This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1694.

Learn English with friends, the TV show, and the people.

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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.

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Have you ever tried to learn a new language alongside your friends?

Today, find out how to encourage your friends to speak only in English

so that everyone can become fluent faster.

Hello, Michelle. How's it going?

Hi, good. Lindsay, how are you?

Awesome. Awesome. I'm excited to talk today about friends, both the TV show a little bit, of course.

And also just those wonderful people in our lives that make our lives so much brighter.

Lindsay, have you ever practiced learning a language with friends?

Maybe taking a language class with a friend or something like that?

That's a good question. Not really.

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