This is an all ears English podcast episode 2454.

Three reasons Swedish people speak amazing English with Alistair Budge.

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Have you ever been surprised to hear how well Swedish people speak English? Today we have a special

guest on the show to break down three of the core reasons Swedes are so fluent in English and what you

can do to learn like them. Listen in today. Hello, Alistair, welcome to All-Ears English. How

are you today? I am doing fantastic, Lindsay. Thank you for having me on. Yeah, very excited to have you on. This might be the second or third time that we've had you on All-Ears English over the last couple of years.

So we're excited to hear your voice again. I'm going to take a minute to introduce you to our audience.

So, listeners, today I have Alastair Budge on the show.

Alistair is the host of English Learning for Curious Minds, a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners, which aims to teach you weird and wonderful things at the same time as improving your English. He's originally from England, but currently lives in Sweden with his wife and two

young kids. Welcome again, Alistair, and I love your kind of tagline here, teaching you weird

and wonderful things while learning English. That's very cool. Thank you. That is what the podcast

aims to do. Keep it weird, wonderful and surprising.

Yeah. What are some of the, just real quick, what are some of the weird topics that you've covered this month, just so we get an idea of what you talk about?

Oh, to be honest, I've been, I've got so far advanced in my scheduling that I can't remember exactly what has come out this month.

There was one that came out, I think, last week where... So far advanced in my scheduling that I can't remember exactly what has come out this month.

There was one that came out, I think, last week where we talked about the history of the minimum wage,

which is a sort of interesting and also current topic.

There was a mini-series all about Egypt, modern Egypt.

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