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Excuse me. Sorry. Um, do you speak
English?
>> No, I don't. Sorry.
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>> English. Do you speak it? Yes. English.
English. Do you English? English. Do you
speak it?
>> Hia. Welcome to the Easy English
podcast.
Today we're going to be discussing five
things that annoy you that I know annoy
you as a German who is experiencing the
UK
so that people can hate me afterwards.
No, but these are things which I think
all Germans will be annoyed about. And
I'm going to leave it up to you to
decide what the pictures are that I'm
going to show you, what they really
mean, what the annoyance will be. And if
you're listening to this podcast, you
should be made aware that this podcast
is also available on our YouTube channel
where we'll be showing pictures to Easy
and we'll be discussing five annoying
things that all Germans hate about the
UK.
>> I doubt that all Germans will hate it.
>> Yeah, clickbait.
>> Hate. Hate is a very strong word. Let's
say dislike or
criticize.
Five things Germans criticize about the
UK.
>> And in the end, it's only me. Let's go.
>> Five things easy criticizes
about the UK.
>> Okay, let's see if that's even true.
>> Okay, let's move to number one swiftly.
>> Oh dear.
This is a sink.
>> What does this mean?
>> In the bathroom was ugly tiles.
Okay. But there's two there's kind of
one point divided into two.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We already have a hot
water tub and a cold water tub which is
absolutely rubbish. So yes, you're right
here.
Do I criticize it, dislike it, or hate
it? All of them.
>> Yeah. So this is a really exaggerated
picture of the worst kind of thing.
>> No, I see them all the time.
>> Okay. But this is this is the worst one
you can find because normally also
English people are aware that we have
this issue where you have to choose
between one or the other boiling hot or
freezing cold. So what they've done now
is they've now got um taps which are a
bit closer together either but this
actually exists quite a lot quite often
in pubs
>> also on the other quite often in pubs.
And let me tell you, the water is either
ice cold or piping hot. Really? Piping
hot. And it makes no sense at all. Uh,
and on top, this sink is tiny as hell.
>> Yeah.
>> So, in the end, of course, you choose
the ice cold water because you don't
want to burn your fingers. And if it's
winter and you're in a pub and you go to
the bathroom and then you wash your
hands with ice cold water, it's just
Well, it's better than nothing. It's
better than not washing your hands.
>> That's true. You should always wash your
hands.
>> Always wash your hands.
>> It is a bit annoying. And
>> before and after.
[Laughter]
>> What is this?
>> Easy toilet hygiene. And then just to
make matters even harder, you also as
you're washing your hands with this
sink, these sinks you find often in
pubs, you're grazing your knuckles along
the side of the the sink and you have to
like sort of somehow cram your hands in
this tiny gap where the cats only just
hang over.
>> If the if the sink is dirty because
someone just vomited or so.
>> What? Who vomits in a sink?
>> It's a pub.
>> People vomit everywhere in a pub.
>> No, that's not true. Okay. Yeah, good
one. I really hate it. Change your taps.
>> And also if you uh are really annoyed by
this like easers, you could maybe even
prepare yourself and there are
inventions which are s are made in the
UK on on like you can get them on Amazon
or on some website and it's pipe. It's
like a a connecting pipe with a middle
outlet. And people especially students
build these out of like toilet roll
holders or Pringles pots.
or I don't know just certain like piping
and people have made things where you
kind of connect them together and we'll
travel with them.
>> That's brilliant.
>> Okay, next point.
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>> Bus.
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>> Commuting.
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>> In the pub. What a better place to learn
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our own pubs if we have them. And there
we talk about the things you talk about
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spoken about jobs, dreams, hobbies,
pets,
>> stress.
>> Stress recently. Very important topic.
It's always nice. It's just basically
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English. Okay. Number two.
>> Number two. Okay. Do I hate this?
>> Oh god.
>> Oh god.
>> Oh god. This is the maybe the number one
most annoying thing for a German, I
reckon.
>> Yeah, I don't hate this.
>> How would you define this? What would be
the title be to this?
>> This is all toast.
>> No, but what would be
>> But what would be what would be like the
title of the annoying thing?
>> There's no
good bread in the UK.
>> There's no good bread in the UK. This
>> That's okay. I don't hate this. It's
it's another cuisine.
>> But this picture to me looks very
diverse and interesting, but to you
>> Well, it's diverse there. It's all white
bread.
>> Tiger bread on the right you have or on
the left you're from what you're
watching. We have in the middle we have
normal sliced loaf that you slice
yourself.
>> Um and then
>> if you move along we have baguettes.
Then we have I think more kind of like
Yeah, they all kind of look the same
varying degrees of
>> the ones on top should ah
>> fake you into thinking it's ry bread or
so but
>> it's healthy like whole meal or
something.
>> Maybe we can actually post a picture of
what a real German bakery looks like in
comparison to this. This selection is
eclectic, wide and has a big variety of
seeded things and it's so overwhelming
whereas this is underwhelming. But we
have to say our little supermarket
around the corner has quite good bread
rolls. They are white but like with like
some seeds and quite nice. And
that's about it. In Brighton though
because Brighton is so artisani
>> individual individual
there are some good bakeries.
I have not find found my um favorite one
yet. You just yesterday brought a bread
from from town.
>> I did,
>> which is okay.
>> But you know what you said when I
brought him? You said, "I'm gonna text
my parents and let them know like
celebrate."
>> It looked so good, but then I ate it and
it was okay.
>> Next one.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. What do you think this means?
Well, I had a weird other thought first,
but um
>> because of what? The ale and pie or the
lock.
>> Anyway, ale and pie house. That's a pup.
>> Absolutely.
>> We Is that the name?
>> No, that will be an advertisement for
that pup.
>> Okay. It's closed.
>> Okay. And what do you think that
represents
as an annoyance to Germans?
>> Oh, yeah. Well, it does not mean that
it's closed on any day or so. or on a
holiday. So because they always always
right but
they do open
they have very different open times than
in Germany. They do open very early.
>> If you want to drink at 11:00 or you
don't have to drink obviously or just be
in a pub A.M. then you can be there. But
also they do close around 11:00,
sometimes 12
>> if you pay.
>> Sometimes 10.
>> Yeah, if you pay for a longer extend
your license.
>> So if you are German and you want to go
out big night out and Germans go out
quite late. Um then you might be
bothered by the 11 p.m.
throwing out times.
>> Yeah, exactly. There will be bell rang.
Ding dong dong. Last orders. Last round.
>> And then
>> and then you have to go.
>> And then there's another one. A second
one.
>> Oh yeah. What's that called?
>> Time.
>> And that's when you have to leave. Leave
>> like a sporting event. Time at the bar.
>> Can you then still go to the bathroom?
>> Oh, you'd have to beg the bouncer.
>> Okay. Anyway, um I actually don't that's
that's well other Germans might or even
from not even Germans I think from a lot
of countries might be confused by that
and don't like it if they do like long
nights out for me I actually love this.
So it's the opposite. I love this. This
is one reason that I one reason not
early. No but um no I actually
absolutely love this. I think if you
want to go out, meet people in a pub or
so. I like the idea of doing it like
late afternoonish
>> and go home early, a really good night's
sleep and the next morning is not like
this coming home even at 2:00 or so, 1
or 2.
Nah.
>> The next day is just really
>> Some people go out until 5, 6, 7. Yeah.
Also, we have to say that there are
nightclubs here where you can like where
you go for dancing or so. They are open.
>> Yeah.
>> Into the night, but also not until 5
often.
>> No.
>> Two maybe then.
>> Yeah.
>> In London obviously ask them bright and
you find some that are until four or
five.
>> In metropolises you can go all night
long, but if you're
>> Do you have 24-hour things?
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>> Maybe in a city you can find like a like
an all night nightclub kind of thing,
but it's obviously very different to a
pub. Um, but if you're in a town or
village, not a chance.
>> Like in Berlin, it's a thing to go from
Friday to Sunday.
>> Can't do it.
>> I don't know what that mean. It's not my
not my world. Know nothing about it.
>> Yeah. But in England, it's very normal
to see kind of like quite drunk people
in the daytime, like around 2 300 p.m.
There'll be people who have already had
maybe six pints of lag.
>> Don't do that.
>> But at least they're up the next day
ready to go. Whereas in Germany, 5:00
a.m. drinking.
>> I doubt that. If you hit six pines and
then do another anyway.
>> Yeah. Operating heavy machinery the next
day.
>> But the opening times are nice. I like
that.
>> It is nice.
>> So wrong. I don't hate it.
>> But it is probably annoying to some
jumps, especially jumps who don't know
and think, "Oh, let's go out for a
drinking session and go at like 10 p.m.
Let's start our night." And it's like,
"Huh?"
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Okay. Next one. What do you think this
represents
two? Actually, again,
>> even a good one
>> again. Yeah. Oh, come on. That's deep.
And also, this is one picture with two
points.
>> Rain.
>> No.
>> Potholes.
>> Potholes is one.
>> Yeah.
>> Or the quality of British roads.
>> We already smashed a tire in a pothole.
>> And the second point is the width of
this road. Actually, there are lots of
narrow roads with really high hatches.
That's very, very, very, very British.
>> Or this like kind of stone wall. Mhm.
>> Stone concrete
>> and the hatch you can at least put your
cargo in.
>> Yeah, exactly. There's a bit of
suspension, a bit of uh feathering to
your to your craft.
>> We were um on God, I always have an
anecdote, don't I? We were on uh a
holiday in Dorset
at the Jurassic Coast and we to to
approach the beach. We had to go through
a hilly land
with those streets where really really
only one car just can park like can go
one direction and when somebody
comes from the other direction at you,
you have to go back and sometimes you
have to go back five to seven minutes.
It's really stressful. Yeah. Lots of
reversing needed. You need to be very
good at reversing.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> And then to make matters even harder,
whilst you're possibly reversing, there
will be these ginormous craters just in
the middle of the road which are
increasing
on a really scary rate. Right. We've hit
one. We've not only blown our tire with
it, but it also completely dented the
wheel. It was so deep.
>> We need a complete new wheel.
>> Yeah. Um, and this is very, you see this
very often, not just on, these aren't
just D- roads. These are even on some A-
roads, very frequently B- roads.
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Not so often on A-
roads, I would say.
>> But they're there, which for me is like,
you know, when you're thinking you're
going maybe
what, like 70 kilometers an hour.
>> Oh, yeah. Always look on the street.
Always keep your eye on the streets.
That's what we do when we know we are
really off now in a foresty area or so
where the light is not so good. We both
are like this.
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's usually on the side.
And I think it usually comes from the
fact that
>> I know they're in the middle.
>> Okay. They're everywhere. I guess that's
something to bear in mind when you're
driving. If your Google Maps maybe says,
"Oh, we found a quicker route through a
B- route."
>> Might be better sticking with the
motorway.
>> Do we have another one?
>> We have one more.
This maybe isn't something that annoys
you, but it's something which you always
like to make fun of.
>> How did you even find that picture?
>> What did you What did you put in?
>> Yeah, my
>> They're postmen.
>> My search results are screwed for the
next few weeks.
>> They're postmen in shorts in winter.
>> These are the That's I mean, the postman
thing you can ignore, but these are the
prime suspects of who is always doing
this. But it's not just postman, it's
also just typical British people.
Anyway, right. Let me first say that
never ever in England ever anyone has
seen that much snow.
>> I mean that is a picture from England.
That is a royal male postmat.
>> That was a bit of a joke but very rare.
Very rare.
>> But that just is an example of how
little we care about the icy weather in
the UK.
>> Yeah.
>> When it comes to fashion sense,
>> 12° shorts weather.
>> I would
>> and that would probably be zero or one.
Id say you're right, but I'd also trump
that by saying anytime that the sun
comes out can be any
>> sun shining there.
>> I probably
see it with your naked eye.
>> It's it's a very different
um perception of temperature here. I've
seen that.
>> Also in the night like people don't need
jackets or stuff. It's just like or I
just freeze a lot maybe. Yeah, it's
quite often that maybe because people
don't want to pay for the coat room, but
very often you'll see people going out
on a night out and you'll think, "Oh my
god, it is 10° and you are wearing
basically a bathing suit."
>> I would always be ill.
It doesn't annoy me though. It's it's
it makes me wonder.
[Laughter]
>> Ah, nice one. Thank you, Mitch. That's
the end of this week's episode. Did you
enjoy it that easy?
>> I did enjoy that. That was a nice little
talk. Thank you.
>> And can you think of any more that you
could add to that which annoy you?
>> You mentioned one thing actually about
the directness of British people that
annoys you.
>> The nonexistent directness.
>> Yeah. Okay. Better said like that.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I' I think I've said that
often.
Beating around the bush is not on for
me.
>> A good phrase, avoiding conflict.
>> Yeah, I mean, not that I want conflict.
>> Yeah, you're painting yourself a weird
picture now.
>> Just to avoid conflict.
We just actually had this topic in our
Discord on our Discord server as a topic
of the week. We discuss always like
about anything, but we also have one
dedicated topic of the week. Um, by the
way, join us as a member if you want to
join our lovely Discord community, Easy
English family. Um, and we talked about
white lies and it's like it's a big
thing here to not say the truth, which
doesn't mean that people are not genuine
or honest, but it's just like out of
politeness and out of like, oh, let's
not have confrontation and avoid
conflict. People beat around the bush.
They don't really say
what's really happening to just be nice
and I think sometimes you need to
say it as it is
>> otherwise it's not effective
>> effective so German
>> no but otherwise you don't
it's not real
and you don't
have you cannot go on successful in your
social interaction or with anything.
>> Oh, but then what if they don't like me
anymore?
>> You can do it in a kind and polite way.
>> No problem. I'm fine. It tastes
delicious. No, it's fine. I don't mind
how loud the noise is and I can sleep
just fine with you banging all night
long.
>> Yeah, we had this in the last podcast,
didn't we?
>> Yeah.
>> Or one of the last podcasts. Yeah.
>> But anyway, that's a great addition. And
also let us know in the comments below
what things annoy you about the UK if
you've been. Let everyone else know the
weird, specific, obtuse, obscure things
that we're doing in the UK which annoy
you. And as always, we'll see you next
time.
>> Or in Germany, you can also tell me now
what you hate about Germany. That's also
fine.
>> Bye.
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