AEE 2418: Don’t Dance Around This English Vocabulary

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-ears English podcast, episode 2418. Don't dance around this English vocabulary.
0:09.5	Welcome to the all-ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:18.3	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing
0:23.1	on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS
0:29.8	Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
0:39.9	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com forward
0:46.7	slash subscribe.
0:51.4	What is your confrontation style? Do you consider yourself direct or indirect or maybe somewhere in
0:57.8	between? Today, get four ways to express that you are avoiding saying something directly in English.
1:10.5	Are you still translating from your native language into English in your head?
1:15.6	Are you always getting confused between the different grammar tenses?
1:19.7	Let's figure out what you need to work on.
1:22.2	Find your current English level with our five-minute quiz at all-earsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:34.6	Hello, Aubrey. What's going on today? Oh, not too much. It's a beautiful day in Arizona.
1:39.5	What about you, Lindsay? Yeah, it's a gorgeous day here in Colorado, too. I'm feeling good.
1:43.5	Aubrey, I have a question for you to get into today's episode. Okay, perfect. Yeah, it's a gorgeous day here in Colorado too. I'm feeling good. Aubrey, I have a question for you to get into today's episode. Great. Perfect.
1:48.0	So are there any topics that you tend to dance around when they come up when you talk with people?
1:54.5	Yes, absolutely. Pretty much anything having to do with politics or religion,
1:59.8	depending on who I'm talking to, if I know
2:02.0	they really disagree and they're not going to be open-minded and it's not going to be a constructive
2:06.9	conversation, I will kind of dance around sharing my opinion because I'm not going to outright
2:11.9	say, yes, I agree with you. But I'm also not going to really push back a lot. So I'm definitely
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