AEE 92: American Role Play Conversation – Is the Invitation Real?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Taking IELTS? Get our free video training course now Today you’ll hear a real American role play conversation! Americans can be confusing if you aren’t used to their communication style! How do you know if someone’s invitation is real or if they are just being polite? Many times, at the end of a conversation,... Read More The post AEE 92: American Role Play Conversation – Is the Invitation Real? appeared first on All Ears English Podcast | Real English Vocabulary | Conversation | American Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 92.
0:03.7	American Role Play conversation is the invitation real.
0:07.8	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English conversation
0:17.6	and fluency for business and life.
0:21.3	We believe in connection, not perfection, when it comes to learning English.
0:26.7	Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York English adventurer and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you from Boston
0:37.4	and New York City, USA. S. A. A. Sometimes when an American person says they want to see you again, they might not mean
0:50.9	it. In this episode, you'll find out what exactly they mean when they
0:54.6	say let's meet up again sometime. Are you just afraid of making mistakes when you talk with native speakers? Do you just
1:09.2	want to be able to have a smooth conversation with clients or friends in English?
1:13.2	Maybe you want to be able to speak in a group.
1:16.5	You need vocabulary, confidence, and connection.
1:19.7	Our connection method will get you there.
1:22.3	Start your study plan now in our English fluency course.
1:26.0	All ears English.com slash connection. Hey Aubrey, do you think that when Americans extend an invitation they always mean it?
1:38.0	Like they always are actually asking you to hang out or to do something?
1:42.0	No, right? Sometimes just the way we say see you later, we'll say like we should hang out sometime.
1:49.1	And we just mean by. Yeah, that was that was by. Oh my gosh, in American English, there are so many things that don't mean what you think they mean.
1:58.0	They're just cleaning. He'd be so confusing for sure because I can imagine if someone after you know that oh we should hang out sometime and the other person says
2:06.2	Great. I'm free Monday if the first person was just saying goodbye it would be awkward like oh I
2:16.4	Yes, yeah so this is the first thing we want to show you guys in today's episode you have to know that maybe in your culture if someone invites you out for
2:20.5	coffee or talks about getting together it might be genuine but in American
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