20 British Slang Phrases Tourists Need To Know (Live English Lesson with Anna English)

[@EnglishLikeANative]

Thank you for joining this lesson. I hope you found it useful. The notes can be found at: britishenglishpronunciation.com/product-category/ebooks/ Don't forget to LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed it. Anna :)

[@aimer3042]

a gentle reminder to make those corrections to those minor mistakes in your E book.

[@EnglishLikeANative]

I already did. :)

[@tarangrastogi215]

Do you solicit general inquiries? I would like to have a bit of a chinwag with you if you don't mind

[@aimer3042]

LMAO~ What a word to use- Solicit~ This word is being stigmatize way too much.. Im just laughing at the choice of word. Sorry mate. Anyway, she's not into those stuff, wasting time, faffing and chatting with random strangers. If you got any business enquiries, you should probably email her. Don't feel gutted mate, they are tons of apps available for you to do your "Chinwagging" for instance Tinder, grindr etc. Good luck.

[@mamoyfrengers]

i love your videos anna, i'm from Indonesia and i'm bloody excited learning British!

[@wolfganghertwig3865]

Hi Anna, don't let you distract from some silly comments. In my opinion, you do a great job that helps to improve the English skills. And as you might know: the more successful someone is, the more envious people he/she has. Just continue that good work.

[@thebest-coollubin566]

Teacher Anna Your lesson is my cup of tea

[@ibrahimissaissa6627]

I enjoy all your lessons thanks

[@timothylynch2979]

many of the slang terms I have heard and used such term here in the US. Chokablock is a word I'm going to use.

[@abrito1185]

Thanks Tim for letting us know. Cheers !

[@emanuelsag]

I love your videos. They’re so didactic and helpful. You’re so nice and fun! 💜

[@sibastueldesconocidothaunk8006]

thank you for teaching this for free , you made a difference in my progress amiga .

[@uliseslira577]

Your accent is so delightful !💙

[@davidmowbray4230]

Flog can also mean to hit something. He flogged the horse to make it run faster. He gave me a good flogging.

[@abdulfatahahmadzai9498]

thanks ❤

[@RichardDworkin]

Well done!!

[@childericoalencastro]

I love your classes. You are cheerful, funny, friendly, and you teach well. In addition, you are very beautiful and charming.

[@felicianasoaressoi4528]

Nice Teaching

[@carlosandreamarin7017]

I love your class, you're the best teacher. Thank you.

[@de-ka]

That was a great class! I'm so glad I've found your channel. I like the way you explain. I'll definitely subscribe the channel!

[@luqmanabdulla]

I love you so much Anna thank you very much

[@francy2610]

Thank you Anna!

[@rafaelnavarro5583]

This is ace!! Cheers Anna!

[@thimmaiahcodava1327]

I love your classes

[@EnglishLikeANative]

Thank you 😊

[@LogicalMind-r3p]

Hi Anna. How are u? I really love ur channel. It is helping me enormously. Lots of love from india

[@muhasebeci2550]

really a good teacher.

[@rodrigopaim8455]

Congratulations. Great work. Thanks.

[@pushpinderkumar4198]

Thanks

[@magyarbondi]

I've watched too many videos, I'm knackered now.

[@lennonista9]

Yes, Americans DO use the term "not my cup of tea" in exactly the same way the British use it. Also, "hole in the wall" in America means something very different - it's a small, obscure, or unimportant place, as in "We found a great new restaurant. It's just a hole in the wall, but the food is fantastic."

[@OESTESFRIENDS]

gret job;;;i love your tips

[@ashkuashkar3131]

Great anna

[@aimannomourad6996]

Thank you for your great efforts. Your lessons are useful.

[@aimer3042]

Hey Anna, I've got a suggestion for your next content video. Do a list of expression with names probably top 20 most commonly used expressions and just nice, since you are expecting and I'm pretty sure you will be considering a name for your baby. People can get relatively superstitious when giving their child a name. A few good examples: - No Shit Sherlocks -Average Joe -Chatty Katy -Clever Dick -Cup of Joe -Doubting Thomas -For Pete's Sake - For Christ's Sake - Judas Kiss -Peeping Tom - Pessimistic Patricia - Roger That -Scott Free -Tom boy -Uncle Sam ,... etc. These are the few I managed to think of for now. Good luck in searching for more. Au revoir~ Give a thumbs up so that she can see this.

[@lauramarulanda9109]

You’re unique 🥰

[@grace227]

THANK YOU Anna~! : ) TBH Awsome is your Lesson~!!!

[@EnglishLikeANative]

Thank you :) We would normally say it the other way around. Your lesson is awesome :)

[@grace227]

Thank you very much for teaching me the exact expression! ^-^

[@graycloud057]

Enjoined this one Love!

[@tantibusdraws6165]

I would definitely love to buy this as an audiobook.

[@thinthinswe2940]

Hello, Nice to meet you.

[@richdadiran1778]

lots of love to you

[@vovyklembergsohn1778]

Hi Anna. Thank for an informative lesson. Can any of these slang words be used in speaking part of the IELTS?

[@Tutume1111]

You are so pleasent to be watched and I'm learning so much from you in spite of living in the UK over decade by now. Thanks so much for taking time to share it with us 😀👍💕

[@Dali1649]

Hi, in France kids say PREUMS Shotgun ! in UK.

[@uliseslira577]

De corazón Ana mucho éxito. Más adelante me encantaría ser Patreon. Gracias por tus videos. Im really engaged. ❤

[@ahmedazzam3807]

we learn a lot from you even if u err you're a great teacher and we love u so so much ❤❤💗😗😘😍

[@olivierurbanet6257]

Ton oncle Bob ? Bob's your uncle similar to Et voilà ? ...Ben ça alors! Incroyable. In France WE Say " Et voilà" when WE finish something ans we are proud.

[@albertobozzetto8939]

We are all waiting for you in Italy dear Anna!

[@CarolinesEnglishLife]

I just went to Italy for the first time - it. was amazing! I'm making a travel vlog about it to help my students practise their listening skills. Hope to see you over on my channel :)

[@albertobozzetto8939]

Really? Ok, I'll come and I'll take a look, thank you.

[@burakcelik5068]

Hello Anna ! Please make a video about "TR and DR" sound. I think lots of people have the same problem and i think they don't even notice that they have the problem with these two sounds .

[@tmsdfan9835]

When I read the sentence, "I hope this is a good restaurant, the food costs a bomb" I thought of the slang here in America. Where we would say, the food here is the bomb. Bomb meaning very 'delicious'. Think of it as high quality, which might as well be expensive.

[@TomideLaPlata]

OmG, never thought about that phrase! SHOTGUN THE WINDOW SEAT! In Spanish we say, similarly: CANTO EL ASIENTO DE LA VENTANA!

[@ander5144]

En el norte de España es,"me pido" el asiento de la ventana

[@luciamakkai2439]

Thanks Anna for this extremely helpful and entertaining session! :) Hope to see many more lessons like this in the future. I love your videos, thank you sooo much for them.

[@EnglishLikeANative]

Thank you for your feedback

[@heldermirkorozzo4318]

It cost an eye of the head , costa un occhio . It cost a barbariity ( same meaning ) .

[@AprilEnola]

The went to the bank yesterday, it was chockablock

[@Sonydamon]

Dear You Are a Bold Woman.......

[@itsdogz2775]

how about up the gary glitter

[@oak_leaf]

Is "mind the gap" considered as slang? I'm surprised as in my country (Poland) we have that sentence stricken in our trains next to entries.

[@Chris-bn1vt]

Tea is not my cup of tea, I'll settle for a cup of coffee over a cup of tea anytime. Lol. Just something I noticed, a slang term that came to mind when you mentions the flogging of cheap stuff. "knockoff" a cheap, most likely illegal imitation of a expensive product. I like the example used by Urban dictionary "That piece of shit isn’t a Rolex, it’s a knock off."

[@tantibusdraws6165]

Bobs your uncle. I remember we used to use that phrase here in the U.S. I don’t know why, but we stopped using it.

[@naimaboukhames2652]

allright Anna?

[@mohamedvandy3336]

👍

[@SudevanKalpetta]

Side seat (India)

[@tik2276]

Ha ha bobs your uncle Fanny's you're aunt! Hey I'm British and I've never used "shotgun" or heard anyone else use it. I only ever heard it used in American tv. Maybe it's a new thing

[@luismiguelnunes5539]

💚💚💚

[@Kirby1970york]

Shotgun is from the wild west when the man next to the driver of the stage coach would carry a shotgun to defend the coach... so the seat next to the driver...😎

[@hanin00r]

a tourist who is having a little understanding of English is in some trouble because of language barrier and a British saw him confused and is trying to help, all right mate ?

[@baharioktafian]

I'm so sorry Anna. When notification squad did its job, I was sleeping, because it was 11pm at (at? in? on?) my country, so that's why I didn't watch your live streaming.

[@mohamaddarouzi2083]

How do you pronounce surname of Samuel Lyde? lied or lid?

[@EnglishLikeANative]

I would guess at Lied. But in honesty I have no idea.

[@redwanahmed6581]

Umbrella

[@lindenbeck]

The Brandenburger Gate is chockablocked at New Years's Eve

[@pedrolang1]

Hello my frkend, and how are you today

[@rahimmottammal8411]

Hi anna what's up.

[@alemesh1052]

I’ve lived here in the UK almost for over nine years and have never heard or might have misunderstood the Slang term: Bagsy or Shotgun ... I’m originally from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and we do have similar phrases in Amharic, which is our official language and it’s quite commonly used by children I used this slang phrase a lot when I was a little boy. Thank you for taking me back in time. Awesome!👏🙏👍🏿👊🏿🇪🇹

[@bencontrole7694]

Put the plug in, check that the paper is enough in the back and bob's your uncle.

[@naimaboukhames2652]

Ileft my brolly at home and couldn't avoid the rain

[@javedone]

Unfortunately, We don't have any phrase like this in our country Pakistan to claim a specific seat while travelling in a group. We have to request others beforehand for that------ before boarding a vehicle.

[@danielpillai9618]

2:48 P.M.

[@MsMoniga]

♥️

[@francoisgonzalezdequijano9019]

In France, the kids play to say "Prims!" (the final s is pronounced), when they claim for such a privilege, as you do with "shotgun" or "clamsy". But the adults don't say it. They just run to go first... Finally, kids are more polite.

[@eduardobagdadi8701]

BOB S YOUR ANCLE LIKE LET S GO

[@abulfazmammadov2084]

hi

[@shamsieltsacademy6390]

Hello Anna, you are looking extra gorgeous in this video....May you be like this in all ages...Ameen

[@ByGoglev]

Hi Anna. Here's my example. He was going to splash out with a brand new girlfriend at a famous Chinese restaurant, when a drunken driver ran into his car at the crossroads and completely ruined his plans for a lovely night.

[@naimaboukhames2652]

bob's your uncle ,the cake finally prepared .

[@hanin00r]

shotgun is equal to ^hapra^ in my local language

[@KalpShahGSTClasses]

I just made the meal. Bob's your uncle.

[@sirdiealot7805]

Hi Anna. I don't think we have anything like bagsy/shotgun. I think I've heard bagsy in some TV series. Shotgun is pretty violent, is this a US influence?

[@drelsayedfahmy6298]

i spend feff time in fax TV

[@shaikmoiz6417]

Hi anna how are you please reply

[@Tejaye777]

You are doing a great job and your channel is definitely very interesting.Hope you continue your good work.I also find you to be very attractive and smart.Hope you aren't offended by what I said.It wasn't meant to be disrespectful.I honestly just find you very beautiful to be honest.

[@naimaboukhames2652]

when you come to Algiers don't forget to take a butchers to the gran mosque

[@rossnolan2883]

Does innit count as slang 😊

[@eduardobagdadi8701]

I get away jiffy That's make sense?

[@MuhammadAtif-dd8rl]

Don't forget your brolly.

[@kleberGB]

I thought that the expression Chockablock or just clockas( I guess)was an Aussie one. Interesting...🧐

[@rossgerhardt6138]

I posted this same comment in another video. Pardon my stupidity and unlearned american ear but there are some things that sound really strange to me when I have spoken with people from the north of England, say from Bolton or Manchester. The way I figure it, you guys invented the language so the examples I lay out can't possibly be wrong. So as usual we yanks have it mucked up in my opinion. But they haven't been carried over to the US side of the world. I'm just trying to understand them better from the English perspective. I would love to see a video on some of the turns of phrase that people in the north of England use. For instance in this video the word "were" as opposed to the word "was". As in "I were thinkin" or " I were walkin the street the other day". Another one would be the use of the word "you" after the person has already been referred to as you earlier in the sentence. As in " I don't think you know where you're goin, "you". Another one would yet be a reference of time as "at" instead of the phrase "in the" . For instance "I were sittin in me chair and it were @ at mornin. It doesn't sound strange to me to say @ o' clock at night, but @ at mornin? I understand in PR English those are sort of straightened out and discarded. But I'm not interested in PR enunciation. I'm interested in the real language spoken by the real people. Would you be able to do a video on this please? Another would be the omission of the word "the" in some cases, as in "if you don't stop that, I'm going to put you "in hospital" as opposed to "in the hospital". I know that there are literally hundreds of examples, but I'm sure you get the nature of what I'm on about. Please and thank you!!!

[@Neio75]

It is a good thing that you teach us some slang but it is a pitty that you dont use your natural accent because it would be really useful to us.

[@alexysq2660]

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[@playstationnation1515]

It's funny because saying "Shotgun" implies riding shotgun meaning if you were doing a drive-by or the like the passenger seat would be the only seat you'd use the term "Shotgun" as that's the seat you'd use for said act!

[@barbt259]

Riding shotgun may have come from a custom of having an extra person sitting next to the driver for security reasons when travelling in a horse-drawn coach, carrying quite literally a shotgun.

[@childericoalencastro]

Here in Brazil, we don't have anything like shotgun. If the person wants to sit in front of the car, they have to arrive first and that's it!

[@nasserwardak9277]

I love your beautiful eyes

[@naimaboukhames2652]

is there a place for me in this course?shotgun

[@sanjaylohia8301]

Tea is not my cup of tea!

[@thelonevagrant]

i love those chest of drawers behind you

[@SunilKumar-jq6in]

I have already seen your video that makes me feel happy. But unfortunately your long videos is being irritated. If you don't mind could it be short for understanding.

[@naimaboukhames2652]

the restaurant was a chockablock ,we decided not to enter in