This is an All-Ears English podcast, How to Dance Around Tricky Past Participables.

Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection,

with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English

adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. There is a funny thing that native speakers do when they

want to avoid using certain less common verbs in English.

Find out what they do and how you can do this too.

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Hey there, Aubrey. How's it going today? How you feeling? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Good, good. It's really hot today here in Denver. It's 99 degrees that I just saw.

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