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• 79: Brighton to France: 5 Culture Shocks

  The pace of life, food habits, market days and more... Mitch and Isi talk about the culture shocks they discovered during their time in the south west of France Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Mitch: [0:23] Did you see this? They think they have a video now of... did you see that the Louvre was robbed? Isi: [0:29] Yeah, I didn't hear much about it. I saw this video as well. Mitch: [0:31] And they didn't have any... oh, you saw it? They think someone filmed two people escaping down a mechanical ladder, with the jewels, because they have no video footage from inside the Louvre. Sounds like such a... Isi: [0:43] Why don't they have videos in the Louvre? Mitch: [0:45] They do, but they said that there's the one place where they didn't have footage was exactly the place where they came in and stole it, which is like... Isi: [0:52] Which they probably knew. Mitch: [0:53] Inside job, maybe. Isi: [0:55] I mean, they can research that. Mitch: [0:56] I guess they scouted out for a while. But, funny that we speak about the Louvre being burgled because... Isi: [1:04] Did you say already we started this podcast? Oh, you don't anymore. Did we just... went in like this, now? Mitch: [1:11] We just start cas... casually. Isi: [1:13] Oh, our talk about the Louvre was already on podcast? Mitch: [1:17] Not you blowing your nose, though. I'll cut that bit out. Isi: [1:20] Good. Mitch: [1:22] This is a soft entry, we call it. Isi: [1:25] Okay, cool. Mitch: [1:28] But today, that links in with our topic today, because, we just returned back from France, and I thought we could talk about some key differences, between not, the UK and France, but very specific, I thought we could bring up differences between our two lives we have just been living, between Brighton and the south of France, specifically the Dordogne region, where we were living for some time. Isi: [1:58] Yes. Mitch: [1:58] And I've got five points, that I sort of, have realised are very different, between our lifestyle here and our lifestyle back then, when we were living in the south of France. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 78: The Secret Rules of British Life Nobody Tells You

  Crossing on a red light? Table service in a pub? Bus, supermarket and London Underground ettiquette? Mitch tests Isi with 5 very British scenarios to see if she knows the unwritten rules of British life. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Intro Isi: [0:22] Hello! Mitch: [0:24] Hello! Welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Isi: [0:28] I'm pro-leaving this out next time. We should... please leave your comment on Spotify, or your other favourite apps. On Spotify you can leave a comment and say, stop telling us which podcast we are listening to. Mitch: [0:43] What did I say at the beginning now? Hello! Isi: [0:46] How are you? Without an answer, but that's very English. Mitch: [0:51] It is very English. Isi: [0:52] Alright. - Alright, mate. - Alright. Mitch: [0:54] Alright. So today, we're going to be playing a little scenario game with you. - As usual. - As usual, putting you to the test. And proposing five situations, that will happen to you, in the UK and will happen to you in the UK, if you come. Let's call them 'unwritten rules of the UK'. Isi: [1:15] The first one is already an odd one then. There's no should or shouldn't in that one. well basically there's a should. Mitch: [1:21] Hold your horses. we'll get on to that in a minute. I just want to quickly say, that if you're listening to this podcast, on your podcast app, you should be made aware, that this podcast is also available as a video on YouTube and we're going to be showing some pictures, in-between Isi and I, of these sort of proposed scenarios. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 77: A German Ranks Traditional British Food

  Come play along as Isi ranks traditional British food, such as the full English breakfast, Sunday roast dinner, crumpets ans the famous fish & chips. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Mitch: [0:22] Hello. Isi: [0:24] Hi. Mitch: [0:25] Welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Isi: [0:29] How long will we say this? Always? Mitch: [0:31] Always. Forever. Isi: [0:33] It takes five good seconds of our podcast. Mitch: [0:37] That just took five good seconds, saying that. So today, our main Topic of the Week we'll be ranking the best and worst British foods. Isi: [0:50] It's very fitting, because we just had one of the best ones, last night. Mitch: [0:55] What did we have last night? Isi: [0:56] A Sunday roast, by Mitch's mum. That was really nice. Mitch: [1:01] And we're going to be ranking them by this chart, which you can see in the middle of us. And their ranking goes from 'God tier' to 'top tier', 'mid tier', 'low tier' and 'crap tier'. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 76: 7 Strong Accents From the UK

  Improve your English listening skills as Isi tries to guess where these 7 strong accents from the UK are from... Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Intro Mitch: [0:22] Hiya everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Isi: [0:27] Hello. Mitch: [0:28] I'm overdoing my enthusiasm I feel, because we are in a low energy state. We've just come back from Berlin and we both caught the dreaded Corona. Isi: [0:44] Dreaded. Mitch: [0:45] So, we've been a little bit under the weather. So, I'm going to try to infuse some extra energy to the podcast, right Isi? Isi: [0:54] Please. I don't have it today. Mitch: [0:56] Aww... but before we carry on actually, because we have just come back from Berlin and we met lots of really nice people, it wasn't anything to do with Easy English we were actually there for the Easy German Summer School. But we met loads of you who were also Easy English Podcast listeners, so huge shout-out! Isi: [1:17] Shout-out to everyone. And we also did a new episode for Easy English. Mitch: [1:21] We also made an episode in Berlin, about Berlin, comparing um... cultural, culture shocks, that we noticed in our time there, the one week we spent, before we caught the dreaded (Co)rona. But that's not what we're discussing today. Today, a little bit of a follow-on from last episode, where Isi tested me on cultural slang words. Isi: [1:46] Yes. Mitch: [1:46] The reason she did that, was because, we like to play a game now, where she quickly, guesses the accent of a person, when we're in the UK. And she's on fire. She's on a hot streak of victories. Isi: [2:02] Well... God, you make me scared. Mitch: [2:06] So I searched online and found some... because Brighton is very southern, most of the time. Only rarely do you hear someone from the far reaches of the UK, so I went and found accents from the far reaches of the UK. So we're going to play a little game, maybe you can play along with us, and pause and try to guess yourself, where you think this person's from, and we're going to discuss little hints and tips as to why we think they sound like where they're coming from. Because there are some giveaways in all of these, because they're quite strong, regional accents. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 75: 10 English Slang Words from Outside the UK

  Ballpark figure, shift, chur, keener, a double-double, lekker, togs, thongs, jonesin & craic... do you know these English slang words from outside the UK? Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Intro Mitch: [0:25] I'm nervous. Isi: [0:26] Really? Mitch: [0:28] Nervously excited. Isi: [0:30] Mitch is confused, because he doesn't know what's coming up today. Mitch: [0:33] Yeah, I feel like I'm in the hot seat for the first time in a long time. Isi: [0:38] So, yeah, I prepared this topic. Mitch doesn't even know it yet. What I thought, actually, it has a little background story. At the moment we play this game, whenever we are somewhere where people are, where I guess if someone has a different accent to our southern British surroundings, I guess where the people are from. Because I would love to master this, and to bring my English to the next level and know when someone is from Australia, the US, Ireland, or Liverpool. Mitch: [1:18] You're getting really good at it though. You're quite quick. Isi: [1:21] Why did you say though? Wasn't it expected? Actually yesterday, good example, no? Mitch: [1:28] Yeah, I just quizzed you... there was someone behind you and I just quizzed you quickly; do you know where they're from? You're just, like a flash, "Ireland." What part of Ireland? "Republic". Isi: [1:40] I love Ireland. Yeah, so what I thought is, I would like to, a bit, quiz you, if you know slang words from other British English speaking countries or regions, actually countries, I think, only. Yeah, other countries. Would you like to go for that? Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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