Is Your Nose in a Book? What to Say to Big Readers

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  This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2604.

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  Is your nose in a book?

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  What to say to big readers.

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  Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times.

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  Are you feeling stuck with your English?

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  We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection.

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  With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon,

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  the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, US.

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  Are you a big reader?

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  What can you say when someone around you is immersed in a book and won't look up?

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  Find out exactly what to say in English today.

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  Have you ever finished a conversation in English and thought, I know I can say that better?

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  You understood everything that was said.

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  You had ideas, opinions, maybe even a joke.

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  But when it was your turn to speak, your answer came out shorter than you wanted or more basic

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  than how you would say it in your own language.

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  This happens when your understanding is stronger than your speaking fluency.

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  The good news?

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  That gap is very common and very fixable once you know exactly where you are.

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  Take our free two-minute fluency quiz to discover your current English level and what to work on next.

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