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Aug 4
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73: 5 Reverse Culture Shocks ft. Harry f...

Isi & Mitch
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This week, Mitch and Isi were joined by special guest Harry from Easy Spanish. With Harry being a Brit living in Spain, they talked about reverse culture shocks; things Harry misses, loves, finds annoying and more, when he comes back to the UK. Interactive Transcript Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership Show Notes Tom Jones: Green Green Grass Of Home (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT1ptv3VEc) Easy Spanish YouTube: Learn Spanish the Fun Way with Us! (https://www.youtube.com/@EasySpanish) Easy Spanish Podcast: The Easy Spanish Podcast (https://www.easy-spanish.org/podcast) Transcript Intro Mitch: [0:23] Hi everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. Today we have a very special episode. We're going to be doing an episode called Five Reverse Culture Shocks. And a culture shock is, for anyone who's just wondering, is when you arrive in a place, a destination, and there is something happening which completely surprises you or is contrasting to what you're aware of. So a reverse one, which is kind of, we're making up our own sort of definitions here, is what happens if you come back to your own culture and are shocked, or still shocked. And to sort of traverse this topic, we have invited Harry from Easy Spanish. Hello, Harry. Harry: [1:16] Hi. Isi: [1:17] Hi. Harry: [1:19] Or Hola. Mitch: [1:22] How's it going, Harry? Nice to speak to you. Harry: [1:26] Going very well. Thank you, Mitch. What a pleasure to be on the Easy English Podcast. Support Easy English and get interactive transcripts and bonus content for all our episodes: easyenglish.fm/membership
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