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So you are coming to Britain. Maybe it's for a holiday. Maybe it's a business trip. Maybe
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it's to study. Well here are the ten basic English phrases that you need to know.
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Alright if there is one word you need to know if you come to Britain, it's thank you. We
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use thank you all the time. If someone opens the door for you we say thank you. When the
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waiter or waitress brings your food we say thank you. All the time. So we've got lots
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of different ways to say thank you. We've got thanks. We've got thanks so much. We've
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also got cheers, that's a really nice informal way to say thank you, cheers. So make sure
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you learn one way to say thank you at least, and use it all the time. Our next word is
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excuse me. Now this is a brilliant word because it has loads of different meanings. One meaning
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is to get attention, someone's attention. So you can say 'excuse me' that means you
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want their attention. It can also be an apology or way to apologise. So 'oh excuse me' is
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a way to say I'm sorry. It's also really good when you are walking around the city to go
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past people. You could say excuse me if you want to kind of walk around them, make sure
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they know you are there. So it's a word that has lots of different meanings, super useful.
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Perhaps the most useful word in English is 'sorry'. We use sorry all the time. I mean,
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we use sorry to apologise even when we didn't do anything wrong. For example if someone
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bumps into me, I'll say sorry. I don't know, it's a bit weird, I know it's crazy. We also
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use sorry to get someone to repeat something. So if we didn't understand what they said
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we could say 'I'm sorry' and that's a way to ask them to repeat what they said.
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Now I'm sure your English is much better than you think it is but if you don't feel totally
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confident with your English when you are here you could say to someone 'I'm sorry but I
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don't speak much English.' That's a great phrase to use to prepare someone for a conversation
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and hopefully they'll be a little bit slower in their speech. They'll say things more clearly
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to help you to understand what they are saying. Now sometimes people talk really quickly so
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you might want them to repeat what they have just said. So you could say 'could you say
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that again, please?' Hopefully they will repeat what they said and you can understand them.
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A super useful phrase that we use all the time is 'I'd like...' It's exactly the same
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as I want, we use it to do everything. To order food for example you could say 'I'd
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like a hamburger, please.' If you are at the tube station you could say 'I'd like a ticket,
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please.' So I'd like is a really useful phrase. The I'd is I would so I would like, we contract
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it, I'd like. So what do we say when we want to find something, when we want to locate
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where something is? There are lots of different phrases we could use. We use 'excuse me' maybe
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to get someone's attention and then we could say 'Excuse me, do you know where the nearest
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toilet is?' or 'Do you know where the nearest tube station is?' Or 'do you know where the
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nearest ice rink is?' Ok, we got that one. You cold say 'Excuse me, do you know where
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Buckingham Palace is?' So a nice phrase to find where something is.
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Of course if you want to know the price of something you could say 'How much is...' so
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'How much is this?' 'How much is that?' 'How much is this t-shirt?' 'How much are these
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jeans?' etc. How much, really useful phrase. Another essential phrase when you come to
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London is 'Could we have...?' So it's a very polite way to request something so for example
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'Could we have the bill, please?' or 'Could we have the menu, please?' So could we have
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or could I have is a nice polite way to request something. A little bit like earlier when
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we looked at 'could you say that again?' Nice polite way to request something. Our final
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phrase for today is maybe the most important although I know I've said that about every
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phrase so far. 'Do you have wifi?' These days we always need wifi, we always need to be
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connected so the phrase 'Do you have wifi?' The most important. You can also ask 'What's
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the password?' So if they do have wifi you could say 'what's the password?' That's the
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little word or number that they will give you so that you can get connected. Eat Sleep
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Dreamers I hope that you found that useful. I hope that when you come to Britain you can
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use all of those phrases perfectly. Remember I've got new videos every Tuesday and every
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Friday helping you take your English to the next level. I've really enjoyed this walk
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around London guys, I'd love to do it again sometime. until next time, this is Tom, the
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chief dreamer, saying goodbye.