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happy valentine's day a day that can go one of two ways it's either a day of romance chocolates
love or it's a day of crying stalking your ex-partners on social media and waiting for
the whole day to end whatever your situation is i wish you a very lovely valentine's day now because
it's a day of love i thought we could look at one of my favorite romantic comedies love actually
written by richard curtis this film is one of my favorite films of all time it's mainly a christmas
film but obviously it's also very centered around love now i know what you're thinking laura why is
looking at love actually going to help me learn english let me tell you i think that this film
does a really good job of showing british people mainly british people there is one american person
in it but mainly british people talking in quite a normal way sometimes with british media like
downton abbey or peaky blinders you know period pieces they don't really show british
people talking how we really talk whereas in love actually there are so many british slang words and
phrases that we really use every day so i am going to teach you some british slang words and phrases
that can be found in the film love actually just a little warning there might be a few
teeny little swear words in this because in britain we do use teeny little swear words quite a
lot and also quite big swear words quite a lot but today they'll only be little teeny ones in so if
you've got any little teeny people watching maybe say bye-bye if you don't want them hearing teeny
tiny swear words okay that's my disclaimer done okay first off we have pop it's a great word pop
and in one particular scene in this film we hear it used twice so we have the character jamie he
comes home to find his brother chris in his house and he says what are you doing here and chris says
oh i just popped over to borrow some old cds and then a couple of lines later jamie says i thought
i'd pop back before the reception so what they mean by pop is just to go somewhere quickly so
popping back somewhere is to go back somewhere but do it quickly i'm not going to stay there for a
long time just popping back i'll be in there for about five minutes or you might hear someone say
um can you pop to the shops and get me some bread just pop to the shops just go to the shops quickly
don't spend a long time there just a five minute job so in britain if you hear the
word pop used in a situation like this it means to go somewhere quickly next up we have a word
that appears multiple times in this film but in different situations and in different contexts
and the word is bugger what a great word bugger oh bugger so the first time we hear it is when the
prime minister realizes that there is a gorgeous woman called natalie working for him and he's just
started being the prime minister and he's thinking oh no why is there a woman that i'm probably going
to fall in love with working for me that's going to distract me it's going to be horrific and he
says bugger that is genuinely bad timing so when you hear bugger used like this it's an exclamation
it's a sign of frustration it's something you say if something's gone wrong if you're annoyed
but then later on in the film we also hear bugger used like this bugger off bother off and that just
means go away get out of here it's like a playful friendly banter way of saying go away you wouldn't
say it to your boss you probably wouldn't say it to your grandmother but you might say it to
a friend if you were just teasing them bugger could be considered as like a tiny swear word
i don't think many people in britain would be offended if you said the word bugger it's not like
the f word or anything it's like a tiniest white word a little one i'd say bugger off
isn't used so much anymore i think now bugger off has been replaced by piss off
now piss off i think would be considered as maybe a next level up swear word it probably
it's a bit more aggressive i'd say you know if i told someone to piss off
that's normally not a playful thing it's normally an angry thing you know i hate you go away piss
off you know if i say that to you means i don't like you so say bugger off is a bit more friendly
piss off is a bit more get out the next word we have is dodgy and we hear the word dodgy when
colin is talking about some weird looking food he says yeah a bit dodgy isn't it dodgy just means
weird suspicious something that you can't trust you know if your food looks dodgy maybe it looks
like it's rotten or looks like it might give you food poisoning or it just looks a bit
um a bit weird i'm not i'm not confident in that natalie talks about where she lives she says
i'm from wandsworth the dodgy end so the dodgy end of wandsworth the dodgy end of a place is
the the bad end the end where you know if you live there you might get robbed you might um
run into some criminals so dodgy basically is suspicious not very good a bit untrustworthy you
can't trust it then the character colin is talking about why british girls don't like him he's saying
you know this is the reason i don't have a girlfriend it's because british girls they
they don't understand me he says that the girls who would be most suited to him are the girls who
are game for a laugh now i think it's much more common nowadays to say up for a laugh but it means
the same thing so if you are up for a laugh you are someone who enjoys a joke you're someone who
enjoys a laugh you are someone who doesn't take yourself very seriously you're fun to be around
you're up for a laugh the next word i want to tell you about is sack to sack to sack someone the
prime minister talks about wanting to sack someone if you want to sack someone you want to fire them
so we might say george sacked lisa earlier on which just means george fired lisa or we might
say lisa got the sack so sack can also be a noun the sack lisa got the sack lose your job bye the
next thing i want to draw your attention to is a phrase so natalie is talking to the prime minister
and she is talking about her old boyfriend she's saying she used to have a boyfriend
who wasn't very nice and the prime minister says oh i'm sorry about that and then natalie says
i'm well shot of him i'm well shot of him to be shot to be shot of something means that you are
far away from something you've taken yourself away from someone or something but it usually
means that you are much better without that thing or that person it's better that i'm away from them
i'm well shot of him so i'm far away from him i'm distanced from him but also it's a good thing so
it's fine then of course it wouldn't be a british film if some people did not talk about the traffic
we love talking about the traffic in britain it's all we talk about traffic and weather that's
it the character john starts talking about the traffic and he calls it murder he says junction
13 that's just murder so obviously murder means very very bad bad traffic next up we have sodding
what a great word the prime minister says at one point so much sodding money ask him why he's
spending so much sodding money sodding is just a word that you might hear to emphasize something
it's like so much bloody money it's just another teeny tiny swear word that you might put in front
of something if you want to emphasize it next up we have a scene between daniel and sam and sam is
a little boy and he's very very in love with this little girl and it's very sweet and he's talking
about the fact that this girl is the only girl for him there's only one person for him and she is it
and then daniel says fair point and if you hear fair point it just means yeah okay i understand
that's a good point you you make sense there that's a good point but some people nowadays just
say fair instead of fair point they might just say yeah fair next up we have the scene that is
probably my favorite scene in the whole movie the prime minister realizes he's in love with natalie
so he goes down the street that he knows she lives on and he knocks on every door to try and find
natalie and the woman who opens one of the doors that he knocks on says you're not who i think you
are are you and he says yes fred so afraid so is just a phrase that i think sums up british people
because we're always afraid we're always afraid of offending people i think so we would use afraid
so if you are giving some negative news some bad news something that maybe the person might
not want to hear so obviously in this context he's using it as a joke so the person's saying
are you the prime minister and he says yes i'm afraid so like sorry about that you know a bit
of self-referential humor now we come to our final phrase so towards the end of the movie everyone is
at the airport and we hear one character saying to the other what are you doing here he doesn't
say what are you doing here he says what are you doing here this is quite common in a lot
of people from london they might just take out words like r so like what are you doing here
or instead of what are you saying they might say what you're saying again quite common with some
people not for everyone but sometimes you might hear that are dropped and that's about it i hope
you learned some new words and phrases from this film script i highly recommend the film if you
want to watch the film it's a bit rude so check the um classification don't watch it with your
five-year-old children maybe just a warning but it's a lovely lovely film i love it so much if you
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