AEE Episode 4: How to Forget About Your English Mistakes

This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 4. How to Forget about your English Mistakes. 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 McMan, the English adventurer and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA. Want to forget about your English Mistakes quickly? Be intentional about this one key decision. What is it? Find out in today's episode. Are your ad campaigns lighting up the dashboard? But not the pipeline. That's bullspend, and marketers are calling it out in dashboard confessions. My boss asks for results, so I open my dashboard for the only positive sounding metric I add. Impressions. Cut the bullspend. See revenue? Not just reach. LinkedIn delivers the highest return on ad spend of major ad networks. Advertise on LinkedIn. Spend $250 on your first campaign and get a $25 card. Go to LinkedIn.com/campaign and turn sick edition supply. Hey, Michelle. How's everything going in New York City? Hey, Lindsay. Everything's good. Everything's good. How are you? Feeling good, feeling good. Oh my gosh, Michelle. You know, a lot of our listeners, they come to us and they ask us this one question. How can they forget about their English Mistakes? How can they get over it and just connect, right? Because we believe in connection, not perfection here in All-Ears English. But what is one practical thing they can actually do to get over their mistakes and move past them? What do you think? Well, I think that's all about, you know, really throwing yourself into the experience, right? Right. You know, really just focusing on the experience instead. So like, for example, living an international house or with American people when you're living in the United States, right? Just like, you're all in. Lindsay, what do you think about that? All in. I love that expression for our listeners today. All in. All in. 100% immersed. Yeah, you know, when I travel in South America back in 2008, I lived for three months in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And I was looking for an apartment. I found a place to live. It was truly an international house. There were two, there was a French woman, a French guy. There was an American guy and there was me. And then there were two Italians and there was an Argentine. All of us lived in a house together. We had our own rooms. We would have dinner together. But as soon as I went there to interview with them, they said rule number one. And the only rule of the house is that this is a Spanish-speaking house. So everyone there except for the Argentine guy were there to learn Spanish. So you weren't allowed to speak English at all in the house. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. So how was that experience for you? Like, were you worried about your mistakes or did you then kind of just forget about it? It was so cool. This is really, and you know, we know not everyone is living abroad in an English-speaking country. But if you have a chance to do something like this guy, just do it. Because at that point, the focus went on the relationships that I was building with my friends. My French friends in Spanish. We were having, of course, we had some Italians in the house. So they were cooking dinner for us. Lovely dinners with wonderful Italian salsa, as they say, right? Oh, it was so cool. And then we would go dancing in the, you know, the Argentine evening. But yeah, that's where I really solidified fluency in that house because I stuck to that rule. And it was pretty gutsy. I have to say, um, actually to just move in and do that. A lot of people I think would just be like, oh, I don't want to have to speak English. Oh, sorry, Spanish or my, you know, can't speak my native language. I don't want, I can't agree to that. You are uncomfortable a lot of the time, guys, but these are the risks we have to take. You know, Michelle, what do you think? Have you ever lived in an international house or been in this kind of situation? 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. Cut the bullspend. LinkedIn lets you target by company, job title, and more. Spend $250 on your first campaign and get a $250 quite, I go to LinkedIn.com/campaign, Terms, Acetitions, Apply. Yeah, well, you know, I've lived abroad a couple times, but I, like, I unfortunately, I wouldn't say that I've had the experience that you had, because I lived with mostly Americans. So I was learning another language, but I was like in kind of a bubble. So we were then, you know, able to speak English at the end of the day. And so I did take classes, but I do think it's, like, I wish that I had that experience that you had where you're, like, learning through living, you know? Yeah, did you have, so how did that work? So when you were, you could always kind of fall back on English, right? If you couldn't explain something in the native language, the target language, you could fall back, is that right? Yeah, there was, like, not, not, there was, like, no pressure. There were no stakes. It was kind of like, "Oh, I want to, like, I like to learn." Like, and I did, but I don't, I don't think that I was able to learn in the same way you were, and I, and I wish that I had had that experience. Even though I was taking class, I was in it, like, I was excited, like, just, I don't know, there wasn't the same, like, the stakes were not as high. The stakes were not as high. I love that expression, too, guys. This is a bonus vocabulary word for today. Yeah. Right, Michelle, what does that expression mean, just so our listeners can write this down today? When the stakes are high, it's like, it matters a lot, because for some specific reason, like, when the stakes are high, when you're learning English, it's like, they're high because you need to communicate. You don't have your first language to fall back on. Exactly. Exactly. So, I think there is something to that, because it's a mental shift that you go through. It's like, you don't have a safety net. You know, there's no safety net. There's nothing you can fall back on. You can't translate that into your native language. You have to find a way to, and that creates language flexibility. A lot of our listeners, we know, guys, you want to create that flexibility for yourself. Right, Michelle? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. So, I think that's the moment, even though you think you'll focus more on your mistakes, probably you focus laps. Because at first, maybe you focus more on the mistakes. I'm correct me if I'm wrong. But, like, at first, like you said, it's uncomfortable. And then you start to, like, you said, think about the relationships. They go, like, what's cooking? Like, what's going on? Exactly. Exactly. And that will kind of, it changes the focus. Right. Like, it changes your options. So, you change the focus. Yeah. I could completely agree. So, guys, so how does this apply to our listeners? Guys, maybe you are getting ready to enroll in college in the US or the UK. Maybe you are just moving to California to work in Silicon Valley. You have a choice. Where are you going to live? And who are you going to surround yourself with? Make the right choice, right, Michelle? Excellent. I love it. Yeah, guys. Yeah. Don't worry about your mistakes. Worry on those connections. Worry about those connections. Don't worry. It's all about connection. That's why we believe in connection, not perfection. That's what we have, we've been saying in the last few episodes. And that's how, that's the theme of Allers English is connection, not perfection. So, go for that house where you immerse yourself. Okay, Michelle. Hey, enjoy the rest of your day. Okay. Thanks, YouTube. Bye, guys. Take care. Bye. Thanks for listening to Allers 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. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what's your pin? Two, five, three, eight. That way you know you're in the right car taking the right trip and your driver knows you're the right passenger. 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