-You make pancakes -I do
That's why she's my favourite!
Today I'm talking with Gabby Kook the amazing Gabby Kook!
Hi!
We're here to learn some British English!
I become a bit serious my attempt to do a British accent
You have to be very serious and emotionless because British people,
we don't have emotions
what?
It does come across as you guys don't have this that much
Yes
Right? It's really flat I would say
That's a really good point yeah
so we speak kind of neutral
and at the end of the sentence we go down
We finish on down
So in a question or you you know how a "Valley Girl" accent, or the Australian accent is?
(Valley Girl Gabie) Oh my gosh!
That inflection goes up
It goes up
British does the opposite
(British Valley Girl Gabie) I can't even
Exactly
this is the most British way you could say "I can't even"
...While sipping tea
so today we're gonna do five really really super British expressions that
you can use and you can use in your daily British life
Oh this one's a good one
If you're angry with your boyfriend girlfriend or husband
How could you express that you're in a bad mood with them?
-I'm pissed! -You're pissed!
Annoyed. I'm annoyed at you!
Is that your face? Is that the face you give?
I'm annoyed! You're SO annoying!
Pissed is more strong so I almost never use it
It's a good one though. It's useful
You could also say "I'm in a strop"
What? I've never heard of that before
You know those moods that you get in when you're like "I don't want to talk to you!"
You're angry and "I don't want to talk to you!"
It's that feeling
-I'm on a strop! -In!
I'm IN a strop, I don't know why I keep saying ON
prepositions are annoying
you could also modify it, you could say "I'm in a massive strop!"
-I'm in a massive strop! -That sounds very British
I'm in a massive strop today because I didn't have my tea
It's a good reason to be in a strop!
yeah yeah
You understand my people!
I can't be bothered
-Oh yeah -Have you heard this one before?
Yeah yeah yeah
how would you use it?
whenever Josh asks me to do something
that I don't wanna do
-and I'll say "I can't be bothered" -Can't be bothered!
So this just means you either don't have energy, or you don't want to do the thing
Eh! You can't be bothered!
So other examples could be
Gabby do you want to go for a ten-mile run right now?
No I can't be bothered
But I have to do it in British English! I can't!
So a British accent would be:
Instead of "(American accent) can't" it would be "(British Accent) can't"
I can't
You make the "T" glottal
What that means is you stop the T in your throat
So instead of "can'T"
you can say /kɑːnʔ/
then "bothered"
bothered
so the last syllable is really lazy
bothered
-Bothered -Nice
I can't be bothered
The next one we would use when you're very very tired you're exhausted
You've had a long day working or cooking pancakes
what's a really British Way of saying super tired
-I'm knackered -Yes
-Is it right? -Yes, "knackered"
Oh yeah before I moved here I'd never heard of that word before
once when I was in school
I said to my teacher "I'm really knackered"
and they gave me detention
because apparently there's like a sexual connotation with it
It's like I had sex so much that's why I'm tired
Do people use it like that as well?
No, no one does
Maybe an older generation would, maybe!
-But no one does today -It's appropriate
It's fine, it's just very British
-Can you say it in the British accent -Knackered
knackered... knackerrrred
But did you notice, at the end you did the American "rrrd"
-"knackeRRed" -Knackered
Try just saying "Ud"
perfect
see you got it that's perfect
so you've been cooking pancakes all day how do you feel?
I'm knackered!
There's also another way that you could say "knackered" and that's
shattered
- Shattered! - So you can say with the perfect British Accent
- How do you feel? - Knackered! Shattered!
I feel a bit erm... I don't know
- A bit British? - Yeah
If you had a Cockney accent, you might say shattered with a glottal T
/ʃæʔəd/
Whoa! You did that perfectly!
I have a friend who has a Cockney accent
A really strong one?
Yeah really strong one! Joel, after four years I understand you
Hey Joel!
This one we use all the time and it's very versatile
if you want to go out or go somewhere
for a very quick visit
or go somewhere very quickly and then back
how might you say that in a British way?
"Oh I might swing by..."
"Swing by..." is a great one!
- Oh is that British? - No
But the really British way would be "pop to..."
Oh yeah!
- Have you heard of pop to? - All the time, everybody around me says that
Right so if I'm coming to your house quickly, I could say "swing by" or..
"Oh, on my way home I'm gonna pop by"
"I'm gonna pop by"
So when do I say "I'll pop up..." What is it?
If you're leaving your house quickly you can say "I'm gonna..."?
Pop...
Pop out
If you're going to the shops really quickly, "I'm gonna pop to the shops"
- "Pop to the loo"
You can say that
I hear that all the time from Ollie
Pop to the loo
It is the proper way to say so they don't have to say they're peeing or pooping?
Yup
"I'm gonna pop to the loo"?
It's just a nicer way of saying "I'm gonna poo now"
Pop to... Pop up...
pop... what was it?
Pop out
Pop to, pop up
Ah so, "pop up", and "pop down"
those are kind of weird
If I say "I'm gonna pop up the shops"
pop up the shops
But you could also say "I'm gonna pop DOWN the shops"
"Pop DOWN the shops"?
- Yeah, and it means the same thing - Oh ok
- Up and down, the same? - Exactly the same
We're British, we don't make sense
These are really nice everyday British phrases
that I've been hearing, but I've never used it
You never used "pop"?
No, I never said "pop"
It's fun to pop
It's fun to pop... to the loo
And the last one...
If you don't trust someone or something
How would you describe it?
Like "This... mmm no, I don't trust it"
"It looks..." or "it seems dodgy"
- Ahh "Dodgy"! - You know "Dodgy"?
Yeah
Josh says it all the time
I say it all the time too
Josh was walking once in a dodgy alleyway at night
and he got robbed
Here? Are you serious?! That's not good!
That's why I always say "Avoid the dodgy alleyways!"
Cool so I hope you learned some really British expressions
Did you learn some new stuff today?
- Yes - What are you gonna do today?
I'm gonna pop to Tesco!
Nice!
-Yeah? -Yeah -Yeah?
- Nice - I'm gonna pop to Tesco, get some salmon
Are you gonna run a marathon?
Can't be bothered
Why can't you be bothered?
I'm knackered
and also you seemed so angry today, what's wrong?
Ah I had some haters this morning so I'm in a strop!
- Dodgy people can't be trusted - Can't trust dodgy people
Oh my god, today's been so much fun Thank You Gabie for joining me
It was so much fun! I had a free class! Amazing
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- Really? - It's like there
Yeah! See you're touching it That's your video
Oh, okay
See you next time
Bye!
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