Hi, everybody.
My name is Shauna and this is.
The American English Podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions,
pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful and interesting.
Let's do it.
Hello.
Hello.
Welcome back.
I hope you're having a nice day.
In today's lesson, we're going to go over the very common English idiom to.
Play it by ear.
As usual, we'll start with a joke.
We'll go through the origin or etymology of the expression to understand where it came from.
And then you'll hear three stories using this expression,
regular situations so that you get a clear idea of how to use it in different contexts.
At the very end, we'll do a pronunciation exercise.
In part two of today's episode,
we'll be talking about a real social experiment called the Violinist in the Metro.