Decades From Home - Episode 44

On the Show this week:

We welcome Dr. Sandra Jansen to the show, just in time to talk about controversial cocktail opinions and the recent takeover of Nic’s favourite football club, Newcastle United.

However, we didn’t ask the good doctor on to only talk booze and football. Sandra is a sociolinguist and she has more than a few interesting observations about how Nic and Simon speak. She teaches us how to recognise a Glottal Stop and various other phonetic points about Simon and Nic’s very different accents.

Simon introduces us to a language ban in a London school that might be more than simply trying to improve student’s speech and we talk about why German dialects are often more appreciated than in the UK. Finally we look at some Geordie and Southern English phrases that would catch out many Germans travelling in the UK.

Decades from Home - A podcast about Germany

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