease him. That's a common thing that I tease him about. But sometimes if I say, Oh, my God, you're right. He is so proud of himself. Not that it's really that person. But if I actually say that the person does really look like resemble who he's talking about. He's proud.
Well, it's hard. Like when you see someone and you think, Okay, I know exactly who would play them in a movie. You know what I mean? Like everyone has their celebrity doppelganger as well, who would play this person and this person in the movie. They're always, usually they're better looking.
exactly exactly but anyways so from a distance so that was in the question i asked you is a term that we use a lot in english but it can get confused with similar phrases so today we're going to answer a listener question about this term yes comes to us from youtube lindsey could you read it for us
Yeah.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:43
2
How can small words change the meaning of what you're saying?
0:43–2:31
3
What are the differences between 'at a distance' and 'from a distance'?
2:31–5:25
4
How do cultural references affect understanding in conversations?
5:25–13:48
5
Why is it important to understand the context of distance in English?
13:48–18:55
Speakers
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