AEE 2420: Grateful to or Grateful For? What’s the Difference?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2420. Grateful to or grateful for. What's the difference?
0:09.4	Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling
0:16.8	stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing
0:23.0	on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS
0:29.6	Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado,
0:38.3	USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com
0:46.3	forward slash subscribe.
0:52.3	Today, we answer a listener question about the difference between two similar phrases.
0:58.0	Plus, find out how to cultivate more happiness in your life and through your connections.
1:08.0	Are you still translating from your native language into English in your head?
1:13.0	Are you always getting confused between the different grammar tenses?
1:17.1	Let's figure out what you need to work on.
1:19.6	Find your current English level with our five-minute quiz at all-earsenglish.com
1:24.8	slash fluency score.
1:36.8	Hey, Aubrey, how are you today? I'm great. How are you, Lindsay? Good. Aubrey, what is something that you're grateful for? Oh, man, I am grateful for public school in the United States. I have met a
1:44.1	couple of people who homeschool lately, so they are teaching their children public school in the United States. I have met a couple of people who homeschool
1:45.4	lately. So they are teaching their children school during the day at home. And I don't, I just don't
1:50.0	understand. I could never. I love my children, but it's really helpful to have some time to miss
1:56.1	each other during the day. And so I'm impressed. Any parent who's patient enough to teach their children all day
2:02.2	and then have them all weekend and then like, it couldn't be me, but I'm impressed. Impressive. It is impressive.
2:08.2	You know what I'm grateful for? I'm grateful for physical movement, being able to like, you know,
2:12.7	having my just being able to physically move because when I move, I feel better mentally. If I go for a walk,
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