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  • Hello.

  • My name's Sarah.

  • Today.

  • I'm going to be teaching you my top five favorite british slang words and phrases.

  • They're really common.

  • Everyone uses them.

  • I use them all the time and I really do hope you'll find good use for them.

  • So the first word we're going to learn is bugger.

  • It's a very popular word.

  • I'm sure you've heard it before.

  • If not go to England and I'm sure you'll hear, you'll hear it everywhere.

  • So this word has many meanings.

  • I'd advise you be careful when you use it and to who?

  • Maybe around friends is the best idea.

  • I use it as an exclamation if I dropped something I missed the train, maybe I forgot my phone at home.

  • I'll say bugger.

  • It sounds really good.

  • It's really useful and I do hope you'll find a good use for it.

  • The next word is cheers.

  • This means thank you If I'm talking to a friend, it's quite informal.

  • I might say cheers mate and mate of course means friend.

  • So when you use this you can use that in informal situations and you can also use it to finish off an email.

  • For example, I will say cheers sarah at the end of emails.

  • I hope you'll find good use for this word.

  • It's really british.

  • The third word is brilliant.

  • You might hear this a lot.

  • It's used for everything.

  • So the meaning itself means when something is really, really nice, it might even be fantastic.

  • So I might say, oh, your outfit is brilliant light or I might say that skirts really brilliant.

  • I had a brilliant day at work today when something's really nice.

  • Make sure you use this word.

  • The fourth word is well, now this is a little bit more unusual, but I actually use this every day.

  • So we use this instead of vary, you might hear someone say he's very tall.

  • Well, I would rather say he's well tall.

  • Or someone might ask me, how are you?

  • And I might say I'm well good.

  • So it's a really useful word.

  • People might not know what you mean, but you will sound very british if you use this now, we've come to the final word, which is bloody.

  • This has many different usages, but the way that I use it is more for emphasis for certain words.

  • So for example, I might say, oh that's bloody brilliant.

  • Or I might say I had a bloody hard day today at work, but it's also quite common to hear it as bloody heck.

  • Something that I like to use very often.

  • And you might even have heard this used in harry potter because it's one of Ron weasley favorite words to use.

  • So I hope you'll find really good use for this one.

  • Even if it's a bit strong, you'll hear it a lot.

  • So those were my top five favorite british language to use.

  • I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you'll make really good use of them.

  • Thanks so much for today and see you next time.

  • Mhm.

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  • Thank you.

  • Mhm.

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