2024-03-06
15 分钟This is an all ears english podcast episode 21 60 careless or not careful what's the difference and why does it matter.
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 host aubrey carter the ielts wiz and lindsay mcmahon the english adventurer coming to you from arizona and colorado usa and to get your transcripts delivered by email every week go to allearsenglish.com subscribe.
Be careful there is a key difference between these two words that are related to giving people feedback or warnings today we dig into the deep nuances to drive your fluency level higher listen in.
Hello lindsey how are.
You hello aubrey i'm doing fantastic how are you how's it going excellent i.
Have a question this is interesting do you know anyone who is careless oh.
Luckily not blatantly super dangerously careless right.
Well let me ask do you feel like it would be different if i asked you do you know anyone who is not careful that would be me.
Probably in a lot of cases right.
I'M clumsy i'm not always careful it's different right there's a difference here yeah.
I can be forgetful i can leave thing maybe leave a burner on a.
Stove or something absolutely i often leave cupboard doors open i think it drives my partner crazy coming through the kitchen closing the cupboard doors every now and then standing up and hitting your head on one of them like i'm sorry i'm really horrible about that do you.
Do you guys have a real personality difference there in that way yes yeah.
He is very careful to always you know pick up behind himself and close cupboard doors and i am definitely more likely to do all of these things.
Interesting all right so we're getting into some really good stuff today i feel like what we're going to do today is going to be extremely nuanced for our high you know for our listeners at the intermediate level the b one b two but even for our c one listeners guys super advanced you're going to learn a real nuance today really.
Absolutely because the average english speaker if you ask them what's the difference between careless and not careful even native speakers might say they seem the same you have to really think about it and and pay attention to the nuance to tell the difference yeah you gotta come.
To all there's english to find out the difference for these things cause we.
Love to do this we love to.
Go in and figure out what is the difference what's the meaning and tone and what you really mean behind the word but we have another episode to send you guys to and that is episode 21 37 called this friday or next friday how to clarify calendar dates in english aubrey i think this is a challenge for our listeners yes it's.
True and for native speakers as well there are definitely times i'm like wait this coming friday or next friday this coming june or next june yeah and.