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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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Today, Mitch and Isi discuss all things fruit; the horrors of hairy fruits and mushy apples, Mitch's preference for a cold and crunchy banana, watermelon life-hacks, surviving on coconuts, the versatilities of apples and question; what the hell a lemon posset is and if Halle Berry is actually a fruit?

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Mitch:
[0:00] 12345678.

Isi:
[0:05] 12645678 What? 1264567.

Mitch:
[0:12] Easy English!

Intro

Mitch:
[0:34] (Hello!) Hiya, welcome to the new episode of the Easy English Podcast. That is so formal.

Isi:
[0:39] I don't like to look at you while we record it. I have to laugh.

Mitch:
[0:44] We're so far away again.

Isi:
[0:46] Hello, down there, in the hallway.

Mitch:
[0:49] Yeah, it feels like we're in a hallway.

Isi:
[0:51] I will just directly say it. Mitch, We had The Big Veg Show (The Veg Cast. ) The Veg Cast. I hope people enjoyed it because I said it already, what comes this week. And it's The Big, Big Fruit Show.

Mitch:
[1:05] The Fruit Show, The Veg Cast and The Fruit Show.

Isi:
[1:07] Yeah, we couldn't do it both last time, so we need to talk about fruits.

Mitch:
[1:11] It wouldn't have been fair, though, to have thrown fruits on the ends of veg, because fruits don't... shouldn't be disrespected like that.

Isi:
[1:17] But fruits have a better life. Most of them are very sugary, so people usually like them more than veg. I would say.

Mitch:
[1:25] But we're savoury people. No, that sounds like... (We are savoury people.) That's actually a compliment. Because you can be a very unsavoury.

Isi:
[1:33] Will you make us a drink? Because I wanna ask our listeners for something, in between.

Mitch:
[1:37] Okay, feels like you're booting me out of the room, to say something private.

Isi:
[1:41] No, I just want a drink.

Mitch:
[1:42] If you'd like to listen to this podcast, without Mitch, give us a thumbs up.

Isi:
[1:46] What I wanted to ask, today is a little bit of a favour. You might know that, in podcast apps, where you listen to us. Um, there are several of podcast apps. It does help, if you give us a review of our podcast, on some apps you can leave a comment about our podcast. And this interaction, if you give like, a response to our podcast, will help others to find our podcast. So, if you could just today, if you like our podcast, take a second out of your day and see in your app where you can leave us
a review, a comment, a rating That will be fantastic. It's weird to ask for things, but I think it would be really, really, really nice if you could help us with this. Anyway, and also, if you have questions for our podcast or for us, write us an email to [email protected] or on easyenglish.fm. You can also leave us an audio message. We have a section called 'Unhelpful Advice' and we are still waiting for your problems and issues to solve. Okay, now Mitch is back and we can go on with fruits. (Is margarita a fruit?)
Topic of the Week

Isi:
[3:09] I have a few questions first, and then I would guide you through the world of fruits. Um, what is... (Come with me.) What is your favourite fruit?

Mitch:
[3:14] Off the top of my head, I'm thinking strawberries, but it probably isn't. But strawberries are just like, a solid fruit.

Isi:
[3:21] So I wanted to say peach, I really like a really good peach, but peach can be really shit as well.

Mitch:
[3:32] I know what yours is and it's my like, curveball, because when you... when you think of fruits, you think of sweetness. But I think, actually, if we were to really go into it, what fruit we eat the most, especially you, It would be a sour fruit.

Isi:
[3:48] Lemon. Yeah, lemon is probably my favourite fruit because I eat it most.

Mitch:
[3:53] It's my favourite pudding. Anything with lemon?

Isi:
[3:54] I love citrus fruits. Anyway, I love lime, love oranges... favourite pudding.

Mitch:
[3:59] Yeah. Anything with a lemon on it. (Lemon cake.) Lemon drizzle, for shizzle, ma nizzle, Lemon cheesecake.

Isi:
[4:05] Lemon posset. (Lemon posset.) Posset. Posset. Such a thing I've learned in England. Um, with watching 'Come Dine With Me'. Everybody does a lemon posset. It sounds so posh.
I don't even know really what it is. It's a lemon cream or something. A lemon posset And they're always like; "for dessert, I have a lemon posset". And then you hear the other people talking in the off later in th...

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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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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Intro

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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