Top 10 Basic English Phrases To Visit Britain

So you are coming to Britain. Maybe it's for a holiday. Maybe it's a business trip. Maybe

it's to study. Well here are the ten basic English phrases that you need to know.

Alright if there is one word you need to know if you come to Britain, it's thank you. We

use thank you all the time. If someone opens the door for you we say thank you. When the

waiter or waitress brings your food we say thank you. All the time. So we've got lots

of different ways to say thank you. We've got thanks. We've got thanks so much. We've

also got cheers, that's a really nice informal way to say thank you, cheers. So make sure

you learn one way to say thank you at least, and use it all the time. Our next word is

excuse me. Now this is a brilliant word because it has loads of different meanings. One meaning

is to get attention, someone's attention. So you can say 'excuse me' that means you

want their attention. It can also be an apology or way to apologise. So 'oh excuse me' is

a way to say I'm sorry. It's also really good when you are walking around the city to go

past people. You could say excuse me if you want to kind of walk around them, make sure

they know you are there. So it's a word that has lots of different meanings, super useful.

Perhaps the most useful word in English is 'sorry'. We use sorry all the time. I mean,

we use sorry to apologise even when we didn't do anything wrong. For example if someone

bumps into me, I'll say sorry. I don't know, it's a bit weird, I know it's crazy. We also

use sorry to get someone to repeat something. So if we didn't understand what they said

we could say 'I'm sorry' and that's a way to ask them to repeat what they said.

Now I'm sure your English is much better than you think it is but if you don't feel totally

confident with your English when you are here you could say to someone 'I'm sorry but I

don't speak much English.' That's a great phrase to use to prepare someone for a conversation

and hopefully they'll be a little bit slower in their speech. They'll say things more clearly

to help you to understand what they are saying. Now sometimes people talk really quickly so

you might want them to repeat what they have just said. So you could say 'could you say

that again, please?' Hopefully they will repeat what they said and you can understand them.

A super useful phrase that we use all the time is 'I'd like...' It's exactly the same

as I want, we use it to do everything. To order food for example you could say 'I'd

like a hamburger, please.' If you are at the tube station you could say 'I'd like a ticket,

please.' So I'd like is a really useful phrase. The I'd is I would so I would like, we contract

it, I'd like. So what do we say when we want to find something, when we want to locate

where something is? There are lots of different phrases we could use. We use 'excuse me' maybe

to get someone's attention and then we could say 'Excuse me, do you know where the nearest

toilet is?' or 'Do you know where the nearest tube station is?' Or 'do you know where the

nearest ice rink is?' Ok, we got that one. You cold say 'Excuse me, do you know where

Buckingham Palace is?' So a nice phrase to find where something is.

Of course if you want to know the price of something you could say 'How much is...' so

'How much is this?' 'How much is that?' 'How much is this t-shirt?' 'How much are these

jeans?' etc. How much, rally useful phrase. Another essential phrase when you come to

London is 'Could we have...?' So it's a very polite way to request something so for example

'Could we have the bill, please?' or 'Could we have the menu, please?' So could we have

or could I have is a nice polite way to request something. A little bit like earlier when

we looked at 'could you say that again?' Nice polite way to request something. Our final

phrase for today is maybe the most important although I know I've said that about every

phrase so far. 'Do you have wifi?' These days we always need wifi, we always need to be

connected so the phrase 'Do you have wifi?' The most important. You can also ask 'What's

the password?' So if they do have wifi you could say 'what's the password?' That's the

little word or number that they will give you so that you can get connected. Eat Sleep

Dreamers I hope that you found that useful. I hope that when you come to Britain you can

use all of those phrases perfectly. Remember I've got new videos every Tuesday and every

Friday helping you take your English to the next level. I've really enjoyed this walk

around London guys, I'd love to do it again sometime. until next time, this is Tom, the

chief dreamer, saying goodbye.