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hello welcome to easy english so today i

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want to find out what the people of

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brighton think of the spanish now our

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friends over eating spanish are making

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the counter question to this

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what do the spanish think of the brits

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which you can watch up here this is what

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brits think of the spanish here we go

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what is your opinion of the spanish

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i just love their food and their climate

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i think they're very nice people very

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friendly

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and lovely

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very

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we'll do anything for you oh really yeah

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very over the top you know nothing's too

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much trouble really generous very

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generous people yeah yeah wow

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you always get nuts of your beer

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okay spanish people are really

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passionate

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they have a really

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passion to get their point across

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and it sounds to the english people like

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they're arguing or shouting and they're

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not what do you think of the spanish

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of the spanish people of spanish people

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yeah okay well me as a spanish

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i think we are all

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kind of

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nice people yeah good people to hang out

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with uh

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yeah could you tell me what are your

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thoughts on the spanish

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uh

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spanish as whole i love spain i love the

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different regions yeah i love the

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language food

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love the culture i spent a lot of time

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living in zaragoza back in the

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80s um

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i love barcelona

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the architecture and everything else

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that goes with it um

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i hope the spanish people just

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think the same about

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the british tell me first what uh what

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are your general thoughts on the spanish

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i mean do you want to go

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i find them

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fine friendly helpful yeah

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i mean i would tend to think might be a

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bit of a cliche but very happy-go-lucky

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and and loving life and yes

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yeah love fun eat out late enjoy their

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life they do actually that's amazing the

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eating out late that always catches me

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out because you know you go outside like

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seven or half six or seven or something

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and it's like nobody's even ready and so

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like they go out back ten yeah

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do you like this this is a good this is

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a positive unless i'm hungry yes

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yes but it's just no it's not for

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indigestion that's true

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but that's something that the english

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sometimes could think it's a bit unusual

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i think i think they're happy to show

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their emotions in general yes they are

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and in in all ways not just

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being sort of

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valuable but they're also they will

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discuss i've worked with quite a few

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spanish people and they're always

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very happy to give feedback and you know

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they're

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very open

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whereabouts in spain have you ever i

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have been to barcelona i have been to

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majorca i have been to lanzarotti

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okay have you been to spain firstly i

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guess yes yes and where abouts in spain

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did you go where did we go

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dania denyer alicante all right okay and

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granola cant uh quite a few places okay

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this the first villa well this was my

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mother-in-law's villa that was in

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benidorm okay but about 15 years ago we

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went to the mountains in ubrique and

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lived in the mountains for about six

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seven months there yeah so yeah it was

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very nice it was no english people in

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the area only spanish people there so my

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spanish was very very bad

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still is but yeah but i had a great time

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where do you get your opinion from have

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you been to spain or do you know some

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spanish people oh yes i've been to spain

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quite a few times and also here in

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brighton there's a lot of spanish people

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it's very true you live in the uk yeah

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i've lived in the uk for six years now

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okay

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so then um

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i

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now that you live in the uk do you see

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any odd kind of cliches or stereotypes

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that english people tend to think of

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when you're when you think of spanish

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people

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not really like the the

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the cliches and all that like

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it you know it doesn't like they don't

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like

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uh

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show

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how to explain they don't

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say anything about the people it's like

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the italians doing like this yeah yeah

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you know for example i don't go in the

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street and all the italians are doing

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like this you know this is kind of the

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same right like

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spa for the spanish people like maybe

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the cliches sevillanas

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but i'm from madrid you know and that's

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not

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the

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the the image of

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spain spain for me you know from your

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experience is that is there any

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correlation between your experience and

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the sort of a stereotype or a cliche

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that you've sort of seen on through tv

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or news

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do they is there a contrast or do they

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sort of meet up

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no i wouldn't say there's a contrast

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necessarily um i think if you look back

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years and years 40

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plus years there are perhaps comedies

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from the past where there's been a very

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sort of stereotypical

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view of spanish

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people but certainly

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nowadays i think it's very few and far

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between from my experience

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they're quite highly strung

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and

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i don't think they like the brits

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living there

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spanish have made a video asking what

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the spanish think of the brits in

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barcelona but first we want to know what

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zara thinks of us brits

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hello is english

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me opinions

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my opinion

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um

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what would you take from spanish culture

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or a spanish character trait what would

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you in put into english into the uk

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which would help us improve

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do you know what i mean more open with

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their emotions yeah yeah would you take

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this and this sort of relaxed eating yes

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diet's a big thing

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very good much better food than us is

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the family family they're very family

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oriented i think that's yeah

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yeah yeah nicely said like more sort of

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um contact with the across the

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generations yeah

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like a bigger family they often go out

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in big family groups yeah and that's

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nice i think it'd be nice if we did it

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here a bit more oh yeah absolutely their

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attitude is

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so

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simple yeah and so effective

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and they are

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really passionate about looking after

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their family first

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um and

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are really focused and dedicated on one

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thing at a time rather than spreading

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themselves too thin

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nicely said as someone who's lived there

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what would you

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what would you take from that say the

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culture or character trait of spanish

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what would you take and install into

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british life just a little bit more laid

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back yeah a little bit more relaxed yeah

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i mean it's like i remember sort of

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going to spain and you could eat there

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all day and they wouldn't ask for the

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money until you left when you get back

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to england it's like as soon as you

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arrive they want the money they want it

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you know and i found when we lived out

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there and we came back it was almost

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like you know they want the money before

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you

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you know before you even sat down

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and from those places you've been to

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what would you say that we could adapt

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adopt sorry from the spanish in britain

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a siesta

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a siesta yeah

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cheaper wine

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tapas yeah

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and better weather

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perfect

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if there was a something about maybe not

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a characteristic maybe a traditional

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thing or a culture thing that you could

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bring to the uk from spain

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that would improve the uk do you have an

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idea what that might be

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oh

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i've never thought about that

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um i think

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possibly

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honesty

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yeah i think that the spanish are very

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honest okay they say what they think

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whereas the english tend to be slightly

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hypocritical beat around the bush a

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little bit yes a bit over polite okay

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that's good i like that

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and then from your experience being in

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spain what would you like from spain in

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the uk is there anything that you think

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oh that's brilliant i wish we had that

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and also i liked

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um that they

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they had um loads of pools in all the

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hotels but then here we don't really

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have many this is good i like this

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and the outdoors eating everything is

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much more

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social

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what would you take do you think from

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from spanish culture yeah yeah just the

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lifestyle the way

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that they laid back the

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totally back lifestyle eating very late

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i got used to

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um

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and the the history behind the spanish

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history if we dig deep into it is it's

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fascinating the arts movement

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whether you said barcelona you know it's

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just every quarter you turn around

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there's something new to see and i just

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wish more people would actually want to

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go to spain go to see

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the the real kind of

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spanish side as someone who was born in

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spain none is in uk what could um

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british people adopt from spain

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which would improve britain you think

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either cultural thing or the sun

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that's the first thing and the only

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thing

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like a cultural thing like an attitude

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thing or

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yeah i think maybe

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but everything is related the culture is

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related to the sun as well because we

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are like a bit more laid back yeah

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sometimes

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like

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yeah i think but that's because of the

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sinus world right it is

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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opinions of the spanish and we'll see

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you next week

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bye

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okay

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so please tell me what did you think

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about the spanish

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is this positive and then last question

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what do you think

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the spanish will say about us

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