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Mitch & Isi compare their experiences with this week's cultural topic of living with strangers or... co-living.

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Mitch:

[0:22] Welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:

[0:26] Hello!

Mitch:

[0:26] Today...

Isi:

[0:28] I chose the topic again.

Mitch:

[0:30] Again. Taking the driver's seat.

Isi:

[0:33] You give me too much power.

Mitch:

[0:34] I'm constantly the passenger now.

Isi:

[0:38] You can leave us a message if that's a good thing. Maybe my topics are boring as hell.

Mitch:

[0:43] No, yest... the last one with couples was really good.

Isi:

[0:47] Well, now, I wanted to talk about something that we both have experiences with, where we can share some insight, not only into our experiences with it, mine will be from Germany and yours from the UK, but also, you can share some things about how that is working in the UK, because it's a bit different to how it's in Germany, I think. And that is, living together with flat, or housemates.

Mitch:

[1:15] Co-living.

Isi:

[1:16] Co-living, which is a big thing in the UK, at least when you study, but even afterwards.

Mitch:

[1:23] Yeah, especially if you are kind of a young professional, trying to climb the job ladder.

Isi:

[1:29] Or you live in London then it's all your life. - Or if you live in London, then you live with random people until you're 95. - Actually that sounds quite nice. So what I want to do, and we might make out of this, two podcasts, because I have a lot of topics. - Great. - I would like to go through different situations that you will face, while living together, with other people. And I thought we could, we can change it a bit. But first of all, I would like us to talk about it, if we have experience with that. How that was, share some personal stories. You can obviously share the British perspective. There's obviously a lot of new vocabulary that you can learn around living with people. Something that not in every country is common, but in lots of countries. Or maybe you come to the UK and you will live with somebody. And you are well prepared after this podcast, we hope. Or you don't want to do it any more.

Mitch:

[2:27] Yeah, you're put off completely.

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Isi tests Mitch's knowledge with practical examples of using the word 'sorry' for different, everyday scenarios.

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Mitch & Isi:

[0:24] Hello again. - Hi everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Easy English Podcast, also available on YouTube. So if you want to quickly head over and watch us discuss different types of 'sorry's in the UK, then head over to YouTube now, to our YouTube channel. Youtube, YouTube Youtube. - You know that you also, are just talking to the YouTube viewers. And if you're watching on YouTube, hello. - You set it into the camera? - Oh yeah.

Mitch & Isi:

[0:50] So today we're discussing also British people's most used, maybe not favourite, but is, maybe you say overused in the UK, but for good reason. - You hear it all the time. And we will show you many different ways to use the word 'sorry'.

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Justin from Texas is back... this time he is fact-checking Isi and Mitch's experiences, comparisons and stereotypes of the United States.

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Mitch:

[0:22] Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:

[0:26] Good morning.

Mitch:

[0:27] Good morning in the morning. We're loaded up on coffee as we have a part two of an episode that we made recently. We're reintroducing you to our correspondent from the United States. Justin is back.

Justin:

[0:44] Hello, hello.

Isi:

[0:46] Hi. Well, he's corresponding from Berlin., I would say.

Justin:

[0:51] But originally from. - Yeah. - The United States, Texas to be specific, if those don't know. I usually always say that I’m from Texas, I never really say I’m from the United States, it's very interesting when people ask; "where are you from?" I always just say Texas.

Isi:

[1:05] That is very interesting.

Justin:

[1:06] I guess I expect people to know Texas and most times people do. But I like to represent Texas more than I like to represent the United States of America.

Isi:

[1:15] Okay, and how... what do you think... like I do know Texas, I guess, from the... I haven't been, but from the... a bit from the stereotypes more like the cowboy stereotypes.

Mitch:

[1:26] Beyonce!

Justin:

[1:27] Yeah, Beyonce.

Isi:

[1:28] And the heat.

Justin:

[1:29] And The Cowboys. Yes, all those things are very... all of those things are very much correct.

Mitch:

[1:34] Have you ever said yee-haw in a non-cliched way?

Justin:

[1:38] No, but I do say howdy all the time. Howdy is my favorite... howdy is my favorite introduction.

Mitch:

[1:45] Wow, like Woody from 'Toy Story'.

Justin:

[1:49] Yeah, howdy.

Isi:

[1:50] How would you describe a Texan within like a few sentences.

Mitch:

[1:54] That's a good question.

Justin:

[1:55] That's a good question. I would describe a Texan as a soulful, country...

Isi:

[2:04] Soulful that's nice

Mitch:

[2:05] I like that too.

Justin:

[2:06] Soulful, country, cowboy.

Mitch:

[2:08] Wow.

Isi:

[2:09] A soulful, country, cowboy.

Justin:

[2:12] At least that's how I describe myself.

Isi:

[2:13] So, I was once only in the U.S but like for five weeks or so. Which is 10 years ago, oh god. And it was with Easy German, we did a tour, a great tour from New York via some like countryside, Virginia to Colorado and from Colorado with a car to California so, a really really cool tour. But what we did on the way is a lot of videos about being in the U.S and we did this video about like, where we shared our three things that we like, three things that we don't like, or things that would surprise us. And I literally found the list that I wrote back then on the road trip, can you imagine? - Exciting. - Yeah. And I was a bit surprised myself, what I wrote down. But I thought I'd share it.

Mitch:

[3:00] Yes so Isi's gonna... you're gonna read some of those out and I'm gonna... I also have been like, recently and then a long time ago um and there's some things which I sort of always kept in my mind, like experiences, stories and little notes I'd sort of, mentally made.

Isi:

[3:16] So, should I start?

Justin:

[3:18] Yes, I'm excited to hear.

Mitch:

[3:21] And Justin, maybe you can go into it, explain why, these cultural phenomenons, or whatever Isi is going to say, and maybe because you have an inside eye from all three places, can sort of, compare your experiences.

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Mitch & Isi take a quiz to test their relationship...

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Mitch & Isi:

[0:23] So, hello. - Hi. Hi. - Hi. Welcome to the Easy English Podcast. But... - But today as a video podcast. So, if you're listening, now, on a podcast app, you can also switch over to YouTube, where it's already out and watch it, as a video. But you don't need to. We will explain everything. You don't need to see our lovely faces. I prepared today's episode. - Wow. I'm nervous. - I think we thought about this topic, because it's an episode about us... - Oh god. - being a couple. - Usually we only speak about British culture and other people, but now we're talking... - Sometimes about us. - a little bit about us. We're opening up to you guys now, so be kind. - I prepared us a game where we have to, both answer questions the way that we think our partner, the other one, would answer. - A test of my knowledge of you. - So, the first is a little warm-up, with favourites. Do you know my favourites? - I hope so. I think so. - Okay. - I do.

Mitch & Isi:

[1:34] What's my favourite food?

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Listen to part 2 of the podcast where Isi and Mitch give advice on how to pass an English speaking test, based around the IELTS test.

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Mitch:

[0:23] Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of the Easy English Podcast.

Mitch:

[0:28] This week's episode is a bit different, as we're carrying on from our part one of easy taking the IELTS test. What is it you ask? Let me tell you. It's one of the most popular English exams in the world. And you can take it to help you to study abroad, to work internationally, you might have to take it for your immigration or visa status and it's mainly just a way to prove your English level, officially. Now the IELTS stands for the 'International English Language Testing System', and last time you heard from us, Isi was taking it and there are three parts to this test and in the first episode, we covered part one, which were simple questions and at the very end I asked her part two question which is the main task, asking her to describe a place she enjoys visiting in the UK. If you didn't listen to it in episode one, then that's coming up next and if you did listen to it, maybe you just want to skip ahead a little bit, to hear my analysis of how well she did. And then afterwards, she'll be taking part three; the discussion task, asking her, what the benefits are of living in another country. I hope you all enjoy this episode, and you'll hear from me at the end.

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