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Excuse me. Sorry. Um, do you speak
English?
>> No, I don't. Sorry.
>> English. Do you speak it? Yes. English.
English. Do you English? English. Do you
speak it?
>> Hello.
>> Hello. Welcome to the Easy English
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>> What did I say at the beginning now?
Hello,
>> how are you? Without an answer, but
that's very English.
>> It is very English.
>> All right.
All right.
>> All right. Uh so today we're going to be
playing a little scenario game with you
>> as usual.
>> As usual, putting you to the test
>> and proposing five situations that will
happen to you in the UK and will happen
to you in the UK if you come. Let's call
them unwritten rules of the UK.
>> The first one is already an odd one
then.
>> There's no should or shouldn't in that
one. Well, basically there's a should.
>> Hold your horses. We'll get on to that
in a minute. I just want to quickly say
that if you're listening to this podcast
on your podcast app, you should be made
aware that this podcast is also
available as a video on YouTube and
we're going to be showing some pictures
in between Easy and I of the sort of
proposed scenarios. And I would like to
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leave comments uh below the YouTube
video saying any other cultural dos or
don'ts that you know of in the UK
because there's five here, but there are
many, many, many, many, many, many more.
>> Many, many, many, many,
>> many, many, many, many, many, many more.
Okay, first one.
>> Topic of the week. You're at a
pedestrian crossing
>> in London.
>> I don't know where this is and I don't
know why the guy only has socks on. This
is an AI image I've created.
>> Oh, he has socks on.
>> Socks and a vest, which is very English
cuz it looks like winter time.
>> A tank top.
>> A tank top. But look, it's like it's
autuminal and he's wearing a vest.
>> Very English. AI knows British people.
>> Don't ever wear a winter jacket. Number
one,
>> that could also be a cultural rule.
>> No. Please wear a jacket.
>> So, you're at a traffic light and the
pedestrian light is red. Don't walk.
However, you're looking left and right
and there are no cars.
>> You now want to suggest that I say,
>> "Yeah,
>> don't wait for the light to turn green,
which is absolute rubbish."
>> Why? Why for you? safety. In Germany, we
obey the rules and
you should wait.
>> You're teaching a bad lesson to children
by doing this because you should
probably always wait for the light to
turn green, especially if you're
driving.
>> But it is very culturally acceptable in
the UK to cross on a red light.
>> People wouldn't look at you weird. Not
at all.
>> Yeah. This is very normal. We made a
video in Berlin about not about the
people standing at red lights and there
are no cars coming at all and just
standing still waiting for green which
seems very bizarre to me but this is
very normal. This is very normal. Sorry.
Next one. Scenario number two. Let me
propose this. You walk into a pub.
You get to your table and you sit down
and then you're looking around.
Everyone's drinking beers and you're sat
there.
>> Yeah. No one will ever come and ask you
what you want to drink. You need to get
at least if it's a pup in a restaurant
that's different. Um there's also pop
restaurant mixes where you could maybe
maybe it's where it's maybe not so sure
where they might have a restaurant part
and a pub part. Pop part you have to get
your own drink. The restaurant part they
might serve you. But in general in a pup
you are not being served. Um, so you
need to go to the bar, make your order.
If you order food, you should have a
place before cuz then you have a table
number and then you have to order food
to that table number and that food is
then being brought to that table.
>> That's a really good one. I was only
going to say the thing of you must go up
to order, but you make a good point
because some pubs if you want to order
food, like you say, they'll bring it to
you, but you have to know what table
you're sat at and they'll be numbered.
And sometimes you'll stand in a queue
for 10 minutes and they'll say, "What
number table you at?"
>> Oh, no. I need to find a table. And then
come back into the queue.
>> Most of the time, typical British pub,
you have to go to the bar. No one's
coming. Okay,
>> next one.
>> Before we go on to our next one, I
actually want to quickly jump into a
topic we have in our normal audio
podcast.
>> Unhelpful advice.
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>> Ah, I heard something about learning
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I understand English but
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>> Thanks one.
>> Oh yeah, I did this wrong.
>> Recently
recently.
So the scenario for the listeners and
for you guys is you get to the bottom of
the escalator and you decide that you
don't want to walk up it. You don't want
to be in a rush. You don't want to be
part of the rat race. You want to stand.
Where do you go?
>> You're frozen like a rabbit in the
headlights. No, actually not sure.
Again,
if you stand and now I wasn't really
sure if you stand, you should probably
stand on the right side because on the
left you're walking.
>> Absolutely.
>> It's it's difficult because sometimes it
makes sense like, oh, the left side is
for like the place where you would
usually be in that lane going somewhere.
So maybe you'd overtake.
>> Overtaking the motorway is on the right
side. Very confusing. But London
escalators are so full you cannot make
it wrong. You can't
>> you definitely see what the others are
doing.
>> Yeah. Rarely you'd see it empty or
rarely you'd be the first at the
beginning of a long queue of people.
>> Yeah.
>> So yeah, standing on the right moving on
the left. That's always the rule on all
escalators all over the UK, especially
the London Underground. Going up or
down.
>> Up or down.
>> Next one.
>> Next one.
>> What was that person doing? Yeah, I had
to type in so many things to make it
look like how I wanted. And this looks
20% of how I wanted it.
>> This is a till.
>> Yeah, it is a till at the supermarket.
>> Why does it look like they're driving a
train?
>> I don't know. There's all kinds of
things going on here. So
>> yeah,
>> the scenario for this one is you are in
the queue at the supermarket with your
trolley full of groceries
and there's maybe three or four people
in front of you, three or four people
behind you, and then you see the till
the left or right of you, a new cash egg
sits there and opens up their till.
What do you do in the UK? Because in
Germany, I've seen some pretty crazy
carnage going on. people racing.
>> Yeah.
>> To the cashier desk that's become open.
>> Well, you must have heard already at
least in our podcast and videos that
queuing is very very very serious
business in the UK. Um, so if you queue
for the till and another till opens up,
then obviously you're still you have
your position in the queue and so you
respect everyone else's position, which
means that you offer all the people in
front of you to go to that open till
first, which basically means that the
person that already puts their stuff on
the how do you call it
>> the conveyor belt,
>> they obviously stay there. The next one
already should be offered by the one
behind. So it's like a it's like a
domino effect. It
>> is. Yeah. It's perfect.
>> So they offer first and if they say no
I'm staying here then that person
offer behind them should well anyway you
should see like I stay in my position.
>> Yeah.
>> And I moved with that.
>> It's very
>> I completely like that. I hate it. I
hate a strong I don't like when in
Germany people just race for the open
till and they basically wear number 20
in line
>> and then go there and it's like you're
>> I agree.
>> Why did we all It's just It's so It's
like an elbow society. We call this in
German.
>> You say it in a You said it in a very
good way, but when you're in this
scenario, it's very hard to know to do
what you're saying because no words will
ever really be spoken.
>> That's true. You're not.
>> Yeah. But also like there'll be the
people behind you won't say anything to
you, but they will give you that
opportunity to move over.
>> Oh, yeah. But maybe you do a little hand
gesture.
>> Yeah. There'll be very slight subtle
things going on which you need to look
out for. But essentially, people behind
you will typically know they have an
opportunity there.
>> It's very royal in a way.
>> After you. After you, madame. After you,
sir.
>> Oh, thank you. That's very kind.
>> You're very welcome. Have a great day.
Enjoy your
shreddies.
>> Marvelous. What are shreddies?
>> That's some breakfast cereal. I don't
know. Enjoy your marmalade on toast.
Okay, last one.
Similar to what was going on in the last
picture. This one is, and we've spoken
about this a couple of times actually,
>> and there's two parts to this as well,
right? I think
>> you're waiting at the bus stop to get
your bus home from a big night out
>> and uh you as you get there there are so
many people who are also waiting for the
same bus as you and your bus turns up.
>> Mhm.
>> There are two steps to this whole
procedure now in my mind of what you
need to be doing. Okay.
>> In mine too.
>> Okay. How do you navigate this?
Well, they're actually even more than
two, but I know what you mean. The
people coming out and people going in.
This is two steps. But first of all, you
preparing myself.
>> Breathe.
>> You come to the bus stop and we have had
this in Brighton in the night a lot of
times or in the evening.
>> Um there are people waiting obviously
there are different bus lines also
coming.
>> True.
>> So basically there could be 40 people
waiting at a big bus stop.
>> M. So you kind of look around you and
you also see when someone arrives to the
bus stop so that you know Mhm. Mhm.
Okay. Okaym. You don't have to count,
but you have you get if you live in the
UK, you get assistant.
>> Yeah. Cuz people won't be queuing before
the bus arrives.
>> No. So you kind of have to know who was
here first.
>> Mhm.
>> Then when the bus arrives, people do a
quue for that bus. But that's how you
kind of have to know again like at the
tail. Yeah, you were first. Okay.
And then
what first happens though is you leave.
You let everyone that wants to
>> freeze.
>> Everyone that wants to leave the bus
leaves the bus first.
>> Yeah.
>> So, and you also don't give them way.
They have the full freeway. So, you
don't quue in in front of the door but
next to it. So, you let everyone pass.
You even look in. Anyone else? Someone
coming from, you know, double decker
buses. Some woman from
>> Absolutely. Always maybe a woman sort of
reassembling her her pram to put her kid
in. She's folded up.
>> You wait for that. You offer help when
someone needs help.
>> It's true.
>> And then then you can slowly enter the
bus. Our bus. We should actually do an
whole episode about bus rules.
>> True. There are many rules on a bus.
>> Many rules. And for more of that, we'll
be talking a bit more about other little
unwritten rules and other little easy
English and Mitch and easy updates in
our after show, which is all part of our
learner membership. Uh, but well done.
You smashed it. Absolutely amazing. And
we hope that you all now understand all
these. Maybe you can write in the
comments below of other ones that you
know about, not real laws, but unwritten
laws of the UK.
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah. And as always, you'll hear from us
again soon.
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