869. Working at UNESCO 🏛️ English in International Diplomacy

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

In international diplomacy, "communication is everything". This is the main point of this conversation, in which I talk to my friend who works for the UK delegation at UNESCO in Paris. We discuss the work that UNESCO does, and the various communication challenges involved in working together with representatives from countries all around the world, including the collaborative writing of official documents where the use of a single comma can be debated for hours, and the meetings and conversations in which cultural sensitivity and good-will are essential elements for success.

Also includes some communication idioms and guitar playing near the end of the episode.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:07.2	visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk. UK. Okay. for you'll and I'm going to start the introduction in just a second.
0:23.0	I just wanted to say that you can find the script for this introduction
0:26.0	on the page for this episode on my website.
0:29.0	You'll see a link in the description.
0:30.0	I often do that if I've written an introduction script in advance I print out the
0:35.3	script or at least I sort of put the script on the episode page for that episode
0:39.5	so you can always find the relevant episode page for an episode in the episode description.
0:46.0	And you can go there and often you'll find an introduction script or some other useful links or other notes and things, sometimes vocabulary notes and things, so it's always worth having
0:56.3	a look at that. And that is the case for this episode. So if you'd like to read this introduction,
1:01.2	you can find it written out on the episode page, link in the description.
1:06.3	Okay, you're welcome. Now let's begin and let's start reading through that introduction like this.
1:13.4	So my guest today is my friend Max who works at UNESCO.
1:19.0	UNESCO, do you know about UNESCO?
1:21.3	You probably do, I'm sure you've heard of it, but do you know exactly what goes on there and how they do things and what they do?
1:37.0	So UNESCO, that's UNESCO, stands for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Here are some notes from Wikipedia.
1:39.0	So UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations which has the aim of promoting
1:46.2	world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
1:54.2	Perhaps the most famous thing they do
1:56.4	is protect certain world heritage sites,
1:59.9	but that's only one of the things that they're involved in.
2:02.4	So I expect that that's what they're
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