AEE 2578: Don’t Fall Into These Conversation Traps

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all-ears English podcast, episode 2578. Don't fall into these conversation traps.
0:10.2	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck
0:18.0	with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection,
0:26.9	with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:33.6	adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
0:40.7	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com
0:46.9	forward slash subscribe.
0:53.0	Today is a what not to-to-say episode.
0:56.1	Find out what comments you should avoid, especially about someone's appearance that may be okay in your own culture, but will get you into trouble in the U.S.
1:09.3	Hello, Lindsay.
1:10.5	How are you today? I'm feeling energetic today, Aubrey. How about you?
1:14.4	Yeah, you don't look tired. Does anyone ever tell you you look tired? That's the worst. Yeah, I just got that like two nights ago.
1:21.8	I know this came up in a recent episode, right? Where we sort of mentioned that like, oh, don't tell people they look tired.
1:27.9	And we promised this follow up with sort of phrases we should avoid when referring to
1:33.3	someone's appearance.
1:34.3	So I'm excited to get into this.
1:36.2	I'm excited because this episode, this concept is so culturally important.
1:40.7	The person that told me I look tired two nights ago.
1:43.1	I was at a dinner with a community meditation group.
1:46.1	It was at an Indian restaurant.
1:48.2	And the guy was actually, he's from India.
1:50.2	But he lives in the U.S. and works in the U.S.
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