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Hia, welcome to a new episode of Slow

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Easy English. Now, at this moment,

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myself and Easy are in the city of

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Berlin, Germany, and we wanted to find

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contrasting things between the UK and

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Germany. Here we go.

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So, one of the first things you will

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notice that's very different in Germany

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compared to the UK is the drinking

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culture. Shops like this called asheti

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or ashadek

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are places where you can buy bottles of

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alcohol and drink in the public which is

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very illegal in the UK. Although people

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do do it. The culture here is a lot more

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accepting. They even outside of put out

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small tables and chairs or benches where

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you can enjoy your tasty tasty beer.

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Another thing that is very different to

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the UK is bike lanes. Yeah. Basically

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very very wide bike lanes where people

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can drive their scooter or bicycle. And

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in comparison to the UK that's not

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happening in Brighton or in London. I

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think Mitchu

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you are cycling in London a lot. It's

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way more dangerous than on these fairy

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whites. Basically, they have found their

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own little street.

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>> Here is another drinking based

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difference. This place is closed and

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currently it's 5. In the UK, pubs would

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be already be open since 11:00 a.m.

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>> And it's a Saturday.

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>> And it's a Saturday. Where is everybody?

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This place apparently opens around 8:00

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and goes on till much later into the

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early hours of Sunday. Another fun thing

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is this

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cash only. In the UK, it's very normal

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to have card contactless everywhere.

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Contactless is everything. But also,

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you're allowed to smoke in here. What

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the hell?

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What's going on in Germany?

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And one thing we can't forget that all

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Berliners love that doesn't really exist

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in the UK is the love for techno music.

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of speaking English. Now, back to the

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episode.

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So, one of the things we noticed when we

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were in Berlin were these amazing

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courtyards. Now, if you look at our

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Airbnb where we are staying, it looks

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just like a normal building block. But

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if you follow me,

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come here.

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Then you'll see that there are these

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amazing inner courtyards for everyone to

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use. We even have lifts

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and even an amazing tree.

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Now, in England, very typically, if you

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live in flats like this, you don't even

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have a front or a back garden.

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>> What is this?

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>> It's also a great place to store your

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bicycles for the bins,

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and there's even a small sand pit for

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the children to use.

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very small.

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>> How amazing. No,

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>> something very special in Berlin are the

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wide pavements. You have a lot of plays

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here and that's actually special for

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Berlin, not for Germany really for

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Berlin, the city Berlin. And in

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Brighton, we can show you in comparison

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now we have those tiny narrow lanes and

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actually all over England, especially in

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the countryside. So these wire

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pavements, what do they do here?

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So, another one I've noticed which I

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find very funny is that people wait at

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traffic lights at the red even when

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there are no cars coming. In the UK,

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people will cross when there are cars

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coming on a red light. But I like this

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because it's a really good indicator for

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children to not cross the road when

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there maybe are cars coming, especially

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quiet electric cars. Good lesson to be

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learned.

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>> They don't even walk when it's green.

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>> It's green and they're not walking yet.

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So unbelievably and quite annoyingly,

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you're not able to take your dog into

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the parks, especially in Berlin, which

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is very, very annoying right at this

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moment.

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And whilst we're on the subject of

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parks, I find it very strange that in

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Berlin and in most parts of Germany, you

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will find parks in between the buildings

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and residences where in the UK we have

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things called commons, which are free to

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access pieces of land for the public.

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And on there you'll find big big grassy

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sections where you can let your dog off,

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you can play football and you can go on

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the swings and roundabouts and all the

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other fun playground things.

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Thank you for watching this week's

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episode of Slow Easy English. Let us

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know in the comments below if you find

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anything in Berlin which is similar to

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your country's culture or any

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differences that you've noticed in the

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UK and Germany. And as always, we'll see

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you next time. To