No.1 BRITISH SLANG WORD IN THE WORLD

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Eat Sleep Dreamers do you want to sound British? I mean like properly British. Like really
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British. Because if so, this word is the most British slang word that I can think of and
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if you learn it and you know it, you are basically British. I mean, that's what I'm saying. I'm
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saying if you use this word, you will become completely British. If that sounds good to
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you, stay tuned.
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Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English, if you haven't met me before I'm Tom and I teach
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fresh modern British English so that you can take your English to the next level and achieve
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your life goals. Today we're looking at one of the most British slang words that I can
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think of. I mean one of my big things is that i love to teach fresh modern British English,
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stuff that you might not find in your English language course book. And this word is definitely
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one of those words. The word is 'innit'. Right, what does innit mean? Well, this is a remarkable
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word guys. This is a word that does so much and yet it's so easy to use. You are going
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to like this, you are really going to like this.
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Primarily we use innit in question tags. For example 'you like chocolate, don't you.' The
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don't you is the tag and that's the bit we replace with innit. So I would say 'You like
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chocolate, innit?' Now we use question tags for two reasons. One is to ask a genuine question
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and that's when the intonation will go up at the end. If the intonation goes down at
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the end then we know the answer to the question but we are just looking for confirmation from
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the other person. So if I put innit back in to that sentence 'you like chocolate, innit?'
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That is going down, I'm checking. I know the answer, I know that you like chocolate I'm
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just looking for confirmation from you that I'm right that you like chocolate. Alright,
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let's put it into another sentence 'You passed your driving test, innit?' Alright so you
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passed your driving test. Now in a normal question tag that would be didn't you. 'You
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passed your driving test, didn't you?' But with innit we don't need didn't you, we throw
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that away, we'll just put innit. So you passed your driving test, innit?' So again we are
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just looking for confirmation that they have passed their driving test. Alright another
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example. 'You're doctor, innit?' Alright, you are a doctor innit. Ok, so what would
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that normally be in a regular question tag? That would be 'You are a doctor, aren't you?'
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Now we don't need aren't you that's grammar, that's difficult. Let's throw it away 'You
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are a doctor, innit?' So again we are using innit to replace the usual question tag with
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innit. Now what you will notice there is that you don't have to think about the grammar
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so instead of thinking about what the auxiliary is. So you are a doctor, the auxiliary is
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are so now I'm going to have to switch that for the question tag, I'm going to have to
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switch that to a negative. So you are a doctor, aren't you? ok so are and aren't are opposing
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auxiliaries, so one positive and one negative. You don't need to worry about that, you can
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just say innit. So you are a doctor, innit? So much easier. You like chocolate, innit?
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So not you like chocolate, don't you? It's you like chocolate, innit? How much easier
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is that? That's crazy, that's crazy how easy that is. Now there are a few important things
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to to know about this word. The first thing is, this is the most British slang word that
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I can think of or certainly one of the most British slang words out there. So you need
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to think about is this word one that you should be using. So if you are in your IELTS exam,
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definitely don't use this word. If you are in a business presentation, definitely don't
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use this word. If you are an international student and you are studying abroad in Britain
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at university and you have lots of young British friends then yeah, why not? Why not use this
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word. That will make you sound very very British. So yeah why not? It can also be used to show
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an agreement with someone. So if someone says 'This song is brilliant.' You could say 'innit'.
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And that means yes it is or I agree. Someone might say 'That exam was really hard.' You
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can say 'innit'. So again you are agreeing, you are saying yes that exam was quite hard.
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It's important to say this right now that I wanted to teach you this word for couple
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of different reasons. One that I think it's part of modern English so it's really important
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for you to know especially if you coming to London or to Britain and you are travelling
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around or you are studying here. This is a word you are going to hear. It's also a word
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that's an important part of British culture because it's used in so many TV programmes
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and references in the media. It's one that is used through out British society and so
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again I think if you are interested in British culture then this is a word that you are going
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to see and that you are going to want to understand. It's also one that you are not going to find
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in your English course book so that's pretty good. And finally it's one that replaces a
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lot of difficult grammar. Grammar that people find challenging and so if it can help you
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in your spoken English, well that's pretty cool. So four good reasons to learn this word.
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