AEE: Do These Two English Words Make You Anxious?
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Do these two English words make you anxious?
Do these two English words make you anxious? 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. coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA. To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven-day free trial at allearsenglish.com forward slash app.
What's the difference between nervous and anxious in English? Human emotions are complex. We break it down today for more clarity. Listen in.
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Hi, Lindsay. How are you? Doing great, Michelle. How are you? What's going on? I'm doing well. Lindsay, are you nervous about anything right now? Well, let me see.
I am... No, actually, I'm feeling pretty generally relaxed. We are doing a home renovation that I'm a little nervous about, I will say. You never know with these things. Are they going to get completed on time, on budget, all those things. So I guess I am. What about you? Anything you're nervous about?
I'm a little nervous because I am flying to Florida with my kids and no Dan on Saturday. And I'm just a little... Last year when I did it, it was quite something special. And so I don't know how it's going to go. But it'll be okay. I'm an adult and I can do it. I'm a big girl. You can do it. Maybe just think of it as probably not going to be worse than last year, right? Yeah, knock on wood, knock on wood. Oh my gosh. I'm just trying to anticipate all the possible problems. I have tons of toys and activities that are good for the plane. I've put a lot of thought into this.
That's good. Okay. Good luck.
Good luck.
What is the difference between feeling nervous and anxious?
Thank you. Guys, but today we are going to answer a great listener question that actually came to us from our Android app that came along with, I believe, a five-star review.
Yes, it did, Michelle. So this was a five-star review for our Android app, like you said, from Jungmin from Korea. So I'll go ahead and read the question and the review. Okay. All right. So Jungmin says, I've been listening to Allers English since 2018. Michelle, that is amazing. That's amazing. That's a long time. I couldn't understand your podcast at first, but I've improved my English skills quite a lot and I can get most of the podcasts. A big thanks. And they left a little heart there too.
Yeah.
Thank you. I have a question. I'm confused between anxious and nervous. I feel they're similar, but I can't get it. Could you explain it? I always appreciate your podcast. Take care. Nice.
Beautiful. Yeah. And what a great question as well. This is a really interesting one because the thing is with this question is there's not necessarily a huge difference between these words. What do you think?
Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I don't think there's a huge difference between Um... But we're gonna, this is what we love to do at All Ears English. We love to pick out the nuances, right? Show our listeners what, there might be a slight difference and we'll find it if there is, right?
Yes, exactly. So we're gonna be talking through, you know, what the differences may be. I mean, overall, I think if you ask most people, they would say, oh, they're synonyms, right? Yeah. And they are. Yeah, I agree. You know, so we don't need to stress about it too much, basically.
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