AEE 2408: Affect or Effect? How to Avoid This Common English Mistake

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2408, effect or effect, how to avoid this common
0:08.6	English mistake. Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million
0:17.2	times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become
0:22.3	fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host,
0:29.7	Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you
0:37.0	from Arizona and Colorado, USA. And to get your transcripts
0:43.5	delivered by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Two of the toughest words in English are effect and effect.
0:57.0	It's not always easy to know which one to use.
1:00.0	Today, get our top native English tips.
1:03.0	Are you tired of feeling stuck in meetings, interviews, or presentations?
1:12.2	Knowing the words in your head, but struggling to say them out loud?
1:16.2	Maybe you understand English, but when it's time to speak, your mind goes blank.
1:20.7	Maybe your emails sound too stiff, or you miss jokes and casual conversations at work.
1:26.3	Maybe you're ready to lead, to present, to grow your
1:29.3	career, but English is holding you back. The best way to get past being stuck is knowing where
1:35.4	you're starting from. Get your English level in our simple and free fluency quiz. Find out if you're
1:41.9	B1, B2, or C1 level at all-earsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:48.8	That's all-eersenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-Y, S-C-O-R-E.
2:06.2	Hello, Aubrey. Happy Thursday. We're recording today on a Thursday. How's it going?
2:11.5	Good, good, good, doing great. How are you? Good, good, doing great. Aubrey, here's a question for you. You ready? Yeah. So I'm curious about your style. So when something doesn't go according to plan or your plan for that day, does it affect your mood or are you able to roll with it? What's your style? That is a great question. I feel like in general, I'm able to roll with the punches, right? If something comes up, I don't really let it affect my mood, but it really
2:34.9	depends. I'm more, my mood is more affected by like my children's behavior. Or if something
2:41.9	really terrible happens, if there were like a medical emergency and suddenly, that's probably
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