This is an all-ears English podcast episode 1894. You're like a sister to me. Go beyond family textbook English vocabulary.

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. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to

all-earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. In your textbook, you learned the basics like father,

mother, brother, sister, or cousin. But today, we'll show you how to take your family vocabulary

to the next level to really show people what they mean to you in English. Listen in today.

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Hey Michelle, how's it going? Hey, Lindsay, good, good. How are you?

I am great to have a question for you. All right, what's the question?

All right, would you say that you're close to your family? Yes.

Yeah, I would say I am too. I kind of wax and wane on that. There are periods where I'm close to

them and I call them every week and then there are seasons where I call them once every two or

three weeks. But we're pretty close overall, I would say. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Yeah,

I don't want to always like, for example, I don't talk to my brother on the phone all the time,

but I feel very close to him. But like, you know, then we'll have like a really good conversation.

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