Being British with Gabie Kook! - 5 REALLY English Expressions!

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Today I'm talking with Gabby Kook the amazing Gabby Kook!

Hi!

We're here to learn some British English!

I become a bit serious my attempt to do a British accent

You have to be very serious and emotionless because British people,

we don't have emotions

what?

It does come across as you guys don't have this that much

Yes

Right? It's really flat I would say

That's a really good point yeah

so we speak kind of neutral

and at the end of the sentence we go down

We finish on down

So in a question or you you know how a "Valley Girl" accent, or the Australian accent is?

(Valley Girl Gabie) Oh my gosh!

That inflection goes up

It goes up

British does the opposite

(British Valley Girl Gabie) I can't even

Exactly

this is the most British way you could say "I can't even"

...While sipping tea

so today we're gonna do five really really super British expressions that

you can use and you can use in your daily British life

Oh this one's a good one

If you're angry with your boyfriend girlfriend or husband

How could you express that you're in a bad mood with them?

-I'm pissed! -You're pissed!

Annoyed. I'm annoyed at you!

Is that your face? Is that the face you give?

I'm annoyed! You're SO annoying!

Pissed is more strong so I almost never use it

It's a good one though. It's useful

You could also say "I'm in a strop"

What? I've never heard of that before

You know those moods that you get in when you're like "I don't want to talk to you!"

You're angry and "I don't want to talk to you!"

It's that feeling

-I'm on a strop! -In!

I'm IN a strop, I don't know why I keep saying ON

prepositions are annoying

you could also modify it, you could say "I'm in a massive strop!"

-I'm in a massive strop! -That sounds very British

I'm in a massive strop today because I didn't have my tea

It's a good reason to be in a strop!

yeah yeah

You understand my people!

I can't be bothered

-Oh yeah -Have you heard this one before?

Yeah yeah yeah

how would you use it?

whenever Josh asks me to do something

that I don't wanna do

-and I'll say "I can't be bothered" -Can't be bothered!

So this just means you either don't have energy, or you don't want to do the thing

Eh! You can't be bothered!

So other examples could be

Gabby do you want to go for a ten-mile run right now?

No I can't be bothered

But I have to do it in British English! I can't!

So a British accent would be:

Instead of "(American accent) can't" it would be "(British Accent) can't"

I can't

You make the "T" glottal

What that means is you stop the T in your throat

So instead of "can'T"

you can say /kɑːnʔ/

then "bothered"

bothered

so the last syllable is really lazy

bothered

-Bothered -Nice

I can't be bothered

The next one we would use when you're very very tired you're exhausted

You've had a long day working or cooking pancakes

what's a really British Way of saying super tired

-I'm knackered -Yes

-Is it right? -Yes, "knackered"

Oh yeah before I moved here I'd never heard of that word before

once when I was in school

I said to my teacher "I'm really knackered"

and they gave me detention

because apparently there's like a sexual connotation with it

It's like I had sex so much that's why I'm tired

Do people use it like that as well?

No, no one does

Maybe an older generation would, maybe!

-But no one does today -It's appropriate

It's fine, it's just very British

-Can you say it in the British accent -Knackered

knackered... knackerrrred

But did you notice, at the end you did the American "rrrd"

-"knackeRRed" -Knackered

Try just saying "Ud"

perfect

see you got it that's perfect

so you've been cooking pancakes all day how do you feel?

I'm knackered!

There's also another way that you could say "knackered" and that's

shattered

- Shattered! - So you can say with the perfect British Accent

- How do you feel? - Knackered! Shattered!

I feel a bit erm... I don't know

- A bit British? - Yeah

If you had a Cockney accent, you might say shattered with a glottal T

/ʃæʔəd/

/ʃæʔəd/

Whoa! You did that perfectly!

I have a friend who has a Cockney accent

A really strong one?

Yeah really strong one! Joel, after four years I understand you

Hey Joel!

This one we use all the time and it's very versatile

if you want to go out or go somewhere

for a very quick visit

or go somewhere very quickly and then back

how might you say that in a British way?

"Oh I might swing by..."

"Swing by..." is a great one!

- Oh is that British? - No

But the really British way would be "pop to..."

Oh yeah!

- Have you heard of pop to? - All the time, everybody around me says that

Right so if I'm coming to your house quickly, I could say "swing by" or..

"Oh, on my way home I'm gonna pop by"

"I'm gonna pop by"

So when do I say "I'll pop up..." What is it?

If you're leaving your house quickly you can say "I'm gonna..."?

Pop...

Pop out

Pop out

If you're going to the shops really quickly, "I'm gonna pop to the shops"

- "Pop to the loo"

You can say that

I hear that all the time from Ollie

Pop to the loo

It is the proper way to say so they don't have to say they're peeing or pooping?

Yup

"I'm gonna pop to the loo"?

It's just a nicer way of saying "I'm gonna poo now"

Pop to... Pop up...

pop... what was it?

Pop out

Pop to, pop up

Ah so, "pop up", and "pop down"

those are kind of weird

If I say "I'm gonna pop up the shops"

pop up the shops

But you could also say "I'm gonna pop DOWN the shops"

"Pop DOWN the shops"?

- Yeah, and it means the same thing - Oh ok

- Up and down, the same? - Exactly the same

We're British, we don't make sense

These are really nice everyday British phrases

that I've been hearing, but I've never used it

You never used "pop"?

No, I never said "pop"

It's fun to pop

It's fun to pop... to the loo

And the last one...

If you don't trust someone or something

How would you describe it?

Like "This... mmm no, I don't trust it"

"It looks..." or "it seems dodgy"

- Ahh "Dodgy"! - You know "Dodgy"?

Yeah

Josh says it all the time

I say it all the time too

Josh was walking once in a dodgy alleyway at night

and he got robbed

Here? Are you serious?! That's not good!

That's why I always say "Avoid the dodgy alleyways!"

Cool so I hope you learned some really British expressions

Did you learn some new stuff today?

- Yes - What are you gonna do today?

I'm gonna pop to Tesco!

Nice!

-Yeah? -Yeah -Yeah?

- Nice - I'm gonna pop to Tesco, get some salmon

Are you gonna run a marathon?

Can't be bothered

Why can't you be bothered?

I'm knackered

and also you seemed so angry today, what's wrong?

Ah I had some haters this morning so I'm in a strop!

- Dodgy people can't be trusted - Can't trust dodgy people

Oh my god, today's been so much fun Thank You Gabie for joining me

It was so much fun! I had a free class! Amazing

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- Really? - It's like there

Yeah! See you're touching it That's your video

Oh, okay

See you next time

Bye!

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