How I Learned to Play the Bagpipes

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I learned the bagpipes from when I was seven or so and wow really coming back to the come back to France. My completely naive idea as a 18 year old was that I would just take my CV and I go and get a job in a restaurant because you know people would love to have an English speaker and it wouldn't matter so much my French wasn't so good but anyway I'm sure people would absolutely love the idea of employing me. So I went to Lille and I spent the first week or so going around different bars kind of handing around a CV it was basically blank because 18 had no achievements to speak of. And then after five minutes someone came and dropped 20

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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