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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.

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Hey there, Aubrey. How's it going today? I'm great. How are you, Lindsay? Good. I have a question for you.

If you can think back to your wedding experiences, not your wedding, but when you went to a wedding,

yeah, many weddings. Have you ever been surprised by your seating assignment? You know how an American

culture once we're at the reception

and maybe we've done some hors d'oeuvres or a happy hour, then we go and we sit down for dinner.

And there's always little seating plates, right? Names. Seats are assigned almost always at

weddings in the States. It's true. And yes, I went to a wedding in Cancun not that long ago.

And I was surprised.

I had friends.

I have some friends that are a little bit younger than me that were all at a table together.

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