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Isi and Mitch give you 5 (and a half) tips and tricks for keeping the conversation not only going, but flowing if you're a non-native English speaker trying to improve your conversation skills

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hello everybody.

Isi:
[0:24] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:24] Greetings from sunny Germany, sunny Münster.

Isi:
[0:29] It's so nice. Winter's over.

Mitch:
[0:31] Yeah, newsflash. Winter for us, at least, is over.

Isi:
[0:35] It's 17 or 18 degrees today.

Mitch:
[0:37] Wow.

Isi:
[0:38] It's absolute spring.

Mitch:
[0:40] The worst thing about that is now we're stuck inside doing a podcast.

Isi:
[0:43] Yeah, but only for now. And then we do nothing else today and just lie in the sun.

Mitch:
[0:48] For you guys, we sacrificed the sunny weather to make up a 20-minute podcast. Today, Isi, you have no idea what we're talking about today.

Isi:
[0:58] Nope.

Mitch:
[0:58] This is a very interesting topic, actually, one that I've wanted to do for a while, and it's taken me a while to conjure five points, the most important points. Today, we're talking about how you guys can keep a conversation going in English. So I've come up with five little tips and tricks and you'll be able to help out with this as well Isi, because you obviously learnt English and you speak in English to English people. There's five points I have, five little tips and tricks to help you keep a conversation flowing, because you're obviously trying to manage your English speaking and you, maybe feel a bit nervous, maybe a bit anxious speaking English and so then, also having to think about topics and how to easily, keep the conversation flowing so they're doing some talking as well and you're able to feel confident in asking these questions, using these tips.

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Mitch and Isi give you 5 common scenarios in a British pub and give you advice, vocabulary and conversational tips to help you, not just survive... but thrive! In a traditional pub in the UK.

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:23] Okay, hello, welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:27] Hi, hi.

Mitch:
[0:29] I just want to let you guys know that if you're currently listening to this, then you should know that you can also watch it on our YouTube channel.

Isi:
[0:37] But you don't need to.

Mitch:
[0:39] You don't need to for this one.

Isi:
[0:39] You don't need to see our faces.

Mitch:
[0:41] No, there shouldn't be many pictures or images that you should have to see for this. But if you want to see our reactions and faces, then feel free to pop on over. - Our tired faces. - Our tired, exhausted faces, then head on over to our YouTube channel. because today we're doing an episode uh about everyday common scenarios that will happen when you visit a British pub the pup an easy uh semi-professional pub goer now now that you have been in the UK for some time that makes me a professional publishing actually uh you will answer these five scenarios what you should do um phrases and vocabulary that you'll hear that you'll need to use and sort of cultural rules that are unwritten uh in the UK in Britain okay,
Topic of the Week

Mitch:
[1:41] So let's start with number one. I wrote them down on my phone. So the first one, you go to the pub with a British acquaintance. And you both walk up to the bar and I'll play the bartender and I ask, Hello. I look at you. What can I get you? In this moment, what do you do? What phrases would you use? What can I get you?

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Isi and Mitch give you 10 everyday sayings that British people use - and what they really mean...
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Intro

Mitch
[0:22]Hi everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Long time, no see. It's been a while.

Isi
[0:29]I think we said we leave this welcome.

Mitch
[0:34]I'm still petitioning for it.

Isi
[0:37]Okay, hello.

Mitch
[0:40]So, today we're back in Brighton, from Münster. And as we've come over, I've already started noticing certain things, that us Brits do quite differently to the rest of Europe. And, one thing that we do, which is probably useful for you guys, whether you are coming to the UK as a tourist, whether you want to move to the UK, or maybe you're just working for a company and there are certain Brits there, maybe your boss is a British person, or your colleagues. Or maybe you just want to... - Your boss. - Your a boss.

Isi
[1:18]Your boss is a British person. That sounded a bit like, intimidating.

Mitch
[1:20]Yeah exactly

Isi
[1:22]But don't be. British bosses, hopefully, are all nice.

Mitch
[1:25]Well, funny you say that. Because, maybe your boss says certain things and the reaction or action, afterwards, is very different from what they're saying. Isi, you bring this up quite a lot, that Brits like to say things, which don't exactly reflect what they mean.

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In our Easy English Updates, we announce our 'Kick-Off 2026 Challenge' on Monday to improve your English, every day for 14 days.
Isi and Mitch then give you 10 everyday word pronunciations that reveal if you're speaking either American or British English, but for we answer a question from Hanan and then Mitch tells a very British joke.

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Intro

Isi:
[0:22] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:23] Hi, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. The winter version. Winter has come. We're currently in your parents' basement and it's freezing cold.

Isi:
[0:35] Hence the jackets. It's cold down here.

Mitch:
[0:37] Yeah. So, today we're going to show you some of the differences between the British English and American English pronunciation. We're giving you 10 words which you'll be using every day, that you'll need every day. Depending on how you pronounce these, we can sort of figure out, whether you are, or whether you are speaking with American English pronunciation or British English pronunciation. - Oh dear. - Yeah. But, before we get into that, we have quite a nice surprise, that we've already revealed a bit about in some videos and earlier podcasts, don't we Isi? We have a kickstart to our 2026 Easy English year.
Easy English Updates

Isi:
[1:23] Yeah, we have, well, you said it already, the 'Kick-Off 2026 Challenge', which means we give you challenges to improve your English, every day, for a continuous 14 days. So every morning, get a challenge. You have to write something. Maybe make an audio message if you can. You don't need to. You can also write everything, share something, maybe write a letter to your boss, complain about something, apply for a job. It will be like personal, reflective things, but also business English to have you, basically, every day improve your English. We know from past experiences, that if you do those challenges, really every day, that this really boosts your language learning experience. So we are excited. 5th of January, we start for 14 days, come join us. If you become a member, on easyenglish.video/membership you can join us with any membership you're in, it all happens on our Discord server. What else do we need to say

Mitch:
[2:25] That's it you did explain it very well. It's an intensive, every day, for 14 days, English challenge to level up and improve your English. Get going where you left off and yeah, like Isi said, join any one of our membership levels, we have three different types and all of those gets you access to our Discord server, where Isi and I will be posting each and every day, the challenges for you. Let's go to our Topic of the Week.

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This week, we announce our 14-day challange in the new year for you to kick-start your 2026 and improve your English. Is also opens an early Christmas present from Mitch on the podcast and they compare the differences and similarities of Christmas time in the UK and Germany, before Mitch tells a couple of Christmas-themed jokes... Merry Christmas!

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Intro

Isi:
[0:23] Good morning!

Mitch:
[0:25] Merry Christmas!

Isi:
[0:27] It's not Christmas yet. - It's not Christmas yet. T'was the night before Christmas.

Isi:
[0:32] It's also not the night before Christmas.

Mitch:
[0:35] But, this is the Easy English Christmas Special.

Isi:
[0:41] Oh, it sounds like Gavin and Stacey Christmas special, but not as exciting.

Mitch:
[0:47] And we have a couple of Christmassy features, including me gifting Isi her first early Christmas gift.

Isi:
[0:55] Yes?

Mitch:
[0:56] From Santa Mitch.

Isi:
[0:58] Oh, not real Santa. He's not yet around the house, is he? Oh, I'm excited. Why?

Mitch:
[1:07] Because you've been a very good person this year and the elves told me.

Isi:
[1:13] To give you an early one. Okay.

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Isi guesses and explains 10 commonly used idioms in conversations, while Mitch explains where they came from.

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• Watch the episode on YouTube: 10 Useful Idioms for English Conversations (Easy English 216)

Mitch:
[0:22] So, today, we want to bring you an episode introducing everyday English idioms. And, what I've done is I've compiled some images for isi to look at and we're going to describe them for you audio listeners. And for you YouTube watchers/viewers, we're going to look at these images, and try to distinguish what the idiom is and what it means. Make sense?

Isi:
[0:52] Yeah, let's start.

Mitch:
[0:53] Let's start.

Isi:
[0:54] I have questions.

Mitch:
[0:55] Okay, so here is number one, everyday English idiom. What are you thinking?

Isi:
[1:03] Instead of a head, that person has a bowl of baked beans, as a head.

Mitch:
[1:09] Baked beans, very English. So?

Isi:
[1:13] Do you have a bean head?

Mitch:
[1:15] No.

Isi:
[1:15] You're a bean hat.

Mitch:
[1:16] A bean head, no. A bean head.

Isi:
[1:19] Could that mean that you're like, an idiot? Yeah, no?

Mitch:
[1:23] A bean head. Yeah, like a tiny brain. But no, that's not the idiom. this is an.. - Stew... you are... stew? - No, you know this idiom you use it a lot, actually. Or I use it a lot... - His head is farting? - Yeah, that's the correct idiom.

Isi:
[1:38] They're all in his body

Mitch:
[1:39] Imagine that the beans are filling up from his... up through his legs. - Full of beans! - He is...

Isi:
[1:46] That's a weird picture for it, though. Did you find that, for 'full of beans'? Did chat ChatGPT do this for you

Mitch:
[1:51] I made all these images on an AI image generator.

Isi:
[1:55] That's 'full of beans'

Mitch:
[1:57] That is the best way I could describe 'full of beans'. Okay, tell me then, what does 'full of beans' mean, and when would you use it?

Isi:
[2:05] Um... you would describe a person or yourself.

Mitch:
[2:10] Yeah.

Isi:
[2:11] I think you don't really say it about yourself.

Mitch:
[2:13] No.

Isi:
[2:14] More about others. - Yeah. - If someone is in a very good mood, very active, busy, maybe a bit like, dancing around.

Mitch:
[2:24] Exactly.

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Mitch and Isi find out facts, slang and phrases from Scotland. The duo then answer Marianne's question about British TV shows before Mitch reads out a few classic British jokes.

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• Mitch & Janusz's jokes video: British Jokes (Easy English 168)

Intro

Mitch:
[0:23] We've hit a milestone as well. I just... I didn't even notice. We're on episode 80.

Isi:
[0:30] When is 100?

Mitch:
[0:32] Next year sometime. Well, as it's the milestone, we'd like to say welcome to the Easy English Podcast, episode 80.

Isi:
[0:42] Whoop, whoop.

Mitch:
[0:43] Wow. 80 episodes. Crazy. And welcome to any new people who have just discovered us.

Isi:
[0:50] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:51] Today, we've got a few topics and a brand new topic, which I'd like to make a continuous topic, that appears in every episode. But our main 'Topic of the Week' is a subject which was requested, in the last podcast by Marcel, from the Swiss-German border.

Isi:
[1:14] Scotland. - What?

Mitch:
[1:17] Oh yeah! - Scotland's not on the Swiss-German border.

Isi:
[1:21] But, wasn't that the topic.

Mitch:
[1:22] Yeah, so Marcel asked for us to talk about Scotland. And, one issue we have with that is... we have been to Scotland right? - We have been... - But we don't know that much. - several times. - Yeah, several times, but we still didn't really know that much. - No. - So I did a bit of research and I’m gonna sort of, enlighten all of us, because a lot of these things I was like, what? Wow, that's amazing. There's so much interesting stuff about Scotland. And we also have an 'Unhelpful Advice' question, from another listener, who sent in a voice message. And then at the end, we have our new brand new section, 'British Jokes'.

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