Beating Speaking Anxiety: 6. I’m scared I won’t get the joke
Learning English Conversations
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been in a group of friends and everyone laughs, but you didn’t understand the joke?
In this episode of our new series, Georgie and Hanan talk about understanding humour and making people laugh when speaking English.
With Peruvian performer Pepa Duarte.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | You're listening to the Learning English Conversations podcast from BBC Learning English. |
| 0:11.2 | We'll have another episode of the English we speak soon, but today we're continuing with our special series, beating speaking anxiety, a podcast to help you fight your fears of speaking English. |
| 0:23.1 | This episode is called I'm Scared I Won't Get the Joke. |
| 0:27.1 | Do you understand these jokes? |
| 0:30.5 | Neil, tell me a joke. |
| 0:32.7 | What did the ocean say to the beach? |
| 0:35.6 | I don't know. What did the ocean say to the beach? |
| 0:39.2 | Nothing. It just waved. |
| 0:47.4 | Neil, knock knock. Who's there? |
| 0:49.9 | Lettuce. |
| 0:50.6 | Lettis who? |
| 0:51.7 | Lett us in. It's cold out here. |
| 0:55.0 | Knock knock. Who's there? |
| 0:56.0 | Boo. |
| 0:57.0 | Boo. |
| 0:58.0 | Boo. |
| 0:59.0 | Don't cry. |
| 1:00.0 | It's only a joke. |
| 1:02.0 | In today's episode, we're talking about being funny in English. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to beating speaking anxiety, our special series to help you fight your fears of speaking English. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm Georgie. |
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