Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tile podcast. My name's Oliver G. This is a show all

about sort of figuring out France, figuring out Paris, a little bit of tourist tips in there,

a little bit of understanding the French, a big mix of all that kind of stuff. And today you're

going to hear about something particularly relevant when it comes to the idea of French identity.

I'm talking to a friend of mine who literally has just

become French. He's an Australian guy's named Sam Davies. More on him in a minute. First, I want to say

this show is brought to you by French Today. They are audiobooks that will help you learn French.

I've been working with them this whole year and I'm going to talk to you a little bit

more about them at the end of the episode, but just before, if you want to get 10%, and when I say 10%

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7 for the seventh month of year, which is exactly where we are. But more

on them later, a little bit more about Sam, Sam Davies. He's an Australian guy. You're going to hear

his whole story, but we were sitting in the Park Villemont in Paris on a really beautiful day,

overlooking the Canal San Marta, which he talks about. He's been living there for years. He gives

his tips for the area at the end of the episode. But what we focus more on was this journey of

becoming French and the sort of ups and downs and, you know, the reasons why he did it, the difficult

questions that they can ask you, all that kind of stuff, straight from the horse's mouth,

the guy who's done it. So if you have any questions for him specifically, you can go and follow him on Twitter.

His name is at Sam X-Davies, D-A-V-I-E-S, and he also has a fairly new blog called

Sam-W-H-W-E-R-E-D-C-M.

That's how you can find him if you want more.

But let me transport you to the park of Vilement in the 10th hour on this month.

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