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[English]

excuse me sorry um do you speak English

no I don't

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sorry English do you speak it yes

English English do you English English

do you speak

it hi everybody Welcome to a new episode

of the easy English podcast uh for those

of you are listening you can actually

find this video on YouTube and for those

of you on YouTube Hello this week I

wanted to bring you a a new episode of

Mitch's monthly recap uh and I'm going

to go over through some of the things

that have happened in January and maybe

a bit of December because we've all gone

a bit do with where the hell am I at the

moment so right now I'm recording this

from the French Countryside which seems

like a good idea uh it might start

raining at some point this seemed like a

good idea um to bring all of my stuff

into the middle of nowhere behind this

like

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of you are into football um I recently

saw that um Saudi Arabia got the um the

rights to host one of the World Cups in

the future

which you would have thought after the

whole Qatar

catastrophe H it's good title for the

podcast the Qatar

catastrophe um where it was sort of

revealed that there were people

basically working under like horrendous

conditions not getting paid not seeing

their family sleeping in not considering

the wealth of qar they were sleeping in

what was essentially containers whilst

they were building stadiums at 40 to 50°

heat Saudi now has it which seems not so

suspicious at all it made me think of

this word which was popularized through

the Qatar World Cup which is called

Sports washing which is

where typically country or clubs or

owners will do generous nice altruistic

things in order to sort of look like

they're nice people and for you to be

like oh oh okay I actually had a bad

opinion of this person and now they're

doing this really lovely thing but

really if you look deep enough you'll

still find some heinous acts that

they're committing at the same time for

example qar they were hosting an

amazingly organized World Cup in the

background there were people being

treated very poorly considering the

wealth of this country and Saudi Arabia

just you know if you think of their

human rights at the moment when it comes

to women's rights and to rights for the

LGBT plus Community I forget the other

letters

um it's going to be very difficult and

more importantly for the Brits what

they're not going to like is again not

being able to drink alcohol you think of

the reasons that people might protest it

but we all know that the real true

sports fans that will be heading to

Saudi Arabia will not be

happy I think my chair is slowly sinking

into the into the

ground this be so funny in like 20

minutes he'll be like down

here so yeah Sports washing is a

negative phrase and it probably exists

in other sectors you know you could

imagine like prince Andrew hosting the

next season of bof in his house

to try to clear his

name someone's like baking a Victoria

sponge like where's the flower don't go

in that

cupboard the other thing I noticed

recently was Mark

Zuckerberg huh what the hell is going on

with

him do you remember how he do have you

seen how he looks

now he's now a surfer

dude or he's not being dressed by normal

people or he's just not dressing himself

I mean he was already a bit weird

looking remember him at the beginning he

had this like he just sort of cut his

hair like a person from

Lego and he could barely speak

that

meta and he was

like meta maybe you would enjoy meta and

he had Hobbies

I like surfing and Brazilian J

Jitsu are we listening to your every

conversation over

Facebook

meta and now he's a surfer dude he's

trying to assimilate he's culturally

appropriating humans he's so

weird initially he looked like when you

first play a video game the initial

character you're given and now he's like

level two when you're able to upgrade

and give yourself kind of like nice

clothes kind of a okay

haircut you know what I mean now like

level three he'll be like now I have

tattoo of Mike

Tyson what would level four Mark

Zuckerberg be level four will be

sunglasses Mark Zuckerberg sunglasses

and the hats like accessories you know

like rings and uh necklaces and

wristbands and uh uh bracelets and

then level

five

meta level five will just be like the

singularity you know when he can take

over the world you

know I am meta you are meta commence

laughing arm down stop

laughing um I'd like to review a film I

watched recently a British film uh which

is good for you to watch because um it

has some really good acting in it let me

just see if I can load it up on this I

don't know how I'm getting internet from

here it's a British movie it's also on

Netflix so you should all be able to get

a hold of it and it's called I came by

and the reason I'd like to recommend it

is because um some of the dialects

involved in the movie are really

contrasting and they're both very well

acted and performed

uh let's load this up loading loading

loading

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loading still

loading loading

loading double

loading sounds like Anthony Hopkins I'm

really sinking into the ground this is

crazy the chair is like fully

wedged so yeah I came by is on Netflix

and so should all be able to get hold of

it and it is um it's played by Hugh

Bonville which any of you who are into

what the hell is this place called if

any of you into downtown abbey then

you'll love this because Hugh Bonville

uh who I think played like head Butler

or probably the king he look seems like

someone who would play one of the royal

people not one of the people working

under the

house and uh he plays the evil guy in

this movie which is great he's really

good and he's very POS in this a little

bit like his character in Downtown

Abby

H and then George McKay who you

recognize from that movie 1917 he's like

the main Soldier In This World War I

movie he and a friend play graffiti

artists who are kind of doing something

like

Banksy but on an extreme level where

they're breaking into people's houses

who are kind of Rich famous and maybe

doing suspicious or bad acts maybe some

Sport washing and they're tagging I came

by and this is their sort of bat logo

Batman logo

maybe the rain's coming they are

initially tagging other people's houses

like I don't know CEOs or hedge funders

or things like this and then they go to

huonville house who is a high court

judge and they see that he was his

family has some history like Colonial

history some negative Colonial history

he lives in the same house as

grandfather and father both built and

lived in and then they go there and a

dark secret is discovered it is really

good Hugh bonov does a very good Posh

southern accent and then George McKay

who I think is quite a posh boy he does

a really good kind of Multicultural

London accent he's using lots of slang

lots of grammatically incorrect language

it's really good for you to watch to

pick up how British people especially in

London really speak to you this film is

also just really good to watch it's very

tense and there are some really

unexpected twists and turns to this

movie it really just highlights all of

these kind of there seems to be a new

genre in especially in horror of like

white middle class man

horror you know what I mean in the 70s

it was monsters in the' 8s it was like

creepy guys of masks like slashers and

now it's just like

humble middle class white men who are

harboring de secrets you know like

there's this new movie also out called

heretic uh which has Hugh Grant which is

the most middle class man ever do you

know what I mean and I have not watched

it yet but he must be like oh come in

goly gosh have a cup of tea now I'm

going to eat your BRS yeah Hugh bonov is

in this one and he's absolutely

fantastic it makes you wonder what's

next what's like an unsuspecting middle

class white guy that can haunt your

dreams so

like you can David aten BR can you

imagine that that'd be

amazing imagine if you're watching

planet Earth what could this crime be

watch as the fellow wilder beast

immigrate from one part to the next and

disturb the local inhabitants you know

these things coming over here taking our

jobs taking our land

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Britain could you imagine

yeah whenever I start becoming older

more ugly and more middle class then uh

I'm absolutely up there for to being as

as a bad guy in one of these horror

movies that' be great I feel like this

podcast is sort of like the middle class

bad guy podcast now we've got prince

Andrew hosting boff at his house Mark

Zuckerberg level two and I came by with

Hub Bonville and then blessed David

atenor becoming

toxic oh yeah if he became like a toxic

masculine guy

like I don't think women should be

competing in

sports yeah thank you for listening to

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always we'll see you next time

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s hello I am English

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
episode /ˈɛpɪsoʊd/ B1	noun - a part of a series of broadcasts or podcasts
listening /ˈlɪsənɪŋ/ A2	noun - the ability to hear and understand sounds
membership /ˈmɛmbərʃɪp/ B1	noun - the state of being a member of a group or organization
vocabulary /voʊˈkæbjʊleri/ B2	noun - the words that someone knows and uses
transcripts /ˈtrænskrɪpts/ B2	noun - a written copy of something that has been spoken
introduce /ɪntrəˈdjuːs/ A2	verb - to make someone known by name to another person
resolution /ˌrɛzəˈluːʃən/ B1	noun - a firm decision to do something
football /ˈfʊtbɔːl/ A1	noun - a game played with a ball between two teams
catastrophe /kəˈtæstrəfi/ C1	noun - an event causing great and sudden damage or distress
revealed /rɪˈviːld/ B1	verb - made known previously secret information
horrendous /hɒˈrɛndəs/ B2	adjective - extremely bad or unpleasant
conditions /kənˈdɪʃənz/ B1	noun - the state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order
rustic /ˈrʌstɪk/ B2	adjective - relating to the countryside; rural
announced /əˈnaʊnst/ A2	verb - make a public statement about something
perks /pɜːks/ B1	noun - a benefit or advantage
access /ˈækses/ B1	noun - the ability to enter, use, or obtain something
server /ˈsɜːrvər/ B2	noun - a computer that provides services to other computers
upgrading /ʌpˈɡreɪdɪŋ/ B1	verb - improving something to a higher standard
skills /skɪlz/ A2	noun - the ability to do something well
sports washing /ˈspɔːrts wɒʃɪŋ/ C2	noun - the practice of using sports to improve a tarnished reputation

Key Grammar Structures

• excuse me sorry um do you speak English

  ➔ Tag Questions & Indirect Questions

  ➔ The phrase uses a polite opening ("excuse me, sorry, um") followed by an **indirect question** to politely inquire about English language ability. The rising intonation at the end turns it into a **tag question** seeking confirmation.

• no I don't

  ➔ Short Answer with Auxiliary Verb

  ➔ This is a **short answer** to a yes/no question. It uses the auxiliary verb "do" to form the negative response. The contraction "don't" is common in spoken English.

• sorry English do you speak it yes

  ➔ Word Order Variation (Emphasis)

  ➔ This demonstrates a non-standard **word order** for emphasis. The speaker is trying to re-phrase the question, likely due to difficulty understanding. The placement of "English" at the beginning and the repetition are attempts to clarify. The use of “it” is a pronoun referring to English.

• English English do you English English

  ➔ Repetition for Clarification/Emphasis

  ➔ This is a clear example of **repetition** used to try and overcome a communication barrier. The speaker is repeating the word "English" hoping the other person will understand what they are asking. It's a simplified attempt at communication.