35 Minutes of Relaxing British English Listening Practice | Native English Podcast

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Hey brother I found you few days ago and liked yours videos especially related to real British culture because these are very essential for me when I will move to Uk for master’s degree in next year

Absolutely agree on every rule except the chatter one. For me cinema first and foremost is a social interactive event.
I go to the cinema not only for the big screen but to share same experience with my cinema partner. There are scenes you want to react to immediately on the spot. At the end of the movie your emotions are might be not so strong so the moment is lost. It's important to be in the moment. But of course you must try not to disturb other people.
Extra agree on kids and phones!!
No singing in cinema!

Hi Gideon,

Great episode as usual! A very interesting and controversial topic at the same time. I wouldn’t consider myself stuffy or middle-aged, but I absolutely agree with you on all points (maybe I’m just getting old—or let’s better say wise 😊).
These behavior rules should be displayed at the entrance of every cinema. I have to admit, I’m not a big moviegoer, but when I do go, I want to make sure I can enjoy the experience without major disruptions.
If I may, I’d like to add one extra point: It should be forbidden to laugh too loudly or to repeat individual lines from the movie.
This actually happened to us when we went to see The Jungle Book with our parents. It was in the early '90s when the film (the original version from ’67) was being shown in theaters again after a long time.
We were nine years old at the time and had only been learning German for about six months, but we could already understand almost everything. Children learn so fast—it’s just amazing. But that’s not the point.
There was a young woman sitting next to us who burst into loud laughter every time something funny or especially cute happened. It wouldn’t have been so bad if her laugh hadn’t been so obnoxious—like a horse! It was incredibly distracting and unpleasant. If that wasn’t bad enough, she also occasionally repeated lines from the film.
I don’t know why nobody in the cinema complained or dared to say something, but I’m convinced she was the only person who really enjoyed the movie that day.
By the way, it’s Louis the Fourteenth, also better known as the Sun King.

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In my region of Switzerland it is unimaginsble that people sing along at the cinema.
Great episode as always. Thank you so much, dear Gideon
It is etiquette to give you a feedback for your intriguing episode.

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last week i went to the cinema with my friends to watch wicked so it’s perfect timing that you talked about cinema in this episode! it was such a lovely episode, and I really enjoyed your insights 💗

That was a very interesting topic. I love going to cinema

Sir you do always fantastic video and thank you very much for your fantastic videos

Why haven't you spoken about catiquette, meow 😅

thats a proper slurpee sound gideon! you did it well haha

Hello there, it’s my first time watching his channel 😊

Thank you Gideon for the great content it was comprehensive. I can either experience all the symptoms you mentioned when I go to a cinema here in my hometown in Hungary. People can be sometimes annoyingly flippant and utterly careless, even worse when a spoilt descendant sitting next to me manages to ruin all the experience by constant chattering, jittering, clattering, 2 or 3 times visiting the loo, of course he/she needs to violate my personal space to my elbow too and you can't say a word to his/her parents because my own kido does exactly the same on the other side of me. 😂

Thank you, Gideon! Interesting, especially the historical part. Singing at the cinema: no...also because maybe you're not a good singer! In Italian the word "etichetta" has a slightly different meaning, it means good manners in high society, like at Louis the 14th's court. We'd call politeness what you describe to do at the cinema. 😊

Louis 14

Hello everyone, I really need your help with this because I've been learning English for a while. Now I'd say about three years when I speak with someone everything's fine, but I still find it a bit harder to understand the person when it's their turn to speak, but otherwise I have a lot of vocabulary. But I'd really like to understand like a native speaker, and I know that the problem comes from my level of understanding. I don't know how to study this, and after listening to lots of podcasts and watching films, I'm not making any progress. Do you have any tips to share with me? Thank you in advance for your help.

Louis the 14th og France. The Roamn numberal X mean 10 and IV is 4. For X + IV is 14.

Hi yeah, Hope you are doing good.

Being an expat from a non English speaking country and having an advanced level of English speaking, I still find it difficult to grasp British accent. I recently started listening to your podcast with an intent to get accustomed to it. Thank you; you are helping me in understanding the accent and British communication style. Hope listening to you more will help me crack the accent soon.

On the critical side, at times I feel you speak more of RP English. While It may be your natural speaking and teaching style, I sometimes come-across accent that are even more harder to understand.

Coming to the topic, I feel etiquette is set of unscripted rules which vary with place and culture. Following these unscripted rules can be daunting for someone like me who is new to the country. Cinema etiquettes is almost same everywhere, but there are always a few who don’t follow it - at the very least, by not being on time.

About the personal space, in my country, putting feet on the seat is considered rude and doing so with shoes on is the rudest. (Can’t imagine the places that shoes might have stepped! ). Unfortunately, I see a lot of youngsters doing same in trams and trains here. To be frank, that’s worst behaviour. Rogues exist in every corner of the world.

Another disgusting behaviour that I experienced here is people loudly blowing their nose (while having flu) in a professional and quiet space. It’s really nauseating, especially coming from otherwise well behaved people.

Whilst you disagree with singing along, in my country, some movies are screened especially for the fans. Rather than quietly watching the movie, it becomes a loud celebration of movie star and being in such a movie theatre is totally different experience.

Thanks a lot.🙂

How dare to sing in the cinema? There are plenty mad people around the world, mate.... definetly hahahaha