This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 954.

How to Create a Speed Bump in your English conversations to listen better.

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Today get three useful tactics that you can employ when the native speaker in front of you is speaking fast and you don't know what to do. Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey Michelle, it's pretty great.

You know, I am loving the month of May because I'm waking up and it's

beautiful out sunshine and birds chirping and overall I'm just feeling pretty good.

That's good. I know my May is a good time. Yeah I love the month of

May and I'm waking up to really awesome reviews. Yeah we are getting awesome reviews Michelle from our reviewers, our listeners who are using the new All-Eears English

iOS app. And we're going to call you guys out today to say thank you and all right I have some specific names to

read are we are we ready Michelle can we dive right yes who is it well thank you

to Gress from Thailand who reviewed us in the app store on May 9th.

Thank you to Anke from Berlin, from Germany,

Berlin, Germany, thank you.

And I know Anke asked a question,

so we're gonna answer that question in another episode. Guys, a great place to leave your questions is in the

Ab Store review okay so who else thank you to Beto 71 from Mexico

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