This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2614. Don't turn your back on the weather as a great

connection topic. Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million

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fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American hosts,

Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl,

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What is the difference between cloudy and overcast or humid and muggy?

Today we go next level on the weather topic and explore why this topic still gets you deeper

into connection in English.

Have you ever listened to native speakers and thought, I understand the words, but I still feel slightly lost?

That's because real English conversations include more than vocabulary.

There's speed.

There's connected speech.

There are cultural references and casual phrases.

Your brain has to process all of this in real time.

If conversations sometimes feel overwhelming, it may simply mean you're ready for the next level of training.

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Hey, Michelle. How are you today? How's it going? I'm good. How are you, Lindsay? Good. Michelle. What's the weather like

where you are today on the East Coast? Is it cold, cloudy, overcast, sunny? What's it like? It's cold and I would say it's

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