This is an all ears English podcast episode 2359. How to Connect Ideas and People in English.

Welcome to the AllEars English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck

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with your American hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the

New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.

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A key skill in English is articulating how ideas connect together so that you will be better

understood and being able to connect people to others by showing what they have in common.

Listen in today to find out how.

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Hello, Michelle. How are you doing today? I'm good, Lindsay. How are you? I'm feeling all right.

I'm feeling all right. You have a question for me today? I do. Lindsay, who do you know in your life

who is most similar to you? Oh, my gosh. Probably my

parents, actually. It's so scary. You know, we always think, oh, we don't want to be like our

parents. But then when you become an adult and you look at your parents, you're like, yep,

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