How to Intentionally Vary Your Vocabulary
4/18/202618 min
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This is an All Ears English podcast. How to intentionally vary your vocabulary. [upbeat music] 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 adventurer, 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. [upbeat music] What is the difference between intentionally, deliberately, and on purpose? Let's get into the tiny details today to find out if there is a major difference, and how to use all three. [upbeat music] You can be technically correct in English and still not sound natural. Maybe your sentences are grammatically right, but something feels stiff, a little robotic, not quite how a native speaker would say it. That's nuance. Fluency lives in collocations, phrasal verbs, and word choice, not just grammar rules. If you keep using the same safe phrases, it may