This is an All-Ears English Podcast, how to feel really comfortable with natives.

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,

former Isles Examiner Jessica Beck and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventure,

coming to you from Denver and Portland, USA.

Do you get uncomfortable when the conversation gets deep? Are you worried that you'll never have

a real connection with natives? Because you can't get past surface-level topics.

Find out today how to make real connections with real people and feel comfortable talking about

anything. Good morning, Lindsay. How are you? Hey Jessica, I'm doing great. How are you today?

How's everything? Everything's wonderful. I am very comfortable to be here on the mic with you.

I'm happy to be here. Let me do. Let me do. It's good to have you on the show. We don't hear

your voice all that often, but it's always a pleasure. We are lucky to have you here. I'm excited

to get into this bonus today. Are you ready? Yes. Guys, we are discussing, really, this is like the

number one thing that I hear from students. Why do you want to improve your English? What are you

scared about? What is your challenge? No matter how we ask that question, we hear this all the time.

I don't feel comfortable with natives. You and I have experienced that in other languages. Yes,

like that's everything. That's how our whole motto of connection, not perfection, came about.

Because feeling uncomfortable, not understanding everything, the truth is we're never going to

understand everything. It's just impossible. In our second language, how do we reach that moment

of connection? Exactly. It's our task in life to help you figure out how to feel comfortable.

The thing is, it's often not what you think it is, right? Because we get in our heads about the

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