This is an all-ears English podcast, episode 2,600, grammar that won't keep you from connecting in English.

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Wiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.

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We all have temptations like eating too much dessert and more.

How do you keep yourself from giving into them?

Today learn key vocabulary and the grammar that goes with it to have these conversations in English.

You can be technically correct in English and still not sound natural.

Maybe your sentences are grammatically right, but something feels stiff, a little robotic,

not quite how a native speaker would say it.

That's nuance.

Fluency lives in collocations, phrasal verbs, and word choice, not just grammar rules.

If you keep using the same safe phrases, it may be time to stretch.

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Hello, Lindsay. How are you today?

Hey, Aubrey. Welcome to episode 2,600. Oh my gosh. We forgot to plan a party, but this is the party. 2600 episodes of Allers English. I actually was just looking on Spotify. It popped up the very first episode, which has all these comments. It was so fun. People were just saying like, I'm here at number one. I'm going back to the beginning and listening to them all. And it was fun to like read through those comments. And it made me excited for people that have 2,600 episodes ahead of them. A lot of, yep, that was the meet your teachers episode. Right. Yes, exactly. That was one of our most popular episodes. I love it.

So you guys have, if you're starting with episode one and you know, you have a lot in between today and episode one to enjoy. I know, right? And if you're here at 2,600, so exciting. It's been an amazing journey. I know we have listeners who have listened to all 2,600 episodes. That's awesome. Yeah. And, you know,

the reason that we're able to continue doing this is we know that language learning is about

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