62. Learning English - Advice from a German comedian living in London

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 3 April 2011

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This is the first in a series of 2 interviews with the comedian Paco Erhard. Paco is originally from Germany but he has lived in America and Spain and he currently lives in London. He speaks 4 languages and is a proficient speaker of English. He is a performer of stand up comedy in both English and German. His show was a big success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PACO ERHARD click here http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/learning-english-advice-from-a-german-comedian-living-in-london/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke
0:06.2	dot podomatic.com.
0:11.5	Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Luke's English podcast now this is the first in a series
0:16.1	of two interviews with the German comedian Paco Erhart now Paco is originally from Germany, but he has lived in America and in Spain, and
0:27.4	he currently lives in London. He speaks four languages and is a proficient speaker of English.
0:34.0	Paco is also a regular performer on the London comedy scene
0:39.0	and at the moment he's preparing a big one-hour comedy show which he will perform at the Brighton
0:45.8	Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in August this year.
0:51.2	Edinburgh is basically the world's biggest comedy festival.
0:56.0	Now Paco's show, which he will be performing in Edinburgh in August this year, is the five-step guide to being German and it
1:06.5	explores what it really means to be German in the modern world. It's very
1:11.1	interesting from a kind of cross-cultural point of view. You can visit his
1:16.5	website which I highly recommend because it's got lots of interesting details
1:21.2	about his show and about himself. The website is double- interesting details of his
1:23.2	the website is
1:24.6	www dot German comedy dot com
1:28.6	German comedy dot com right and there you'll find details of his five step guide to being German
1:35.2	now if you're going to be in the UK in May or in August then I really recommend that
1:41.8	you go to either the Brighton Comedy Festival or the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.
1:47.0	Brighton Fringe Comedy Festival happens in May, throughout the whole month of May, but you can see Paco's show at a pub called The Hobgoblin, and he's
2:01.0	performing there on May the 9th, May the 10th, May the 11th, May the 16th and May the 18th at 745
2:10.0	PM at the Hobgoblin and he's also performing at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival
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