I didn't really use English at all until a year ago, but just over a year ago. What happened then? I decided to do the Edinburgh festival. Right. I tried to say it correctly, like Edinburgh. Well, that's the sort of Scottish way of saying Scottish way. In England, if I go around saying, yeah, well, I live in Paris. Yeah, people don't understand and they'll understand that I'm being pretentious. It's like exactly the same thing in France. When you say correctly in English world, everybody will say you are pretentious because you say it correctly. And what I didn't know is that Parisian people are known for being
This episode is all about the relationship between language, successful communication, stand-up comedy and learning English! It features an interview with the one-and-only Yacine Belhousse, who is a professional stand-up comedian in his native language and now in English too. A year and a half ago, Yacine hardly spoke any English. Now he regularly performs in English and this year he is doing a 1 hour stand-up comedy show at the Edinburgh fringe festival. How does he do it? How does he deal with the challenges of learning English while also making people laugh in English too? Listen and find out! Click here for more information:
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