This is an All Ears English Podcast, episode 2176.
Tired of awesome? Try this phrase to respond positively in English.
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There is one phrase that you hear a lot on this podcast, which indicates a positive response.
Today, listen in to decide if you want to adopt this phrase into your English vocabulary for better connection.
Hi, Lindsay, how are you?
Excellent, Michelle.
I'm fantastic. How are you?
I'm good. Would you say that you're overall a positive person?
Yeah, I would say for sure.
For sure, I lean in the positive direction.
I don't know. I think life is good.
I feel good. Yeah. What about you?
Are you pretty positive?
Would you say? I think especially more lately.
I mean, I go through my stages of being a little bit negative, but I like to think of myself as a cheerful, positive person.
Good stuff. Good stuff.
Thanks. Good stuff.
Good stuff. Yeah, it's great to encourage people, though.
Of course, we want to make others feel good if we can.
And today we have a question about a very native expression.
I'm excited for this.
This is going to be good stuff, Lindsay.
Yeah, it's a very native expression.
And it's very kind of personality based.
We all kind of have our personality markers, right, that we talk about in this show.
We talked about maybe making t -shirts for them one day.
Yes, I feel funny. For at least a few of us on the team, it is definitely kind of a personality marker.
But Michelle, first, before we go into all the good stuff, what do our listeners need to know about Google Podcasts, Google Podcasts Player, the app, Google Podcasts?
What do we need to know more?
Going away. So make sure that you hit follow now, but not there because you're not going to get the episodes there.
So please, you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, you could watch us on YouTube, you have still so many options, but not Google Podcasts.
So guys, if you are listening right now on Google Podcasts, make sure that you switch, make the move, get ahead of the game, as we say, and make the move now because very soon it is going away.
This happens in any industry.
Podcasting is not unique.
Different apps close, shut down, things change.
We don't have control over their decisions, but you guys can always find a great new place to listen because all there's English is going strong five days a week now, Michelle.
That's right. That's right.
I love it. So today we have a question from Yama, our listener, Lindsay, could you read the question for us?
Yeah. So Yama says, today, I would like to know the occasion to use good stuff, which is used by you guys many times in conversations.
Is it a common phrase in conversations among native English speakers?
Good question from Yama.
What's our answer? Is it common?
Yes, it's very common.
What do you think? I would say it is common.
I would say it's particularly common for us because, like I said, it's a personality.
I mean, I would say I use this a lot.
I'm not sure if you use this, Michelle.
Do you feel like you use this on the show a lot?
I don't really, I don't know.
We have to.