This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 861.

How the phrase, I don't know, can mean many things in English.

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Today, get a super native and natural insider tip on how to vary your tone of voice to show three completely different messages when you open with, I don't know. Hey Michelle, how you doing?

Hey Lindsay, I'm good, I'm good, how are you?

Hey, how's your holiday celebrating going?

It's going good, it's going good, it's a lot of fun. We're you know

Thanksgiving and all that stuff right? Yeah yeah and now Christmas and Hanukkah is coming up. Yeah, for all the years.

It's all it's a fun time of year. It's cold, but it's fun because you're just feel like excitement in the air,

even though the air is freezing. I know.

Are you going to do anything fun for New Year's this time, this year?

New Year's Eve?

Well, I think we're going to a friend for a party.

We always celebrate New Year's with the same group of friends.

So I'm thinking we're doing the same thing.

How about you?

Oh, wow, I'm going to be on an airplane coming back from San Francisco because I'm going to San Francisco

with some friends and family for just a few days after Christmas until New Year's.

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