2024-04-24
21 分钟This is an all ears english podcast episode 21 88 same name how to connect over this commonality.
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 adventure and michelle kaplan the new york radio girl coming to you from colorado and new york city usa and to get your transcripts delivered by email every week go to allearsenglish.com subscribe what can you say.
When you meet someone with the same name this is an opportunity for connection in english today find out what to say to connect hey there michelle how's.
Everything going today good good everything is good how are you i'm feeling good.
I'M feeling fresh this morning ready for a big snowstorm here in denver so.
Yay okay well good luck lindsey do you is lindsay is a pretty common name right do you frequently meet a lot of people with your name annoyingly.
Yes i say that because my parents i was born in 81 and i actually i assert that i was an early lindsay and my parents would always say lindsay was kind of a new name it was actually i think more a male name it is male it's a gender neutral name believe it or not i think historically more in england and ireland it was used as a male's name but yeah i mean lindsey graham right oh true yeah and so i think i was like at the cutting edge of the name but then the millennials who are like five six seven years older then the name became super popular and so now it's just a common name so that's my gripe.
That'S your gripe that's your gripe well we are going to be talking about this today this is your idea for a topic i am super excited for this episode i think it's so fun it's so specific is there any chance lindsay that you would find this episode topic this situation in a textbook do.
You think i really doubt it would have to be quite the textbook and i would probably buy that textbook if it showed up so we're doing this here this came from a moment when i was on the treadmill at orange theory and there happened to be a lindsay right next to me and we struck up a conversation of course we did because that's what you do right when you see someone or meet someone with your name it always happens so it's a connection moment michelle oh it.
For sure is so we're going to get more into this today i'm excited guys keep on listening make sure that you don't stop listening and at the end of the episode we are going to have a key poll guys we've been doing these really fun informative key polls through spotify if you listen through spotify you will be able to get a poll question and answer it it's a great way to interact with us and we get to learn about you we will announce the results of the poll in a future episode so i love this so keep on listening we're going to give you that poll at.
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Right michelle absolutely okay so lindsey how do you feel when you meet somebody with your name like when you met this girl at orange theory what was your reaction you know there's always a.
Smile there's an immediate sense of connection for sure even though you're not going to become best friends probably there's a moment of connection which is kind of nice right it's fun it's like among all these other people these strangers in this room you and i have this connection so we can enjoy that moment i mean these are the moments of life right michelle that we want to focus on and know what to do so yeah i think it's fun it.
Is fun well don't you think it'd be weird if you didn't react if you just said hi i'm lindsay and somebody said hi i'm lindsay and that was it it would just feel empty like you were giving up an opportunity to have a connection moment you can't.
Not react you have to do something so that's and i'm sure that for our listeners for you guys i'm sure in your native language you do something right you don't just you know move on with your day there's some kind of micro moment of connection so now today it's all about showing you how to do that in english so i'm.
Excited yes yes exactly all right so guys if you haven't already head on over to episode 21 81 of all ears english this was you can rely upon han us for english grammar so that was a good one so okay let's get into it so i think people normally get pretty excited about sharing names lindsey what are some of the common names in our generation ish that.
You can think of well grudgingly our names lindsey and michelle are both pretty common ashley sarah jennifer jessica is a common name for men john my when i was a kid in school i remember it was always sarah john mike and katie kate or katie super common.
Names for ryan is also a pretty common one for yeah and i don't know i feel like the typical men's names i feel like a lot of them are still popular today whereas i don't know i feel like the women's names have changed a lot more i don't know if that's true though yeah.
I mean there are some some steady ones like david has always been a common name right yeah for sure some that kind of are timeless they go over the generations i guess john and mike also very you know timeless i suppose although i don't know too many young kids named john or mike i don't know who knows right well what's.
Actually it's funny with the name michelle because i don't think there are babies being named michelle right but i think there are babies being named my little boy is being named michael still i don't know i feel like michael is still in for a boy and michelle is out i haven't seen any baby.