British boys or Spanish boys oh I have a thing for a British voice I'm not gonna
lie one of our favorite things to do on this channel is interview people
friends youtubers Londoners holidaymakers you name it all with the
aim of bringing you real English from the real world but it's been a while
since we've done this and the other day I've got a call from my ex-girlfriend
saying Harry I'm leaving I'm going back to Spain I'm going to españa never
coming back and I thought don't go I love you but also why don't I interview
you about your experiences of living and working in the UK that will be useful
for our subscribers and she said yes so get ready for some cultural Intel from
Sabella about how life really is here in the UK
lots of informal British vocabulary that comes out naturally in our conversation
and of course some casual flirting hi hello would you like a cup of tea oh yes
please it'll be lovely actually it's not brewed yet okay what's your name
I'm Sabella that sounds Spanish so where in Espana are you from I'm from
Ourense galicia or Ourense Galicia yes Sabella what are you doing here where
are we by the way we're in Bedford Bedford! estamos en Bedfordia..
why did you come to bedfordia well I studied nursing a few years ago four
years ago and yeah I always wanted to live abroad and I found an
agency that was offering nursing jobs in Bedford and I decided to apply for it
because it was close to London and to be honest it was the first offer I saw and
I was like why not..you're so lucky that the first offer was for such an amazing town
like Bedford I know you must have been like over the moon yeah that's why I'm
leaving you're leaving Bedford now having worked it for three years
yes three and a half years when you came here what were the requirements to
become a nurse here in the Uk? None.. it's gotta be someone with a pair of hands and a heart no you have a lot
yeah no you had to obviously have a nursing have a nursing a degree but you
know now you need to to register with the NMC which is like the nursing and
midwifery council you need to have an advanced level of English IELTS 7
okay at the time when I came over they didn't ask for anything
there was no requirement ..did they have any way of
like looking at your English level or was it just how you performed in the interview yeah
I mean well the agency would like assess your English level before like they put
called you on skype and have a conversation with you and then we had
this interview in Madrid and we were interviewed by people from the hospital
so yeah I guess they kind of assessed us again from Bedford hospital hospital
they went to Madrid for those interviews yeah okay
and then so you got the job in Madrid yeah and how long after the interview
did you find out you got the job oh straightaway oh right yeah when can
you come to Bedford yeah Wow how was your English when you first came to the UK
because your English now is incredible it's really good it's really good so how
was it how does it compare now to how it was when you first well I never
had a problem understanding people or communicating but I've obviously noticed
a massive improvement the Spanish accent when talking English can be very strong
yeah but you haven't got like a really strong Spanish accent you don't say like Harry I
love you Harry then you say I love you Harry and that's you know really your
pronunciation has your accent change much your pronunciation? I think so..it's a bit Bedfdordian now
what's a typical thing that a Berdfordian would say my favorite sentence, and you know this, is bottle of water..
ok and how would you order a bottle of water.. what in Bedfordian or? In Bedfordian English, yeah.How would you order a
bottle of water at a pub? Can I h..Can I...I can't.. bottle of water please mate, cheers!
yeah not bad not bad yeah yeah that sounds pretty Bedfordian..So in the
hospital have there been any situations where because you've told me a couple of
stories where English has been difficult and there's been confusions with the
patient's yeah due to a lack of English yeah so one of my friends had this
patient who's coming with I don't remember what but I don't remember
whether she had a fall or something but basically my friend wanted to see her
knuckles and she asked her can you show me your nipples .. so it does sound
quite similar knuckles nipples but obviously very different yeah
where are the nipples hmm where are your nipples yes and then knuckles here okay
so there's the nipple story and what other words or confusions were there
there was this girl called Pilar which is a Spanish name so because of the
English pronunciation which is a bit different they would say Pilar
called her Pillaah my friend was working and one of her
colleagues was asking where's Pilar where's Pilar asking about this girl
called Pilar and my friend brought them a pillow.. it does sound like pillow .. yeah coz a
cockney would say pillow give me a pillow I want a pillow yeah so it's
.. yeah a couple of girls a couple of there were a couple of girls
called Tamara..see you tomorrow yes and people would
say Tamara and sometimes it sounded like tomorrow .. sometimes I was
like tomorrow what yeah tomorrow yeah we going to the pub or what? .. so what are your
favourite English words lovely you need to know lovely when you come to England yeah what other
words do they need to know when they come to England oh darling of course yes
darling darling that's the word everyone uses. When would you use darling.. could you say it in the
supermarket could you go hi darling you got any chewing them yeah where is the
bog roll, darling? What? Bog roll..What's that? Toilet roll
yeah excuse me darling where can I find the sugar... bog roll..isle 5..yeah (laughs). The alcohol one..
booze oh yeah how would you use booze in a sentence who's bringing the booze
tonight oh yeah who's bringing the alcohol tonight yeah you can say I
got a bit boozy last night can you say that what about if you're really drunk in
England I'm pissed
shit-faced very good and if it's raining lots how would you say that it's pissing
it down that's nice it's pouring it down okay so these are some really nice
informal expressions that Sabella has learned naturally by being in contact
with native speakers in the UK she's also learned some really nice
pronunciation features like the glottal tea but of water but you don't need to
move to the UK to speak like this you just need practice and a good way to get
that practice and be in contact with native speakers is by downloading this
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discount so I hope you enjoy that and let's get back to the interview a lot of
people think that the food in England is a pile of shite what do you think of the
British food and the food that you you eat you can eat regularly with ease here
in the UK you can say what you want you don't pull any punches okay I think what
I like about the UK is that you have a lot of variety because you've got like a
lot of Chinese Japanese Indian but English food itself is quite dull
what have you thought of the British people um be honest.. extremely polite you're
right do you want some more tea? I'm okay thank you
British boys or Spanish boys oh I have a thing for a British boys, I'm not gonna
lie right and what is it about British boys that you like so much? I really like tall men
and I guess most British guys are taller than Spanish and it's just I don't know
the features I don't know there's just something about them so they've just got a
kind of a je ne se quoi so if you want a boyfriend the Brits
are pretty tall and have nice features, apparently.. he's single.. they know I'm single..that's boys covered well what
would you have liked to know prior to coming here that you know now one thing
I've learned in England is that you can never really rely on people.. you can't rely on Brits? Are you saying we're unreliable?
I'm not a hater or anything.. just they know you're just you're leaving the country and you're slagging us off
no I want you to be honest oh yeah I kind of I always have to chase things up if I
want them done like for example I have internet with sky and I call a couple of
weeks ago to cancel my account because I'm leaving my flat and I said okay so
that's one thing ..you were a bit disgruntled about that yeah what's next
for you then you're thinking about becoming a teacher aren't you? and starting.. what is it?
Galician with Sabela? That's a secret..Can you teach me some Galician words? yeah of course
Palabras Gallegas.. I really like this word Bolboreta..butterfly..
Mariposa bolboreta
yes how would you say I have a pet bolboreta in Galician? ....teño unha
bolboreta de mascota ..
como mascota.. muy bien..okay if you were to start a youtube channel teaching Galician what
would you call it something Galician basically slowly we say a modinho
..a modinho? Yeah so something like Galego a modinho..
so learn Galician slowly? so your English has got really really good what
has helped you to get this good level what are the things that have really
worked for you that have made a difference real English with real teachers videos.. oh no..ah it's so embarrassing..
is it all because of that or just like 50 percent 90 percent okay so 90 percent
from this channel the other 10% the other 10% I like to speak to people and
like learn from people that's how we met actually yeah yeah how do we meet? You
tell them do you want me to tell the whole story?
Well not like up to the breakup just when I first came to Bedford um I was looking
for people who I could improve improve my English with so I was with my
housemate looking for yeah people do exchange languages with so we went on
this website and we messaged a few people and Harry
messaged me back and he said he was not living in Bedford at the time he
was living in the Basque Country in Spain what a coincidence I know I was
in your country and you were in mine yeah and then he said but we can I'm back for
Christmas so we can meet up then but I was in Spain for Christmas what
a shame so then Harry said oh we can we can do
Skype or more like yeah okay so we started video calling each other on
skype speaking like English Spanish and after
like.. I don't know how many times we spoke but about four.. yeah not enough.. but somehow
we decided to go on a trip to Barcelona
I've been tried trying to teach him how to make up Tortilla for three years
he hasn't learnt yet but.. my tortilla is really good now well you haven't made me one for ages
darling oh darling yeah using conversation exchange is such
a good way to meet people and practice your English yeah that was really cool and
you meet people, you make friends..yeah I have a friend an Irish friend, my friend Collum and I
realize that sometimes when I'm speaking to people who don't speak my language I
try to use like simple words but I guess that for English like everyone
speaks English so English people are so used to that that you just speak like
normally maybe not you so much because you're a teacher but people I speak to
daily and they say expressions or words that are quite like informal and
sometimes I don't know and I always ask everything
so you're inquisitive yes that's really important try to remember and like make
sentences in my mind more than stuff yeah that's really good
yeah thank you very much for for coming on the show thanks for telling us all
about your life and you know if you change your past and yeah what brought
you here it's been a pleasure....beso..that's what we do in bedford
bye guys bye