If you want to improve your accent, you can actually sort of- you can just choose to copy it. But the thing is you do have to be prepared to be yourself. Don't fake it too much because people will sense it and they'll find it unattractive. Do you know any examples of people who are maybe faking it a bit? Yeah, there's a couple of people. I won't name any names but Luke Thompson pretends to be English. He's not actually Swedish; he could be Japanese. So I could be Swedish and I look a little bit Swedish as well. Oh yeah? It's good. Shall I do a Japanese impression? That could be really
This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode.
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