AEE: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0	This is the All-Ears English podcast. It's not what you say. It's how you say it.
0:07.1	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling
0:14.8	stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection,
0:23.9	with your American hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York
0:31.6	Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.
0:41.0	Sometimes you can have all of the grammar and vocabulary right, but people still ask you to
0:47.0	repeat.
0:48.0	And in the business world, this can have major consequences.
0:51.8	So today, we show you how to implement an intonation trick in business. Listen in.
1:00.8	Hello, Michelle. How's it going today? I'm good, Lindsay. Are you ready to record?
1:07.5	Yeah, Michelle. I'm ready to record. Okay, good, good.
1:11.9	And did you have a good weekend?
1:14.6	What's going on, Michelle?
1:16.8	What do you mean?
1:18.3	You sound kind of different.
1:21.4	Oh, you mean because of my intonation.
1:24.7	Yeah, I guess that's what it is.
1:26.7	Intonation really matters a lot, doesn't it? You sounded strange. You didn't sound like yourself. Yeah, it sounded
1:32.8	uncomfortable. Was it almost hard for you to understand me to get my meaning? It's just kind of. It kind of felt like, yeah, I wasn't speaking to you, you know? It didn't feel natural, right? No,
1:45.2	exactly. Exactly. So, guys, we are going to talk to you today all about how we ask questions
1:53.3	and how our intonation should be at the ends of questions. Okay. So because this is very important,
2:00.2	especially in business when meeting people,
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