This week, Isi takes the test in our Last Week's Episode section to try and identify all 12 accents from the British Isles... can YOU beat her score? Later, Mitch and Isi talk about the success of hosting their first ever, members-only pub quiz and answer your questions about our language learning history and what we think is the most beautiful sounding language. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Show Notes Watch the 12 accents challenge video: 12 BRITISH ACCENTS... 1 VIDEO (https://youtu.be/cm-MV3qSv3E) (Easy English 149) Transcript Mitch: [0:25] Hello and welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Isi: [0:28] Hello, hello, hello. Test, test, one, two. Mitch: [0:32] Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Isi: [0:36] Yed... already done. Red lorry, yellow lorry. Red lorry, yellow lorry. No, I can't. Mitch: [0:43] Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper. Isi: [0:45] Okay. Episode 11. Nice number, isn't it? In Germany, we say Schnapsal. (What, sorry?) Schnapsal. Mitch: [0:53] What's this? Isi: [0:54] Schnaps number. Mitch: [0:55] Eleven? Isi: [0:56] Yeah, everything with like, the same numbers. Eleven, three hundred and thirty three. Mitch: [0:59] It makes me think of number eleven from Stranger Things. Isi: [1:04] There we are again. Mitch: [1:05] Mike! Mike! Isi: [1:08] Okay, what's our topic, Mitch? Mitch: [1:10] Okay. Isi: [1:11] You said you prepared everything. I'm just here. Mitch: [1:13] This is good though. We can surprise each other with topics, maybe. Isi: [1:17] Nola's just sitting in front of me, waiting for me to give her F-O-O-D. We cannot say the word, because then she will get excited. Mitch: [1:25] The magic word. Feed me! (Okay.) First topic is related to one of our past week's episodes, in which, I went down onto the streets and I had some pre-recorded local British people, including British Isles, including Ireland, reading out a transcript and I made people from Britain, guess where they're from. And now I want to test you. You've been in Britain for some time now. Isi: [1:55] Oh God! Mitch: [1:57] How do you fancy your chances? Isi: [2:00] Not good. . Mitch: [2:11] Okay. (Let's go.) Let's try some. (Let's try, yeah.) Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership

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