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All Ears English Podcast

AEE 990: How to Avoid Confusing English Traps

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 990, how to avoid confusing English traps.

0:07.0

Welcome to the All-Ears EnglishEnglish podcast downloaded more than 50 million times

0:15.6

we believe in Connection Not Perfection with your American hosts

0:20.5

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

0:27.0

coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA.

0:32.0

And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all ears English.

0:37.0

dot com forward slash subscribe. There are traps in the English language. Can you always assume that a word will follow its prefix?

0:51.0

Find out what the random traps are, and how to avoid falling into them in today's episode.

1:00.0

Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

1:05.0

Hey Michelle, looks like we're getting into the end of July here and August is my favorite month because that's my birthday month.

1:12.0

Yay. Yeah,

1:14.0

happy almost birthday.

1:16.0

37.

1:17.0

I know.

1:18.0

It's so crazy.

1:20.0

Nice, nice, nice.

1:21.0

Do you have any special plans? I don't know yet because we are recording this quite a bit in the dance here.

1:27.0

But hopefully I will. Maybe I'll just go down to the beach, the South Shore, and spend time with my family. I don't know, we'll see.

1:35.4

We'll see.

1:36.4

Okay, exciting.

1:38.1

So I have a random, very random question.

1:42.2

Are you somebody who tends to like when you're organizing

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