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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 lovely lovely film i love it so much if you have any questions leave them down in the comments below and i will try to get to as many as i can if you want to follow us on instagram you can do so there if you want an online one-to-one english lesson with me or my partner the link for that is down below 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