If you speak with an accent that is pretty good, people will automatically think you speak that language better than somebody who speaks it with a very strong foreign accent. So, if your accent is good, people are just immediately going to assume that your level of English is good and therefore, their estimation of you will be a bit higher. Some people find it very hard to drop their accent. You know, one of the most difficult things for many people to do. Tell me about your girlfriend again, because you had a story about her accent. Yeah, I think life is a game, and you've got to cheat your way through it, basically. If you follow the rules too much,
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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