131. Rickipedia

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 1 May 2013

⏱️ 64 minutes

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A conversation with my Dad, Rick Thompson. In this episode I ask my Dad various questions which were sent in by fans of Luke's English Podcast on Facebook.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:06.0	Wordpress.com.
0:08.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Luke's English
0:14.4	podcast in this one my parents are here in Paris visiting for the weekend and
0:19.8	so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to sit down with my dad for about an hour and interview him and just answer various questions which you the listeners have sent in to Luke's English podcast via the
0:34.8	Facebook page now I'll go into that in a moment but Dad are you having a nice
0:40.1	weekend here? Bonsieur Luke yes I'm having a very good time, thank you very much.
0:44.0	We've been along the left bank of the river Seine.
0:47.3	We've been to Nothra Dam and the weather's nice and it's really great to be here in Paris.
0:52.8	Can I just ask you actually, Dad, where about you come from?
0:56.5	Where do you come from in the UK exactly?
0:59.0	Well, I was born in the city of Leeds, which is in North of of England it's in the big county of Yorkshire and
1:05.0	but I was brought up in my teenage years in South London so I'm originally from Yorkshire but I was brought up in London.
1:17.0	Okay do you have an accent?
1:18.0	No I don't really I mean I I when I was little I did have a Yorkshire accent it It's quite a strong accent.
1:23.6	What does it sound like?
1:24.7	It's got flat vowels. It's, you know, okay, up north, and the vowels are all flat.
1:32.6	That's right, I've heard that sort of in the...
1:34.8	I can't do a Yorkshire accent.
1:35.8	I'm very difficult to do a Yorkshire accent even though I'm trying to.
1:39.6	I mean it turns out to be more like Liverpool which is completely different but I did have an accent
1:45.5	whatever it was like when I was at school and of course I got teased when I moved to South London
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