{"id":833,"date":"2008-08-15T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T08:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=833"},"modified":"2008-08-15T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T08:22:44","slug":"mind-your-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/08\/15\/mind-your-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Your Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most delightful comedies I remembered watching as a school boy was Mind Your Language, a British comedy series about a class of foreign nationals learning English. The cast included the late Barry Evans who starred as the long-suffering English teacher, alongside a whole crew of actors who all in reality could speak English quite well but in the show each played culturally-hilarious stereotypes of their races and nationalities struggling with the language.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an updated version of learning a foreign language, but against the backdrop of the Olympic Games. Quite a hoot, but be warned; do not watch this while eating. You&#8217;d laugh and choke out all yer&#8217; food! :)<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FBFEgMqhOs4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most delightful comedies I remembered watching as a school boy was Mind Your Language, a British comedy series about a class of foreign nationals learning English. The cast included the late Barry Evans who starred as the<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/08\/15\/mind-your-language\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Mind Your Language<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-olympics","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}