2024-09-26
14 分钟📝 Get FREE Episode Worksheet 🧐 Take English Level Test 👄 Improve Your Pronunciation In this episode, we kick off a three-part mini-series on how to host a Brit for dinner. From table manners to conversation starters, you'll learn the subtle yet essential tips to make your British guest feel right at home and ensure a smooth, culturally-aware dining experience. 📑 Transcripts & glossaries 🎓 The Academy 🎁 Free resources 🎓 English courses 🖥 thebritishenglishpodcast.com 📧 FREE Email Lessons 👋 Instagram @thebritishenglishpodcast 🤑 Get paid to tell people about this podcast Get the App: 📱On iOS / Apple App Store here 📱On Android / Google Play Store here
Hello, hello, hello.
Welcome to today's episode of the british English podcast, where I give you a conversation or monologue around british culture, and before you know it, you will have been exposed to a load of new vocabulary that will really help you on your language learning journey.
In today's one, I am going to be starting a three part mini series on how to host a Brit for dinner.
This is because I wanted to do more how to be a brit style episodes after asking a bunch of academy members their favorite type of episode and they seemed to think that the guide to a british pub was particularly useful for them.
That was season one, episode two, if you're interested.
So I thought, what else might be unique to being british?
And then I had some friends around for dinner the other night and realized that there are some subtle differences in how a Brit would host, or perhaps expect to be hosted if you were to have dinner with them at your home or their home.
And yeah, I thought, what about giving you a glimpse into how best to host a british person for dinner?
So whether you're living in the UK and want to invite a Brit over for dinner, or you're in your home country and want to help them feel like they're enjoying a night in a home away from home, I believe this episode will be of interest to you.
So here we go.
Alright, let's start with the invite being an indirect culture, we might choose our wording to be as confusing as possible.
For example, if I were to text a friend, I wouldn't dare to say, you know, I'm cooking dinner on Saturday, you will join us or join us for dinner tomorrow at 08:00 p.m.
no, no, no, no.
It would be more like, you're probably busy, but if you're not doing anything major and can tolerate our cooking, do you fancy popping around for a bite on Wednesday?
I am exaggerating my point, and many Brits would be more direct, but it's definitely not too far from the truth.
Also, in that one, I used a very last minute invite.
Now, depending on how many friends and family this person has around them, you might be looking at asking them three to four weeks ahead of time.
I mean, some of my friends like to even book six to eight weeks in advance, which I find rather sickening.
But I understand that people are busy and I did notice that being an expat in different countries, the people that I met, generally, they were expats as well.
And we were all lessen busy because people tend to have a wider circle of friends from their home country, they have their family there.