Language tips - England Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Even though English might be your first language, you will not be prepared for British slang. British slang is completely indecipherable. There's a lot of stuff that I did not know. I'd grown up on British comedies, Monty Python, a whole bunch of different TV shows and movies where they used a lot of British slang and I seriously couldn't follow a lot of it still even when I was there. One time I embarrassed myself because I said, I brought up at a dinner appointment, I was wondering what this word, what these two words meant together. And I said, is this, you know, what does this mean? And then what does this mean? Well, they don't mean anything separately. But when I said them together, they were just aghast that I had said something so horrible. And I'm like, I didn't see what was wrong with it. So be prepared, you're going to hear some really interesting words.
Video 2 Transcript
obviously in england they have tons of like really out there sayings, like more than you would expect. i probably discovered a new one every week or two when i was there. way more than that early on, you learn tons of things. and i could list off a whole bunch of them, but probably my favorite one is donkey's ears. so it's used to express like a really really long time, but it's a pun on donkey's ears because donkey's ears are really long. i don't know, i just love that one. and then cracking the flags means it's really hot, so hot that it like cracks flags.
Video 3 Transcript
There's lots of Portuguese people, lots of Chinese, tons of Africans. Every culture is in London, so every language is there as well.
Video 4 Transcript
So when I lived in England, I kind of, I mean, I definitely expected that people would have like a different accent than me, but I didn't expect them to like use different words for words that I thought were what the words were. Like, for example, like semi-trucks they would call lorries or like they actually use the word rubbish instead of garbage, which surprised me, or like a rubbish bin instead of a trash can, or like instead of a paper towel it would be kitchen roll, or instead of a vacuum it'd be Hoover. So yeah, it was a little bit of a language barrier learning the words they had for things that I learned were completely different words.
Video 5 Transcript
Something I would recommend is being open to correction, I guess, because if you're from America and you go there, a lot of English people will sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously correct your usage of terms or how you say it, or how you spell things. And a lot of them like if you joke back with them, but if you make it too serious and you kind of stand really strong on the way you were raised to speak it, it kind of causes some tension, but be open to learning something new and accepting something because it's always fun hearing their accents and to sometimes even pick it up yourself.
Video 6 Transcript
There are a lot of things that are different to American English. For example, the trunk is called the boot.
Video 7 Transcript
You have to be really prepared for a different dialect or the accents that you will hear it in every area has lots of it. Some of them are very hard to understand and some of them are just very mild and easy but whenever you go every small town has their even own accent to go on.
Video 8 Transcript
Each city will have its own unique dialect. It seems like black country Birmingham. It's super hard to understand. And I just smiled and laughed and looked at my companion and she answered. But you get a hang of it really quickly. And then you go to Wales and it's completely different again. You don't know what anyone's saying. But you get a hang of it and then you pick up all these little words like cheers and trousers. Don't say pants. Please don't say pants. That means underwear.
Video 9 Transcript
They have different accents all over and you're gonna be speaking with people from different parts of the world, everywhere. I met people from, you name it, I mean I met someone from there, every country. And so my advice to you is to learn different sayings or different phrases in everyone's different languages. So I know how to say hi and or how are you in probably 15 or 20 different languages. I just know that little bit but it breaks the ice and they love talking to you because then they're like why do you know my language? So learn all the different accents, learn all the different phrases that people say in different countries and you'll become friends with pretty much everyone there because they're from all over the place. And just enjoy all the different accents. They're super cool to hear from people from Eastern Europe to Africa to Asia to even North, you know, North England. They have different accents. So just enjoy it and learn different phrases to greet other people.
