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Hello, my name's Sarah.
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Today I'm going to be teaching you
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my top five favorite British slang words and phrases.
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They're really common. Everyone uses them.
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I use them all the time and I really do hope you'll find good use for them.
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So the first word we're going to learn is bugger.
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It's a very popular word.
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I'm sure you've heard it before.
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If not, go to England and I'm sure you're hear it.
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You'll hear it everywhere.
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So this word has many meanings.
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I'd advise you - be careful when you use it and to whom.
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Maybe around friends is the best idea.
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I use it as an exclamation.
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If I've dropped something, I missed the train...
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Maybe, I forgot my phone at home.
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I'll say, "bugger!"
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It sounds really good.
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It's really useful and I do hope you'll find a good use for it.
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The next word is Cheers.
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This means "Thank you."
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If I'm talking to a friend it's quite informal. I might say "cheers mate."
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And 'mate' of course means friend.
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So when you use this, you can use it
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in informal situations and you can also use it to finish off an email.
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For example, I will say" Cheers, Sarah" at the end of emails.
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I hope you'll find good use for this word. It's really British.
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The third word is brilliant.
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You might hear this a lot.
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It's used for everything, so the meaning itself means when something is really really nice.
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It might even be fantastic.
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So I might say, "Oh your outfit is brilliant, mate."
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Or I might say, "That skirts really brilliant."
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"I had a brilliant day at work today."
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When something's really nice, make sure you use this word.
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The fourth word is well.
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Now this is a little bit more unusual,
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but I actually use this every day.
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So we use this instead of 'very'.
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You might hear someone say, "He's very tall."
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Well I would rather say, "He's well tall."
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Or someone might ask me, "How are you?"
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And I might say, "I'm well good."
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So it's a really useful word.
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People might not know what you mean,
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but you will sound very British if you use this.
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Now we've come to the final word which is bloody.
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This has many different usages,
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but the way that I use it is more for emphasis for certain words.
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So for example I might say, "Oh, that's bloody brilliant."
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Or I might say, "I had a bloody hard day today at work."
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But it's also quite common to hear it as "bloody heck."
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Something that I like to use very often.
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And you might even have heard this used in Harry Potter
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because it's one of Ron Weasley's favorite words to use.
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So I hope you'll find a really good use for this one.
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Even if it's a bit strong, you'll hear it a lot.
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So those were my top 5 favorite British slang words to use
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I hope you enjoyed it and I hope
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you'll make really good use of them.
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Thanks so much for today and see you next time.
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