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good morning good afternoon and good  evening welcome to smashing english   before we start this video be sure to  subscribe because we make new videos   all the time and i don't want you to miss any  so with that said let's get on with the video happy valentine's day a day that can go one of  two ways it's either a day of romance chocolates   love or it's a day of crying stalking your  ex-partners on social media and waiting for   the whole day to end whatever your situation is i  wish you a very lovely valentine's day now because   it's a day of love i thought we could look at one  of my favorite romantic comedies love actually   written by richard curtis this film is one of my  favorite films of all time it's mainly a christmas   film but obviously it's also very centered around  love now i know what you're thinking laura why is   looking at love actually going to help me learn  english let me tell you i think that this film   does a really good job of showing british people  mainly british people there is one american person   in it but mainly british people talking in quite  a normal way sometimes with british media like   downton abbey or peaky blinders you know  period pieces they don't really show british   people talking how we really talk whereas in love  actually there are so many british slang words and   phrases that we really use every day so i am going  to teach you some british slang words and phrases   that can be found in the film love actually  just a little warning there might be a few   teeny little swear words in this because in  britain we do use teeny little swear words quite a   lot and also quite big swear words quite a lot but  today they'll only be little teeny ones in so if   you've got any little teeny people watching maybe  say bye-bye if you don't want them hearing teeny   tiny swear words okay that's my disclaimer done  okay first off we have pop it's a great word pop   and in one particular scene in this film we hear  it used twice so we have the character jamie he   comes home to find his brother chris in his house  and he says what are you doing here and chris says   oh i just popped over to borrow some old cds and  then a couple of lines later jamie says i thought   i'd pop back before the reception so what they  mean by pop is just to go somewhere quickly so   popping back somewhere is to go back somewhere but  do it quickly i'm not going to stay there for a   long time just popping back i'll be in there for  about five minutes or you might hear someone say   um can you pop to the shops and get me some bread  just pop to the shops just go to the shops quickly   don't spend a long time there just a five  minute job so in britain if you hear the   word pop used in a situation like this it means  to go somewhere quickly next up we have a word   that appears multiple times in this film but in  different situations and in different contexts   and the word is bugger what a great word bugger  oh bugger so the first time we hear it is when the   prime minister realizes that there is a gorgeous  woman called natalie working for him and he's just   started being the prime minister and he's thinking  oh no why is there a woman that i'm probably going   to fall in love with working for me that's going  to distract me it's going to be horrific and he   says bugger that is genuinely bad timing so when  you hear bugger used like this it's an exclamation   it's a sign of frustration it's something you  say if something's gone wrong if you're annoyed   but then later on in the film we also hear bugger  used like this bugger off bother off and that just   means go away get out of here it's like a playful  friendly banter way of saying go away you wouldn't   say it to your boss you probably wouldn't say  it to your grandmother but you might say it to   a friend if you were just teasing them bugger  could be considered as like a tiny swear word   i don't think many people in britain would be  offended if you said the word bugger it's not like   the f word or anything it's like a tiniest  white word a little one i'd say bugger off   isn't used so much anymore i think now  bugger off has been replaced by piss off   now piss off i think would be considered as  maybe a next level up swear word it probably   it's a bit more aggressive i'd say  you know if i told someone to piss off   that's normally not a playful thing it's normally  an angry thing you know i hate you go away piss   off you know if i say that to you means i don't  like you so say bugger off is a bit more friendly   piss off is a bit more get out the next word we  have is dodgy and we hear the word dodgy when   colin is talking about some weird looking food he  says yeah a bit dodgy isn't it dodgy just means   weird suspicious something that you can't trust  you know if your food looks dodgy maybe it looks   like it's rotten or looks like it might give  you food poisoning or it just looks a bit   um a bit weird i'm not i'm not confident in that  natalie talks about where she lives she says   i'm from wandsworth the dodgy end so the dodgy  end of wandsworth the dodgy end of a place is   the the bad end the end where you know if you  live there you might get robbed you might um   run into some criminals so dodgy basically is  suspicious not very good a bit untrustworthy you   can't trust it then the character colin is talking  about why british girls don't like him he's saying   you know this is the reason i don't have a  girlfriend it's because british girls they   they don't understand me he says that the girls  who would be most suited to him are the girls who   are game for a laugh now i think it's much more  common nowadays to say up for a laugh but it means   the same thing so if you are up for a laugh you  are someone who enjoys a joke you're someone who   enjoys a laugh you are someone who doesn't take  yourself very seriously you're fun to be around   you're up for a laugh the next word i want to  tell you about is sack to sack to sack someone the   prime minister talks about wanting to sack someone  if you want to sack someone you want to fire them   so we might say george sacked lisa earlier on  which just means george fired lisa or we might   say lisa got the sack so sack can also be a noun  the sack lisa got the sack lose your job bye the   next thing i want to draw your attention to is a  phrase so natalie is talking to the prime minister   and she is talking about her old boyfriend  she's saying she used to have a boyfriend   who wasn't very nice and the prime minister says  oh i'm sorry about that and then natalie says   i'm well shot of him i'm well shot of him to be  shot to be shot of something means that you are   far away from something you've taken yourself  away from someone or something but it usually   means that you are much better without that thing  or that person it's better that i'm away from them   i'm well shot of him so i'm far away from him i'm  distanced from him but also it's a good thing so   it's fine then of course it wouldn't be a british  film if some people did not talk about the traffic   we love talking about the traffic in britain  it's all we talk about traffic and weather that's   it the character john starts talking about the  traffic and he calls it murder he says junction   13 that's just murder so obviously murder means  very very bad bad traffic next up we have sodding   what a great word the prime minister says at  one point so much sodding money ask him why he's   spending so much sodding money sodding is just a  word that you might hear to emphasize something   it's like so much bloody money it's just another  teeny tiny swear word that you might put in front   of something if you want to emphasize it next up  we have a scene between daniel and sam and sam is   a little boy and he's very very in love with this  little girl and it's very sweet and he's talking   about the fact that this girl is the only girl for  him there's only one person for him and she is it   and then daniel says fair point and if you hear  fair point it just means yeah okay i understand   that's a good point you you make sense there  that's a good point but some people nowadays just   say fair instead of fair point they might just  say yeah fair next up we have the scene that is   probably my favorite scene in the whole movie the  prime minister realizes he's in love with natalie   so he goes down the street that he knows she lives  on and he knocks on every door to try and find   natalie and the woman who opens one of the doors  that he knocks on says you're not who i think you   are are you and he says yes fred so afraid so is  just a phrase that i think sums up british people   because we're always afraid we're always afraid  of offending people i think so we would use afraid   so if you are giving some negative news some  bad news something that maybe the person might   not want to hear so obviously in this context  he's using it as a joke so the person's saying   are you the prime minister and he says yes i'm  afraid so like sorry about that you know a bit   of self-referential humor now we come to our final  phrase so towards the end of the movie everyone is   at the airport and we hear one character saying  to the other what are you doing here he doesn't   say what are you doing here he says what are  you doing here this is quite common in a lot   of people from london they might just take out  words like r so like what are you doing here   or instead of what are you saying they might say  what you're saying again quite common with some   people not for everyone but sometimes you might  hear that are dropped and that's about it i hope   you learned some new words and phrases from this  film script i highly recommend the film if you   want to watch the film it's a bit rude so check  the um classification don't watch it with your   five-year-old children maybe just a warning but  it's a 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