Simplified Speech #166 – Table manners

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Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Table manners are an important part of many different cultures. Something that may be considered rude in one country may actually be polite in another. In this episode, Andrew and Suzanne talk about what is generally considered polite in the U.S., Canada, and U.K., their personal opinions on table manners, and a few horror stories about some really uncomfortable eating situations. Fun facts If you have the opportunity to enjoy a meal at a fancy restaurant in the U.S., here’s an etiquette tip that will help you and your waiter. When leaving your seat for a short period of time, leave your napkin on your chair to indicate that you haven’t finished your meal yet. When you’re ready to leave the restaurant and you want to signal to the waitstaff that you’re finished, place your napkin on top of the table. Expressions included in the study guide In the zone Spic and span Doesn’t fly To be glued to [something] To show [someone] the ropes To cut [something] out Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: fauxels [pexels.com]

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name's Andrew. And my name is Suzanne. And this is the
0:08.6	Q-Lips English podcast. You're listening to simplified speech, the Kulep series that features clear, natural, and easy to understand conversations about interesting topics.
0:22.0	Today I'm joined by my co-host Suzanne. Hello
0:26.4	Suzanne!
0:27.4	Hey Andrew, hey everyone I sure did miss you guys.
0:34.0	Hope you're all doing well.
0:36.5	Long time no see, Suzanne, but it's great to have you back.
0:40.4	Yeah, it's really great to be back.
0:43.0	And wait, this is exciting.
0:45.0	What is our episode about today?
0:47.0	What are we going to be talking about?
0:49.0	Well, the topic for today's episode is table manners, and I think this will be an interesting conversation.
0:58.4	At least I'm excited to see where it goes, Suzanne.
1:01.0	I'm not sure how this conversation will unfold exactly, but we'll see and I have to give a shout out to one of our listeners.
1:10.0	Sahir because he suggested this topic to us. So yeah, today we're talking about
1:15.7	table manners. That's so interesting. Every culture has different rules about
1:22.1	what's polite and what's rude when sitting down for a meal.
1:26.5	So it'll be interesting to hear your perspective about this Andrew because I wonder if some of the manners that are polite in Canada
1:35.0	are rude in Korea or vice versa.
1:38.0	But before we get started with our discussion Andrew, let's remind all the
1:42.2	listeners about the study guide for this
1:45.6	episode. Yes, we can't forget about that. So everyone, we do make study guides and transcripts for all of our episodes here at
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