The Importance of Speed in English Speaking

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I can remember very clearly going to a recipe in a restaurant with my English uncle once. He'd asked for like a pint of beer, a large beer and it came. And he had taken this as some kind of huge affence that the beer not being filled up to the top because it is an acceptable thing if the beer is not right to the top. So I completely agree that sometimes it is often it is the fault of the English speaker. A lot of native English speakers are really bad at adjusting their speed of their voice so they kind of just burst into kind of it. It does sort of a lesson in diplomacy really because it just shows that goodwill is like really important.

Is that a confusing title? Hopefully not. As you might expect, it's a little summary of what's included in the episode. To give you some more details, Alastair Budge is the host of a podcast called "English Learning for Curious Minds" and he has created a new audio drama for English learners called "Pioneers of the Continuum". It's a time-travel adventure for English learners, and Alastair asked me to be the narrator for episode 1. In this episode of LEP, we talk about Alastair's story, living in Malta, learning English by immersion, cliches and complaints from English speakers visiting Paris and Alastair's story about playing the bagpipes on the streets of Paris. The audio version includes 30+mins of rambling from me at the end. Enjoy!

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