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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Learn UK English, but vodkas countries and nationalities.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hi, Rachel, Good afternoon, Neil. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I'm doing great, Rachel? How about you? All?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good over here? What are we talking about today?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So? Do you like geography?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I love geography.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's perfect because today we'll be talking about exactly that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Brilliant. It's such an interesting topic.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
If someone is born in Canada, what are they called,
They're Canadian, and someone born in the United.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
States, they'd be American.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's great, Rachel. Would you like to read out a
few nationalities for us?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Absolutely? Here's today's vocabulary. American, Mexican, Venezuelan, Colombian, Peruvian, Brazilian, Chilean, British, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Iranian, Egyptian, Saudi, Nigerian, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Filipino, Malaysian, Australian.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Very good and you, Rachel. What's your nationality?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm British. How about you?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm both British and Brazilian. Nice yep, And Rachel, what's
your ethnicity?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm white with European roots. What about you?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I did a DNA test and I've got fifty one
percent European ancestry, thirty nine percent African and some indigenous
roots too.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Wow, that's amazing. You're a mix.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm a bit of a coffee with milk mix.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, you're like a cappuccino.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Exactly. What's the furthest place you've ever been to?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The furthest I've been is Ushuaia, also known as the
end of the World. What about you?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The furthest for me would be Orlando in the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh, that's great, very cool.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So, Rachel, how many countries have you visited so far?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I've been to fourteen countries so far.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Wow, that's fantastic. In Spain where you live, are there
many foreigners?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yes, definitely. At university, I've got friends who aren't Spanish.
One of my friends is Russian and two are from
South America, one from Bolivia and the other from Ecuador.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's really cool. And what about your neighbors Are they foreigners?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No, my neighbor is Spanish.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well you're the foreigner then.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Exactly, I'm the foreign neighbor.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What about you? Do you have foreign neighbors or are
they British?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I do, I've got British neighbors. From Scotland, but also
neighbours from Pakistan, India and China.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, it's a diverse area.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
The wealthy folks here tend to come from those countries.
In your opinion, Rachel, what are the best countries for
doing business? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think it depends on the type of business. Many
people would say the United States as it's a capitalist
country with a growing economy, right, and maybe China too
as it's booming right now, got it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Rachel? Can you name the ten largest countries in the
world by land area?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Sure? The ten largest countries are first Russia with seventeen
million square kilometers, second, Canada, Third is China, Fourth the
United States, which is almost the same size. Fifth is Brazil, yes, hooray.
Sixth is Australia, seventh India, eighth Argentina, ninth Kazakhstan, which
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was quite a surprise for me. And tenth is Algeria.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Great. And of those ten largest countries, how many have
you visited.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I've been to one or two.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That's brilliant. So to wrap up, what's the only country
in South America that speaks English as a first language?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That would be Guyana, very good Rachel, are we at
the end of the podcast already?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yes, we've reached the end of today's episode. Oh, thanks
so much for joining me. As always, thank you Neil,
and we'll speak again in the next podcast episode.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Absolutely see you then see you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Rachel, Bye bye bye Neil. Thank you for tuning in
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