This is the All-Ears English podcast. No dice. Fun ways to say something didn't work.

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 hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan,

the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.

To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list,

try the All-Ears English app for iOS and Android.

Start your seven-day free trial at all-earsenglish.com forward slash app.

When something doesn't work out, what can you say in a more lighthearted way without being too serious?

Find out how this phrase maintains the connection today.

Thank you. maintains the connection today. There's a big difference between understanding English and participating in English.

Understanding means you follow the conversation.

You participate by adding your ideas, reacting naturally, and keeping the conversation moving.

Many English learners are strong listeners, but hesitant speakers.

Once you know your current fluency level, it becomes much easier to close that gap.

Take our free two-minute quiz to discover your level and what to focus on next.

Go to all earsenglish.com slash fluency score.

That's allersenglish.com slash f-l-U-E-N-C-Y-S-C-O-R-E.

Hey, Lindsay, how are you?

I'm feeling good, Michelle.

How are you?

How's it going?

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