This is an All-Ears English podcast episode one hundred twenty-three.

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fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English. Now here are your

hosts Lindsay McMahon the English adventurer and Aubrey Carter the Illed'siz, coming to you from Arizona and Boston, USA.

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Nancy, do you use your smartphone a lot like most of us do?

Oh my gosh, yeah, I got a smartphone back in, well, I got a smartphone a couple years ago actually for the first time and I didn't

think it would happen to me but it did I got sucked in I got sucked in so now my go to

is to check the news I read the New York Times on my phone it's crazy I'm just so

enmeshed in my phone yeah I was a holdout for a while but when I was teaching in

New York City a lot of the teachers would email instead

of just texting and they would get it on their smartphones.

And I still had a flip phone.

And so, yeah, I wouldn't be able to check my email when I was out and about and I

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