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This week, Isi takes the test in our Last Week's Episode section to try and identify all 12 accents from the British Isles... can YOU beat her score? Later, Mitch and Isi talk about the success of hosting their first ever, members-only pub quiz and answer your questions about our language learning history and what we think is the most beautiful sounding language.


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Watch the 12 accents challenge video: 12 BRITISH ACCENTS... 1 VIDEO (Easy English 149)


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Mitch:
[0:25] Hello and welcome to the Easy English Podcast.


Isi:
[0:28] Hello, hello, hello. Test, test, one, two.


Mitch:
[0:32] Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry.


Isi:
[0:36] Yed... already done. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry. No, I can't.


Mitch:
[0:43] Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.


Isi:
[0:45] Okay. Episode 11. Nice number, isn't it? In Germany, we say Schnapsal. (What, sorry?) Schnapsal.


Mitch:
[0:53] What's this?


Isi:
[0:54] Schnaps number.


Mitch:
[0:55] Eleven?


Isi:
[0:56] Yeah, everything with like, the same numbers. Eleven, three hundred and thirty three.


Mitch:
[0:59] It makes me think of number eleven from Stranger Things.


Isi:
[1:04] There we are again.


Mitch:
[1:05] Mike! Mike!


Isi:
[1:08] Okay, what's our topic, Mitch?


Mitch:
[1:10] Okay.


Isi:
[1:11] You said you prepared everything. I'm just here.


Mitch:
[1:13] This is good though. We can surprise each other with topics, maybe.


Isi:
[1:17] Nola's just sitting in front of me, waiting for me to give her F-O-O-D. We cannot say the word, because then she will get excited.


Mitch:
[1:25] The magic word. Feed me! (Okay.) First topic is related to one of our past week's episodes, in which, I went down onto the streets and I had some pre-recorded local British people, including British Isles, including Ireland, reading out a transcript and I made people from Britain, guess where they're from. And now I want to test you. You've been in Britain for some time now.


Isi:
[1:55] Oh God!


Mitch:
[1:57] How do you fancy your chances?


Isi:
[2:00] Not good. .


Mitch:
[2:11] Okay. (Let's go.) Let's try some. (Let's try, yeah.)


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The Easy English Podcast has made it to 10 episodes! Mitch and Isi discuss the pros and cons of the modern interpretation of the British motto 'Keep Calm And Carry On' in relation to ongoing building works in their block of flats. They debate if te-ra is even a Welsh farewell and Mitch tries to sell the biggest TV "horror-drama" to Isi.


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Intro


Isi:
[0:24] That's episode number 10.


Mitch:
[0:28] 10 is the magic number.


should we directly jump into the topic of the... day? Topic of the day? What is our category named? Topic of the... (Week.) Week.


Topic of the Week
Isi:
[0:50] Okay, Topic of the Week. (I've forgotten what it is.) I know what it is. (I've forgotten.) When English people are too polite.


Mitch:
[0:58] Ah yeah.


Isi:
[0:59] How would you call that? It's actually coming from my point of view.


Mitch:
[1:03] Well, I'd call it the... the lack of backbone. But, it has a name. Well, it's actually a phrase, which all Brits kind of, inadvertently stick to, which is 'keep calm and carry on'. Someone, somewhere, listening to this, probably has a tote bag, they bought, that one time they came to London, which has 'keep calm and carry on', with a crown behind it or something. You see it everywhere (Yeah?) in these souvenir shops.


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The duo over-enunciate into this week's episode, as Isi and Mitch rate themselves out of 10. Mitch reveals the correlation of skinny-jean tightness to his own self-worth. Isi chooses Disney fox over Keven Costner Robin Hood as The Easy English Tour takes shape. And they answer Your Questions about Brits lack of door security as Mitch reveals his previous career as a door-to-door, front door salesman.


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Isi:
[0:24] Hello.


Mitch:
[0:24] Hi! (Hi!) Hi! (Hi!) New Year's energy... hi!


Isi:
[0:33] Hello. How are you?!


Mitch:
[0:35] We so sound like we're children's presenters. Hi! Do you like triangles?! I love triangles! Do you know how many corners they have?! Two?! Ha! You're stupid! They have three!


Isi:
[0:52] That's like morning show, radio host, from morning shows. (Oh yeah!) Good morning in the morning.


Mitch:
[0:59] Oh, yeah.


Isi:
[1:00] Where are you now? Are you in the car, on the way to work?


Mitch:
[1:04] Yeah. Good morning, you log-jammers on the M25.


Isi:
[1:07] Yeah. God... M25. The horror of my dad.


Mitch:
[1:12] Today is a great sunny day and if you're stuck in a traffic jam, this one's for you. It's 'Stuck in the Middle With You'. Shabba! I'm loving this radio voice, from last... the last episode we did, over enunciating voice.


Isi:
[1:27] That's probably because it's not my native language, but I can do a better radio host voice, in German.


Mitch:
[1:34] How do they... how do they do it, on German radio?


Isi:
[1:36] Should I do it now, in German? (Yeah.) Hello. No. Wait. I have to do it in... No... Uh, I have to go higher... wait, wait... not higher, but, more weird.... A bit like, always a bit like, haaaa...


Mitch:
[1:57] Yeah, it sounds like the microwave is on.


Isi:
[2:02] A bit like this high.


Mitch:
[2:05] I don't like that, creeps me out. (Hi.) Sounds like you're holding in a big poo. Hello!


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Godzilla / Building work causes havoc on the podcast as Mitch and Isi tell tales of ice throwing parties and cocktail dressed locals in Ireland. They answer David's advice after he's "taken aback" due to tea lacking facilities and update you on Easy English's first ever online pub quiz for the members.


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Brits on the Irish: What BRITISH People REALLY Think About the IRISH | Easy English 145 (Easy English 145)


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Isi:
[0:23] Well, hello hello.


Mitch:
[0:27] Welcome to a time limited and critical episode of Easy English Podcast.


Isi:
[0:31] Yeah. So the situation is, we are sitting here, having exactly 25 minutes or half an hour to record, because we have our construction work going on and they are on a lunch break, now.


Mitch:
[0:48] It has this sort of, sound of an earthquake, doesn't it?


Isi:
[0:52] But I don't think you can hear that. So let's go.
Past Week's Episode
Isi:
[1:04] The Irish.


Mitch:
[1:06] Yeah. Brits' perception of the Irish. And before we get into it, I'd actually like to know; maybe you could write in, or send us a voice message via our easyenglish.fm website. What are your thoughts on the Irish? What have you sort of, learnt through TV and media? And have you met any Irish people? Have you been to Ireland?


Isi:
[1:25] I have been to Ireland. (Where in Ireland did you go?) Uh, it's long ago. 13 years ago. Yeah, I've been... oh, the workers are back, guys. If you hear something in the background, we'll just keep on going now, because, it's real life guys. We don't have a recording studio, we're just at home.


Mitch:
[1:49] Just imagine, it's like a sci-fi movie and Godzilla is approaching.


Isi:
[1:53] Whaa... oh no, sorry. Does he do a sound? Whaa...


Mitch:
[1:59] That sounds like a cat. (Okay.) An annoyed cat.


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Today, Isi's helps Mitch remember New Years Eve's binge of eggnog and BBC's 'The Traitors'. Isi descibes her longing for Britains country lanes, tiny pubs and thatched cottages. The two reminice on the blossoming stages leading up to the beginning of the Easy English YouTube channel... Happy New Year!


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Mitch:
[0:26] Isi, Happy New Year.


Isi:
[0:28] Happy New Year! Ting... ting we are too far away from each other to bing.


Mitch:
[0:34] Make a toast, to the New Year. (To a better one.) No more shit things happening. Let's drink to no more... (Stop... stop the shit!) No more shit.


Isi:
[0:48] We actually, um, for everyone not seeing this, which is basically everyone, we actually, do drink sparkling wine. It is not New Year's Eve, we are, way into the year. But, we wanted to cheer with you on the New year 2023.


Mitch:
[1:04] So Isi, how... how was our new year?


Isi:
[1:07] Super exciting. It was actually really, really nice. Because, we decided to stay home. Um, which we actually really enjoy, anyway on New Year's Eves, because we're both not really into those New Year's Eves parties, where you have to have a ticket to go into a pub or club, oh God's that's horrible anyway. Um, home parties are good... are good, but yeah, we stayed home this year. And, we had... should I say... tell the whole story, yeah? Not much more to come anyway. We had good drinks, good cocktails. We had, um, like an Italian little buffet from our favourite Italian restaurant here, that was delivered to us. And we had good drinks and we talked to some friends. And yeah, it was a good night, wasn't it?


Mitch:
[2:00] I don't really remember much of it actually, but I'm not sure that's my bad memory or the cocktails.


Isi:
[2:04] Well, I will now do the super duper transition to our first category of today.


Mitch:
[2:10] Remind Mitch what happened on New Year's Eve.


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We begin with a dramatic tale of glass eating and evasive, spider driving before discussing the incredible, but dire state of the NHS. Isi describes horrific British wallpaper choices whilst Mitch opens up on his love and ignorance for mince pies. And finally... Germany has multi-pack crisps!


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Intro


Mitch:
[0:23] Hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. We have, yet again, changed erm... I was gonna say continents. But England has... the UK didn't quite leave all of Europe, just the European Union.


Isi:
[0:37] They are not yet a continent. We travelled yes... no, the day before yesterday. And, we are now in Germany, and I directly want to start with telling... (Revelations.) that I saw a multi-pack of crisps. But... (It wasn't a real multi-pack.) It was not. It was four little packs, stuck together as a four times four... why was it four times four?


Mitch:
[1:04] A "4er". It was so funny. They were just sellotaped together, back to back.


Isi:
[1:08] Yeah, so it wasn't a multi-pack in that sense, because, it did show what you get. The multi-packs that I mean, they trap you.


Mitch:
[1:16] The UK is having a big influence on the German crisp market.


Isi:
[1:22] Anyway.


Mitch:
[1:23] You can tell your story. (What story?) You have a bit of a story coming up, I think. Maybe you want to save it for a section. (Oh, yeah.) It's been an exciting couple of weeks.


Isi:
[1:35] People think always something is happening to me. Run over by car... nearly run over. Yeah. (This one was pretty...) but it has a reason, why we tell this story.


Mitch:
[1:45] Yeah. This one was like something out of a crime thriller.


Isi:
[1:48] What? For you, maybe. For what you saw.


Mitch:
[1:52] Okay. (Okay, yeah.) Let's go straight into our first segment then.


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