Your Local Foreigners

By yourlocalforeigners

Foreign ramblings on all things foreign with a Polish bias.

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April 27, 2020 16. Who are we when we speak English?
We discuss our immigrant identities through language and we wonder whether we put on a slightly different personality when we speak a particular language? Who do we become when we speak English and how different is it from who we are as native speakers? Has English changed our native tongue, too? We analyse tones, intonations and expressions and ask ourselves if we land as ever - neither here nor there or maybe precisely in that migrant, fluid space: in between.
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April 18, 2020 15. We've been separated! Life during COVID-19 in Poland and the UK
Yep, it's been some time BUT thanks for being patient and for sticking around.
You've all heard everything about COVID-19 by now but we thought it's impossible not to offer our foreign perspective of the evens. Particularly because we ended up...in two different countries - SEPARATED - whilst Ania is being an immigrant on temporary immigration in Poland. So we are proudly reporting to you our subjective, incomplete and biased experience of what life is like during the pandemic in our dearest countries: Poland and the UK.
In other exciting news, you can now also WATCH our conversation for the first time! For the video recording, head to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjDjEXwQ93ZoaH_vBX7jfAA?view_as=subscriber

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March 16, 2020 14. The country called London
London is not just a city. Well, it's a capital, a cultural mecca and, frankly speaking, it's a lifestyle. But we also think it's almost like a country in itself. So we've decided to take a stroll through the streets of the UK's capital and take you to our favourite places, tell you about some embarrassing London cliches we've committed and share everything we both hate and love about this town. Put your jogging shoes on and bring your Oyster - it'll be a proper tour. Enjoy ;)

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March 03, 2020 13. Navigating the eccentric British household
In this episode, we dive into the many eccentricities of a British household. We tell stories of how we've survived hot and cold taps, beige wallpapers and rugs on carpets. We've got locked out and trapped inside, unable to find keys for windows. It's certainly been an adventure. Join us on the tour of a British house through a foreign lens!
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49min
February 18, 2020 12. In Wales we trust
In today’s episode we go back home to Wales. We take a very nostalgic, love trip to all the things we appreciate and miss about Wales and the Welsh people and we tell you why Cymru (wink, wink) is just about as awesome as a country gets. *Episode best listened to with a Welsh cake in hand.
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February 05, 2020 11. Foreign take on British holidays
We venture out into the confusing way of British holidays, the mystery of bank holidays being bank, celebrating burning Catholics to death and no party for St. George. We find solace in our favourite PANCAKE DAY. What’s the British holiday that you don’t get? Or maybe there’s one you’d love all of us to celebrate? Drop us a line! We’d love to hear your thoughts. We’ve done a bit of calendar reshuffling our end, too.
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49min
January 20, 2020 10. We're unlaughing ourselves
What happens when you take two immigrants, one of them immune to jokes, and ask them to analyse British humour? EVERYTHING! Starting from Benny Hill and Monty Python, through dad jokes, banter and stand up comedy, all the way to cards against humanity and long, uncomfortable silences... Our conclusions: Brits are funny, don’t play with beavers and never, under no circumstances, try to explain a bad joke to a foreigner. Listen to the end to be in with chance of winning a unique prize (that's what she said).

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46min
January 06, 2020 9. The art of queuing
Before we moved to the UK, we didn't give queuing a single thought. Now, however, we could write an academic paper on it and this episode is a semi-professional, technical look at the "art of queuing". It's also a homage to the UK, for showing us that queuing doesn't have to be stressful and that, in fact, you can breeze your way through queues and probably make a few friends along the way too.
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29min
December 24, 2019 8. Christmas lodges, mince pies and other bizarre little things
Christmas is finally here! As we are totally sold on British Chrimbo, we dive into the odd and puzzling world of crackers (which are not savoury snacks), mince pies that have noting to do with meat and pantomimes which have no element of miming. This is a quintessential Your Confused Foreigners edition of this show and is full of our top immigrant moments. So if you're a foreigner who's struggling to navigate their way through British Christmas, or a native thinking that Britain has no traditions, or someone in between - this is the one for you. Enjoy!
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December 09, 2019 7. Hangovers and libraries
We started our lives in the UK as...students. And, oh, what a start that was. Freshers' Week (which Anita completely misunderstood and bypassed), student hall life, international friends and cheap cider - these are some of the memories that define our university time. But they're not the only ones. In this episode, we reminisce about our uni life in Wales, discuss our views on the academic approach in the UK and compare it with other countries. So if you want to know just how lost immigrants can feel at a British uni (and what they learn from it), then this one is for you. Cheers!
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47min

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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.