All Ears English Listening

I started listening to this podcast 3 years ago. I wasn’t able to understand more than 40-50% of what they were saying on the episodes. Now, I understand more than 99%. It takes time to learn but you have to start at some point. It doesn’t happen automatically. You have to make the “conscious” decision to start listening it every day and you’ll see results. I’m originally from Venezuela (I speak Spanish) but I’m living now in Texas. 3 years ago I was working in a restaurant as a dishwasher. 7 hours a day. I decided that if I wanted to reach my goals, I had to learn English. I started listening to this podcast 7 hours a day 5 days a week. I also had another motivation. My son has a rare muscular disease. I didn’t want to keep using interpreters to be able to talk with my son’s doctors. Now, I have my own business so I’m able to support my family and do something that I love. I’m a Real Estate Photographer/Videographer. 99% of my day is in English ( Even on the phone, sounds terrifying isn’t it?). I make mistakes in English everyday but we believe in connection, no perfection 🤗. You can reach your goals too and this app is going to be crucial in your journey. Michelle and Lindsay, thanks so much for your ward work.

Hi Lindsay and Michelle. How y’all doing? Don’t worry about me. I am fit as a fiddle. I started listening to your podcast ( may be 6 months ago) and fell in love with it in the first go. hehe. Since then I have been listening to your podcast every single day. I love the energy level, quality, articulation, and intricacies you ladies bring to the table. Keep up the great work. Claps. My question to you is how to acquire American accent. People like me who are 30 or above, they have slight or strong mother tongue influence. It is hard to do voice modulation and pretend to have American accent. lol. Any tips for that? I also found out that 99% of the time I cannot get the hang of southern accent. To some extent, it is slightly annoying. Is it only with me or others find it the same way as well? I hope nobody from the south reading this. haha Another thing is that I reckon I am a fluent speaker when it comes to day to day conversation but when I have to talk about any specific topic, I run out of ideas or take too long to generate thoughts. Does it happen with everybody when they are not familiar with the topic or is it just me? I appreciate y’all and your team. Thanks a zillion, Sumeet Ramdass

I really enjoyed using this app to not only learn English but to hear it discussed in very marvelous ways. I love the videos that are built-in such as surviving the cold in Boston or traveling through Union Square in New York. The creators did fantastic job at being very personable and speaking clearly, concisely and with confidence putting the listener at ease. They are extremely passionate about others being able to confidently speak English and making connections with other native speakers. Very dynamic content being discussed in the audio including such topics such as is there racism in this country? Love the other speakers that are included as well. The layout of the app is phenomenal and is on par with all their professional apps I've seen regarding language and even sports talk radio. Job well done!! Phenomenal app😇

Girls, you don’t have idea how I’ve improved my listening with you. I’m from Venezuela and I came to San Francisco, (USA) a year ago. I’ve studied English but I have a problem, around me there are so many latin people, then I can’t speak English whole day, as I’d like it. But thanks help me a lot. I have to petitions: I was journalist in my country, so I’d like to listen suggestions, vocabulary and common things about this world in EEUU and how a non native speaker can be a good and competitive journalist here. I’d like to work in that field so soon. Maybe you could invite to someone. A American journalist. That’s would be great!!!! The second one but not less important, while I try to improve my English for looking for a job as journalist, I’m working in a cafe/bakery/restaurant and I got a promotion as Barista-Cashier (I was cook) I’d love to listen from you vocabulary, suggestions of how to be nice with the costumers. Which are the best words or sentences for getting a small and nice conversation while I’m taking the orders on the register and offering ours best breads, drinks and plates. I know I’ve asked for so much. I’m sorry about that, but you’re my idols. I really appreciate A LOT all that you’ve done for us. Thanks! Hugs! Odell Lopez

I have started living in the US since the last April and keep lisning ali ears English almost everyday in the morning. It is very useful to know the expressions which cannot be learned in textbooks and are necessary to communicate with native speakers effectively. Also, I'm listening this podcast to get used to the natural speed and pronounciations by native speakers as well as to practice my speaking skill by shadowing what Lindsay and Michelle says in the show. If you want to establish good communication with native speakers, you should definitely listen to this one. Here is my question. How can we use "over here?" and what is the difference between "over here" and " over there"? I came up with this question this morning because when I asked a staff member in my company to let me know the location of a product. At the time he said "Oh, its over here" with pointing out one direction. Lindsay and Michelle, could you tell me the meaning and its nuanc and difference from over therev Thank you very much. I am going to keep all ears english to be a pearson who can communicate with native speakers easily and establish good relationship with them.