This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1695, five tips to stay focused when you read and listen in English.

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 Lindsey 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 allyearsenglish.com forward slash app.

In today's episode, we answer a question from a student who is having a hard time staying focused.

Does your mind wander when you read or listen? Today, get our top tips to solve this problem.

Hi, I'm Danny Dyer, and welcome to What's That Smell? Smell with a hint of burgers. It's my barbecue apron.

Luckily, I can make this smell like freshly picked lilies. Just pop it in the washing machine, add some surf tropical lily laundry detergent and

Oh, my five. It smells like my dream holiday. Get long-lasting fragrance with natural essential oils, with surf laundry detergent. You can make anything perth of surf.

Hey, Michelle, how's it going today?

Hey, Lindsey. I'm good. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Are you excited? We're recording with a new program today. We're so excited. This is going to be on YouTube today, guys. So go over and check us out on YouTube.

Yes, check us out. This is fun. This is fun. I am excited for today's episode.

So today we are going to guys also on YouTube. You can ask questions there. So that's a really good place. We do go through those YouTube questions.

And today we're actually going to be answering a question that somebody asked on YouTube through a comment. So this is good stuff, Lindsey.

Yeah, this is going to be great. First of all, I want to ask you, Michelle, have you been doing a lot of reading lately? Are you reading a novel or anything?

In particular, that you're digging into?

I have started reading again. I for a while, I was just like way too tired to read. And I had read a really bad book.

A bad book. I think it was terrible. I'm not going to say the name. It was awful.

So I kind of got out of it. And now I did get a new book. And it takes me a little while to get moving again in the rhythm of reading.

...