Decades From Home - A Podcast About Germany Decades From Home - Episode 34
On the show this week:
We’re finally taking our first steps back into the land of the normal as Simon joins a large group of foodies for a tour of Nürnberg, while Nic ventures out to visit the Augsburg Plärrer. We discuss the anniversary of the lowering of the German voting age in 1970 and take some time to celebrate the life of everyone’s favourite Chancellor, Willy Brandt.
We discuss the curious case of the “Peppa Effect” a supposed shifting of accents seen in US children due to overexposure to the cartoon Peppa Pig and ask if this is an example of British soft power in action. We question whether it’s true that “Everyone speaks English” in Germany and if it’s possible to live here without any German language skills and why the British are so bad at learning languages.
Finally we look at how native English speakers differ between the UK and the US and why sometimes it’s better to not copy what the British or American English speakers are saying.