AEE: How to Intentionally Vary Your Vocabulary

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Business, Language Learning

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English podcast. How to intentionally vary your vocabulary.
0:07.8	Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:17.1	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection,
0:25.2	with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan,
0:32.0	the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered
0:41.7	by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. What is the difference
0:52.5	between intentionally, deliberately, and on purpose? Let's get into the
0:56.9	tiny details today to find out if there is a major difference and how to use all three.
1:07.9	You can be technically correct in English and still not sound natural.
1:12.7	Maybe your sentences are grammatically right, but something feels stiff, a little robotic.
1:17.6	Not quite how a native speaker would say it.
1:20.3	That's nuance.
1:21.7	Fluency lives in collocations, phrasal verbs, and word choice, not just grammar rules.
1:26.9	If you keep using the same safe phrases, it may be time to stretch.
1:31.6	Find out your level and what vocabulary skills you're missing in our free two-minute quiz.
1:37.3	Go to all-earsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:41.8	That's all-earsenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-Y-S-C-O-R-E.
1:54.3	Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Doing great today, Michelle. How about you? How's it going?
1:59.3	I'm good. Thanks. Lindsay, question.
2:01.7	Okay. Be honest. Did you ever hit your brother on purpose when you were growing up?
2:06.6	Oh, yeah. I can't lie. Yeah, we had some nasty fights, I think, when, you know, both verbal and sometimes physical, you know, this happens with siblings for sure.
2:16.3	Yes. What about you?
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