AEE: Making Jokes in English? I See What You Did There!

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English episode. Making jokes in English? I see what you did there.
0:07.6	Welcome to the AllEars 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,
0:23.8	with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:30.8	adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.
0:43.6	To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list,
0:47.8	try the All-Ears English app for iOS and Android.
0:54.1	Start your seven-day free trial at all-earsenglish.com forward slash app.
1:02.4	Today we look at some of the finer skills of high-level connection in English.
1:05.5	When someone makes a pun, they expect a response.
1:06.9	What can you say?
1:09.1	Learn all of this and more today.
1:18.1	When you speak English, do people ask what a lot?
1:24.3	Or maybe they tell you you have great English, but you don't feel like you do.
1:31.0	Break free from awkward conversations and shake off that feeling of almost fluent by taking our free two-minute quiz. Get your personalized results immediately. Check it out.
1:38.2	All-Earsenglish.com slash fluency score. That's all-earsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:51.2	Hey there, Aubrey. What's going on? Hi, Lindsay. I'm great. How are you? Good. Aubrey,
1:55.7	have a question for you. You ready? Yes. So, Aubrey, have you had any mom wins lately? Anything? Yes. Yeah. I had to write notes for my kids that their teacher gave them before state testing. And I put jokes on the notes and they loved them.
2:12.0	That's so cute. Every day at school, they were like, we loved the joke he wrote. They were showing them to all friends and bragging about how funny
2:17.8	their mom is. And that's a huge win for me, for my kids thinking I'm funny. Yeah, that is awesome.
2:23.3	So what was one of the jokes, for example? Okay, well, one was, what is a witch's favorite test?
2:29.7	And what? A spelling test. Nice, nice. I see what you did there because witches cast spells.
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