{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/697675f435a98abf7cde1a7f/69e5096ac8a506316d3a550e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"#13 - The One Where We Learn How To Behave In France","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/697675f435a98abf7cde1a7f/1776617619158-b63c1a62-1116-4952-87c0-a1e0b1597738.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week, thanks to a DM from our listener Mark, we are reacting live to a German article titled <em>\"Benehmen wie Gott in Frankreich\"</em> (How to behave in France).</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to avoid embarrassing yourself on your next trip to Paris, this episode is a survival guide. We cover the absolute necessity of saying a polite <em>\"Bonjour\"</em>, the intense mathematics of the German <em>getrennte Kasse</em> versus the French way of splitting a restaurant bill equally, and the ultimate culinary crime: putting butter on your baguette at dinner time.</p><p><br></p><p>Words you’ll learn (and actually remember):</p><ul><li>🇩🇪 <strong>Das Fettnäpfchen</strong> (Literally \"the fat bowl\" – the German idiom for stepping right into a social blunder).</li><li>🇩🇪 <strong>Der Banause</strong> (An uncultured person—exactly what you are if you ask a fancy French chef for ketchup or Maggi sauce).</li><li>🇫🇷 <strong>Le Faux pas</strong> (A social blunder, though Colline clarifies the French mostly use this strictly for <em>fashion</em> mistakes).</li><li>🇫🇷 <strong>Un Malotru</strong> (Supposedly a word for a rude person who doesn't say hello... except Coline claims this is fake news and has never heard it in her life).</li><li>🇫🇷 <strong>Œufs à la coque</strong> (Soft-boiled eggs—the <em>only</em> acceptable meal where you can eat bread and butter outside of breakfast).</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Also: The anxiety of navigating the French <em>bise</em> versus the German handshake, why bringing wine to a dinner party is actually totally fine (despite what the internet says), and the shocking website tracking German history.</p><p>Plus, the great Spotify Playlist Rivalry continues! Coline is currently beating Alex in followers, but Alex fights back with his latest German playlist addition: the Italian-inspired Schlager-pop track \"Bella Napoli\" by Roy Bianco. </p><p><br></p><p>Find the playlists here</p><p><a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58eB26HvAKPKZs1XlCOrDu?si=9fa04c29564e4ca7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BANGER SONGS TO LEARN GERMAN</a> (Alex)</p><p><a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EiHQaqGKruVzXvwumj47D?si=4c2a9ec2693d440d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BANGER SONGS TO LEARN FRENCH</a> (Coline)</p><p><br></p><p>New episode every Monday! Please consider leaving a 5-star review, share the podcast to help us reach our 100-country goal (shoutout to our listeners in Cambodia, Bahrain, and Kenya!), and let us know: do you secretly calculate exactly what you ate when splitting the bill? 🧀🥖</p>","author_name":"Coline & Alex "}