We discuss our immigrant identities through language and we wonder whether we put on a slightly different personality when we speak a particular language? Who do we become when we speak English and how different is it from who we are as native speakers? Has English changed our native tongue, too? We analyse tones, intonations and expressions and ask ourselves if we land as ever - neither here nor there or maybe precisely in that migrant, fluid space: in between. 

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16. Who are we when we speak English?

Yep, it's been some time BUT thanks for being patient and for sticking around. You've all heard everything about COVID-19 by now but we thought it's impossible not to offer our foreign perspective of the evens. Particularly because we ended up...in two different countries - SEPARATED - whilst Ania is being an immigrant on temporary immigration in Poland. So we are proudly reporting to you our subjective, incomplete and biased experience of what life is like during the pandemic in our dearest countries: Poland and the UK.  In other exciting news, you can now also WATCH our conversation for the first time! For the video recording, head to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjDjEXwQ93ZoaH_vBX7jfAA?view_as=subscriber

15. We've been separated! Life during COVID-19 in Poland and the UK

Yep, it's been some time BUT thanks for being patient and for sticking around.You've all heard everything about COVID-19 by now but we thought it's impossible not to offer our foreign perspective of the evens. Particularly because we ended up...in two different countries - SEPARATED - whilst Ania is being an immigrant on temporary immigration in Poland. So we are proudly reporting to you our subjective, incomplete and biased experience of what life is like during the pandemic in our dearest countries: Poland and the UK. In other exciting news, you can now also WATCH our conversation for the first time! For the video recording, head to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjDjEXwQ93ZoaH_vBX7jfAA?view_as=subscriber

London is not just a city. Well, it's a capital, a cultural mecca and, frankly speaking, it's a lifestyle. But we also think it's almost like a country in itself. So we've decided to take a stroll through the streets of the UK's capital and take you to our favourite places, tell you about some embarrassing London cliches we've committed and share everything we both hate and love about this town. Put your jogging shoes on and bring your Oyster - it'll be a proper tour. Enjoy ;)    

14. The country called London

London is not just a city. Well, it's a capital, a cultural mecca and, frankly speaking, it's a lifestyle. But we also think it's almost like a country in itself. So we've decided to take a stroll through the streets of the UK's capital and take you to our favourite places, tell you about some embarrassing London cliches we've committed and share everything we both hate and love about this town. Put your jogging shoes on and bring your Oyster - it'll be a proper tour. Enjoy ;)  

In this episode, we dive into the many eccentricities of a British household. We tell stories of how we've survived hot and cold taps, beige wallpapers and rugs on carpets. We've got locked out and trapped inside, unable to find keys for windows. It's certainly been an adventure. Join us on the tour of a British house through a foreign lens! 

13. Navigating the eccentric British household

In today’s episode we go back home to Wales. We take a very nostalgic, love trip to all the things we appreciate and miss about Wales and the Welsh people and we tell you why Cymru (wink, wink) is just about as awesome as a country gets. *Episode best listened to with a Welsh cake in hand.

12. In Wales we trust

We venture out into the confusing way of British holidays, the mystery of bank holidays being bank, celebrating burning Catholics to death and no party for St. George. We find solace in our favourite PANCAKE DAY. What’s the British holiday that you don’t get? Or maybe there’s one you’d love all of us to celebrate? Drop us a line! We’d love to hear your thoughts. We’ve done a bit of calendar reshuffling our end, too.

11. Foreign take on British holidays

What happens when you take two immigrants, one of them immune to jokes, and ask them to analyse British humour? EVERYTHING! Starting from Benny Hill and Monty Python, through dad jokes, banter and stand up comedy, all the way to cards against humanity and long, uncomfortable silences... Our conclusions: Brits are funny, don’t play with beavers and never, under no circumstances, try to explain a bad joke to a foreigner. Listen to the end to be in with chance of winning a unique prize (that's what she said).

10. We're unlaughing ourselves

Before we moved to the UK, we didn't give queuing a single thought. Now, however, we could write an academic paper on it and this episode is a semi-professional, technical look at the "art of queuing". It's also a homage to the UK, for showing us that queuing doesn't have to be stressful and that, in fact, you can breeze your way through queues and probably make a few friends along the way too.

9. The art of queuing

Foreign ramblings on all things foreign with a Polish bias.

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