Chapter 1: What is the focus of the All Ears English podcast?
This is the All Ears English podcast. Buckle up for this episode. 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 hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl.
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When you are about to get into something challenging, what can you say to motivate and inspire others and to get their energy level up? Find out 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.
Chapter 2: How can you become fearless and fluent in English?
It's not that you don't understand English. 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. 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, Michelle. How's everything going? Everything is good over here. Lindsay, how are you? I'm feeling good. Shall we get into it?
What do you think? Yeah. So, Lindsay, we've been doing some long recording sessions, right?
Yeah. We've been recording a lot of podcast episodes for our listeners.
We basically live on the microphone. Yeah, exactly. I'm just going to put it next to my bed while I'm sleeping and see maybe we can get an episode out that way. But it's a good thing. Guys, we absolutely love it. But Lindsay, how do you prepare for the start of a long recording session?
Well, you know, it really matters what you say. I mean, that's why we host a language podcast, right? We believe here that language can set the tone for connection, for fun, for enjoyment, for just really focusing in on a task. Right.
And so especially when, you know, you're staring down a long recording session, like we sometimes we sit down and we record eight episodes at a time, which takes two or three hours, maybe three. Right. So what do we say? Something like what I just said, let's get into it with a little bit of energy in my voice can motivate my co-host. Right.
Yeah, exactly. You want to sound like you have energy behind it. You're ready to go. You're excited rather than like,
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Chapter 3: What motivates the hosts before a recording session?
That's never going to work. Really, you want to show how you need the energy of the activity to be.
Yeah. And on podcasting, when it comes to podcasting, you need to feed off the energy of your co-host as well, which is what we do here, right? I mean, it would never be the same for me, at least, if this were a solo hosted podcast. I would have no energy to work off of. I need your energy, Michelle. I need that back and forth.
I've given it. Here you go. Here's my energy.
Yeah, no, but it's true.
It would be totally different if it was solo. But today, we're going to talk about these kinds of expressions, right? How to say, basically, let's get started in idiomatic and fun ways to get that energy up.
Yes, get the energy up. Because sometimes you can also transform someone's energy. If the person you say this to at the beginning of what might feel like a daunting task, daunting is a good bonus word for today, Michelle, a big heavy task, it might shift their energy, right? They might have been tired, but now they see that you're excited. So now they're perking up a bit and they're ready to go.
Sometimes just a simple comment like this could do it. Yeah, definitely.
So yeah, we also might do this even after we've started recording, we might do this when we're getting into the meat of the episode, right? After the intro. And then we're like, okay, we're like, now that we've spoken a little bit, we've warmed up. Now, you know, let's get started.
It could be anything. It could be starting a recording day that's looking like it's going to be like long, right? It could be starting an episode. It could be, like you said, getting into the meat of something. right? In the beginning of our episodes, it's a little lighter. We're greeting each other. We're talking about why are we talking about this?
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Chapter 4: How do you encourage others to engage in challenging tasks?
And then you said it.
Lindsay. That's so weird. That's really weird, Michelle. We've been podcasting together for 12 years. So that's why.
but that's a good example because it's like a little scary it's a little dangerous my niece did not say that to me she would say come on buckle up let's get in like let's do this you know put on your suit we're going but she could have right if she were older and you know just but she was young at that time she was like eight so i don't think she had that vocabulary did she do the skydiving of that yeah she did it first and then i went after um it was what did you think of it
indoor skydiving i liked it actually and i'm and i'm terrified of everything of any sort of speed past you know yeah 30 miles per hour in a car i know because you've been stopped for for going too slow we know that's right i have very good that's right we know yeah but um so you liked it too i
I thought it was fun. It was different. It wasn't as scary once I got up there. Right. And definitely nothing like outdoor skydiving, I'm sure. I mean, nothing like that.
But it was fun. And so actually it's interesting because I was just thinking of taking my son for something like that. He's seven. And I was like, I don't know if he's too young, but I think he would do it.
Yeah, for sure. So, I mean, the point is like something that's going to be a little more intense unless you're being sarcastic. And then if your personality is like that, if you're about to go into a boring like exam or something or like let's say you have to monitor an exam and it's really boring, you might say that sarcastically. Buckle up. We have a three hour exam today. Right.
Sure.
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Chapter 5: What are some idiomatic expressions to energize a conversation?
Exactly. So this one is really versatile and fun for sure.
Yeah. All right, Michelle, there's a few more that are a little bit more standard. So for our listeners who maybe don't want to take a chance or something, we have options for you, right? So let's go. Let's go. I think our listeners probably know this one and it's basic, but it works. It gets the job done.
I think I've heard recently more people being like, Let's go. You know, like, or, you know, just to motivate dragging the O out. Interesting. Yeah. I have heard that being more of a thing recently, specifically drawing that out. Trendy thing.
Okay.
Interesting.
Yeah. I love to know about language trends.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, so, but you could also say, let's go. So here we go. Okay. It's time to get started. Let's go.
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