hello Michelle how are you good how are you excellent I'm feeling great today happy to be
on the mic with you Michelle have you dabbled in any new hobbies lately um good question
um I feel like I'm always dabbling in something I can't think of something off of the top of my head
but you have haven't you well I've been dabbling a little bit with learning Arabic and I've also
been dabbling with a little gardening because we planted a new tree in front of my house so I've
been watering that tree you know trying to nurture it a little bit a few things here and there yeah
that's good that's good so today we're going to talk about dabbling but yeah guys we want
to remind you that we have an app for Alia's English it's IOS and Android right Lindsay oh
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okay guys so Michelle where can they go again to get the app go to allearsenglish.com app app yeah
perfect okay so Michelle let's talk about it we have a listener question right do you want to read
it sure okay so uh it says hi I am a royal fan of all ears English podcast I check out the episodes
every day and learn so much about spoken English and making small talk so this listener asks how
do you use the term come across as and Dabble in your daily life kind regards Yen so guys listen up
we'll do a follow-up on come across us but today I want to focus on dabble so thank you to Yen for
that question this is going to be fun yeah this is going to be really fun and guys yeah make sure
you're hitting follow on the show so you don't miss that other one on come across as that's also
a great expression Michelle right yes oh we'll get to that another day we can't do everything in one
day so dabble yeah Lindsay do you hear this word a lot yeah I do I do I like this I I think this
sounds smart it sounds like if you say I dabble in this I dabble in that it means that you're curious
about the world right yes right right right I mean what does what does that mean to devil it
means to try things you try right you um you do a little bit of something it doesn't mean you're an
expert right yeah yeah you're trying like here and there like you know just experimenting basically
exactly exactly you're saying you're kind of an amateur you're interested in it though so
do we have any examples we could give our listeners right away yes I've been dabbling
and knitting lately I may take a class it's kind of good to be able to say that because
if you say I'm learning knitting or I'm taking classes and knitting they might think that you're
really good at it but if you say dabbling you kind of get an out for yourself you're like
I'm just doing a little bit of this I'm not an expert right I'm just trying something new
it kind of lowers the commitment true that's true that's true um guys we want to make sure that you
listen to episode uh Ollie's English episode 1306 which is are you a creature of habit so that's a
great one to listen to but um so Lindsay do you dabble in podcasting no we definitely
don't dabble in podcasting all the way in we're underwater completely we're we submerge ourselves
um oh yeah no that would not be because we I mean we publish how many episodes across our
whole all three shows like 10 a week or something I don't know a lot right so we don't travel in
podcasting but right um and what about this example Lindsay sorry can we give one more
example yeah here's the example do you know how to cook I dabble right so what are you saying there
I do I do a little bit my try I experiment here and there yeah you experiment you try right
um yeah perfect love that so that would be the opposite of what we do on the podcast right you
don't you don't dabble in to what you do all the time that's not dabbling exactly exactly exactly
um so Michelle what about you what else what else do you dabble in what else
well I guess I would say cooking uh Fitness I wouldn't say I'm very committed but I dabble
um but yeah it's like you're you're you're not committed to doing it overly frequently
or that well maybe maybe at one point you will um but yeah you're experimenting what do you
what about you do you well you were talking about Arabic yeah dablo and learning Arabic
well it'll we'll see if if it's when I come back from Egypt I'll see whether it's just dabbling or
whether it's learning it like fully immersing and like trying to really learn take it on as another
language that I speak right that's a commitment level and it decision that one has to make am I
going to take a lesson once a month and just kind of dabble or am I going to take a lesson
three times a week and really commit to this new language right it depends on on the trip and how
I feel when I come back right yeah we can choose we can make choices in our lives Which languages
do we want to learn what countries do we want to visit in the future it's very exciting yeah
yeah okay Michelle any other ways to say this yes a bunch so the first one is to play around
with or you could even say play with but a lot of times they play around with so for example
I play around with songwriting but I'm not any good yeah that's and do you do that Michelle is
that is that true for you are you a songwriter as well as a musician or um I you know it's terrible
I haven't written a song in a very long time like I hope that one day I will get back into it but I
it's not it's not what it used to be I used to walk down the street and just Melodies would
come into my head and it was so natural for me and now it's not so much but I hope that maybe
once my kids are a little bit older and I'm not so consumed uh I have a little bit more
time for myself that I could get back into that because that is a huge passion of mine it's a good
question right I mean in order to like our we all have creative energies we have something that's
just a natural talent that comes up do we need our lives to be a little less crowded for that
to happen like for that to come through when we start to have family and partners and houses and
jobs and decisions does it just become too crowded right I don't know I'm asking the question to our
listeners um I think I think I think it can it depends how committed you are to it because
um we um yeah there's a there's a lot that can get in the way and um so it just depends how committed
so I I thought that I was really committed to doing it and then I still do love it but
um I I we'll see we'll see I I do hope to come back to more performing and things like that
in the future but for now I always English really kind of fits that Creative Energy besides you know
that I still get to I still get to do something kind of theatrical and creative so I love that
yeah it's a creative outlet for me too I I feel like I satisfy my creative needs sort of through
the show and we get to express ourselves and connect with our listeners help our listeners
yeah we're lucky we're lucky it's good good stuff yeah another one another way to say this Michelle
would be toy around with a little less common right uh so she toys around with gymnastics
but she's more focused on her studies I also think about this as like playing around with
an idea of doing something ah yeah like I'm on the fence kind of like that yeah you know I'm
toying around with moving into California for example right I'm toying around with this idea
I'm just throwing it around in my brain kind of thing right right right right and then the
other thing you could say is just from time to time right he practices the guitar from time to
time but he hasn't taken a class yeah exactly from time to time and then fiddle with this is
kind of fun they fiddle with jewelry making but I don't think they will open up a store or anything
um a great example of this is I think Jessica has shared on the show that she's working on um how
would you describe the art that she's getting it's like wood something with wood dessert wood writing
it's I don't know but pretty much every week when I see her she's got a new creation to show me it's
pretty awesome yes I know she is amazing so yeah that's a perfect example that's a perfect example
fiddling with it yeah who knows you know a lot of times people do that and then they open up a
store on like literally yes maybe she will maybe she will I know it's I think right now she's just
kind of in the fiddling learning stage but it's a really nice creative Outlet you know maybe we
all need something especially physical with our our hands where or or you know writing poems or
songs where we can have that outlet right are you good at like art or things with your hands oh God
no Michelle no me either no I'm a more physical person so with my time to get good thinking and
I'll like I said be outdoors be hiking be moving my body that's my portal to kind of clear thought
and feeling peaceful or meditation obviously too yeah yeah no I am not oh my gosh not are not not
artistic in the way of using my hands not but you are with music and performance and voice so that
kind of thing like I guess uh vocal kinds of vocal creativity I don't know what you would call it but
um but not the hands and some people do acting and you know some people are into Broadway drama
club that kind of thing that's a whole world so we all just want to find our thing you know
yeah love it so yeah these are really useful Expressions you can use with Hobbies like arts
and crafts maybe exercise guys um lots of things that you can do there so let's do a role play
um we may not use all of these but we'll use most of them and I'm sorry there is a child
crying in the background and I apologize oh I can't hear it but okay clear our listeners
can't hear we'll just speak really loud on the mic so they can't hear yeah all right here we go
Michelle we are catching up and we are talking about our Hobbies as friends yeah here we go
yes here we go so I've been dabbling and beating lately wow that's great I've been toying around
with jewelry making actually we should get better and open a place huh yeah I just do it from time
to time I've been playing around with making earrings specifically oh that's exciting okay
yes I think that's cool when people do jewelry making it's pretty cool yeah I would have no idea
where to start but I'm sure you take classes yeah yes right right right so let's see so I said I've
been dabbling in beating lately so people are beating all sorts of things what can we explain
for our listeners what does that mean beating putting beads onto things I think okay yeah
so things like could be jewelry I think yeah for sure or bracelets maybe rings I don't know but if
you're if our listeners have the app guys you're gonna see how to spell that right the key here is
the spelling right b-e-a-d-i-n-g that's important to note that yeah okay yes beating okay love it
and then what was the next thing and I said wow that's great I've been toying around with jewelry
making actually so it's kind of fun because when you reveal to someone it's a connection moment
hey I've been making these wood carvings or I and then the person would say oh I've been doing doing
something and then all of a sudden you you know the person opens up a really cool connection that
you might not have otherwise if you hadn't shared the thing you're working on right yes true true
so you open up the door to get a connection there and then you kind of take things up a notch and
you say we should we should get better on open up lights and I said I just do it from time to time
um yeah so I'm like oh I'm not that committed basically right right so it's a always a bit of
a mismatch right if someone has an entrepreneurial Spirit like let's make a at a business and then
the other person just wants to be an artist it never works yes right right somebody just
wants to do it for fun and yeah right as a mismatch it's like the it's like the Steve
I just rewatched maybe I mentioned this before the um jobs documentary about Steve Jobs Apple
founder and it's like Wozniak and jobs right Steve Jobs was he was really adamant that they
wanted to invent this thing and turned into a big company and Wozniak was the coder and he
just wanted to make code like make cool things you know until there was always the tension
between them really interesting interesting that is interesting yeah today well wait there was one
more I said I've been playing around with making earrings specifically so again trying to do that
um so take away for today um yeah this is this is fun to say dabble this was a great
question I love these specific questions it's very casual um it's good to talk about
your casual interests and I think really what Lindsay said is the takeaway about
um opening up a door to connection when you share things don't think that you have to only share
pieces of yourself that are like perfect and positively refined yeah yeah yeah right even
if you say you're dabbling in something you do it a little bit uh we don't know um that can be
a huge connection skill and it can also like relax the person as into saying maybe they do something
oh wait I tried that too and you kind of share share your you know how things are going together
yeah this is a low commitment word it means that you're not saying I'm an expert in the thing right
sometimes we might be afraid to share something because automatically we think oh they must have
expectations that I'm a perfect artist right or a famous artist no you can just be trying something
as Michelle said but do share it use this word or something like it to share it as Michelle
said open that door to that awesome connection so good all right great question from our listener
thanks so much and we'll see you in the next one all right Michelle take care bye foreign [Music]