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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya, podcast peeps.

Isi:
[0:25] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:25] Welcome to another episode of the Easy English Podcast. Just in case you didn't know what you're...

Isi:
[0:32] What's your alarm for?

Mitch:
[0:34] That the laundry's done. Okay.

Isi:
[0:37] We're both eating sweeties.

Mitch:
[0:39] Mm-hmm. I'm eating a chocolate bar that is based on the stars, the Milky Way. I just said the name of the actual chocolate bar. So I'm eating a chocolate based on a space-themed chocolate.

Isi:
[0:55] We cannot make advertisement. There are also other really great...

Mitch:
[0:58] Space-themed chocolate bars.

Isi:
[1:00] Yeah, like Mars. They're probably all from the...

Mitch:
[1:02] Don't say Mars. Don't say the name.

Isi:
[1:04] You just said Milky Way.

Mitch:
[1:05] Oh yeah, sure. Yours is based on the planet.

Isi:
[1:07] Mars is the planet.

Mitch:
[1:08] Are there any other space...

Isi:
[1:09] We need to name them all now so that we don't do advertisement.

Mitch:
[1:11] Space-themed chocolate.

Isi:
[1:12] They're all yummy, yummy. Kinderriegel.

Mitch:
[1:13] Uranus. Oh God, what's going on? So in today's episode, we've got a few subjects to cover. The first thing I want to do, part of our 'Topic of the Week', is I realised, when making a lot of these street interviews, that there are a lot of informal contractions that people and myself are saying. And I sort of, thought it'd be good to sort of, do a rundown of maybe, 10 that you will commonly hear, that are very useful for you to try to pick up, try to integrate into your English vocabulary, into your English speaking. So I'm going to read them out and Isi, maybe you're going to tell me what two words are being contracted into one or what three words or... I think these are all mostly two words though.

Isi:
[1:55] This is always a test of my English knowledge, isn't it?

Mitch:
[1:57] A little bit, yeah. But you'll get them all, for sure.
Topic of the Week

Mitch:
[2:07] Okay, the first one, and it's almost the same as this infamous 'bottle of water'. It's got the same sort of feel to it. Do you know what I mean?

Isi:
[2:18] Do you know what I mean?

Mitch:
[2:20] Exactly. Do you say, are you able to do this? Are you doing it in your everyday speaking?

Isi:
[2:25] Yeah, but it's even shorter.

Mitch:
[2:26] What?

Isi:
[2:27] Do you know what I mean?

Mitch:
[2:28] Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean? And that's a very common one that people say. And it will almost be like a reflex kind of thing, you'll say when making a point. Like, maths is boring, do you know what I mean? Okay, next one. Probs. It is a contraction, but only of one word.

Isi:
[2:48] Probably.

Mitch:
[2:49] Probably. So how would we use this in a sentence? Mitch, is the laundry done? Probs. A classic one, which you like to use. You alright?

Isi:
[3:00] Are you alright.

Mitch:
[3:01] And you're not even saying the 'are' at the beginning.

Isi:
[3:03] No.

Mitch:
[3:06] Are you all right?

Isi:
[3:07] All right.

Mitch:
[3:08] Which can be used as a question or even just a sort of, a greeting.

Isi:
[3:12] All right, all right.

Mitch:
[3:13] You all right? And then the other person would respond.

Isi:
[3:16] Yeah, all right.

Mitch:
[3:17] Yeah, you all right? You all right, mate? Tomoz.

Isi:
[3:21] Tomorrow.

Mitch:
[3:22] Is shortening for tomorrow. Okay, here's ones that are very common that you should be using if you really want to sound like a native speaker, because everyone's using those. Those previous ones are kind of, quite informal. These ones are almost so commonly used, that they've almost become formal contractions. Dunno.

Isi:
[3:44] I don't know.

Mitch:
[3:45] I don't know. Dunno. I don't know. I don't know. What do you think?

Isi:
[3:49] What do you think?

Mitch:
[3:50] Dunno. What do you think? Gonna.

Isi:
[3:54] I'm going to.

Mitch:
[3:55] I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to go get the laundry in a bit. What are you going to do?

Isi:
[4:00] I'm going to go to the doctors.

Mitch:
[4:02] Nice. That is all very true statements we're saying.

Isi:
[4:05] For today.

Mitch:
[4:06] Wanna.

Isi:
[4:08] I want to.

Mitch:
[4:09] I don't wanna go get the laundry, how about you?

Isi:
[4:14] I don't wanna go to the doctors.

Mitch:
[4:16] Got... gotta or gotta. a lot of people say gotta.

Isi:
[4:20] Like, gotcha?

Mitch:
[4:21] g-o-t-t-a gotta.

Isi:
[4:25] I have to, I got to.

Mitch:
[4:27] Yeah, but I got to get the laundry.

Isi:
[4:30] But you would probably more say; I have to get the laundry than I got to get the laundry.

Mitch:
[4:34] I got to get, got to get.

Isi:
[4:35] Got to get, got to get.

Mitch:
[4:36] I got to get, got to get, got to get through this. I got to get through this. Lemme.

Isi:
[4:43] Let me.

Mitch:
[4:44] Yeah, like the singer from Motorhead. Let me go get the laundry, please. Or let me avoid the laundry duties for this week. Gimme. - Give me. - Gimme some peace of mind. Gimme shelter. Oh yeah is that... yeah the Rolling Stones song; 'Gimme Shelter'. - Yep. - Kinda. - Kind of. - It's kind of, yeah. Lemme, kinda, is spelt the same way as the singer from Motorhead but there's no 'I' at the end it's just l-e-m-m-e.

Isi:
[5:20] lemme kinda tell you how I'm gonna... - Wow! - Blah, blah, blah.

Mitch:
[5:24] We can make an Easy English contraction song. I don't know what I'm gonna wanna get a lemme, give me kinda.

Isi:
[5:32] Shoulda, shoulda, woulda.

Mitch:
[5:34] Yeah, shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Isi:
[5:36] Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Mitch:
[5:37] Sounds like you're doing an Eminem really fast rap. I shoulda, woulda, coulda, coulda. And then sorta.

Isi:
[5:43] Sort of?

Mitch:
[5:44] Sort of. I sorta like doing the laundry, to be honest.

Isi:
[5:49] Do you? It's a lie, guys. No one likes to do the laundry. Do you like to do the laundry

Mitch:
[5:53] Not really uh outta.

Isi:
[5:56] I'm out of love set me free this is what did you.

Mitch:
[6:05] Misery.
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Mitch:
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Mitch:
[7:13] We're offering one free group class as part of our seven-day free trial of the Conversation Membership and the reason why this is part of our Easy English Updates is, at the moment we have, like I said this class at 18:15 in British time but that doesn't allow for people that are living in Asia, so we would like to, in the summer, open up our first ever Easy English call which is going to be at a time which is friendly for Asia. So we're looking at doing it at 10:15am in England, which will equate to 15:45am in India, 18:15am in China, and 19:15am in Japan and Korea. And if you're interested in us starting this call, we would really appreciate it if you would click the link in the show notes of this podcast and that will also take you to a time conversion website, which will show you exactly what time the pub call will be at in your country. And by clicking this link, we'll be given a notification that you are interested in joining this call when we start it in summer. So if you are, like I said, looking to improve your English speaking skills in a nerve-free and inclusive way, where there's no pressure and we're going to learn all through making mistakes, then join our Easy English Conversation membership with a seven-day free trial by going to easyenglish.video/membership. It will be in the show notes, click the link and we're looking forward to greeting you and welcoming you into our conversation calls. Now back to the episode.
Mitch's Movie Club

Mitch:
[9:01] As part of this topic, we'd like to speak about a movie that we both watched and give it a review and really recommend it. Because we, last week, watched a movie on 'Netflix' called 'Materialists'.

Isi:
[9:14] Are we now making an advertisement?

Mitch:
[9:17] No. Well, we're recommending a good movie, which I think would be very nice for any of you, anyone over the age of 18, I think it's for 16, to watch.

Isi:
[9:27] Did you think it was 16? There's some harder topics.

Mitch:
[9:31] There's some harsh language, some sexual references.

Isi:
[9:34] There's also sexual assault, so that should probably be for...

Mitch:
[9:38] Yeah, so we would like to recommend a movie to all you adults listening to this podcast. We watched a movie called 'Materialists' last week, didn't we?

Isi:
[9:48] Yep.

Mitch:
[9:48] What style would you say this movie is?

Isi:
[9:50] I'm not a movie person. I thought, I think it was advertised as a rom-com.

Mitch:
[9:59] Which means? It's another good contraction.

Isi:
[10:00] Romantic comedy but I would say it's not

Mitch:
[10:03] I would say it is.

Isi:
[10:04] I think it's a rom drama if that is a category.

Mitch:
[10:07] Nice. But there was comedy. It's dark comedy. Okay, let's put it that way. It's very like.

Isi:
[10:12] No I don't mean it's not funny, but it's like it's... I don't mean it's too dark to be funny, I mean it's too not funny to be funny.

Mitch:
[10:20] Right. Yeah okay. But there are funny moments but that's just it's kind of quite real I'd say, it's kind of like, quite a realistic comedy, realistic drama, realistic romance.

Isi:
[10:31] Yeah. I... yeah yeah, and I really like the cinematic style which you have to talk about because I have no idea how they're called. But it's like, it's very like, first of all the look is very New York, I would say, but in a realistic New York way, not like sparkly New York. - Yeah right. - But like, big city, bit greyish, normal colours in a nice way you have the feeling you watch, yeah, a realistic um scenery and the whole movie is quite slow paced, but in an interesting way. I like slow paced movies when you really get like into it and you completely are there, I think I not once got up. I really enjoyed the whole thing. It was not predictable, but not too much and I like that it was the you know, other rom-coms are; something funny happens, something bad happens, and then something really nice happens and yay. And this is like very subtle movements, some bad things happen, definitely. That's why it's probably should be 16 or 18, but there's like, it's like little waves, nice waves that you go with I would say.

Mitch:
[11:42] But can I say that there is something about it, because the rom-com has, people like rom-coms because they're predictable, right? You know that it's going to be like; two people meet, at some point there's going to be a twist, and they're going to fall out But you know the end there will be love at the end, that's the whole point of a rom-com right?

Isi:
[12:01] There's love at the end.

Mitch:
[12:02] And this has... is that, if you made it into a package. But there's always... there's something about this movie where you're never quite... there's parts where you're like, I don't know what's gonna happen next. You know there's gonna have to be something that happens, but in this movie, because there are two love interests for the Dakota Johnson who's the...

Isi:
[12:21] For the Dakota Johnson.

Mitch:
[12:22] For the Dakota Johnson, the protagonist of the movie. But you're never quite sure what the twist is going to be and because this movie is not so glitz and glamour and sparkly, how dark it's going to get or how big the twist is going to be. I wasn't sure if maybe one of the two love interests wouldn't make it or if she would even make it at one point. There were some really uneasy feelings with this movie. And this movie is produced by my favourite production company, A24. Because A24 is kind of known for being kind of a bit like highbrow movie-making.

Isi:
[12:56] You said at the beginning of the film, oh, this is an A24 film, so it might be quite dark. And I was like, no, Netflix advertises it to be like very rom-com. That's why I thought I want to watch it. And then you were like, nah, it will be a bit different. And you were right. And then actually the entering scene is very like odd, not odd. looks very like why is this the scene to start with. They're like in a cave, not they are not. Like, they're a cave a cave man and a cave woman in a cave, long long time ago, having a date. - Yeah. - Anyway, that is I was like; huh! And then you were like...

Mitch:
[13:33] You were like; I think this movie's not right, Netflix has put us into the wrong movie.

Isi:
[13:37] Yeah, and then you were like; no that's A24.

Mitch:
[13:42] There's a lot of mo... a lot of metaphor metaphorical kind of things going on, right? At the beginning, and sort of foreshadowing what will happen in the film a little bit.

Isi:
[13:51] Yeah and it's nicely written

Mitch:
[13:54] Would you... do you want to give a little synopsis? Can you summarise the whole movie, what it's about in like two sentences

Isi:
[14:00] You want to spoil that

Mitch:
[14:01] No, don't spoil it but like what what's the kind of overall.

Isi:
[14:04] Um.. - theme of the movie. - The main character she's a... - The Dakota Johnsonhe Dakota the Dakota Johnson is a how are they called? - A matchmaker. - A matchmaker. So she, well for high profile people.

Mitch:
[14:20] Oh yeah right, a bit like Raya, but a matchmaking version of Raya.

Isi:
[14:23] Rich New Yorkers and she matches... well she has clients that look for love are looking for love and she matches them and puts them on dates and kind of is a bit like a therapist as well meets with them, motivates them to go into it, because often they're like having problems to open up to other people or so. Which also goes very wrong in the movie. I wouldn't say that because I think that's like a part that you don't want to know before.

Mitch:
[14:52] Yeah.

Isi:
[14:53] In a dark way. Not in a... Oh, it goes wrong. They hate each other.

Mitch:
[14:57] But also like the realities of modern dating maybe. The anonymous modern dating.

Isi:
[15:02] Yeah. She meets... a guy. - Pedro Pascal. - At a wedding of one of her clients. - Oh yeah. - And he's very into her, they begin dating , she cannot really believe that he's into her, but she doesn't really fall in love with him, because there is her old love interest, ex-boyfriend.

Mitch:
[15:24] Chris Evans; Captain America.

Isi:
[15:26] I didn't know anybody before I mean Dakota Johnson I've heard of um who is the opposite, he's like an upcoming... not really upcoming, he's like a struggling theatre actor. - Yeah. - Trying to make it in york living in a shared flat, having like doesn't have much money. Pedro Pascal is a mega mega mega mega mega rich guy.

Mitch:
[15:50] He's like, a nepo-baby isn't he

Isi:
[15:52] Yeah I think, what was his penthouse 18 million or 20 million? Like, mega rich. Anyway, so it's also all about that she always thought she's quite superficial and she wants to go for the same that all her clients ask for; rich, tall, handsome.

Mitch:
[16:11] It's all about the height of men.

Isi:
[16:13] Yeah that's also a thing but then yeah, You will see what the end will be.

Mitch:
[16:18] The height of men and the age of the woman is like a horrendously honest, but true theme in this movie. The men are always like, I need under 27. She's like, okay, we have this 29-year-old woman, maybe. He's like, that's basically 30 for me. And he's like a 50-year-old guy. He's like, she needs to be, he doesn't care about, yeah, that's the theme of the title of the movie, Materialists. But it's funny but very true. Like it's a really sort of, honest, mirror image of today's world of dating, right?

Isi:
[16:52] Yeah. You would hope it's different already, but it's not.

Mitch:
[16:55] Right.

Isi:
[16:55] Let me tell you.

Mitch:
[16:56] Is that what it is? Is it a bit of a kick in the face of modern dating, this movie?

Isi:
[17:01] Yeah. But all how we describe it sounds very predictable and pretentious. And I think it's not.

Mitch:
[17:07] Yeah. It sounds like that movie 'Hitch' with Will Smith.

Isi:
[17:11] It's done really, really nicely.

Mitch:
[17:13] It is, yeah. Yeah it definitely takes... it laughs at itself this movie and that one thing that I really liked about it, is that even though it's a rom-com and you know it's probably going to happen at the end, throughout the whole movie you're there's a very uneasy feeling about everything. There's a very there's a bit of reality sort of lingering in this sort of Hollywood movie which you'd be like, oh no something's gonna happen. It's too real for there not to be something real. And yeah, it does happen right? Lots of real things happen. So there's your movie review for this week, go watch it and let us know what you think and you'll also be picking up on lots of American English while you're watching it and some very good acting. Okay, that's the end of the podcast, thank you very much for listening and for you podcast Aftershow listeners who are, Podcast Members of our membership we're going to carry on speaking for a little bit longer about some behind the scenes Easy English things and I'm also going to read a British joke to you. - Oh no. - It's a good one you'll love it, you can remember... - That's what you always say. - Say it to all of your friends. Okay anyway, thank you for listening to this week's podcast. - Thank you. - See you next time, te-ra

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:23] Hello, everybody.

Isi:
[0:24] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:25] Welcome to another episode of the Easy English Podcast. Isi, we have an exciting episode today, right?

Isi:
[0:33] Yes.

Mitch:
[0:35] Why is that?

Isi:
[0:36] We have a guest from our Easy Languages family. And, it will be exciting and interesting. Maybe we let our guests introduce themselves.

Mitch:
[0:49] Yes, greetings to our mystery guest. Who are you

Justin:
[0:54] Hello hello, my name is Justin, and I am a part of the Easy Languages family. I've been with Easy Languages for over four years now, which is beautiful, amazing. - Wow. - Yes. - And I'm really... yeah, I'm really excited to be on this Easy English podcast, because my native language is English. I grew up in the United States, in Houston, Texas, to be specific. But I also lived in Manchester, UK for a bit of time, around nine months, I want to say. And yeah, there are definitely a lot of differences. Some of them I kind of yearn to go back for, if I'm being honest.

Mitch:
[1:40] Wow, amazing. That's a good introduction. And you're a really amazing guest to have on to do these comparisons and contrasts, I guess. Can I ask a question before we start, Justin?

Justin:
[1:53] Yeah, go ahead.

Mitch:
[1:53] Can you name us some famous people from where you're from? Where in Texas were you from again?

Justin:
[1:59] I'm from Houston, Texas. And the most famous person that I will always represent is Beyoncé.

Mitch:
[2:03] Oh, really!?

Justin:
[2:04] Beyoncé is from Houston, Texas. Yes. So is all of the Destiny's Child. Some younger artists that I know. Post Malone is from Texas.

Mitch:
[2:14] Really? Wow!

Justin:
[2:15] Yes. But... Khaled, if you know that artist.

Isi:
[2:20] Yeah.

Mitch:
[2:21] DJ Khaled?

Justin:
[2:22] Not that one. The one that made that like breezy song. I forgot what it's called.

Mitch:
[2:29] Is Dolly Parton from Texas?

Justin:
[2:31] I was thinking about that, but I think she's from Tennessee.

Mitch:
[2:35] Because with Texas, it comes with a stereotype of people that look a bit like Dolly Parton in my mind. That's what I always think of.

Justin:
[2:42] I mean, they do exist. - Cowboy hats, cowboy boots. - The "bless your heart", type of people. Bless your heart, darling. Those people exist for sure.

Mitch:
[2:51] Pumpkin pie, people.

Justin:
[2:54] Matthew McConaughey. He's from Texas.

Mitch:
[2:57] Wow. All right, all right, all right.

Justin:
[3:00] Yes. He actually was a professor at the United... at the University of Texas in Austin.

Mitch:
[3:07] Wow. From Matthew McConaughey to Liam Gallagher, you went from. But this is great. This is already good. I'm already sort of getting a sense for the cultural comparisons that we're going to get. So, I believe you've prepared a list of certain contrasts and similarities for our 'Topic of the Week', right?

Justin:
[3:31] Yes.

Mitch:
[3:32] Okay, let's get started with that.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hello everybody.

Isi:
[0:24] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:24] Greetings from sunny Germany, sunny Münster.

Isi:
[0:29] It's so nice. Winter's over.

Mitch:
[0:31] Yeah, newsflash. Winter for us, at least, is over.

Isi:
[0:35] It's 17 or 18 degrees today.

Mitch:
[0:37] Wow.

Isi:
[0:38] It's absolute spring.

Mitch:
[0:40] The worst thing about that is now we're stuck inside doing a podcast.

Isi:
[0:43] Yeah, but only for now. And then we do nothing else today and just lie in the sun.

Mitch:
[0:48] For you guys, we sacrificed the sunny weather to make up a 20-minute podcast. Today, Isi, you have no idea what we're talking about today.

Isi:
[0:58] Nope.

Mitch:
[0:58] This is a very interesting topic, actually, one that I've wanted to do for a while, and it's taken me a while to conjure five points, the most important points. Today, we're talking about how you guys can keep a conversation going in English. So I've come up with five little tips and tricks and you'll be able to help out with this as well Isi, because you obviously learnt English and you speak in English to English people. There's five points I have, five little tips and tricks to help you keep a conversation flowing, because you're obviously trying to manage your English speaking and you, maybe feel a bit nervous, maybe a bit anxious speaking English and so then, also having to think about topics and how to easily, keep the conversation flowing so they're doing some talking as well and you're able to feel confident in asking these questions, using these tips.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:23] Okay, hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:27] Hi, hi.

Mitch:
[0:29] I just want to let you guys know that if you're currently listening to this, then you should know that you can also watch it on our YouTube channel.

Isi:
[0:37] But you don't need to.

Mitch:
[0:39] You don't need to for this one.

Isi:
[0:39] You don't need to see our faces.

Mitch:
[0:41] No, there shouldn't be many pictures or images that you should have to see for this. But if you want to see our reactions and faces, then feel free to pop on over. - Our tired faces. - Our tired, exhausted faces, then head on over to our YouTube channel. because today we're doing an episode uh about everyday common scenarios that will happen when you visit a British pub the pup an easy uh semi-professional pub goer now now that you have been in the UK for some time that makes me a professional publishing actually uh you will answer these five scenarios what you should do um phrases and vocabulary that you'll hear that you'll need to use and sort of cultural rules that are unwritten uh in the UK in Britain okay,
Topic of the Week

Mitch:
[1:41] So let's start with number one. I wrote them down on my phone. So the first one, you go to the pub with a British acquaintance. And you both walk up to the bar and I'll play the bartender and I ask, Hello. I look at you. What can I get you? In this moment, what do you do? What phrases would you use? What can I get you?

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hello, everybody.

Isi:
[0:24] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:24] Long time no hear. Usually you say long time no see, but you don't see us. So long time no hear.

Isi:
[0:32] Sometimes you see us.

Mitch:
[0:33] Sometimes. So today, as you can see from the title of this podcast, Isi and I are proficient travellers by boat, when it comes to going between the UK and the EU, as it is now. - Yes, by ferry. - By ferry, which is the name of the big ship. And so we wanted to convince you and give you a bit of a pros, mostly prose, but some cons, list of why it is better to travel to the UK by ferry and give you some hints, tips, advice, because I think, when you're thinking of travelling to the UK the main thing you're always thinking of is Calais to Dover. But there's a huge extensive network of connections, all around Europe that can bring you to the UK by boat.

Isi:
[1:26] I think most people think about flying here, probably.

Mitch:
[1:29] Exactly. But I want, or we would like to give you a rundown of why it's actually better to travel by ferry.

Isi:
[1:35] Is that true?

Mitch:
[1:36] I think so.

Isi:
[1:38] Environmentally. Well, I've not compared the emissions of a ferry to a plane.

Mitch:
[1:45] Yeah, there will be a pros and cons list.

Isi:
[1:49] Don't... uh yeah, sorry.

Mitch:
[1:51] But before we go into that, I want to go into our section, our regular section of Unhelpful Advice, because we have a message. - Oh
Unhelpful Advice

Message:
[2:11] Hello, I wanted to talk English, but I'm shy. And I want you to help me, so I can speak English, for a long time, because I need to.

Mitch:
[2:29] Thank you for your message. So it sounds like you are someone who is very actively trying to learn English, but you're quite shy, which is understandable. I'm also trying to learn German, and I'm very nervous and shy about speaking German to people.

Isi:
[2:44] Even with me.

Mitch:
[2:45] Even to my wife. So the best way to learn English, one, is to watch our YouTube videos, to listen to our podcasts, to surround yourself in the English world.

Isi:
[2:59] Watch English films, series, listen to news, radio.

Mitch:
[3:05] Mm-hmm. - Podcasts. - Yeah.

Isi:
[3:08] And when you have that level of comprehension... listening comprehension, reading comprehension.

Mitch:
[3:14] Then speaking is your next level.

Isi:
[3:17] Or at the same time, but it's easier when you already have a... have a certain level of understanding I guess.

Mitch:
[3:23] Another way that we can help you, alongside our videos and podcasts is through our membership.This message gives me a good reason to mention that we also have something called the Conversation Membership which is great for any of you that want to improve your speaking and listening skills.

Mitch:
[3:38] And currently, we have a conversation call which starts at 18:15 in British time. And it happens every Tuesday night, 18:15. One thing that we realised is that we have lots of people from Asia listening and watching our videos. And we want to support your English speaking and listening skills. And so we're thinking about opening a conversation membership time for the Asian world. So, we would have our conversation calls at 10.15 in the UK, which in Japan and Korea would be 19:15, in China would be 18:15, and in India would be 15:45, I believe. The reason it's at 18:15, 19:15 is to allow for you to finish work, drive home and you have 15 minutes between that to sit down prepare yourself and jump in the call, join Isi, and I and other members who are all trying to improve their English speaking & listening skills. If you are interested in joining our Asia-friendly conversation call at 18:15, 19: 15 time, then what we'd like to ask you to do is to write to me on my email address, which is mitch@easyenglish.video and just write the words, "I'm in". Once we get 10 people who are interested in doing this call, this Asia-friendly call, then we will start it and it will be a regular thing, every Tuesday night for you.

Mitch:
[5:07] And maybe you can join. We even offer a seven-day free trial of our Conversation Membership. So if you're a bit nervous or you don't know, am I B1, am I B2, am I even C1? Come give it a go with our seven-day free trial. See how you fit in. You'll be welcomed by myself, by Isi, and by loads of our other lovely conversation members, who are there and ready to welcome you. To become a Conversation Member or to check out our membership, you just have to go to easyenglish.video/membership. Okay, back to the episode.

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Mitch
[0:22]Hi everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Long time, no see. It's been a while.

Isi
[0:29]I think we said we leave this welcome.

Mitch
[0:34]I'm still petitioning for it.

Isi
[0:37]Okay, hello.

Mitch
[0:40]So, today we're back in Brighton, from Münster. And as we've come over, I've already started noticing certain things, that us Brits do quite differently to the rest of Europe. And, one thing that we do, which is probably useful for you guys, whether you are coming to the UK as a tourist, whether you want to move to the UK, or maybe you're just working for a company and there are certain Brits there, maybe your boss is a British person, or your colleagues. Or maybe you just want to... - Your boss. - Your a boss.

Isi
[1:18]Your boss is a British person. That sounded a bit like, intimidating.

Mitch
[1:20]Yeah exactly

Isi
[1:22]But don't be. British bosses, hopefully, are all nice.

Mitch
[1:25]Well, funny you say that. Because, maybe your boss says certain things and the reaction or action, afterwards, is very different from what they're saying. Isi, you bring this up quite a lot, that Brits like to say things, which don't exactly reflect what they mean.

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Isi:
[0:22] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:23] Hi, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. The winter version. Winter has come. We're currently in your parents' basement and it's freezing cold.

Isi:
[0:35] Hence the jackets. It's cold down here.

Mitch:
[0:37] Yeah. So, today we're going to show you some of the differences between the British English and American English pronunciation. We're giving you 10 words which you'll be using every day, that you'll need every day. Depending on how you pronounce these, we can sort of figure out, whether you are, or whether you are speaking with American English pronunciation or British English pronunciation. - Oh dear. - Yeah. But, before we get into that, we have quite a nice surprise, that we've already revealed a bit about in some videos and earlier podcasts, don't we Isi? We have a kickstart to our 2026 Easy English year.
Easy English Updates

Isi:
[1:23] Yeah, we have, well, you said it already, the 'Kick-Off 2026 Challenge', which means we give you challenges to improve your English, every day, for a continuous 14 days. So every morning, get a challenge. You have to write something. Maybe make an audio message if you can. You don't need to. You can also write everything, share something, maybe write a letter to your boss, complain about something, apply for a job. It will be like personal, reflective things, but also business English to have you, basically, every day improve your English. We know from past experiences, that if you do those challenges, really every day, that this really boosts your language learning experience. So we are excited. 5th of January, we start for 14 days, come join us. If you become a member, on easyenglish.video/membership you can join us with any membership you're in, it all happens on our Discord server. What else do we need to say

Mitch:
[2:25] That's it you did explain it very well. It's an intensive, every day, for 14 days, English challenge to level up and improve your English. Get going where you left off and yeah, like Isi said, join any one of our membership levels, we have three different types and all of those gets you access to our Discord server, where Isi and I will be posting each and every day, the challenges for you. Let's go to our Topic of the Week.

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Isi:
[0:23] Good morning!

Mitch:
[0:25] Merry Christmas!

Isi:
[0:27] It's not Christmas yet. - It's not Christmas yet. T'was the night before Christmas.

Isi:
[0:32] It's also not the night before Christmas.

Mitch:
[0:35] But, this is the Easy English Christmas Special.

Isi:
[0:41] Oh, it sounds like Gavin and Stacey Christmas special, but not as exciting.

Mitch:
[0:47] And we have a couple of Christmassy features, including me gifting Isi her first early Christmas gift.

Isi:
[0:55] Yes?

Mitch:
[0:56] From Santa Mitch.

Isi:
[0:58] Oh, not real Santa. He's not yet around the house, is he? Oh, I'm excited. Why?

Mitch:
[1:07] Because you've been a very good person this year and the elves told me.

Isi:
[1:13] To give you an early one. Okay.

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• Watch the episode on YouTube: 10 Useful Idioms for English Conversations (Easy English 216)

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Mitch:
[0:22] So, today, we want to bring you an episode introducing everyday English idioms. And, what I've done is I've compiled some images for isi to look at and we're going to describe them for you audio listeners. And for you YouTube watchers/viewers, we're going to look at these images, and try to distinguish what the idiom is and what it means. Make sense?

Isi:
[0:52] Yeah, let's start.

Mitch:
[0:53] Let's start.

Isi:
[0:54] I have questions.

Mitch:
[0:55] Okay, so here is number one, everyday English idiom. What are you thinking?

Isi:
[1:03] Instead of a head, that person has a bowl of baked beans, as a head.

Mitch:
[1:09] Baked beans, very English. So?

Isi:
[1:13] Do you have a bean head?

Mitch:
[1:15] No.

Isi:
[1:15] You're a bean hat.

Mitch:
[1:16] A bean head, no. A bean head.

Isi:
[1:19] Could that mean that you're like, an idiot? Yeah, no?

Mitch:
[1:23] A bean head. Yeah, like a tiny brain. But no, that's not the idiom. this is an.. - Stew... you are... stew? - No, you know this idiom you use it a lot, actually. Or I use it a lot... - His head is farting? - Yeah, that's the correct idiom.

Isi:
[1:38] They're all in his body

Mitch:
[1:39] Imagine that the beans are filling up from his... up through his legs. - Full of beans! - He is...

Isi:
[1:46] That's a weird picture for it, though. Did you find that, for 'full of beans'? Did chat ChatGPT do this for you

Mitch:
[1:51] I made all these images on an AI image generator.

Isi:
[1:55] That's 'full of beans'

Mitch:
[1:57] That is the best way I could describe 'full of beans'. Okay, tell me then, what does 'full of beans' mean, and when would you use it?

Isi:
[2:05] Um... you would describe a person or yourself.

Mitch:
[2:10] Yeah.

Isi:
[2:11] I think you don't really say it about yourself.

Mitch:
[2:13] No.

Isi:
[2:14] More about others. - Yeah. - If someone is in a very good mood, very active, busy, maybe a bit like, dancing around.

Mitch:
[2:24] Exactly.

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• Mitch & Janusz's jokes video: British Jokes (Easy English 168)

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Mitch:
[0:23] We've hit a milestone as well. I just... I didn't even notice. We're on episode 80.

Isi:
[0:30] When is 100?

Mitch:
[0:32] Next year sometime. Well, as it's the milestone, we'd like to say welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode 80.

Isi:
[0:42] Whoop, whoop.

Mitch:
[0:43] Wow. 80 episodes. Crazy. And welcome to any new people who have just discovered us.

Isi:
[0:50] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:51] Today, we've got a few topics and a brand new topic, which I'd like to make a continuous topic, that appears in every episode. But our main 'Topic of the Week' is a subject which was requested, in the last podcast by Marcel, from the Swiss-German border.

Isi:
[1:14] Scotland. - What?

Mitch:
[1:17] Oh yeah! - Scotland's not on the Swiss-German border.

Isi:
[1:21] But, wasn't that the topic.

Mitch:
[1:22] Yeah, so Marcel asked for us to talk about Scotland. And, one issue we have with that is... we have been to Scotland right? - We have been... - But we don't know that much. - several times. - Yeah, several times, but we still didn't really know that much. - No. - So I did a bit of research and I’m gonna sort of, enlighten all of us, because a lot of these things I was like, what? Wow, that's amazing. There's so much interesting stuff about Scotland. And we also have an 'Unhelpful Advice' question, from another listener, who sent in a voice message. And then at the end, we have our new brand new section, 'British Jokes'.

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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.

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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.

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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'.

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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.

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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?

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Isi:
[0:22] Hiya!

Mitch:
[0:23] Hiya!

Isi:
[0:24] Hiya!

Mitch:
[0:25] Welcome to Easy English... Welcome to the Easy English Podcast. For those of you listening, you should be made aware, as per usual, that this episode is also available as a video episode on our YouTube channel. Because in this one, I'm going to be showing you some pictures and you might also want to look and watch along, as we identify five work habits that Germans might not understand.

Isi:
[1:03] Oh.

Mitch:
[1:03] And, I've harnessed the power of AI to create some images of typical work scenarios in the UK, which might be a little bit strange, not just for Germans, but for you guys, wherever you're watching from, if it's not in the UK.

Isi:
[1:23] Okay. I don't know what's coming, but I'm prepared for nothing.

Mitch:
[1:31] But, before we go into this week's topic, we have an exciting announcement that we've been working on over the summer, right Isi?

Isi:
[1:42] Yes. We changed our memberships, I think that's the first announcement. And with that, also produced a new trailer on our YouTube channel, so if you're listening, hop over there. If you're on the YouTube channel, click on it here, somewhere. So yeah, there's a new trailer, a very detailed, long trailer, that explains everything about our memberships, about our work, about our content, so please, please watch that. What we can tell now is that we, made our memberships easier and... we had before five memberships, now we have three, and to us they make more sense, then hopefully, to you.

Mitch:
[2:26] Yeah we've defined them a bit more in the areas of Supporter, which is for anyone that wants to help keep our project Easy English running, because at the moment it's currently just myself and Isi, little old us, and our project Easy English is kind of a community funded project, run by you, designed by you, inspired by you and made for you. You know, our podcasts and videos are free to watch and listen to, so becoming a member not only helps you learn with us, but also helps keep our project running. It's just a small amount you pay every month if you were to join the Supporter Membership and in return we'd also invite you to join our Discord server, which is a chat-based app, Is that right?

Isi:
[3:13] Server. Tool.

Mitch:
[3:14] Tool, where you can meet other members like yourself, who are supporting us, who are learning with us. But you can also meet with myself and Isi, and we'll discuss just general topics, get to know each other, and we'll get to say thank you for helping to support Easy English.

Isi:
[3:29] Yeah. I share lots of pictures of Nola.

Mitch:
[3:34] There'll be Nola pictures. There'll be dinner pictures. There'll be holiday pictures, food pictures.

Isi:
[3:38] All my guilty pleasure food. It's on there. So, yeah, for sure. I mean, our Discord is, for us, a place where we daily, meet our Easy English family, and it's a lot of fun. It's like a place where we just daily hang out. It's great.

Mitch:
[3:57] The second membership is the Learner Membership, which has now just combined the Video and Podcast Membership into one. So you're going to get all of the learning material for all of our episodes, whether it be a podcast episode or video episode.

Isi:
[4:10] All in one.

Mitch:
[4:11] Exactly, and you'll also be invited to Discord. And then the final membership is our Conversation Membership, which includes everything we've just said, but adds on our really fun, really relaxed and really useful and helpful conversation calls, which happen every Tuesday. It's a group setting it's online we all create a pub themed background, a bit like what we're doing here in the background and we just chat about topics which will be referenced in videos, we chat about topics that will help you if you're working in English, if you're coming to live in England, or if you're just wanting to surround yourself in the English-speaking world.

Isi:
[4:50] So, if you want to become a member and get more comfortable with your English, learn with us, get to know us, chat with us, be part of our little world, then go to easyenglish.video/membership

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• Tom Jones: Green Green Grass Of Home
• Easy Spanish YouTube: Learn Spanish the Fun Way with Us!
• Easy Spanish Podcast: The Easy Spanish Podcast

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Mitch:
[0:23] Hi everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Today we have a very special episode. We're going to be doing an episode called Five Reverse Culture Shocks. And a culture shock is, for anyone who's just wondering, is when you arrive in a place, a destination, and there is something happening which completely surprises you or is contrasting to what you're aware of. So a reverse one, which is kind of, we're making up our own sort of definitions here, is what happens if you come back to your own culture and are shocked, or still shocked. And to sort of traverse this topic, we have invited Harry from Easy Spanish. Hello, Harry.

Harry:
[1:16] Hi.

Isi:
[1:17] Hi.

Harry:
[1:19] Or Hola.

Mitch:
[1:22] How's it going, Harry? Nice to speak to you.

Harry:
[1:26] Going very well. Thank you, Mitch. What a pleasure to be on the Easy English Podcast.

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Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya! Welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Today, we're going to be discussing five things that annoy you, that I know annoy you, as a German who is experiencing the UK.

Isi:
[0:39] So that people can hate me afterwards

Mitch:
[0:43] No, but these are things which I think all Germans will be annoyed about, and I'm going to leave it up to you to decide what the pictures are that I’m going to show you, what they really mean, what the annoyance will be. And if you're listening to this podcast, you should be made aware that this podcast is also available on our YouTube channel, where we'll be showing pictures to Isi and we'll be discussing five annoying things that all Germans hate about the UK.

Isi:
[1:14] I doubt that all Germans will hate it.

Mitch:
[1:17] Yeah, clickbait.

Isi:
[1:19] Hate is a very strong word. Let's say dislike or criticise.

Mitch:
[1:26] Five things Germans criticise about the UK.

Isi:
[1:34] And in the end, it's only me.

Mitch:
[1:35] Let's go. Five things Isi criticises... about the UK.

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Mitch:
[0:23] Hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Today is a special episode, not because Isi is also not here, but because today I'm being joined by my mum. Hello, mum.

Angeline:
[0:39] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:41] How nervous out of 10 are you now?

Angeline:
[0:45] I'm not sure, really. Just because I don't know what's happening, really. I don't know what's going to be asked.

Mitch:
[0:52] Wonderful. - That's more than nerves than anything. - That's great. - Great. - No it's not really. The... the point of this episode is, we're still in France, at my parents; myself and Isi and we had the idea that we would interview my mum and ask her about things to do with children, me as a kid, the UK, from a mum perspective and things like that. So I've divided up the podcast into kind of three sections, the first is kind of, general questions to ask you about being my mum and mum stuff. - Right. - We'll call it 'mum stuff'. - 'Mum stuff'. - Then, the second section I would like to call it by a name I've invented called 'mum-isms'.

Angeline:
[1:45] 'Mum-isms', okay.

Mitch:
[1:47] All phrases which I remember from my childhood that you said.

Angeline:
[1:50] Oh no, "I told you so".

Mitch:
[1:54] And I want you to define what they mean, because they're quite commonly said.

Angeline:
[1:59] Yeah, okay.

Mitch:
[1:59] Not just by mums, but by parents I think, to their children. - Yeah. - And then the third bit is, we've got a couple of questions from our listeners and members, that they'd like you to answer. - Okay. - Okay. Sound good?

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Isi:
[0:00] Let's go on.

Mitch:
[0:00] Let's go on.

Isi:
[0:01] Okay. What is this? Is it like this?

Mitch:
[0:11] What was that you were reaching in for?

Isi:
[0:14] An apple?

Mitch:
[0:15] From where?

Isi:
[0:16] Garden Eden. I love Peter Pan! Peter Pan is with Captain Hook?

Mitch:
[0:26] F&%ing hell.

Isi:
[0:28] That one story. Don't touch me!

Mitch:
[0:36] It's called a bonfire.

Isi:
[0:37] Still not so fine, by the way, for wildlife. But we could walk to Scotland.

Mitch:
[0:44] We could, but we might die. Welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[1:13] Welcome, welcome.

Mitch:
[1:14] For those of you listening to this podcast, you should be made aware of that this podcast is also available on our YouTube channel. And the reason I’m saying this, is because today, we're going to discuss cultural phenomenon in the UK. - Yes. - These are cultural phenomenons which you may not know about in the UK

Isi:
[1:42] First picture, let's go. I'm ready.

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Isi:
[0:00] Water, earth, fire.

Isi:
[0:03] Is that the kid from '(The) Sixth Sense'?

Mitch:
[0:11] I see dead people.

Isi:
[0:15] Imagination, escapism, and adventure.

Mitch:
[0:18] Yep.

Isi:
[0:20] I asked ChatGPT to connect all those five shows that I have. And...

Mitch:
[0:31] Are you going to cry? It was called 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?'

Isi:
[0:36] Second picture...

Mitch:
[0:38] Gladiators! Do you have the power... - Wait. My show... -Do you have the speed, the strength, the heart to be a hero?

Isi:
[0:48] Very 80s.

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Mitch:
[0:22] Is it all on? Is it all going?

Isi:
[0:25] What are we talking about?

Mitch:
[0:27] Hello and welcome to the Easy English Podcast episode... I don't know.

Isi:
[0:34] We don't know anything. We were on holidays. We don't know anything anymore.

Mitch:
[0:38] We're back from Hollibobs. So as we are a bi-national couple, myself being English and Isi...

Isi:
[0:46] Being German.

Mitch:
[0:47] We thought we'd do a topic about German words that are being used in the English vocabulary. We also have some messages from some of our listeners, which we'll play in our Unhelpful Advice section first. But before we do any of that, if you're listening to this podcast as someone who wants to improve their English, let's say you've hit a wall and you just don't know how you can improve it and take it to that next level to become really fluent and understand people like me, native Brits, who are speaking grammatically incorrect and with slang and swearing and maybe even non-native English speakers like Isi, who you think oh that's - Speaking really incorrect. - Who are speaking quickly with an accent and you want to be sounding like them because they're at this C level. With our podcast you are able to download an interactive transcript and what this does is it allows you to listen to the podcast, like you're doing right now, but on your phone on your laptop whether you're at work, commuting to work, sat at home, sat on the toilet, you can learn listening to us however you wish and the interactive transcript will help you by translating each and every sentence that we speak in the podcast into your language of choice. Therefore, you're able to keep up and understand exactly what we're saying and feel like you're improving your English and taking it to that next level, where you can come to the UK and interact with other Brits, other non-native English speakers and hold a nice conversation, make friends and have a great time. So go to easyenglish.video/membership and become a Podcast Member to improve your English with us.

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• The British Social Class Interview: The SOCIAL CLASS System... EXPLAINED (Easy English 191)

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Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya, welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:27] Poddy.

Mitch:
[0:28] The poddy. The poddy. This week, I wanted to speak about something which we've made an episode on, and I want to ask you for your opinion Isi, now you've been in the UK for some time. We want to speak about the British social class system.

Isi:
[0:46] Okay, I'm in.

Mitch:
[0:47] But before we do that, I just want to do some housekeeping, general housekeeping of the podcast. And that is to firstly, give you another nudge to remind you that we, at the moment in May, have a 50% sale of all of our memberships. That includes this podcast; there is a membership for, which you can join and get an interactive transcript, which helps to translate the entire podcast, interactively - whilst you're listening into your language of choice, to help you keep up and listen along with our podcast. Really useful for if you're someone who is struggling with your English comprehension and want to really understand exactly everything we're saying, because English people, we talk fast, we have really crazy accents and dialects all over the place, for such a small country. And we use a lot of slang and quite frankly, a lot of grammatical errors. And this will help you keep up and listen along with our podcast.

Mitch:
[1:54] We also offer memberships for our videos on YouTube, which is where you can get worksheets and things to help you if you're maybe more of a beginner. And if you're a more proficient English learner, maybe an expert you'd like to say, but you'd like to be able to practice your English speaking, because maybe you don't have any English friends or English speaking friends, then you can join our Conversation Membership for a 50% discount, this May. But you only have... tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, you have less than two weeks to claim your 50% discount. To check it out, all you have to do is go to easyenglish.video/membership to take you to our membership site, to check out all of the memberships we have on offer for 50% off in May. The second thing I want to say is that we forget, always, to mention that if you want to leave a message and feature on our podcast, then you can, you just have to go to easyenglish.fm and you'll find there's a little microphone button you can press and you can ask us questions. Maybe about an English language learning question, an English culture question, or anything you like, we will answer all of your questions.

Mitch:
[3:18] My question for you, Isi, speaking of culture, is; are you aware of this class system? Do you feel it when you're in the UK? Because it's a big cultural topic.

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Isi:
[0:00] Treacle. - Alright treacle? - Pumpkin, muffin, poppet, sausage. - Allo sausage. - And cabbage?!

Mitch:
[0:10] Cabbage is not one.

Isi:
[0:12] Mate.

Mitch:
[0:13] Mate. Alright, mate. Hello, mate. What's up, mate? Hiya, mate!

Isi:
[0:17] Then we got love and lovely again. And how is the use in the north? What you would say to someone?

Mitch:
[0:24] Hiya love.

Isi:
[0:24] No.

Mitch:
[0:25] Oh, sorry. Y'alright, love?

Isi:
[0:27] No. Ta love.

Mitch:
[0:30] Ta love.

Isi:
[0:31] Soft and lovin',

Mitch:
[0:33] Soft and lovin'. Mate is a good thing to go in with, for anyone.

Isi:
[0:38] Angel. - Angel! - Oh I don't like angel, nah.

Mitch:
[0:43] I feel a bit sick.

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Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Isi, how's it going?

Isi:
[0:28] It's going.

Mitch:
[0:29] It's going. Very good. That's a very British response. So today, I wanted to, like in the last video episode, test you on your British cultural knowledge.

Isi:
[0:42] Oh dear.

Mitch:
[0:45] So for those of you who are listening, you can also, if you'd like, watch this podcast on YouTube, on our YouTube channel. So head over there to watch us debate some British culture topics. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to propose a scenario to you and maybe give you some options, about what you could possibly do. Or you can...

Isi:
[1:06] You can only go wrong.

Mitch:
[1:08] Yeah, exactly. You can volunteer your own response if you like as well.

Isi:
[1:12] We'll see. That was last time already really good.

Mitch:
[1:15] Yeah. Yeah, because the answers are maybe not what you might expect.

Isi:
[1:19] Okay.

Mitch:
[1:20] Okay.

Isi:
[1:21] I'm ready.

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Mitch:
[0:23] Hello welcome to Easy English episode 64? It is episode 64, just to clarify.

Isi:
[0:34] clarify. And I will again, cough around. People only know me with an ill voice. I saw it on our recent video about being on the island Sylt for a month.

Mitch:
[0:44] Yeah we've been away on a German island? There's an island in Germany? What? We made a video about it, you can watch it on YouTube. Yeah we spent four weeks, off-season on this island. It was very relaxing, but as there is not so much to do, because in the off-season, a lot of places are closed or closing early. To fill the time, we were watching some series and to cosy up in our airbnbs. We'd like to speak about one of them, which we really like. - Yep. - And one that gets a bad reputation, I think, because it fits into the category of reality TV. - And Nola just came in. - That was well synchronised, let's do it again, three two one reality three two one reality TV,
Unhelpful Advice

Mitch:
[1:52] Before we talk about the series Love is Blind, we actually have a voice message from a listener.

Isi:
[2:01] Okay.

Samuel:
[2:02] Good morning, Easy. I'm Samuel St Fort. I want to speak English.

Mitch:
[2:08] Ah, thanks for sending in your message, Samuel. They want to speak English.

Isi:
[2:13] Yeah, I think they want to speak English. So, yeah.

Mitch:
[2:17] So if you're also like Samuel listening to this podcast and wanting to improve your English and you've, maybe hit a wall and you're really struggling to take your English to that next level, then why don't you try learning and improving your English with us? There are many ways you can improve your English with us at Easy English. We offer material for our YouTube videos. For example, you can get worksheets for our videos, which takes from the vocabulary used in the episode, and we give you a little quiz that you have to complete. Or, if you listen to the podcast, and this is what you'd like to improve on, your listening skills, then you can get an interactive transcript for each and every podcast we record, which helps to translate the podcast in live-time as you're listening to it on your phone, or on your laptop. You can download a interactive translator tool, which allows you to click on each and every word we are saying and then it translates it in live-time, into your language of choice. Or if you're an advanced speaker, then you can improve your English speaking, pronunciation, your vocabulary by joining our conversation classes. Now these are group conversation classes that we hold on Zoom. We now have two, every week. We have one on Tuesday evenings at 18.15 in British time and on Wednesday lunchtimes at 12:00. So maybe you want to, in your lunch break, quickly jump onto a call and meet other members and meet myself, and Isi and try to improve your English speaking skills. And we have a last minute or maybe even second offer for you if you're listening to this podcast today.

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Mitch:
[0:22] Okay, so welcome to episode 63 of the Easy English Podcast.

Mitch:
[0:28] Today, our main topic will be testing not only Isi, but also myself, quite nervously, on a British culture quiz. But, before we go into the quiz, we have a really exciting announcement, that we've been waiting to announce for ages. We will be starting another additional, conversation call. - Pub call. - We have one already, which is on Tuesday evenings, GMT at 18:15. Our new date will be every Wednesday at 12pm GMT. So maybe you're someone who you're quite good at speaking English, or you think you are, but you don't really have a way to practice your conversational English, speaking and listening. And let's say you've got to a certain level and you've hit a wall, this is the place where you should come, to really get to that next level and level-up your English. We will meet every week, twice a week now, and we will just talk about regular topics that you'll be speaking about, when you come to England, when you're working for an English company, or working in England, when you're visiting the UK, because it's all well and good reading a book and understanding the grammar and vocabulary, but when, we British people speak, as Isi can probably testify. - Yeah. - We're using grammatical errors, we're speaking very quickly, we're lazy, we're sloppy.

Mitch:
[1:56] Sorry Brits. - And so, the Easy English call is the best way to really put yourself on the ground and improve your English and really feel comfortable and confident, when you're going to come to the UK, work in the UK, and be able to interact with native speakers.

Isi:
[2:13] And even if you don't come to the UK, but just want to get better with your English, if you live in another English-speaking country, move to another English-speaking country, or just really are interested in the English language, or need it for your job, or because you have friends, partners, from English-speaking countries, whatever your reason is, you might want to improve and level-up your English.

Mitch:
[2:36] So if you are interested in becoming confident and levelling up your English speaking and listening skills, then join our Conversation Membership at easyenglish.video/membership.

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Mitch:
[0:23] Welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode 62.

Isi:
[0:28] Hello, good morning.

Mitch:
[0:29] Good morning.

Isi:
[0:30] From Germany.

Mitch:
[0:31] From Germany. I'm living the German dream.

Isi:
[0:35] Mitch is just eating a pretzel with butter. Just had coffee and a pretzel, very German. We arrived, already over the weekend. It was the first thing in the supermarket that we got.

Mitch:
[0:46] What is the... this has now become a small topic, but how would you rank German supermarkets?

Isi:
[0:55] What does that mean?

Mitch:
[0:56] From top to bottom, which is considered the most premium, to the most scabby.

Isi:
[1:00] I don't even know all the supermarkets any more.

Mitch:
[1:04] In England?

Isi:
[1:05] I would say the best is, well, the best, the most expensive is, is it Marks and Spencers?

Mitch:
[1:14] Yep, I'd say so, Marks and Spencers.

Isi:
[1:16] You know that you eat, should our listeners hear you eating? Marks and Spencers and then...

Mitch:
[1:23] Morrison's.

Isi:
[1:24] Morrison's. Is that actually, even more premium?

Mitch:
[1:27] No, Morrison's is a more premium supermarket. M&S, which is actually a clothing store, has like, a small sort of, supermarket section.

Isi:
[1:38] Yeah, M&S. Then not Morrison's, next one. And Tesco's?

Mitch:
[1:45] I think Tesco's and Sainsbury's are kind of locked.

Isi:
[1:49] Sainsbury's and Co-op is also somewhere around them, I'd say. Or is Co-op actually better than Sainsbury's?

Mitch:
[1:55] Co-op is actually probably better than Sainsbury's and Tesco's.

Isi:
[1:57] Saino's, as we call it.

Mitch:
[1:59] Saino's.

Isi:
[2:00] And then probably ASDA, which is a discounter.

Mitch:
[2:05] Yeah.

Isi:
[2:05] And then the German ones.

Mitch:
[2:07] Then the German ones.

Isi:
[2:08] Lidl and Aldi. Where Lidl is better in England and Aldi is not... or?

Mitch:
[2:14] I'd say that Lidl could be above ASDA. ASDA also goes by the other name of ASBOs, which stands for Antisocial Behaviour Order.

Isi:
[2:23] Oh, God. I think ASDA has a lot more to offer, at least.

Mitch:
[2:27] It's usually massive, because it's owned by Walmart.

Isi:
[2:29] Yeah, and they have a lot of, if you like to cook from different cuisines, they have like World's Food Isles and all that. Lidl doesn't have that.

Mitch:
[2:37] Okay, so we're saying Marks & Spencer's M&S, Morrison's Co-op, Sainsbury's and Tesco's, then Asda, Lidl, Aldi. Okay, shall we move on to our actual program?

Isi:
[2:53] I would like to, yes, can I start?

Mitch:
[2:56] Please.

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Before all of this, let Mitch and Isi treat you to an uplifting, school assembly song...

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Isi:
[0:22] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:23] Hiya, welcome to the Easy English Podcast episode 61.

Isi:
[0:28] Wow. Do we always want to say welcome?

Mitch:
[0:31] Well, until we reach 100, I always consider that people are still stumbling onto us.

Isi:
[0:37] God, and everyone now, 39 more episodes. I would like to know if there's a Monday morning song that you can sing for us? It's Monday morning, we have a coffee, our second actually, and I want you to sing a typical song, that you would sing to kids going to school like, yay! Monday morning!

Mitch:
[0:54] hat's exact... I wasn't thinking exactly that, but I was thinking... the first thing I thought was this one song; morning has broken... very sad. And then I thought what's actually more uplifting and upbeat? And I thought what are the songs we sang at school assembly? Did you have an assembly before school started

Isi:
[1:16] No, not every day, with special occasions, yes. I think I only did it in primary school, those assemblies. But do you sing a song, then? I don't think so, no. And your song was quite depressive I have to say.

Mitch:
[1:27] Yeah yeah, but we we didn't sing that song at school assembly, that's why I thought, what did we sing at school assembly? Because it was always a way to get the kids up and running, early in the morning, because I mean early in the morning, we started at nine. (That's holidays.) And so, the only songs can really remember us singing, are... before I get into the one I was thinking of, we had this bizarre one called '20th century highway man', which was an eco-song we'd sing. And it was like about a guy, who's like, working for a big business destroying the Amazon. (Okay.) And it's like; 20th century highway man... he's the 20th century something something man. And then the chorus goes; stand and deliver, he's heading for the Amazon River. He'll steal from the forest, he'll steal from the trees, He gets what he wants and he wants what he see. (Why?) I don't know Okay, but forget that It just came in my head.

Isi:
[2:25] That's what you sang. In the assembly room?

Mitch:
[2:27] Yeah, yeah. (What?!) 20th century highwayman. It's like a Bob Dylan song.

Isi:
[2:33] Wait... is that to educate children about colonialism?

Mitch:
[2:37] I think it's more about eco...

Isi:
[2:39] Not that Britain was in the Amazon.

Mitch:
[2:42] No, the empire never quite reached that part of the world.

Isi:
[2:46] Would have been better to have a song about...

Mitch:
[2:50] About what? Bringing slaves over?

Isi:
[2:52] No. Well, if you want to do the make... The next generation feel the guilt thing, which is good, I think. at least do it properly, with a region that you did colonise. Colonise?

Mitch:
[3:09] Colonise, yeah?

Isi:
[3:10] Colonise. But now... well, anyway.

Mitch:
[3:13] Anyway, you want to wake up the kids. So the song we actually sung, which I remember, and you probably also did it, because I think... it's almost a hymn, but it's not religious or anything. And it was; If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land. I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning, I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land... la la la la, la la la la, la la la la, second verse, la la la, If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning, (Ding ding ding ding.) I'd ring it in the evening, (Ding ding ding ding.) all over this land, I'd ring out a danger, I'd ring out a warning, I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters, all... and I'm just... I'm doing like a globe, I'm doing jazz-hands while sort of doing a. .. (Yeah, Mitch is dancing.) I'm doing a jazz-hands while sort of like drawing the outline of the world, with my hands. I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.

Isi:
[4:22] Okay, third one, come on.

Mitch:
[4:24] I don't know what that instrument is.

Isi:
[4:26] If I had a song.

Mitch:
[4:27] Oh, yeah?

Isi:
[4:28] I'd sing it in the morning, I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land, I don't know... how's that melody? I'd sing out danger.

Mitch:
[4:37] Danger, yeah. I'd sing it out of warning.

Isi:
[4:41] I'd sing out of... What? I'd song off out of warning.

Mitch:
[4:44] I'd song off out of warning. That's a tongue twister.

Isi:
[4:48] I'd sing out love between...

Mitch:
[4:50] Birds and my sisters, all... jazz-hands over this land.

Isi:
[4:54] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Ah, well that is a morning song.

Mitch:
[5:07] Don't you feel awake now?

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Mitch:
[0:24] Hi everybody, welcome to a new episode of the Easy English Podcast. For those of you who are listening, you can actually find this video on YouTube. And for those of you on YouTube, hello! This week I wanted to bring you a new episode of Mitch's Monthly Recap. And I'm going to go over through some of the things that have happened in January and maybe a bit of December. Because we've all gone a bit doolally with "where the hell am I at the moment?" So right now, I'm recording this from the French countryside, which seems like a good idea. It might start raining at some point. This seemed like a good idea to bring all of my stuff into the middle of nowhere behind this like, rustic barn.

Mitch:
[1:11] Before we get on to our monthly recap for the rest of the world events that interest me, We have just announced our new Learner Membership, which allows you to get a seven-day free trial of some of our membership perks. If you go to easyenglish.video/membership then you'll be able to get worksheets, vocabulary lists and transcripts for all of our YouTube episodes, for seven days on a free trial. You'll also get access into our Discord server, so you can introduce yourself and get to meet other members and myself and Isi. If you enjoy your perks after the seven free days, maybe you're thinking of upgrading to a Video Membership, Podcast Membership, or the Conversation Membership to improve your speaking and listening skills. Maybe this is part of your new year's resolution, to improve your English. If so , then choose us and we'll help you along your way

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Intro

Isi:
[0:23] Hello!

Mitch:
[0:24] Hiya!

Isi:
[0:24] How are you this morning? Let's start with that.

Mitch:
[0:27] Me or the listeners?

Isi:
[0:29] Well, I don't think they will answer now.

Mitch:
[0:32] I thought you were being like an agony aunt. Do you have agony aunts in Germany? Where you can write in your problems and then someone reads them out. Hello, how are you all? Today we have a letter from Marjorie. She says that the pigeons are banging on her window.

Isi:
[0:46] I would love a podcast like that. I could actually do that. I would happily write with people. (It could be a topic.) Yeah, I mean, Unhelpful Advice is basically that.

Mitch:
[0:57] It is actually, yeah. That's a good reminder. We have a topic called Unhelpful Advice and we haven't advertised it a lot recently. If you have a question for us about learning English, or just a random question you'd like us to answer, I'm still wanting to name someone's pet.

Isi:
[1:12] People love to do that on their own, you know.

Mitch:
[1:14] Yeah, but I'm good at it.

Isi:
[1:16] Okay.

Mitch:
[1:18] You'd like to help people with moral problems, maybe. but we'd also (Relationship advice.) relationship advice. we can tell you (Friendship advice.) friendship advice. We could tell you what house... what house? What colour to paint your bedroom. (Interior stuff.) interior design we like a bit of that.

Isi:
[1:35] If you have like, two/three big invitations for the weekend, we tell you where to go.

Mitch:
[1:39] Oh that's that's a good one.

Isi:
[1:41] We tell you what... what you can cook tonight.

Mitch:
[1:42] We can tell you... (your new favourite meal.) Yeah and that's a good segue, because today, our topic is speaking about pub grub.

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Intro

Isi:
[0:23] Hello. I'm back.

Mitch:
[0:28] Full of energy.

Isi:
[0:29] I'm back. It's a new year. I'm back.

Mitch:
[0:32] Happy New Year!

Isi:
[0:33] Happy New Year! I'm back.

Mitch:
[0:37] You say that like you're surprised.

Isi:
[0:39] I'm back. Yeah, I haven't been in the podcast for. .. (Two episodes. ) I mean, I did the Aftershow. Did anyone hear it? Dear members, did you hear the Aftershow? I did the full Aftershow. I hope people listened to that. And did, also, that I did also do the Christmas icebreakers, in my isolated COVID room. Yeah, I had COVID, it took a long time it's still not completely gone. (But now?) Do you still hear my nose? And my... what do you mean now a new year? COVID doesn't care about years change.

Mitch:
[1:16] Yeah, exactly. Everyone's like, new year, new me.

Isi:
[1:19] New me... well, new me, at least, feels a bit better.

Mitch:
[1:22] A bit more nasally.

Isi:
[1:23] A bit more nasally. I think we're now coming. Yeah, it's now four weeks. Ah.

Mitch:
[1:30] Okay.

Isi:
[1:30] That was longer than expected, but, I'm on the mend.

Mitch:
[1:34] On the mend.

Isi:
[1:35] That's a good...

Mitch:
[1:36] I'm on the mend. Yeah, you mend the car. You mend your broken rollerblades that you broke, directly after you got it as a Christmas present from your grandmother.

Isi:
[1:43] And my broken body.

Mitch:
[1:45] And you've mended your broken body.

Isi:
[1:48] Yeah.

Mitch:
[1:48] To cheer you up, and to make you feel a bit better and to welcome you into the new year we have a new year's, themed, episode. And plus, we have some messages from fellow listeners, they could be pranks, they could be butt-calls, but we will play them.

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Mitch:
[0:00] Before we start this week's episode of Easy English, I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and rehash an old song I wrote. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Bluetooth earphones, Ikea voucher, an ill-fitted t-shirt, tenner in a card, second-hand bike, multi-pack of condoms, stationery set, Sports Direct socks, Bottle of Baileys, six pack of Carling, two spa days And a Blu-Ray of Die Hard II.

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Mitch:
[0:23] Hello everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Today we're flying solo, again. Isi is ill. Yeah, she doesn't feel so good, but the worst thing is her voice. It sounds like she's suddenly decided to start smoking 50 cigarettes a day. So I'm gonna fly solo. Yeah, we've both actually been in the wars, a little bit. Which isn't literal, don't worry. But it just means you've been sort of, fighting disease, I guess that's what it means, you versus germs. I haven't had a disease or anything, I actually had my tooth pulled out. When was that? Almost a week ago, I actually was supposed to have my tooth pulled on Monday, last Monday, we were driving to the dentist, and then, the car broke down, in the middle of the road, on the... in the third lane. Like, not just in the middle of the road, but in the middle of the lane, in the middle of the road. We were just sort of, stranded in the middle, calling our insurance to come pick us up, because we didn't really know what to do. As we were calling our insurance, the police turned up, at the side of the road and were like; "hey, you can't be here".

Mitch:
[1:49] And I said; "yeah, no sh*t. Help us!" And so they pushed us to the side of the road and I missed my appointment. I luckily, had an appointment on Tuesday and my tooth was pulled. Oh, is there anything worse than five people staring into your mouth. Someone reaching into your mouth and you have no idea what they're doing, you can only sort of, hear horrific noises. My appointment was late in the day, so... and they were kind of, I think, getting in the mood for going... going out. I don't know, maybe not, do dentists always play music? I don't know. Anyway, if you thought it couldn't be more horrific than having people reaching inside your mouth with tools you would use on your car, which is kind of ironic, just to make matters even worse, whilst he was pulling my tooth out, he was listening to Robbie Williams and whistling to it, at the same time.

Mitch:
[2:58] It was the song Angels. "And through it all, she offers me protection..." and at the same time, he was... I don't know, there was all kinds of noises happening inside my mouth and I had my eyes closed, because I just didn't want to see what instruments were going in, but I could just hear. And sometimes that's worse, because you're thinking what what kind of tool makes that noise!? And every so often you'd hear this like, crack... I'd hear this cracking noise, whilst whistling to angels, he'd say; "don't be concerned". "Don't be concerned".

Mitch:
[3:41] "Don't be concerned". But you know, we keep calm, we carry on, that's the motto of this story. I'm very British. Let's talk about things that have happened over the past month as a Topic of the Week.

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Intro

Isi:
[0:22] Hello. Oh God. Hi.

Mitch:
[0:28] All of our podcasts always begin with you like hello oh god.

Isi:
[0:31] Oh god.

Mitch:
[0:32] My voice is gone. Illness update.

Isi:
[0:36] I'm back.

Mitch:
[0:38] I'm back. Oh yeah!

Isi:
[0:39] From the ill bed

Mitch:
[0:41] Did you hear the last podcast we... I recorded?

Isi:
[0:44] I didn't actually. Oh my god people will hate medidn't record uh didn't listen to it yet, no. But I want to listen to what you talked about. Oh god, yeah I didn't. I didn't have the headspace in my two-week illness to listen to it.

Mitch:
[0:58] Some could say I took one for the team. Some could say I took advantage of the fact you weren't here.

Isi:
[1:04] eah I'm back, had a nasty virus. Still am a bit... my voice is still not coming yeah it's kind of back now. Still have a bit of a, in the back.

Mitch:
[1:18] We're back in our usual position.

Isi:
[1:19] And it's not the morning, it's Sunday evening. (It is.) It is, I think the first time that we are having a little drinky. (We are, yeah.) With our podcast, since I don't know a year? We always did a morning podcast.

Mitch:
[1:37] And we're joined by a guest; Bert.

Isi:
[1:40] Yeah storm Bert.

Mitch:
[1:43] Storm Bert in the background just whistling away.

Isi:
[1:45] So we're two weeks, just home, two weekends two weeks and two weekends , just home, doing nothing. And now I was like, the weekend, I'm back.

Mitch:
[1:56] The last weekend before we go to visit our parents for Christmas.

Isi:
[2:01] Back to the mainland of Europe. So I was like, we do everything, we go to all the places, all the pubs, we meet friends.

Mitch:
[2:09] And what did we do?

Isi:
[2:10] We did not... well we did nearly nothing, because um, storm Bert came and... it's actually really really stormy and people... well, it was kind of like a weather warning to not leave too much and we obviously went for walks, because we got Nola, and it did feel not so good to do long drives, or go anywhere with a bus or so, because it's really stormy.

Mitch:
[2:38] Yeah, it's like the Michael Jackson 'Earth Song' music video out there.

Isi:
[2:41] So here we are, Sunday night episode, because tomorrow, actually, we will do an early, end of the workday. Because storm Bert will disappear tonight, they say. And then we will do, tomorrow afternoon, our Sunday. So hopefully a lot of Christmas deco, a nice Christmassy, pre-Christmassy dinner.

Mitch:
[3:03] We're in that early Christmas spirit, because, yeah, why the hell not?

Isi:
[3:09] Christmas is already full-on.

Mitch:
[3:10] And as I look at you, you are sort of engulfed in Christmas presents. They're on the table where we usually put the microphone. It's just a stash, a stack.

Isi:
[3:23] It's a lot of gifts, yeah. We have every gift we wanted for our families. We are absolutely ready for Christmas. And that's our topic today, gifts and gifting.

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Mitch:
[0:00] Hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode number, tap, tap, tap, computing 54.

Mitch:
[0:12] I'm on my own. I've gone solo. I'm Sonny without Cher. I'm Jay-Z without Beyonce. I'm Will Smith without Jada, Barak without Michelle, etc, etc.

Mitch:
[0:30] Isi's ill, so she's spluttering in the background whilst I record the first ever Easy English solo podcast. But not to make it a negative, turn that frown upside down today. I'm going to take advantage of the fact that Isi's not with us to give you a podcast about one of my favourite hobbies. As a couple, it's nice to have shared hobbies, but it's also nice to have your own individual things and one of my individual things, which understandably, Isi doesn't want to partake in, is watching horror movies. I consider myself a horror movie aficionado. I'd like to think. There are some caveats to that, but today, I thought, I would try to make an inclusive podcast about horror movies, why you should be excited about horror movies, good horror movies to watch, horror movies to watch if you hate horror movies, if you're scared of horror movies. Okay, let's give it a go.

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Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya!

Isi:
[0:23] Hello!

Mitch:
[0:24] Hello. Welcome to episode number...

Isi:
[0:27] 53.

Mitch:
[0:28] 53, well done.

Isi:
[0:30] Thank you.

Mitch:
[0:31] Of the Easy English Podcast. We are back in Brighton. Were we ever saying where we were before? When we made our Relationship Goals Podcast last time?

Isi:
[0:45] I'm not sure. Maybe we did. Maybe only in the Aftershow for the members. because our podcast always goes on a little bit for our members. If you want to join that and also listen to that and get a lot of other perks go to easyenglish.video/membership and join us that would be great but I think yeah we have only talked about it in the Aftershow so we have been to France.

Mitch:
[1:11] Yeah, and we thought today we could make an episode about our expectations and then the realities of France, from things we've heard, things we've kind of, presumed, and if we were right and wrong with our presumptions.

Isi:
[1:28] Okay, I have two things to say first. I say France and you say France.

Mitch:
[1:34] Oh, yeah.

Isi:
[1:34] What is right?

Mitch:
[1:36] You are doing a southern British English pronunciation of France.

Isi:
[1:44] France.

Mitch:
[1:45] Which sounds nice though.

Isi:
[1:46] It's more sophisticated.

Mitch:
[1:47] It does sound a lot smoother and a lot more, I don't know. It has a joie de vivre about it.

Isi:
[1:55] D'accord. God. And you say France, which is Northern English.

Mitch:
[2:02] France. And there's also, funnily enough, not funnily enough, by coincidence how American.

Isi:
[2:08] Northern British English, sorry.

Mitch:
[2:09] Yeah.

Isi:
[2:10] I said that.

Mitch:
[2:10] It's also how I think American English people would say it; France.

Isi:
[2:14] France.

Mitch:
[2:15] Not France.

Isi:
[2:16] France. And the second thing I wanted to say is it hasn't been our first time in in France we both have been... in the past years we've been, five times I think. Before that I have been a few times maybe but you have been a lot of times for holidays right?

Mitch:
[2:37] I've been very often but mostly was a holiday and was camping and it was not really feeling like you're settled into French life because those camping places are a bit, a culture mix and they're kind of, I don't think they represent French life, but this time we were in French towns, French villages.

Isi:
[2:58] And yeah, your parents live there, we have to say.

Mitch:
[3:00] And my parents are now living there.

Isi:
[3:02] It's more integrating in French lifestyle.

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Intro

Isi:
[0:23] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:24] Hiya. Good start.

Isi:
[0:27] Yeah. Hello. Hello. I just make my voice a bit higher.

Mitch:
[0:32] You had a frog in your throat.

Isi:
[0:34] Well, it's early in the morning. We are in south-west France, but in the middle of the countryside, I look on a foggy field. Does that sound romantic?

Mitch:
[0:44] There are literal frogs

Isi:
[0:46] Literal frogs and we have a coffee podcast. So my voice was still a bit trying to get into the day.

Mitch:
[0:54] It's a regular theme in our podcast, your voice being dodgy.

Isi:
[0:58] Oh man, that was very German. Oh dear. Oh dear.

Mitch:
[1:02] Oh dear. So before we get started with our Topic of the Week, which is a special members question topic, because we had a 150,000 subscriber special video on YouTube where we answered your questions, which you'll be able to watch if you check out our YouTube channel. Unfortunately, because I had a massive mind fart, I forgot to check the Instagram post for questions. And there was one question left over that we didn't answer from one of our dearest, longest standing members. So we will dedicate this episode to answering his question.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:23] Hello welcome to the Easy English Podcast episode 51. We made it.

Isi:
[0:31] We made it you sounded very much like it's an official and annoying thing.

Mitch:
[0:36] Yeah 50 doesn't really mean much to most people to be honest.

Isi:
[0:39] But to us it does.

Mitch:
[0:40] Yeah it does it does and if you uh haven't listened then you don't need to listen you can watch episode 50 which we recorded on YouTube. so go give that a go and we also so offered, as a milestone the podcast perks to all Video Members and more for episode 50 so go get that if you are a Video Member or Podcast Member or Conversation Member or Donor Member um we actually before we get into this week's topic we hit another milestone, right Isi?

Isi:
[1:11] Yes, we did, it also has a 50 in it.

Mitch:
[1:13] We love the number 50.

Isi:
[1:16] We got 150... 150... 150,000 subscribers on YouTube, wow.

Mitch:
[1:24] That's crazy, when you think of the... (It's a crazy amount of people.) as individual people what an amazing, amazing community. 150,000 people are all helping to support us

Isi:
[1:35] It's not... you cannot really grasp it, the number. Thank you so much.

Mitch:
[1:39] Yeah there's half the city of Brighton.

Isi:
[1:42] Maybe it is half the city of Brighton.

Mitch:
[1:45] Plus my mum and your mum.

Isi:
[1:50] It's really nice, thank you so much.

Mitch:
[1:51] Yeah if you are a subscriber then thank you and if you're not then go subscribe and help us to reach 200,000. My god. (Yes, yes, yes.) So, as a way to say thank you we'd like to do two things the first is we are going to bring out an episode, a video episode on YouTube which will be out uh next week and we would like to host a Q&A for you guys so if you have a question about learning English or a question about us and want to ask it if you have something that you've been pondering for a long time anything to do with our membership to do with our YouTube channel to do with myself and Isi to do with Nola, ask us anything.

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Mitch:
[0:00] Welcome to the big day. Easy English Podcast episode 50. High-five.

Isi:
[0:08] Ow.

Mitch:
[0:10] Okay, so for those of you who are actually listening, you should head over to YouTube because this episode is a special episode of it being our 50th podcast episode and we're filming it live. Not live, but it feels live right now. Isi's currently making... A mess, possibly. Woo! Okay, so we're currently making Aperol Spritz to celebrate, or Isi's making it. That's not enough.

Isi:
[0:44] Calm down. Oh, I did it also the wrong way around.

Mitch:
[0:51] Disaster. Okay, so as I said, whilst Isi makes Aperol Spritz, this episode as well as being on our podcast is also... the video is on YouTube so go and watch it. If you become an Easy English member by going to easyenglish.video/membership you can, by becoming a video member for this episode get all the perks of the Podcast Membership which will be the Interactive Transcript and Aftershow of this episode. So yeah, if you become a Video Member, then you'll be able to get the podcast perks for this episode which will be the Interactive Transcript, which will be translating this live time on your laptop, on your mobile phone, on the go, or at home. You'll also be able to get The Aftershow, which is the bit that happens after this public episode, which will probably include more drinking of nondescript alcoholic beverages. So today...

Isi:
[1:43] They beeped for us to start.

Mitch:
[1:45] Wow. Beep. Let's go.

Isi:
[1:46] No, first we have to cheer on 50 episodes of us talking...

Mitch:
[1:54] Rubbish.

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Isi:
[0:00] It's a party! Mitch, you now have to give me that scream that never came.

Mitch:
[0:05] Yeah! Oasis are back! Sorry, Nola.
Intro

Mitch:
[0:28] he unthinkable thing happened which I think one time I said it will never happen.

Isi:
[0:33] I know in the years together how often you talked about this the unimaginable happened

Mitch:
[0:40] The unimaginable happened. My favourite band ever Oasis decided to make a reunion.

Isi:
[0:50] You are freaking happy and I'm freaking happy for you I'm also happy I mean it's not that I'm not also an Oasis fan in a way I wouldn't say I'm a fan fan like you are but I'm a fan of the music for sure I love their music a lot I wanted to see them years ago before they broke up, I had tickets.

Mitch:
[1:10] 11 dates and if you divide that by how many people are excited it's it's going to be difficult to get tickets.

Isi:
[1:19] Yeah people will come from other countries to the UK, 100%. I mean, we know one, Manuel from Easy German is also a huge fan. He will for sure try to, he will go to the UK because it's the only European date. So that's what they said, which I can't believe really. I see them already playing in France, Germany or wherever.

Mitch:
[1:36] Yeah, but they've not announced that. So at the moment on Saturday, they've only got 11 gigs available. I'm happy, but they are the kind of band where you kind of want to get insurance on your ticket.

Isi:
[1:50] Well you get your money back if they have a big fight over five pints and...

Mitch:
[1:55] I hope so how did it work for the people who

Isi:
[1:58] Just imagine they would get all those tickets tickets now to make uh make some more money and then they say it's off.

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Mitch:
[0:00] Are you ready?

Isi:
[0:00] I'm ready.

Mitch:
[0:01] Wonderful.

INTRO

Mitch:
[0:22] Welcome to episode 48 of the Easy English Podcast. We're creeping into the 50 zone.

Isi:
[0:30] What do you have for us today, Mitch?

Mitch:
[0:32] Okay, so in the past, you've read out some articles or found articles to question me about my UK culture and my dialect. So now I thought I would point the finger back at you. As someone who has spent a lot of time in Britain, I thought that I would find an article about typical stereotypes, that foreigners have about British people and British culture, and ask you for your opinion now, are these stereotypes fact or fiction?

TOPIC OF THE WEEK

Isi:
[1:18] Fact or fiction?

Mitch:
[1:19] Firstly, I read you out the stereotype and you stamp it with a metaphorical fiction or fact.

Isi:
[1:28] Do I have to do? Or do you do that later editing?

Mitch:
[1:33] Oh, yeah. Oh.

Isi:
[1:36] Fiction. Fact. Fiction. Fact.

Mitch:
[1:41] Stereotype number one. Brits love talking about the weather.

Isi:
[1:49] Fact.

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Isi:
[0:24] We're in summer mood.

Mitch:
[0:25] I've shorts on at nine o'clock. And we're also drinking coffee. Forgive us if we're a bit tired and say some odd stuff.

Isi:
[0:32] You do sound tired. More than me, I would say.

Mitch:
[0:35] My voice is very, very low.

Isi:
[0:38] You're very tired.

Mitch:
[0:39] Yeah.

Isi:
[0:40] Anyways, Topic of the Week.

Unknown:
[0:43] TOPIC OF THE WEEK

Mitch:
[0:49] Okay so um if you listened to not last week last time not the last podcast but the podcast before that... well I'm struggling.

Isi:
[1:00] What is with you?

Mitch:
[1:02] I had a margarita, I had...

Isi:
[1:05] Wait, you are hung over?

Mitch:
[1:06] Aperol Spritz. (Are you hung over?) Beer and red wine. (Are you hung over?) Yes.

Isi:
[1:12] I don't feel hung over at all.

Mitch:
[1:13] Not in a bad way quite it feels quite good.

Isi:
[1:15] No, but your voice really is hung over. And I mean maybe mine too but you know you hear yourself really differently um do I sound tired or hangover? I feel top-fit the weather is giving me a boost.

Mitch:
[1:29] Alright, show-off.

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Mitch:
[0:23] Welcome to episode number... loading, loading...

Isi:
[0:29] You don't know.

Mitch:
[0:31] 46.

Isi:
[0:33] We're 50 soon.

Mitch:
[0:35] We'll be 50 soon.

Isi:
[0:36] That's good.

Mitch:
[0:38] What should we do for our 50th?

Isi:
[0:39] I don't know.

Mitch:
[0:41] Maybe listeners have an idea of something we can do that's more special for our 50th episode. Maybe we get a guest?

Isi:
[0:49] When is our 50th? Is that in...

Mitch:
[0:51] End of September.

Isi:
[0:53] Can we not record it in Berlin with some special guests?

Mitch:
[0:57] True, we'll be in Berlin.

Isi:
[0:58] In the big Easy German podcast studio.

Mitch:
[1:01] Oh, fancy sound and a fancy guest. Who could we get? Maybe people who are listening want to vote. Who should we try to get? Manuel, Cari or Janusz?

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Mitch:
[0:00] Okay, one, two.

Isi:
[0:01] One, two.

Mitch:
[0:02] Buckle my shoe.

Isi:
[0:03] Three, four.

Mitch:
[0:04] Knock at the door.

Isi:
[0:05] Five, six.

Mitch:
[0:07] Pick up sticks.

Isi:
[0:09] Seven, eight. Are you just Googling what rhymes on eight?

Mitch:
[0:14] No, but there's like a song.

Isi:
[0:16] Don't be late.

Mitch:
[0:17] It might be.

Isi:
[0:18] Nine, ten.

Mitch:
[0:19] Wait, wait, wait. Again.

Isi:
[0:23] One, two.

Mitch:
[0:23] Buckle my shoe.

Isi:
[0:25] Three, four.

Mitch:
[0:26] Shut the door.

Isi:
[0:27] Five, six.

Mitch:
[0:28] Pick up sticks.

Isi:
[0:29] Seven, eight.

Mitch:
[0:30] Lay them straight.

Isi:
[0:32] Nine, ten.

Mitch:
[0:33] Begin again.

Isi:
[0:34] Okay, let's begin again.

Unknown:
[0:35] INTRO

Isi:
[0:54] Mitch what's our do we only do a mega topic of the week because i love it and we have no time for anything else yeah.

Mitch:
[1:01] I don't know how we.

Isi:
[1:02] I know why why we watched something where a cockroach appeared and we discussed why the cockroaches actually have such a bad reputation because they don't do anything really they don't bite you they don't sting you they don't do anything bad to you just living in they just prefer dirty places I think that's why people just eat bin-juice don't they? I don't even know what they eat, but (Bin-juice.) What do you think?

Mitch:
[1:30] Yeah, we came up with an idea to do an episode about good and bad animal PR. Okay, should we get started?

Isi:
[1:42] Yeah.

Mitch:
[1:43] Wait, first of all, we haven't said it, but welcome to the Easy English Podcast. (10 minutes later.) I um have written down some of my own feelings towards animals in the animal kingdom that have bad and good PR. Now just in case you don't know PR do you know what PR stands for? (Public relations.) So in the theory we're sort of making out like each of these animals has a media team which they kind of do for me it's mainly Disney movies that's gonna be the reason why I've given them good or bad PR. So I'm just gonna read out some to you do you want to start with bad PR or good PR? Bad PR would be animals which we perceive to be bad from media, whatever but actually really good

Isi:
[2:31] All animals are good there's no animal that has bad PR that is not good.

Mitch:
[2:35] I have I have a good one that I would like for you to tell me that has bad PR and is a bad animal.

Isi:
[2:41] There is no bad animals.

Mitch:
[2:42] Are you sure?

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Mitch:
[0:23] Hello.

Isi:
[0:24] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:25] Welcome to episode 44 of the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:31] You sound like a wizard.

Mitch:
[0:33] A wizard? You're a wizard, Harry. Harry Potter. Harry Potter. Harry Potter. Oh, Harry Potter. Anyway, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Isi, how are you?

Isi:
[0:48] Very well, thank you. And you?

Mitch:
[0:51] Not bad, thank you. We're both lying, I think, doing the very British thing.

Isi:
[0:56] Why? I'm good. Why are you not good?

Mitch:
[0:58] Small talk. I have hay fever incoming. I can feel it.

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Isi:
[0:22] So, my friends, let's get going with my best German accent.

Mitch:
[0:28] See if you can keep up that level of energy the whole way through.

Isi:
[0:31] Why? You have s*t topics or what?

Mitch:
[0:34] Um, no. I actually thought Easy English could do this week. It's Guide to the UK General Election.

Isi:
[0:46] Okay, guide us.

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Irish travelers dialect - Bartley Gorman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvybZLKH7Zk&t=88s

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hello.

Isi:
[0:24] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:25] Uh-oh. Welcome to episode 42 of the Easy English Podcast. Isi, are you okay?

Isi:
[0:32] Yes, I am okay. Oh, God.

Mitch:
[0:34] Trying not to cough and splutter?

Isi:
[0:37] Again, I have a bad voice.

Mitch:
[0:39] It's very bluesy.

Isi:
[0:41] Yeah, I could be a good singer now.

Mitch:
[0:43] Da-da-da-da-da-da.

Isi:
[0:45] Na-na-na-na-na-na.

Mitch:
[0:47] No, you're supposed to say, woke up this morning.

Isi:
[0:51] Woke up this morning. That doesn't work.

Mitch:
[0:57] Too tired and ill to even contemplate those lyrics.

Isi:
[1:00] Oh yeah.

Mitch:
[1:02] Okay, so today we're gonna do an episode which Isi never thought she'd ever do probably. But I'd always dreamed of doing, we're gonna talk about sports.

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Mitch:
[0:22] Okay, welcome to episode 41 of the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:28] Do you have a sweet in your mouth during a podcast? That's not cool.

Mitch:
[0:33] No.

Isi:
[0:35] People will hate this. Okay, he puts it out. Don't worry. Now it's on your laptop.

Mitch:
[0:42] Save it for later. We're back in Britain.

Isi:
[0:46] We're back in Britain.

Mitch:
[0:47] How are you all? yet again more grinding of building materials .

Isi:
[0:53] Yeah, do you remember when we told you our building work is coming to an end our building work started again.

Mitch:
[0:58] They've started again from day one they do it all over again.

Isi:
[1:03] Wait, we already said they started again didn't we and now they started again again.

Mitch:
[1:06] Again again they're working backwards. They're gonna take it back to how it was and then do it all over again but a bit better.

Isi:
[1:12] There's drilling in the background now yay.

Mitch:
[1:14] Um today we have three topics for you. Let's do topic number one.

Isi:
[1:21] Topic number one.

Mitch:
[1:22] Easy English Updates.

Unknown:
[1:28] Easy English Updates.

Mitch:
[1:30] When was it? Last week? Yeah, last week.

Isi:
[1:34] Yeah, it was, it's only a week ago. Well, a week and two days. (We had) our first ever Easy English meetup together with Easy German so we did an Easy German and Easy English meetup to meet viewers listeners maybe some some people of you that are listening now. (Oh yeah, can you write if you were there.) Yeah write us a message. (It was in Münster so it was more German-based,obviously.) In my home-town and we met for like three hours i think it's in the end it was much longer than three hours.

Mitch:
[2:12] cool venue right called Gasolin. An old gas station or petrol station sorry.

Isi:
[2:17] A bar that I've known for many many years in my life and we met there it was much fun um... (I was nervous.) yeah?

Mitch:
[2:28] Yeah, I didn't want to tell you because I don't want to give empathy nerves. I had to drink maybe two beers to feel a bit more like I drank Radler which is like a shandy in English. (Yeah.) Which is a mixture of lemonade and beer and the sugar just made me feel more nervous.

Isi:
[2:46] Oh yeah it's a bit nerve-wracking isn't it because we are just always behind our microphones behind the camera or in front of the camera but on our own doing our stuff.

Mitch:
[2:57] Yeah, we're kind of faceless in a way.

Isi:
[2:59] Yeah, and it's really nice to get direct feedback. But we are lacking this really in like our...job. I know you you give sometimes comments on YouTube or here on the podcast or as a member on Patreon. But it would be great to actually have more of a feedback even so actually now I can directly tell you it would be great if you on your podcast app where you're listening um give us a feedback um on most apps you can give rating or even a comment with it um like on Spotify for example you can give a rating and you can also ask questions or give us comments on specific episodes and we would be really really happy to get that because you know when you're doing something and you don't really know what people think of it so it does help us a lot if you give us a feedback so if you could now now now quickly quickly it takes a second go on I mean you are on the app now but see on the app that you can um whatever app you're using, um that you can review and rate our podcast that would really mean a lot a lot thank you very much so now going on with the meetup. Mitch in the meantime had his sweet again in his mouth and again out of it you're like a kid. But it was it was much um it was much fun to meet people. (Yeah, it was. Everyone was so nice.) Yeah everyone was so nice and we had a lot of fun the weather was in the end really good it was not too hot not too cold sun was shining we could sit outside as well it's a good mix wasn't it we had an outside terrace an indoor room that was really cool.

Mitch:
[4:37] Yeah, there were there are photos from it as well on uh both our Instagram and Easy German's Instagram if you want to see what a meetup looks like because I would be inclined to do it again.

Isi:
[4:46] Yeah.

Mitch:
[4:47] Was quite... was quite nice is the weird thing is is people were there for Easy German mainly. And the thing I felt nervous about was I didn't know who was there for us.

Isi:
[4:58] Yeah we didn't ask that in the registry process So we didn't really know I think a lot of people know us from both because we both I mean I obviously I'm part of the Easy German team as well um but we also both together produce episodes for Easy German sometimes so even Mitch is in the videos of Easy German so I guess people came maybe for both as well.

Mitch:
[5:21] Yeah, you should go and watch them because we we sometimes make the videos for the Slow Easy German.

Isi:
[5:26] Or Super Easy German as well yeah.

Mitch:
[5:29] Oh, Super Easy German, sorry. Not Slow, Easy German.

Isi:
[5:31] Hasn't been now for a longer time. I think autumn, last autumn was our last episode. But the script for the next one is ready. So also there. But anyway, you might not learn German, but people actually maybe knew us from Both. Did you just put the sweet back in your mouth? Can you not just leave it outside?

Mitch:
[5:50] It's made like a weird stain on my laptop. To be honest, actually, people... What was quite nice is Nola was our buffer and people actually... were more interested in meeting Nola from my point of view to be honest. I think Nola had multiple selfies taken with her.

Isi:
[6:06] For her it was actually quite fun as well wasn't it? It was not too loud she could chill outside we had also my dad, I mean both my parents were there um my mum also is part of the Easy German team.

Mitch:
[6:22] It was a real family event.

Isi:
[6:23] My dad came well he is also in some videos of Easy German. So we are basically all part of it.

Mitch:
[6:30] We've all been dragged in.

Isi:
[6:31] My dad's major role at the meetup was dog sitting. He just walked around with Nola.

Mitch:
[6:36] The dog handler. (Yeah.) It was really nice. And actually, I find these things often quite awkward because I hate icebreakers and I hate organised fun. But that people were there for one purpose and were discussing their level, because I'm also learning German. It was quite nice to get inspiration and also find out what people are looking for. I was surprised. A lot of the Germans that were there, their level of English...

Isi:
[7:03] The German learners, you mean?

Mitch:
[7:04] There were Germans there who watch Easy German. And they're just like fans of watching it. (Yeah, yeah.) From what I saw. But their level of English surprised me because I always consider that Germans don't need English really. But they were like, it was good to pick up on certain things that I realised that Germans sort of maybe make mistakes on quite commonly. Or, you know, there was a lot of like people saying that their writing skills aren't very good which is something.

Isi:
[7:27] saying Germans can't speak English? (Oh God.) No think every native speaker of a certain language for if you're a German native speaker does specific mistakes in a specific language that you learn that sounds very complicated what I mean is German native speakers make different mistakes in English than Spanish native speakers for example so I think that is actually actually we began a list about that months ago um with the mistakes that I still do and things that I notice or that you notice on how I speak. So um we definitely want to do a video about this like mistakes that German, native speakers do in English.

Mitch:
[8:12] Yeah, to be fair... oh actually just remembered Manuel asked... has a question for us.

Isi:
[8:18] Oh yeah.

Mitch:
[8:20] That he sent to us at the meetup but we'll do it next next time.

Isi:
[8:22] Okay, Manuel, next time.

Mitch:
[8:23] Next time, you'll have to wait. (You'll have to wait.) And to be fair, English speakers also make so many mistakes. And in a fun way, this is what our project is all about because they're not going to change for you, to be honest. So you have to sort of figure out, the common mistakes English people make in order to understand them which is where we come in and if you're not aware we run a membership for Easy English not only for our videos where you can get transcripts and worksheets but also for the podcast, we offer something called an Interactive Transcript and the way it's interactive is; you will press the play button on your phone, on your laptop whether you're at home, or on the train or wherever you are wherever you listen to the podcast and it will follow along with what we're saying on the transcript with this little yellow highlighter box... what are you smiling about?

Isi:
[9:18] You do a lot of gestures that people can't see you know?

Mitch:
[9:22] I know but it's helping me actually now I sort of understand why politicians use their hands a lot, and as it's following along with our what we're saying on the trend on the Interactive Transcript you can press a button... oh God. I'm dying slowly... and you can press a button and it will ask you if you'd like to have the transcript translated into, hopefully your native language there's a whole array of languages offered now and so not only are you following along on the Interactive Transcript you're also having it translated next to each paragraph that we're talking about and if you still have no idea what I'm describing even with my invisible hand gestures you can go to easyenglish.fm and on our trailer; episode zero there is a free example of that transcript working so go give it a go and if you like it and if it's helping you or will help you to improve your English then become an Easy English member by going to easyenglish.video/membership sweetie going back in.

Mitch:
[10:33] There was a big event.

Isi:
[10:35] Cultural event.

Mitch:
[10:36] A big cultural event on the weekend that we watched, right? Or we watched a bit of. We missed a few.

Isi:
[10:43] We missed the beginning because of time zones, which shouldn't be a problem for us any more, but it sometimes is when we travel very spontaneously to places. So we missed the beginning...

Mitch:
[10:54] Sorry. (Of the Eurovision.) Song Contest in.

Isi:
[11:00] We said it like we were advertising it.

Mitch:
[11:02] It was a very bad advertisement. Yeah, it was the Eurovision in Sweden this time.

Isi:
[11:07] In Malmö.

Mitch:
[11:08] In Malmö. And it had a big cultural relevance to where we are because Brighton was the birthplace of ABBA, basically. ABBA got big from winning the Eurovision and they won it in Brighton in the Dome.

Isi:
[11:25] Why was this year such a big topic anyway? It was 50 years of ABBA also?

Mitch:
[11:30] It was 50 years since ABBA won it.

Isi:
[11:31] And then ABBA got big.

Mitch:
[11:33] I think they got big through Eurovision. Most Eurovision bands don't tend to get very big. (No, no.) They're the biggest of the bunch, you'd think, no? And then this Maneskin, money skin. But even they're not big in England. ABBA, huge. Oh, my God. So it was not only the 50th anniversary, it was also in Sweden. Did Sweden win it last year?

Isi:
[11:59] I guess so. (In Liverpool.) don't normally the winner then also.

Mitch:
[12:05] Then host it.

Isi:
[12:06] No not host it but like have a gig.

Mitch:
[12:10] It'll be in... so Switzerland won it this year and actually wasn't that bad not something I would listen to.

Isi:
[12:16] No but, he will probably next year then when it's in Switzerland present the song again no? is that not a thing? God we missed everything, we were also not prepared at all I think it was very well earned they had definitely, the best biggest talent I would say maybe not the biggest but um well maybe the biggest I mean the French guy was also really, really talented but Nemo they were good in singing rapping and like opera singing even like so talented and then also great obviously that's the first non-binary winner ever of the Eurovision Song Contest so that's amazing. The song was cool um probably not something I... I would have caught on the radio to listen at home myself. But I think it was really one of the best songs, yeah. So amazing, yeah. Congratulations.

Mitch:
[13:08] Yeah, the French one was actually like a normal song. Do you know what I mean? That's when you...

Isi:
[13:13] Yeah, like a ballad. Quite, yeah, quite big though. Quite a big like... how do you call those ballads that are like, yeah, but like, mega ballad or so whatever. I think it was actually actually really good.

Mitch:
[13:26] Yeah but to win Eurovision you have to do something a bit special don't you?

Isi:
[13:31] Bit like, unique

Mitch:
[13:32] Yeah. They were doing Matrix moves while spinning on this disc.

Isi:
[13:36] yeah, and then singing that amazingly with it. (Yeah.) While really like bending over it's good.

Mitch:
[13:42] Sometimes I watch it generally because it's always a bit of a fun joke like it's always fun to have a drink because it's all a bit silly and a bit over the top and a bit extravagant a bit eccentric.

Isi:
[13:55] Yeah, very much theatre.

Mitch:
[13:57] And it goes on for ever.

Isi:
[14:01] Oh my god and again it was like 1am to go to bed and for people in like europe mainland it was like 2 or 2:30 it's not my time... (People in Switzerland!) I don't like to go to bed that late.

Mitch:
[14:17] The performance bit is actually quite well done. As I used to work in technical theatre, you see how quick they're able to change between acts, right? Like the person finishes singing, they cut to the announcers, and they only speak for about 30 seconds. And in that time, the act's off, new act's on, prop on, props off, lights off, new lights on, and everything's rearranged. back to zero and they do that like 30 odd times throughout the whole day but then the ironically the longest thing is that when they're just counting numbers when they're going okay and now we're going over to Moldova hello Moldova big break because there's a gap in audio hello Eurovision and then they always do something quirky to stand out.

Isi:
[15:06] God yeah. Anyway it was a really, interesting night good entertainment I was actually into this time into it more than other times I've watched it. I haven't watched it that often as a kid more than last year we watched it together and now it's the second time in a long long long time but this year was actually a lot more exciting than last year for sure so yeah thanks Eurovision.

Mitch:
[15:32] And Germany did quite well.

Isi:
[15:34] Oh yeah, they... I'm sorry I just wanted to end the topic without telling that you got zero

Mitch:
[15:41] Zero from the public.

Isi:
[15:42] Zero point

Mitch:
[15:45] Not one member of the public enjoyed our performance.

Isi:
[15:48] Yeah zero and Germany did not so bad yeah 12th place I think but.

Mitch:
[15:54] We never heard the song.

Isi:
[15:55] We never heard the song not even later every time that they showed the recap or how do you call that of like all the songs, every time I did something else, looked somewhere else, and then only switched in with my brain, like looking at it, when it was anyway at the point where we started late watching the show. So I did not once hear the German song, really. (And what was your favourite of all of them?) I liked...

Mitch:
[16:25] Ireland's was just a spectacle, right?

Isi:
[16:29] My favourite... hmm... (Switzerland!) Maybe Switzerland I liked a few of them though I must say like it wasn't as like there were some some shows when I watched it and there wasn't really like no song that I liked. There were a few that were quite good.I

Mitch:
[16:45] I always... I always look out for Finland are always the one to look out for in my opinion they always do the maddest stuff like just bonkers s*t last time they had the guy in the green um shoulder pad like luminous green outfit and uh he had this like bowl haircut but then this year they had a guy with a mullet and a trucker hat and he was running around pretending to be naked his penis out and then finally some hot pants were delivered from up in the gantries and once he put them on sparklers came out or from his hot pants, just bananas yeah I'm looking forward to next year already.

Isi:
[17:24] And then we have one more third topic, which is a little topic just to tell you how lucky we were We saw the northern lights in Brighton. (In Brighton!) By the sea in south England and um.

Mitch:
[17:42] That wasn't during Eurovision was it?

Isi:
[17:45] No it was the night before. (The night before, wow!) The night before. (Two spectacles.) I, by accident saw it somewhere that um that northern lights that the possibility is there to see them and we went on the balcony and we saw it and we were like what the f*k! What the beep and then what the f (At first thought it was light pollution.) WTF. we were (WTF.) And it was the first what? We thought it was light from the city first it was really really dark and then yeah it got green and pink and then we made photos obviously through photos it even looked better and it was very very exciting.

Mitch:
[18:26] Yeah, and it was like slightly pulsing which was like the most exciting thing for me. Because I always, have in my mind how it would look and it kind of was exactly like this sort of like wavy pulsing...

Isi:
[18:39] It wasn't moving so much.

Mitch:
[18:40] It was very vague yeah it's very subtle but you could if once you're outside for a bit you could really pick it out right?

Isi:
[18:47] Yeah, it was really really nice so maybe you saw it too it was visible over a lot of European places.

Mitch:
[18:53] I wanna know if any of our listeners are more north than we were and if... (That must have looked amazing.) If you were in In Finland or somewhere, it must have been crazy.

Isi:
[19:04] Even in Scotland.

Mitch:
[19:05] I saw it had 100% visibility in some places. If you have a good picture of it, that's hashtag no filter and not a long exposure, which is how your naked eye saw it. I want to see it because it must have looked mad.

Isi:
[19:21] Mad.

Mitch:
[19:23] Wow. Once in a lifetime, we can cross Finland off our to-do list, our bucket list. Been there, done that. don't have to stay in an igloo in an ice hotel to do it. Okay!

Isi:
[19:37] Coolio. I would say te-ra te-ra.

Mitch:
[19:40] Te-ra, te-ra. See you next time.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Are you ready?

Isi:
[0:26] I am ready. I have the feeling we only record tired podcasts now. We change from having a cocktail sometimes with our podcast to coffee and tiredness.

Mitch:
[0:40] Have we begun? (Yes.) Okay.

Isi:
[0:42] But I'm super motivated because of a great topic.

Mitch:
[0:45] Oh yeah?

Isi:
[0:46] Yes.

Mitch:
[0:46] Okay, firstly, welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:48] Welcome.

Mitch:
[0:50] We hope you're all well and not as sleepy as us but also as motivated as us.

Isi:
[0:56] I'm not even sleepy the coffee does help. Okay...

Mitch:
[1:00] I think it's because the shutter that sort of works for the... on the window that for the room that we're in is broken. I broke that and we seem to be breaking a lot of things at the moment where... you said it last night we're a bad omen, at the moment.

Isi:
[1:16] I think so.

Mitch:
[1:17] We also... don't tell your parents broke their fridge

Isi:
[1:21] We didn't. (Someone did.) Well I think the fridge was broken we were just being the unlucky ones to be there when the last hit.

Mitch:
[1:33] Here's a good idiom for you.

Isi:
[1:34] Yes?

Mitch:
[1:35] We have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

Isi:
[1:39] I know that one, I don't have to use my buzzer. I know it.

Mitch:
[1:45] Okay good, what is it that you want to bring to the Easy English Podcast today? Is it a new section?

Isi:
[1:50] Yes it is. So I know we discuss culture a lot of times and we have the Culture Club where we recommend British things or British series or anything cultural but last time we spoke about Brits on Germans and obviously we want to talk here about um Brits and the British way of life and I thought we could have a new section which is called Very British where we talk about anything that is actually considered to be British which could be like characteristics or like how people behave cultural behaviour but also the way that Brits or people in Britain do things.

Mitch:
[2:41] Okay, and what's the name of this called? Very British?

Isi:
[2:43] Very British.

Mitch:
[2:44] Okay, we... I make a...

Isi:
[2:45] We can also call it So Very British.