AEE 148: Sorry, Not Sorry? Think Twice About Your Speech Habits

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Language Learning, Education, Business

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Taking IELTS? Get our free IELTS video training now Do you say “sorry” too much in English or in your native language? In today’s episode you’ll find out why you might not want to always say “sorry” and you’ll hear from the co-hosts about their different opinions on how and when to say sorry. Come back to our site to read a summary of this episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 148.
0:04.0	Sorry, not sorry?
0:05.7	Think twice about your speech habits.
0:08.0	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English
0:17.0	conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.
0:27.0	Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you
0:36.6	from Boston and New York City, USA. Do you say? Do you say sorry too much in English?
0:48.0	In this episode we explore the danger of using sorry as a filler word or translating from your native language.
0:55.0	Get our opinion on this topic today.
1:00.0	Hey there, Michelle, how's it going?
1:05.0	I'm fine.
1:07.0	Sorry, Lindsay, sorry, sorry.
1:09.0	Um, no, okay, I'm ready now.
1:13.2	Oh, Michelle, why did you say sorry? You didn't do anything wrong?
1:16.1	Oh, I was just kind of getting, you know, fiddling around just like putting on my
1:20.0	headphones and sorry, sorry about that. Oh, g geez you now said sorry like four times in the first
1:25.3	23 seconds of the episode. Sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Oh now six times.
1:30.5	Now I'm getting kind of bored I think think we can end the call. No. All right.
1:35.0	Goodbye. No. Sorry. No. Okay. So guys, we started that off just to have a little fun with the word sorry.
1:42.0	Michelle, first of all, what does the word sorry. Michelle first of all what does the word
1:44.4	sorry mean? It means I apologize. I apologize. Yeah. Do you use this word a lot in
1:51.4	English conversations? Good question.
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