1760 Can You Repeat That? How to Admit When You're Not Paying Attention

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This is an all ears. English podcastepisode 1760. Can you repeat that? How to admit when you're not payingattention, Welcome to the all ears. English podcast downloaded more than 200million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how tobecome fearless and fluent by focusing on connection.

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Not perfection with your American hosts,Lindsay McMann the English adventure, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radiogirl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City. You SA and to get yourtranscripts delivered by email every week, go to all ears. English.com forward,slash subscribe.

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Do you always stay 100% focused on what theother person is saying in a conversation? No one does today, learn three thingsyou can do in English when you miss. What someone says.

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And see, how are you? Awesome, Michelle. Iam excited to be here. What's going on in your world? Oh, not too much. Not toomuch. I'm excited that it is April. It gives, you know, gives me a little bitof hope, you know about the little hope. Yeah. Yes.

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Okay. Melting in New York. Did you have awintery kind of couple of months there. It can get really cold in New YorkCity. Oh my yes, it can get really cold and then you're like, oh I should goout today and then you go and then you're like, maybe I'll go back home.

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All right. I guess. That's my day. Yeah.You're like I should never go out again. Yeah. Oh, that's how I feel right now.For sure. For sure. How are you Lindsay? I'm doing great? I'm doing great, butI do have a little bit of a problem, Michelle. Can I tell you what it is?

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Yeah. What is it? All right, sometimes tobe totally honest, I'm not the best listener, my mind does wander. I just had alot going on upstairs, you know, like going on and so much to think about. Andso I'm not the best at staying totally focused when I have a conversation.

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Do you have that problem? I can have thatproblem. I think, you know, especially something's on my mind, like what yousaid? It can, it can be difficult at times. So we we I think that, you know,many people have trouble with this. We we really try but every it's naturallike our minds kind of wander from time to time live.