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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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The N Word in Mandarin

The N word is a filler word in, uh, in Mandarin. To English ears, it sounded like champion and it turned out that it meant product. And the other one is a more controversial,. a very controversial one that became controversial this year with what happened with George Floyd because they were in Chinese. There's a filler word, like a instead of going, um, the word that they use to English is sounds like George. So I went to the bank George Floyd and I wanted to get some money George Floyd. No, but if you were to sorry, Black Lives Matter, any, oh God. What did I just do? I'm sorry. You're going to get canceled

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