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193 - Can You Pass the Citizenship Test?

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, did I tell you about the naturalization ceremony that we went to for Camilla's students at Mount Rushmore on Flag Day?

0:07.7

Wait a second. Is this about the election? Are we about to have a super political episode where we both reveal our deepest, innermost thoughts and dreams about politics in the U.S.? Is that? Are we finally doing that? We've been avoiding that for years.

0:20.2

No! No, I'm've been avoiding that for years.

0:26.4

No. No, I'm not interested in that at all. Is it okay if we don't? Well, I mean, there was just an episode, I mean, a big election, right? So we should talk about that. There was just a big

0:30.3

election and people feel a lot of things right now. This isn't about that, though. Would you be

0:35.0

okay if I, if we passed on that okay cool yeah whatever

0:47.0

yeah all right so what's the deal some kind of whatever thing what do you want to talk about

0:51.8

yeah it was the naturalization ceremony on Flag Day.

0:55.9

Camilla teaches English and she helps immigrants learn English. Yeah. And this is Camilla being my wife.

1:04.9

The citizenship testing? Yeah. So she helps people get to a level of proficiency in English that they can take the citizenship test, that they can go through the process and that they can become American citizens.

1:17.6

My brother-in-law is an immigrant, and he had to study for this test, right?

1:23.4

Is that what you're talking about?

1:24.1

Like this test you take?

1:25.5

Yeah.

1:26.3

He was talking to me about this, and it was extremely scary for him because he's learned

1:32.6

English recently and he's not that great at it.

1:34.9

But these questions freaked him out and he had to like study and study and study.

1:39.5

Well, what do you think of there being a test to be a U.S. citizen?

1:43.8

Do you think that's too much? Is it in English?

1:47.1

Like, what language is the test in? Because there's not an official language in the U.S., right?

1:52.7

I think English is the official language of the U.S. Is it really? I think so. Yeah. Have you heard that it's not?

2:00.9

I didn't think we ever actually, well, I mean, there was a vote between English and German at one point in time.

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