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67: The British Class System


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Mitch and Isi discuss the social class system in the UK and how, just by simply changing your car, supermarket or dog can affect your status. They discuss the upper class and how normal people like you and me can enter this privileged world.

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  • The British Social Class Interview: The SOCIAL CLASS System... EXPLAINED (Easy English 191)
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    Intro

    Mitch:

    [0:22] Hiya, welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

    Isi:

    [0:27] Poddy.

    Mitch:

    [0:28] The poddy. The poddy. This week, I wanted to speak about something which we've made an episode on, and I want to ask you for your opinion Isi, now you've been in the UK for some time. We want to speak about the British social class system.

    Isi:

    [0:46] Okay, I'm in.

    Mitch:

    [0:47] But before we do that, I just want to do some housekeeping, general housekeeping of the podcast. And that is to firstly, give you another nudge to remind you that we, at the moment in May, have a 50% sale of all of our memberships. That includes this podcast; there is a membership for, which you can join and get an interactive transcript, which helps to translate the entire podcast, interactively - whilst you're listening into your language of choice, to help you keep up and listen along with our podcast. Really useful for if you're someone who is struggling with your English comprehension and want to really understand exactly everything we're saying, because English people, we talk fast, we have really crazy accents and dialects all over the place, for such a small country. And we use a lot of slang and quite frankly, a lot of grammatical errors. And this will help you keep up and listen along with our podcast.

    Mitch:

    [1:54] We also offer memberships for our videos on YouTube, which is where you can get worksheets and things to help you if you're maybe more of a beginner. And if you're a more proficient English learner, maybe an expert you'd like to say, but you'd like to be able to practice your English speaking, because maybe you don't have any English friends or English speaking friends, then you can join our Conversation Membership for a 50% discount, this May. But you only have... tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, you have less than two weeks to claim your 50% discount. To check it out, all you have to do is go to easyenglish.video/membership to take you to our membership site, to check out all of the memberships we have on offer for 50% off in May. The second thing I want to say is that we forget, always, to mention that if you want to leave a message and feature on our podcast, then you can, you just have to go to easyenglish.fm and you'll find there's a little microphone button you can press and you can ask us questions. Maybe about an English language learning question, an English culture question, or anything you like, we will answer all of your questions.

    Mitch:

    [3:18] My question for you, Isi, speaking of culture, is; are you aware of this class system? Do you feel it when you're in the UK? Because it's a big cultural topic.

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