Learn English Anywhere (Singapore Edition)

Eat Sleep Dreamers, welcome to Singapore!

I'm here for a few days, just travelling through,

meeting up with an Eat Sleep Dreamer and I thought well this is a great place to learn

English. So just like I did back in London I'm going to do a video today about learning

English anywhere. Because I believe that it doesn't matter where you are, you can learn

English anywhere. You've just got to look in the right places. So for example I'm going

to look at adverts, I'm going to look at street signs, I'm going to look at shops and see

what great English I can find for you guys. So I'm going to have a look round Singapore

for the next few days, see what English we can find, teach it to you yeah it should be

fun. Ok, let's do this guys!

Alright, an early problem. The rain has suddenly come in and the tropical

rain has started. There's thunder. This is going to make it hard to search for English

outside so I've just come to a shopping mall here, Raffles City, have a little look in

there, see what English we can find.

Ok, I'm outside Jack Wills which is a British shop and I've found 'Spring Vibes'. Now vibes,

that's the word I wanted to look at. Vibes kind of means like mood. So they've got a

collection of t-shirts here which have got colours, like spring colours, so it's kind

of like spring mood. Like that's the kind of feeling they want to give you. You could

have summer vibes or I see on social media for example someone will be on holiday and

they'll post a photo of their holiday and they'll put like 'summer vibes'. Like summer

mood, summer feeling. So yeah it's quite a trendy word at the moment, vibes. You'll put

a noun in front of it so summer vibes, spring vibes, holiday vibes whatever it is. Nice

bit of English there, quite modern. Definitely you'll find it on social media. Good job Jack Wills

Ok, I think this might be quite an international phrase but we'll learn it anyway. Happy hour.

Happy hour is when a bar like this puts on a special deal maybe it's two beers for one

or two drinks for one. Here it's two pints for about twenty dollars. So yeah it's an

incentive to get you to go in the bar. Happy hour, I'm tempted. Of course it isn't always

just one hour it could be a couple of hours and it might not even be in the evening it

could be in the daytime. This one is all day every day, so happy day not happy hour. And

to be honest whilst it's raining like this there's nothing else to do but to enjoy happy

hour. But I'm going to keep searching for English.

Ok, we've got a sign right here says 'Sorry we can't help you with the beach but we can

quench your thirst.' The verb to quench is to satisfy. So when you are thirsty, when

you need to drink you quench it. You drink a glass of water, you satisfy your thirst.

So that's the verb we use, to quench you thirst. So it's quite hot right here, I'm quite thirsty

so I need to quench my thirst, I'm going to get a glass of water.

Alright guys, before I start finding any English around Singapore I need breakfast. So I've

just gone in here, this is Ya Kun. They do amazing kaya toast which is a sweet sauce

on bread and then you have eggs and you have iced coffee. It's the perfect way to begin

a day in Singapore. So I've had that and now I'm going to go and find some English around

this beautiful city.

Alright a nice piece of English here on the MRT. 'Bags down for less frowns'. Now a frown

is a noun, it's when you have a sort of sad face. When you are a bit sad or upset you

might frown. I'll try and do it, hold on. That was my frown, it's a terrible frown but

anyway. Yeah so on the MRT signs here 'bags down for less frowns'. I guess it kind of

means if you've got your backpack you are going to bump people and then you are going

to upset people so bags down, put it on the floor. You are not going to bump people and

therefore no frowns. Alright, here's the train.

Alright guys, I've taken a little break from my search for English to come to Gardens by

the Bay which is the most beautiful place. It's this kind of serene park and they've

created these amazing super trees and I've gone up to the tree walk. You can go right

up to the top and just have a walk around and it is amazing.

Alright, I said that I was taking a break from searching for English but then I went and found some cool English

up here in Gardens by the Bay. So here's a nice little phrase 'Do not lean'. To lean

is a verb, it means to rest your body on something so you might lean on this sign here, you give

all your weight to this. So we can lean on a lamp post, you could lean on somebody, yeah

it's a good little verb. So even up here at the top, we are finding English.

Alright, here's another nice phrase. A bird's eye view. This is an idiom. It just means

a view point from a very high place. So obviously up here at the top of the trees I've got a

bird's eye view over Gardens by the Bay and over Singapore. A bird's eye view.

Now these trees are amazing. So they are big metal structures, enormous metal structures. They are going

up sort of a hundred feet, I don't know, even more. And then all the way up them they've

got plants growing so they create this super tree. The middle one is the biggest and that

has a restaurant at the top which is pretty awesome. At night time this place is magical.

They have a light show set to music. It's an amazing place to be. People are just sat

out at the bottom just taking photos lying there, enjoying the view. This place. Guys

you've got to come here. This is amazing.

Here's another nice sign, 'hang around longer'. Hang around means to kind of stay. Like stay,

you know. If you are at someone's house and they want to go 'No hang around, stay.' So

to hang around longer, to stay longer, don't go anywhere. Obviously they've used hang around

here with this picture because these flowers are hanging so its' kind of like a two meanings.

Like the flowers are hanging but hang around means stay. So yeah good work, I like it Gardens

by the Bay.

Alright I've come to Little India which is an area in Singapore that of course is full

of little Indian shops and restaurants and stuff like that. It's a really interesting

area. Lots of cool music, very vibrant area. Anyway, I'me here to have a look to see if

I can find some interesting English and maybe get a little Indian food as well.

Alright, as you can see I'm getting quite hot and sweaty. Now I've just found a nice

example here of English. It says tip-top Briyani. Tip-top kind of means the best like very very

good. So if you see something and it's in tip-top condition, then it's in the very best condition.

So maybe a car is in tip-top condition or a person is in tip-top condition they are

in the best possible condition. So I guess they are saying here that this is the best

briyani in Singapore. I don't know if it is but anyway, tip-top, nice one!

Alright guys, I'm taking a little break from the heat. I've come into a place called Hawker

Chan. Now this guys does Michelin-starred chicken and rice. This is amazing, there are

queues out the door and it's three dollars eighty which is like two pounds. So it's the

cheapest Michelin star meal in the world. Have a look at it. Alright, so we've got a

nice little adjective there. A Michelin star is an award given to high quality restaurants

from the Michelin guide and the adjective is a Michelin-starred restaurant. So they've

put the -ed on star to make it an adjective. So Michelin-starred restaurant. And this one

is the cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant in the world.

Guys I hope you've enjoyed that little trip around Singapore, I loved it, I found it suer

useful, I hope you have too. I hope that it's shown you that you can learn English anywhere

you are, it doesn't matter which city you are in. If you haven't checked it already,

I did a 'Learn English Anywhere London Edition', I'll link it right above. And of course I'm

going to be trying to travel around the world and doing Learn English Anywhere videos in

different cities around the world. But anyway guys, thank you so much for hanging out with

me and until next time this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer in Singapore, saying goodbye.