Young Native English Speakers DON'T Usually Say These Things! (British English)

Are you between the ages of 18-40? Learning English? This video is for you! We always want to learn the most relevant and modern version of the language, because people of your age demographic will be using it and you don't want to get lost! In this video I will give you some guidance on a few phrases that are rarely used by younger people in Britain.
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[@smashingenglish]

Just a note before you comment. This video in particular is aimed at learners of the English language who wish to speak in a way that reflects how young, British people speak. My channel leans towards British English often (as denoted by the Union flags often present in my thumbnails) and my most popular audience demographic falls between the ages of 18-30. So yes, if you are a 60+ native American speaker, this video may seem strange to you and you may wish to comment that I am 'wrong' and that you still use some phrases. But just bear in mind the intended audience and purpose of this video. Thanks, Laura.

[@MacNerfer]

oops. my bad.

[@pogleswife7572]

Watch the Monty Python 'Dead Parrot' sketch for many different ways of saying something or someone is dead. Absolutely bloody hilarious 😂

[@virgilflowers9846]

Also, watch the Life of Brian for a great Latin lesson 😂

[@brandonhorwath6351]

"This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be!"

[@virgilflowers9846]

@@brandonhorwath6351 This is a late parrot!

[@macsnafu]

@@virgilflowers9846 "This parrot is pushing up daisies!"

[@frankgradus9474]

Snap !

[@762x51n8o]

Kick the bucket, if that's not used, then "bucket list" wouldn't be so common.

[@markhamilton7291]

I learn so much British English from this channel. I've never heard "chucking it down". As they say, England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

[@AlanagilityUK]

Tbh . More likely to say p***ing down. But not a word to teach😂

[@markhamilton7291]

@@AlanagilityUK Laura should do a video on English profanity. very important!

[@dougwilson4537]

@@AlanagilityUK I was thinking the same thing. Usually I'll say it's coming down in buckets, or it's P***ing out. 😁

[@sueaustin1382]

Yes, people do say it's chucking it down, although it's less used now and probably used by older people.

[@janaaj1an889]

"chucking it down" is new to me (American). so long is fine, crack me up is fine, hit the sack-ok, (hay, also) , go to the Johhn (fine), so long is fine, close but no cigar common in US, brass tacks (fundamentals) is okay, how do you do is common in US. (many not often, but acceptable). I pity new speaker trying to untangle, UK, US, and Aus Eng. Like your channel, though! Knock 'em dead! --Jan

[@TRaymit]

A word of advice: whilst 'How do you do' is extremely rare, but you will hear it occasionally in more formal settings. The correct response is also 'How do you do' not to tell them how you are. Weird, I know, but we can be like that sometimes!

[@leesbegley6231]

Same with Howdy do! Lol.

[@eva-charlottalisander841]

I remember learning it about 25-39 years ago...

[@mindmachinepsy]

As a non native who is not trying to sound like a native i will say all of these just to confuse people 😁😁

[@davidgreen7392]

or just have fun?

[@JDavidHopkins]

You wouldn’t confuse me. Here in the US we still use many of these idioms.

[@chrisoneill3999]

This is actually a very British (not 'English') attitude to have. Most of the educated people I know are happy to use quirky turns of phrase. But then they are novelists, musicians, computer programmers and real teachers (not 'language teachers').

[@nickgammon4664]

"Spend a penny" came from the practice years ago that public toilets required you to pay a penny to access them. Therefore you "spent a penny" to use them. There was an old joke that went: Here I am, All downhearted, Spent my penny, But only farted.

[@pogleswife7572]

To 'spend a penny' meaning to go to the toilet comes from The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851. It was the first public place to have flushing toilets and it cost 1d (a penny) to use one.

[@adamclark1972uk]

English person here. How do you do? does not equate to How are you? 10:00 It's a rather formal and perhaps now outdated way of acknowledging someone when you are introduced to them for the first time, to which they should reply in the same way: How do you do? It's use is actually the same as Nice to meet you.

[@barrysteven5964]

Don't know how I came across this. I'm a native speaker from England but I sat and watched this and I confirm she is 100% correct. What I would love is for somebody to do a video telling learners the difference between Youtubish and native English. For example, I have never in my entire life heard a person actually say (or rather shout!) 'hey, guys what is happening?'. But maybe English is used so much on social media now that there is a new form of international English which is not really native to anybody. I've come across non-native speakers who've said they are fine with English in international contexts but struggle to understand native speakers. By the way, I never knew 'brass tacks' was Cockney rhyming slang! I just knew it as 'brass tacks'.

[@Chuckienut]

Hey guys, what is the quickest way to get to Mount Rainier?

[@janaaj1an889]

Hey guys, what's happening works fine in American English (probably older people, but don't we count?).

[@sabasolivellaabuabara8156]

It’s happening to me, it’s easier to understand non native English speakers than British people.

[@MishaTavkhelidze]

She's not.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

And why the hell do youtubers start their presentation with an irrelevant and meaningless question? Maybe it's to set the tone for the rest of their presentation. Don't they watch any really good videos and see how those begin? There ought to be a "presentation" presentation teaching the best way to open and close your YT session.

[@tartanfruitcake1534]

I think many of these are region specific, most of these are very much in use where I live.

[@Hammerman48]

As a 64 year old originally from East London I find accents and phrases fascinating……..I’ve seen a few changes over the years!!

[@GeeCeeWU]

What part of East London are you from Hammerman?

[@Hammerman48]

@@GeeCeeWU Dagenham born and bred. Later lived in Hornchuch.

[@briancolyer8483]

The biggest accent change for me has to be the London one, as a bairn Londoners had very similar accents slight differences but nothing major however nowadays it's completely different truly bizzare....

[@GeeCeeWU]

@@Hammerman48 I was born in Manor Park London E12 and later went on to live in Brentwood Essex.

[@jeromemckenna7102]

Close but no cigar is still used in the US, at least among older folks who remember games that offered prizes.

[@riccardob9026]

"Pip pip, cherrio!" sounds very "Bertie Wooster" (as played by Hugh Laurie)

[@jimattrill8933]

Yes you are dead right. You have to say it with the Wooster accent.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

In English , the stress on "research" is on the the second syllable, not as in American. "To hit the sack", "to hit the hay"---yes wildly out-dated but both phrases meant "to go to bed to sleep". "Close, but no cigar" was originally an American expression, and had only a short popularity in Britain, where cigars were nver so cheap as to be prizes at fairs. Despite what I have said, I admire the fact that you are drawing attention to the often weird expressions learners as exposed to!

[@baxtercol]

I'm an American native speaker. I thought it might be worthwhile to comment that one or the other of the two syllables in the word "research" may be stressed depending on the meaning the speaker wants to convey: I want to reSEARCH this topic versus REsearch is an integral component to the scientific method.

[@erichbaumeister4648]

To continue on Coleen's observation, a common rule with two-syllable words is: If it's a noun, emphasize the first syllable. If it's a verb, the second. Cómbat is a noun, combát a verb.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

​@@baxtercol I am an 80 year old English native. Please believe me that REsearch is American. That pronunciation is American and until about 30 years ago was unheard of in Britain.

[@darralynemunro7350]

The emphasis also depends if it's a noun or a verb. The word research if it's a noun then the emphasis is on the second syllable. If it's a verb then it is on the first syllable. There are many words like this. Record is another one. The emphasis determines whether it is a noun or verb

[@valeriedavidson2785]

@@darralynemunro7350 I have just investigated RESEARCH pronunciation to confirm what I have said above. I was correct. The English language from England confirms that whether it is a noun or a verb it is correct to pronounce it as re SEARCH putting the emphasis on the second syllable. Americans pronounce it the other way.

[@PlayerClarinet]

I teach English in Australia to recent migrants and had to run a class on rhyming slang. It mostly died out here with my parents' generation but a few words linger on, including a few specific to Australia.

[@royjohnson465]

PlayerClarinet ~Nothing personal and all do genuine respect from me to you, I hope you’re not teaching your students some of the wrong Australian pronunciations but rather instead the correct grammar. Here are some examples of Australian wrong grammar mispronunciations:: Player Clarinet is not Plya Clayinet, (a human says Car but a crow says Caw), (a human says Bar but a sheep says Baw), Par is not Paw, River is not Riva, Number is not Numba, Jumper is not Jumpa, Start is not Stot, Army is not Awmy, (red Barn at the green Farm “is not” red Bon at the green Fom), (Warner Mark Carl “is not” Wanna Mock Cal), Taylor is not Tyla, Dark is not Dock, Shark is not Shock, (the Last Shark shocked me at Dark “is not” the Lost Shock shocked me at Dock), (Lark at the Park “is not” Lock at the Pock), Large is not Lodge, (the Last Large Beaver lodge “is not” the Lost Lodge Beava lodge), Part is not Pot, Party is not Potty, North is not Noth, Controversy is not Controvesy, Territory is not Territree, Military is not Militree, Raspberry is not Raspbree, Strawberry is not Strawbree, Airplane is not Arrowpline, Last is not Lost, Cast is not Cost, a Cart is not a Cot, a Mask is not a Mosque, (put on a Mask at the Mosque “is not” put on a Mosque at the Mosque), (the Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain), Spain is not Spine, Lane is not Line, Main is not Mine, Pain is not Pine, Train is not Trine, etc., etc.. ~When I was in Melbourne (is not Melbin) I talked to a fellow in Bendigo on the phone, he said take the Trine, I said out loud what is a Trine, then I caught on, he means a Train. Cairns is not Cans and Kalgoorlie is not Kalgoolie.

[@alsoascot02]

I loved the term seppo, that I heard in Oz when I visted >30 years ago. From the same family as garbo (Rick, a bloke I meet in Sydney was a garbo) , but a on whole different level of linguistic sophistication.

[@alsoascot02]

​@@royjohnson465 when you loose the rhotic on the r, vowel and sound shift is inevitable. Fighting it is futile. As a Scot a Real peRson says CaR not Ca And TheRe's been a muRdeR not Theye's been a muada Your name is Roy not rwoy.

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

@@royjohnson465 I must point out that, if what you have suggested are common enough for you to attribute them as Australian, then they are not "wrong" but are part of an Australian accent. However, you are entitled to point out the differences from a more standard pronunciation and even dislike the sounds if you so please. I'm an intrigued by some of your selection, for example, pronouncing car as caw. That specific w for r substitution is more common in some upper class English accents. Also, I have heard it said that way in New Jersey. It is certainly not common in Sydney. There is a w for l substitution that I find slightly annoying, it is more common in Adelaide than in other parts of Australia. That is in words like 'milk' and 'middle'. Said like miwlk and middiw. However, this is also found in some regional British accents. Australian English is also non-rhotic as are most British accents. For this reason the r is lost at the end of words. Number becomes numb(schwa), the neutral sound schwa and not an 'a' of any description. Some of the other features you point out are due to the fact that there are no pure vowel sounds in the Australian accent. All vowels are diphthongs. I know that Americans, in particular, have difficulty in identifying the correct vowel.

[@bloat1235]

@@sigmaoctantis1892 Nearly all those pronunciations he listed are either gross exaggerations, or just not true

[@stevenashton8782]

I often use “close but no cigar”, to the point where I now have my Chinese friends using it regularly.

[@athleticguy15]

I use "close but no cigar" all the time also.

[@frankmitchell3594]

Glad this as explained, I've never heard it used and did not know what it meant.

[@dianasaur2131]

Kick the bucket still exists, more often used in bucket list, ie a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket

[@stho93]

omg, i LOVE saying 'it's close, but no cigar' 😂

[@carotheplaylistmaker]

Excellente initiative de ta part, merci 👍 I've never thought about searching such phrases on the internet but I suppose this video is the best idea you could have had these days.

[@wexwuthor1776]

Chucking it down is better than chucking it up. 😘

[@isidoriansimon6047]

I love your lessons. Fantastic teacher.😊

[@blancaocana6397]

Thank you so much! I've learned a lot! 😊

[@CowardEdd]

Nice video. I haven't heard brass tacks used as facts. The most common Cockney Rhyming slang I still hear sometimes is to "have a butchers" at something - "butcher's hook" being "look".

[@jimattrill8933]

Note that the 'a' in Brass should be the short 'a' as pronounced in the North of England.

[@davedavids57]

The only thing we use in South Hampshire from cockney rhyming slang is berk. Which has changed it's meaning a lot since it was Berkshire Hunt.

[@hosseinmaghdoori6986]

Great!👏👏This lesson was so educational!

[@user-ps6bs7dv4x]

Thanks for your information!❤

[@danfurr1907]

I use about half of these phrases. But I'm in my 70's and I'm from the southern U.S. I even say "I reckon" but I always feel embaressed when I do, haha. Anyway language changes , yep..........

[@R0swell5104]

I reckon is quite common here in the UK too.

[@danfurr1907]

@R0swell5104 Here in the US only we older folks say reckon, the young never say it unless they're from the Appalachians.

[@alexrafe2590]

​​​@@danfurr1907 you're absolutely right, my family is from the Appalachian corner of Alabama so I can vouch for that. But in the UK there are no class associations with the verb to reckon. Which is funny in a way, in a country where the language is choc a bloc with class associated words, like settee, serviettes (working class), pardon, dessert (lower middle), pudding, napkins (middle to upper class) lounge, living room (working to lower middle class), sitting room (middle to upper middle) smart (as in stylish or fashionable, upper class).

[@MacNerfer]

@@danfurr1907 My mom says "I reckon" all the time, and she's from North Dakota. I always considered it more of a western thing (Texas- Montana). But she's also in her 80's, so ..... I'm thinking of using it just to embarrass my son.

[@skeptigal4626]

The word “amazing” is so overused.

[@Furniture121]

I've always been told that "Let's get down to brass tacks" came from haberdashers. The idea being that when buying cloth, the bolt would be laid on a counter, and there would be "tacks" marking yards/half yards. Essentially, "getting do to brass tacks" was moving past idle chatter, and getting on with business. Even into the 1990s, when my mother and grandmother would buy cloth for quilting and such the clerks would lay out the cloth on the counter and cut it to length based on the inlaid yard stick in the countertop.

[@gillyrambowife8641]

They still measure fabric from the bolt like this in fabric and haberdashery shops but with a metre ruler on the counter instead of a yard stick

[@auldfouter8661]

For heavy rain I'd say " it's bucketing down" and for the rain you can barely see through I'd say " it's coming down stair rods " although people probably don't know what those are nowadays.

[@steveosborne2297]

For me stair rods means very heavy rain . In other words a continuous , solid stream of water .

[@kenscholey3452]

Raining cats and dogs is the usual with me.

[@solahifuefos9301]

Something I hear, or at least used to hear in school as a replacement for "it rocks" is "its sick", i dont think you can use it to describe someone, at least I would avoid it. But was used heavily at least in 2010's school in england.

[@Katiethatgirl1993]

Hey, Laura! Could you please make a video on Killing Eve like a speech analysis of the characters, accents breakdown sort of thing? I watched your video on Harry Styles and it's mind-blowing! 😍😍😍 Your channel is so awesome and I admire you big time. ❤❤❤

[@macsnafu]

It's fun reading old literature and coming across old sayings no longer in use. One of my favorites is in the Perry Mason novels, when detective Paul Drake says "I'll tell the world!" I'm reasonably sure that nobody said that after 1948.

[@MacNerfer]

Sounds normal to me.

[@ronaldoago-go5907]

Amber heard said "Tell the world, johnny..." Just last year in recordings played in court

[@chadmelonite9999]

I am not even sure if I know what that means, if it has an idiomatic meaning at all.

[@macsnafu]

@@chadmelonite9999 Basically, it means that you are so impressed or so in agreement with something that you would want everyone to know about it.

[@chadmelonite9999]

@@macsnafu Interesting. Thanks.

[@MrHesmovedon]

Hi. I really do love your accent and the way you speak. It ease the job ( learning ). Big appreciation and thanks.

[@smashingenglish]

No problem ☺️ SO glad you enjoyed the video and learned some stuff!! ☺️🇬🇧

[@ayatoayagi1278]

Whaa- I have finally discovered what my grandma says all the time when I return my home from her house when I was young,It was "Ta Ta,Cheerio".I neither understood nor found what those two words mean until now.Thanks a lot.

[@jesseestrada8914]

In the Midwest us we use brass tacks sometimes but it's usually older people I think..and I had no idea where it came from. We might say kick the bucket or other crude ways to refer to the dead but is usually internally being rude. We would only ever use how do you do sarcastically making fun of a posh British accent or using a different cadence you might hear it from older very rural people type people with a rural accent.

[@Maya_Ruinz]

"*YOU* crack me up" - In the US, native speakers don't really address another person starting with "you", It singles a person out and can make a conversation awkward. Native speakers would say "that is really funny!", "that is so good!", "that is genius!" or "that is really smart!", it just makes the compliment more neutral and addresses the action not the person. Same with negative actions done by another person, we would say "that was kinda dumb...", "that could have gone better...", "that didn't go well..." or "yikes! sorry to hear that". With English today being direct can be seen as forceful compared to other languages, most speakers tend to avoid calling people out for the sake of being friendly or keeping the situation amicable.

[@bibliopolist]

In German culture and language, we usually are very direct so this causes all kinds of culture clashes when talking with someone from the US or UK. A German would just say "You're wrong about that" without thinking much about it, and the other person would be needlessly offended. On the other hand, if a British persons answers to some plan "That's quite interesting" or "What a novel idea", a Germany might feel good about it (and not noticing he just got insulted).

[@Maya_Ruinz]

@@bibliopolist well said! no doubt this has lead to many misunderstandings between cultures. I don’t think it would it be a least bit surprising to discover that our modern use of sarcasm and indirectness came from a long history of conflict with many surrounding nations.

[@alexrafe2590]

Yes and that's also why you can still often hear the expression said as 'that cracks me up.' 'She really cracked me up,' etc.

[@dittikke]

@@bibliopolist True, but German is weird about using pronouns as the first word in the sentence, sounds over-assertive/braggy or accusing, so it uses inversions. "Ich find's gut" vs "Find' ich gut", "Du liegst falsch" vs "Da liegst du falsch". Then there's "Jaja", which mostly means anything but Ja, twice. And don't get me started on those awkward conversations trying to avoid the "du" or "Sie" form because of mixed context, such as in "cool" workplaces where everyone is supposed to use the "du" form, but it still feels awkward.

[@vitamaltz]

I’m American and this video was the first time I’ve heard “It’s chucking itself down.” I would have no idea that refers to rain. Sounds like throwing yourself down the stairs.

[@amyw6808]

“It’s chucking it down” (or just “it’s chucking it”), not “it’s chucking itself down” 😉

[@tsundereyoongi3869]

Hammering, pouring, throwing and lashing are also words we use too

[@davidz3879]

@@tsundereyoongi3869 I've heard pouring many times but never the other three to refer to rain.

[@tsundereyoongi3869]

@@davidz3879 it might be a regional thing then, because they're all very common terms in the Midlands

[@davesimmons6866]

Hammering down definitely used alot.

[@grahvis]

Referring to someone who has died, in a more casual way, I would say they have "popped their clogs". "Close but no cigar", I have used, usually in comments on a forum, but not in everyday speech.

[@anglictinathomas]

Love this video! Thanks!!❤

[@Nati__1987]

_ I loved this video. _ Me encantó éste vídeo. _ Greetings from Chile _ Saludos desde Chile

[@underwoodvoice9077]

I believe in Keith Richards's biography Life, he refers to his "Barnet", defining it as rhyming slang for "hair" (Barnet Fair = hair). As slang, that's the cat's pajamas.

[@bazcambs451]

If his Barnet was wig it would be known as a Syrup. From syrup of figs.

[@ivelinaminkova2646]

Very interesting. Thank you!

[@AndrewRoyGoss]

I do like to listen to well spoken English, well done

[@mikecoffee100]

oh Alright I subscribed I found this video quite informative and Entertaining as well.

[@lakshmanankomathmanalath]

Thank you😊

[@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa]

Smashing video! Thanks!!

[@SansNeural]

Oh! I hope it didn't break anything important!

[@osamaAhmed-oi7km]

Thanks amazing teacher

[@TheValwood]

I'm 62 and American..."You crack me up." and "That rocks" were VERY COMMON in the 70s in America, when I was in High School. But they are no longer used very much. They are dated.

[@jennifermccrary1570]

I am 42 and we still used those in the 90s.

[@totaldarkfulleclipse1130]

@@jennifermccrary1570 yup ...I just turned 40 ...born 82 ...I remember using these terms in the 90's & early 2000's in my 20's

[@MAXMax-do8md]

*l

[@totaldarkfulleclipse1130]

@@MAXMax-do8md not just *I ...also others

[@allanrichardson3135]

By the time slang makes it into a dictionary, it’s usually dated.

[@benedictefeery7613]

Excellent ! 🌟

[@justsomeitweeb]

6:56 Other terms for heavy rain: "It's pouring buckets" "It's coming down in sheets"

[@fahads6673]

the way this lady teaches is awesome n so lovely she is.😊😘

[@smashingenglish]

Thank you so much 😀 so kind!! ☺️

[@fahads6673]

my pleasure 😋.... for real thats so lively n lovely...

[@craigkelley8854]

i was only listening not watching your video, but when you said a private english lession with my fiancee Bez. All i had in my head was Bez from the happy mondays. Sorry but it made me chuckle

[@robertheinrich2994]

reminds me of my mother, when she was an au pair in england: "please where is the water closet" - "???? .... oh, you mean you need to go to the looo". and before anyone asks: wimbledon in the 70ties was quite english.

[@justakathings]

As a native English speaker this made me happy. I’ve seen “things that British people say” and most of it is from London and most people don’t say it since they’re not from London. I liked how this was broad, and I do say all of these apart from the Cockney phrases (19, from Lincolnshire btw)

[@henrikharbin5521]

I'm in Southern CA... When I'm tired, I usually say "I'm starting to gadr/fade out" or if I'm REALLY tired, "I need to crash".

[@bibliopolist]

gadr? (Sorry, but I really would like to know what you mean by that.)

[@henrikharbin5521]

Starting to FADE... My legal b Kindness strikes again.

[@falahal-obeid2425]

Thanks

[@parkash9999]

Amazing.

[@Penguins1999]

I’m British (from Wales) the “Apples and pears” etc. reminded me of Mary Poppins returns when they do the Leerie song

[@brucewhite5432]

I say "howdy" sometimes instead of hello and "close but no see-gar" with the emphasis in the first syllable, which I think is to imitate the cadence of an old-time carnival barker.

[@HowToLearnEnglish1]

You nailed it 👏

[@gregblair5139]

"How do you do" is a direct translation of a French greeting into English.

[@kamar4798]

Fantastic laura ! I was confused .. Learn these new idioms or just forget about them ?😂😂 I'll go for option two .. P.s : you rule 😂😂😂✌

[@holliswilliams8426]

you can learn them ''passively'' so that you recognise them but don't have them to hand all the time, this is what I do with Latin American words in Spanish which you don't use in Spain

[@Raven.flight]

Interestingly enough, I think in the written form 'you rule' probably still works.

[@darth_autie_117]

another slang word for death would be "kegging it/to keg it"

[@riccardob9026]

I remember hearing the expression "Close, but no cigar" at the radio while staying in New Jersey in... middle '90s?

[@inchaoswetrust]

I understand the channel's name now that I checked Laura out...DAYUM girl, smashing indeed!!!

[@notreallydavid]

Idea for language course - 'Learn English with Derek and Clive'. (one for the kids there)

[@napoleonsdauphin]

Now that the Queen has passed my husband is probably the only person left on the planet referring to the radio as the wireless.

[@smashingenglish]

😂

[@kevinh8840]

It's so refreshing that you didn't start your video with the annoying phrase, "Hey guys."

[@barrysteven5964]

Very true!! It's nice to be spoken to like an adult, isn't it?

[@nje.27]

hey guys

[@Hughenn]

Why am I here as I’m native English? Good fun to watch tho and I agree with you on all points. Anyway, time to hit the sack soon.😀

[@R0swell5104]

As a native British English speaker your input on how the language is actually spoken is very valuable to those learning it.

[@Asieronin]

Another great video! By the way, I often use "pouring it down" to describe heavy rain. Is it also common there?

[@smashingenglish]

Yes, it is! That’s common! There are many ways of describing the rain 😂☔️

[@alsoascot02]

Pissing down would likely be the commonest expression you'd hear.

[@R0swell5104]

Never really heard people say "pouring it down" but "tipping it down is far more common, or simply pouring.

[@Rabmac1UK]

@@R0swell5104 'It's Pouring down' or simply 'It's Pouring out there' would be correct, but I rarely hear the 'it' in the middle as in 'pouring it down'.

[@user-qp8xd6wb8d]

U r my best teacher ❤❤

[@aleottobre2031]

This video "cracked me up"! 😂😍

[@dustygrrl]

I *once* in the 1980s heard someone actually say 'bought the farm". I knew very well what it meant, but just never having heard anyone use it, it went over my head and I was left wondering how I missed the part about the person dying so soon after they bought real estate. To your point, they were being offhand about someone relatively famous who they had not known personally, and who had been dead for quite some years.

[@allanrichardson3135]

In WWII, the proceeds of a government issued life insurance policies were often enough to allow a slain airman’s family to pay off the mortgage on the family farm. Hence, by going down in flames, a pilot “bought” his family some measure of financial security.

[@Rabmac1UK]

Hi Laura. Does ELSA handle the difference between 'bath' and 'barth', as in the short and long 'a' sound, and for that matter all the other regional variations of pronunciation in 'Native Speakers' ?

[@thearcticlord3920]

And what about the really long 'a' like baaahth, which is how someone vrum Baaahth would zay tha' they come vrum Baaahth.

[@firmojosedasilvaalmeida1908]

Agradecido obrigado teacher más nao entendo nada de English

[@DiscoverBrazilwithClaudia]

Very nice, one of the goal of my channel is improve my english, and i have so much more to learn 😅

[@Michael-bf1dt]

Hi Claudia how are you. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 to Brazil 🇧🇷. Just read the info on your channel - your english is really good. Yes Brazil is a lovely country with lots of friendly people. Of course Brazilian soccer ⚽️ is very famous. I have heard of the state Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil. It would be lovely to chat with you. Have you heard of Ireland. Before the big economic crash in 2008 there were 1000’s of brazilians in Ireland. A lot left afterwards. Wish you a lovely day and best wishes 👍😊🎶⚽️🇧🇷 Michael

[@chrishimmelmann]

Brilliant

[@argonwheatbelly637]

"He has died." I prefer, "He has seen fit to slough off the mortal coil of existence as easily as the dermal layers of a beach goer with a second-degree burn." 😊

[@sureshgurjar1585]

Mam Laura as you mentioned in one of your previous vedio about setting goal for learning English like Cambridge or IELTS So I'm going to give IELTS in one month please please can you tell me what should I do what' should I don't please I am waiting for your response

[@TomikoPL]

Couple of yeras ago it was said that "cool" was not cool any more and was dying out. It looks like "cool" still rocks and hasn't kicked the bucket.

[@MaryJane-pt4sn]

How do you do? is perfectly acceptable.

[@mauriziosciancalepore7408]

I learned "how do you do" in school (in Italy, in the 90´s :-)

[@bibliopolist]

I learned it too in Germany in the 80s/90s, but already as very formal and old-fashioned. They taught it to us, I think, to make sure we wouldn't answer with how we are really doing right now, but to answer just "how do you do" and not expanding, which is just so weird for Germans.

[@R0swell5104]

It certainly is used but said rather quickly, something like "how dja do" . Otherwise How do you do said by pronouncing every word is very formal, an English version of the polite form in Italian

[@SansNeural]

@@R0swell5104 Let me introduce you to my little word, "howdy".

[@jbaidley]

Nah, we Brits swear way more than your lovely polite channel suggests ;)

[@TheHarasment]

Kicked the bucket is still used, but for broken machines and things.

[@RayArias]

Most of these are VERY MUCH still in use in the States, especially among Boomers & Xers.

[@lesleyhawes6895]

What's an Xer ?

[@RayArias]

@@lesleyhawes6895 a member of Generation X, the generation after the Baby Boomers, but before the Millennials. Born about 1965 - 1979.

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

Yes, some of these are still common in Australia too

[@theire483]

The apples & pears=stairs, I learned from the movie *MR LUCKY* Cary Grant. He uses them throughout the movie.

[@zabirhussain]

Exactly

[@user-sv6uk6sy6d]

Thanks a bunch. really useful. Could you make more videos on idioms? for one, break a leg. do the British say it? today have wished good luck to a young musician, who's taking an exam tomorrow, and have learned that it's an American phrase, not British. wonder, if it's true.

[@CowardEdd]

It's not particularly common in the UK, but I wouldn't think it was unusual if somebody said it to me. "You'll smash it" would be more common for an idiom I'd say, at least in Northern England, where I'm from.

[@horleyu3a651]

Can't speak for the US, but in England the phrase "break a leg" is a term really only used in the theatre - meaning "good luck" (No idea why). The sort of thing you might say to an actor on a first night. But even then it would be used in a joking way. I''d stick to "good luck" or "best of luck" if I were you.

[@user-sv6uk6sy6d]

Thank you. I do appreciate 😍

[@bethanylowe8773]

I acted in a play recently, and FOUR people told me to break a leg. It's normal but I don't really like it! Specially as I recently broke a finger :/

[@user-ws2me9xm8t]

Thank you for profit this time again, as usual.

[@Trebor74]

Apparently Essex is not part of England and we don't speak English as a first language 😂

[@R0swell5104]

Yes I would agree with you on that one 😃😃

[@grahvis]

An Essex girl was in a road accident, trapped under a bus. A paramedic crawled under it to her and asked her name. "Tracy" Where are you bleeding from, Tracy? "Romford".

[@totaldarkfulleclipse1130]

@@grahvis 🤣👏👏👏

[@ianhopping105]

Well, no.

[@NiceMuslimLady]

A couple of other ones: "(Went) Paws Up!" or "Assuming Room Temperature!"

[@wampuscat7433]

Also "taking a dirt nap"

[@Santiago_Handle]

I follow a channel with a lead English person who always says "Cheerio" at the end. Now I know it may be ironic and if so, I've been lied to, all this time!

[@rod370]

Hi, At 8:13. You forgot "Dead as a door nail."

[@tanyanguyen3704]

Every single one of these, i use weekly or more. Well, except the penny thing… lol

[@CamdenBloke]

I totally didn't know that's where "brass tacks" came from. I always thought the origin was some literal meaning, like the last cigar thing, that was no longer relevant.

[@gspaulsson]

As a result of inflation and decimalization, "spend a penny" has become "I need 2p"

[@Braun30]

My mom left London for Switzerland in 1957 so my English is dated as this is what she taught me.

[@ram0166]

I think Bill Clinton killed off the cigar phrase.

[@cricketbat09]

When it is raining components from Japanese vehicles, you say, "It's raining Datsun cogs."

[@someguy7805]

Good one. 😁

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Slang is interesting. We (Sweden) have this word "Tjack" which basically meant a prostitute in the 50ies-60ies, later it was used as an adjective "tjacka" for buying stuff, and then used as slang for heroiin

[@robfriedrich2822]

There were times, where "going to a disco" simply was walking to the cabinet with the records and to choose one of them.

[@dittikke]

When was that?

[@osiris1071]

saying "there is a lot of bad advice on the internet" and right after saying "oh it says here we can wash the cat with bleach" I lost it thank you for making me laugh