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• 67: The British Class System

  Mitch and Isi discuss the social class system in the UK and how, just by simply changing your car, supermarket or dog can affect your status. They discuss the upper class and how normal people like you and me can enter this privileged world. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Show Notes The British Social Class Interview: The SOCIAL CLASS System... EXPLAINED (https://youtu.be/wvWyr6SBGnA) (Easy English 191) Transcript Intro 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 66: Love, Sweetheart and Other Pet Names

  Sweetheart, darling, ducky, honey, sausage, poppet, mate and of course... love. This week, Mitch and Isi discuss names of affection, or 'pet names' in the UK. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 65: How British are YOU?

  A noisy neighbour, an awkward stand-off, an ironic compliment and a round at the bar... 4 difficult scenarios for Isi to deal with in the UK. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 64: Love is Blind

  Today's episode is all about love; the reality TV show Love is Blind; how the concept works, if it is successful and how it is good for learning English. Isi also has three phrases all about love from the medieval ages and from French nobility. Lastly, Samuel asks us a question about improving their English and we announce our NEW Wednesday afternoon conversation classes. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Intro 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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• 63: Great British Culture Quiz

  Why do Brits celebrate November 5th? What time should you arrive to a party? Should you go to the pub with your boss? All these questions... and more, will be answered in this episode's British culture quiz. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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