Discover the World Unwritten Rules: Dining Etiquette Around the World
Discover the World Unwritten Rules: Dining Etiquette Around the World runs through table customs country by country in one episode of eighteen minutes. Discover the World: Culture, Customs and Daily Life is an English podcast from Cosmic World of Languages, and this episode takes in chopstick rules in Asia, toasting in Europe, shared plates in Ethiopia, paying the bill in South Korea, and why slurping is polite in one country and rude in another.
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The episode moves from region to region: what chopsticks must never do in Japan and China, why asking for salt can offend a cook in Portugal, how toasts are made in Europe, how a shared plate works in Ethiopia, and who is expected to pay in South Korea. It runs for seventeen minutes and forty-five seconds, spoken at a steady, even pace.
Play it while you are travelling or cooking and treat it as listening with a purpose: the subject is concrete, so you can hold the thread even when a word escapes you. Stop at each country and ask yourself what you would have done at that table. A second listening is worth it once you know the shape of the episode, because you can give your attention to the wording instead of the content.
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