AEE Episode 3: When Should You Study English?

This is an All-Ears English Podcast Episode 3. When should you study English? Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast where you'll finally get real native English conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection, not perfection, when it comes to learning English. Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA. Should you study English in the morning, the afternoon or the evening? The answer depends on willpower, energy, and your own body. Listen in to get the answer today. Flowing ad bunched on metrics that look great, till the CFO sees them, that's Bullspend. And marketers are calling it out in dashboard confessions. I remember telling my boss, "It'll be good for the brand, when leads were slow." Yeah, it wasn't. How's it going today, Michelle? Awesome. I want to start off with an interesting question for today's episode. And that is, when do you think our listeners should study English? Should they study in the morning, the afternoon, or the evening? What do you think? That's a great question and I think it's a very personal question, to be honest. I don't know what there's one answer for everybody. Yes. I think you have to know yourself. So for me, like you know me, I'm more of an evening person, but the problem for evening people is you don't always want to study in the evening because that's the evening. It's kind of tricky, but you have to know where your strengths lie, right? So how do you work around that, because I know Michelle, we have recorded podcasts at all different times. Sometimes we record in the morning, we've done a few episodes here. We record in the morning, we record in the evening. I know you're usually more on in the evening, like you said, more energy. But sometimes you have to work in the morning. How do you deal with that? How do you wake yourself up? Oh, coffee, man. That's all. I can't. I can't. You know, the evening people, we have to kind of like work around the rest of society because it is such a like a morning culture. Yes. There's really nothing, unfortunately, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But like as far as our listeners, I just think it's you have to know yourself, you have to know your schedule. I don't think that there's like one best time. What do you think, Lindsay? Yeah. I agree. I was just going to ask you real quick. Were you that way in college, too? Were you that, that kid that was up late studying at 2am when you were in college? I'm curious. You know what? I don't remember. You don't remember. I, I, I do remember once staying up very, very late. But the thing I could never do was pull, like I only did one all nighter and like as much as I can stay up late, I cannot just like then stay up all night and then go directly into a test. Like that. I couldn't do that. Yeah. So that's a great phrase for our listeners, a bonus phrase for today guys, to pull in all nighter. I think we've talked about this before, but what does that mean, Michelle? To stay up all night and not go to sleep, usually before some sort of test or something. Oh. I feel awful when I do that. I've never done that either, Michelle. But yeah, so I just wondered if your habits have changed as an adult or whether you were the same way. If this is true, our whole lives. But in terms of my answer, my, my opinion on this, I think it's very personal too. For me, I'm the opposite of you. I'm a morning person. And for me, it comes down to willpower. You know, I found this great quote on medium.com, which says that willpower is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals. So what that means for me is that willpower is a muscle. It runs out. So I start the morning so strong, feeling so good, so clear, so much energy and mind power and willpower. But by three or four, I'm checking my email, I'm checking Facebook, I'm just, I'm losing it. So for me, if I were trying to study English, like our listeners, I would definitely get to it right away in the morning. It would be the first thing I would do in the morning. What do you think about that, Michelle? Knowing ad bunched on metrics that look great, till the CFO sees them, that's bullspend. I remember telling my boss, "It'll be good for the brand." When leads were slow, yeah, it wasn't. Cut the bullspend. LinkedIn lets you target by company, job title, and more. Advertise on LinkedIn. Spend $250 on your first campaign and get a $250 credit go to LinkedIn.com/campaign term and say, "Citizens apply." Yeah, I mean, I think that that's good. I think you know yourself, you know, and I think, yeah, when you are going to have that burst of willpower, that's when you're going to be the most productive, right? Now, sometimes it doesn't work out for our lives, right? Like you can't, like, yeah, like I can't just like work every night at like 11 p.m., you know, when I might have the most willpower, then because I'm the type of person, like, he's just yesterday, I was like, I was exhausted all day, exhausted, and it is finally time to get into bed and I'm like, you know what, I feel better. That's so crazy. That's so crazy that you get that burst of energy at 11 p.m. I do. So like, I always have to scrunch myself into, you know, a real life schedule. So you know, sometimes that willpower doesn't always coincide with like real life. So you kind of have to find that mix between like, when is like the best time for you and when it can you be most realistic and, you know, only you can answer that for yourself. Yeah. I think that's so true. Michelle, I've heard in the past that a lot of creative types, your creative type for sure, you know, you do music, you do acting, a lot of them do come alive at night. I've heard that in different places, for sure, so that makes total sense for you. But yeah, the world is kind of a little bit against you a little bit in this way, right? We show up at work early in the morning. We're expected to be on at 9 a.m. So who knows, maybe things will change in the future. So guys, the point is, I mean, what is the takeaway Michelle here when it comes to study English? When should they study? When should our listeners study English? What's the takeaway? I think the takeaway is know yourself. Yes. And really like, don't try and fit yourself into unless, you know, such vegetables you have to. But like, really try your best to like study, even if it's not like strict studying at a certain time, like maybe, okay, for me, like if I were studying a language and it's like 11 p.m. and I finally feel alive. And like, I'm like, ready to go, but it's time to go to sleep. You know, maybe, okay, fine, maybe like, I wind down with like, you know, five new words. And I just like, you know, it's kind of something that I can look forward to. Like when I'm relaxing or something like that. So make it fun. You know, know when you are going to have that burst of willpower. And even if it's not like the time of day that goes along with the rest of the world, like you can still do something, like still kind of try and soak up that, you know, energy that you have and use it in some way, even if it's just a little bit because that even a little bit helps. I love that. So good. I love it. Know yourself. That is the key right there. Michelle. All right. Well, that's it for today. Thanks for hanging out. It's been an interesting topic for sure. Definitely. I love it. Have a good one, Lindsay. Talk to you soon. Bye. Bye. Thanks for listening to all ears English. And if you believe in connection, not perfection, follow our show wherever you listen to podcasts to make sure you don't miss anything. See you next time. 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