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In a regular segment of Unhelpful Advice, Isi and Mitch give their unqualified opinion on rapping in English. They later talk about their presumptions and assumptions of the French people, culture and lifestyle after spending a few weeks in the south-west of France. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Transcript Intro 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

Mitch and Isi discuss the secret to their successful relationship in a question Mitch left behind in their 150,000 subscriber special on YouTube. As a way to say thank you for your support you can get the learning material for that episode FREE by becoming a 'Free Member' of their membership with the link here - https://bit.ly/FreeEasyEnglishMembership Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Show Notes Easy English Q&A 150,000 subscriber special: We Answer YOUR QUESTIONS! (https://youtu.be/KgCyU8f5UbI) (Easy English 187) FREE GIVEAWAY: Join our Free Membership (https://bit.ly/FreeEasyEnglishMembership) Transcript 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

Easy English just hit 150,000 subscribers on YouTube! To say thank you we're hosting a Q&A (question and answer) for our next video. If you have any questions for them, write to them at [email protected] or on any of their socials. Join Isi and Mitch for a chat about all things breakfast! Bread rolls, DIY ramen, goldfish food, fruits and nuts, yoghurts, fry-ups, English breakfasts, bloody Marys and more... Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Show Notes Our 50th podcast video episode: BRIT & GERMAN React to BRITISH MEMES (https://youtu.be/NG--e3VxMQo) (Easy English 186) Transcript 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

We did it! 50 episodes of the Easy English Podcast! Watch us react to some (in)famous British memes. To celebrate, we recorded our first video episode that you can watch on our YouTube channel. We are also offering the Podcast Membership to ALL Video Members. To upgrade your membership, or to become a member, go to www.easyenglish.video/membership Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Show Notes Join the Easy English membership: Get the Interactive Transcript & Aftershow (http://www.easyenglish.video/membership) Transcript 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. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership