AEE 2504: How to Blend Your Social Bubbles in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-ears English podcast, episode 2504, how to blend your social bubbles in English.
0:09.6	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:18.4	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing
0:23.2	on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS
0:29.9	Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
0:40.2	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com forward
0:46.9	slash subscribe.
0:48.8	Do you blend your social groups or do you keep them separate?
0:54.3	This can vary around the world, but in the US we usually blend them.
0:58.5	Today gets six key ways to do this in English.
1:06.0	Are you feeling stuck at your English level?
1:09.0	Are you sure what your real English level is? If you take our
1:12.8	free quiz, we'll tell you what level you're stuck at and how to reach your next English milestone.
1:18.5	Go to allersenglish.com slash fluency score now. That's fluency score, one word. Alleersenglish.com
1:27.2	slash fluency score one word. AllEarsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:33.3	Hey there, Aubrey. How's it going today? I'm great. Lindsay. Welcome back. How was your trip?
1:38.1	Oh my gosh. It was great. Anytime I go on vacation, I love it. But I've never seen so much rain,
1:42.6	Aubrey, in a one week period. It was crazy. Yes. You were in Norway, right? Yes. Yes. And it rains like crazy at that time of year. We didn't know that. I know you were planning on kayaking, which got rained out. I'm sorry to hear that. You'll have to go again sometime when you can do the kayaking. It's so true. But because
2:01.1	there was so much rain, it was a more chill trip. And I had a lot of time to think about culture because that's where my mind always goes, right? You know, like how is this place different from the U.S.? How do people act? Like, what's going on here? Right. And so we did a free city tour. Have you ever done those tours, Aubrey, where like there's always free city tours that meet in the center.
2:20.7	I haven't. I don't think I. And so we did a free city tour. Have you ever done those tours, Aubrey, where like there's always
2:18.7	free city tours that meet in the center. I haven't. I don't think I ever have done that.
2:22.6	Oh my gosh. Every city we've been to offers a free city tour. And you just tip at the end. You tip well.
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