Right, I wanna have a cuppa and a sarnie and then this arvo I'm deffo gonna
watch the footy on the telly with a few bevvies.
What?? Yes, in this video I'm going to teach you 14 wonderfully British English words
which is part of the reason that you don't understand native speakers when
they're speaking between themselves and also why American English speakers don't
understand British English speakers. So, if you want to learn 14 wonderfully
British English words... keep watching!
OK, I'm Greg from OnlineLanguageAcademy.com and if you want to take
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Right, so let's have a look at these 14 beautifully British English
words. Remember the video comes with subtitles if you want just click below.
And yeah, I was thinking the other day, why do you have such a problem
understanding native English speakers? And then, when I was speaking to a friend
of mine and I used two or three of these words I thought, it's obvious, there's no
there's no wonder, it's no surprise that you have problems understanding British
English people when they're speaking together because we have so many slang
words but words that we shorten to make them understandable for us but
definitely incomprehensible for you. These words don't appear in a textbook
so the only way you're gonna learn them is by watching this video. OK, I've made
a list of 14 words and they're all words that we shorten as much as
possible so that we spend as little time talking as we can. So let's start with
number 1. TELL. Telly, alright if you watch the telly
you watch the television. Television. We shorten the television to telly. You can
also say TV - I think TV is a word that you would
probably learn in a textbook in your school but telly is a wonderfully
British English word for the TV. Alright, and what do we watch on the telly?
Well, normally I want the footy on the telly. The footy. Footy. Football. Instead
of saying football we say footy. Footy. Are you watching the footy
this evening? Yeah, come round to my house we'll watch
it on the telly! Number 3 is sarnie. Sarnie. Sarnie is
short for sandwich. Sandwich. Ham sandwich? Ham sarnie. Cheese sandwich? Cheese sarnie.
Do you want a sarnie? Yeah I'll have a sarnie. Number 4 is a brolly. And a brolly
is something we take outside with us often in winter in England or in the
summer. When it rains you need your brolly. Brolly is short for umbrella.
Umbrella... brella... brolly! Brolly! Don't forget your brolly! Now many of my
students have problems pronouncing the word vegetable. Sometimes they say a
vegeTABLE. You know what? It doesn't matter, because in England we often say
veg. What are you gonna say: vegetable – 4 syllables – or veg – 1 syllable! Veg!
You can also say veggies, veggies! So yeah, if you go to the green grocers you buy
fruit and veg. Fruit and veg. Fruit and veg. Talking of food, the first meal of
the day is brekkie. Yes, breakfast is far too long, it's an
enormous word breakfast, so we make it shorter and we simply say brekkie. And
what does every English person drink with their brekkie? They have a cuppa.
Cup of tea. We can shorten to cuppa. Do you want a cuppa? Of course I want a cuppa!
I'm English! Alright, the next word is bevvie. Bevvie and bevvie
is also a type of drink, it's an alcoholic drink, it doesn't matter which,
it could be beer, it could be wine, but it is short for beverage. Well really it's
short for alcoholic beverage, but when you're in a
pub with your friends you could say, 'do you want a bevvie?' If you are not in the
pub but you want to buy an alcoholic beverage from a shop or a specific type
of shop that only sells alcohol you go to the offie. The offie. And the offie is
short for the off-license. The off-license is.... is that, it's simply
a shop that sells alcoholic beverages so yeah you go to the offie to buy your
bevvies on the way to your friends house to watch the footy on the telly. The 10th
word is deffo. Deffo is short for definitely. Definitely. Do you want a cuppa
with your brekkie? Deffo!! Definitely is such a long word that we have to, we
have to shorten it to deffo. Another extremely long word is afternoon. Oh so
long! So instead of afternoon we say arvo. Arvo. Yeah I'll see you this
arvo. Have you got any plans for tomorrow arvo?
OK, the next word is congrats. Congrats is short for congratulations.
Congratulations. We very, very oftenly say congrats. And finally we have two grammar
words which we always shorten in spoken English. I'm sure you've heard them
before, you've definitely seen them before and you've definitely heard them before
in music and English films, I'm sure. The first one is gonna. Gonna. This is short
for going to. Gonna. And it's often followed by a verb, so instead of saying,
'I'm going to watch the television', we could say "I'm gonna watch the telly" or
instead of saying "I want to watch the football this afternoon with an
alcoholic beverage" you could say "I wanna watch the footy this arvo with a bevvie.
I wanna watch the footy this arvo with a bevvie. There you go!
14 superb reasons why English is so flippin' difficult to understand for
you if you're listening to two British people speaking to each other. But there
are many more and if you can think of any other words that we shorten in
English write them in the comments below. I know there are more and I know you
know more too, so put them in the comments and let's help the community
learn all these shortened words to help everybody learn British English together.
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