The English words you don't learn unless you go to England.

0:00 There are certain British words that every British person uses every day.

0:06 But what are they?

0:09 In this video, I'm going to show you seven proper

0:12 British words that you don't learn unless you go to England.

0:16 I'm also going to show you the world around me and teach you English using it.

0:22 For example, this is a cat.

0:25 I'm stroking the cat.

0:28 On top of that, I'm going to hide a secret British word within this video.

0:34 And it's going to appear in many different contexts.

0:36 So, see if you can spot it before I tell you at the end.

0:42 Oops.

0:44 Drop my tea.

0:46 Speaking of tea, another very common British thing is a cup of tea,

0:51 which we would commonly call a cuppa.

0:56 Now, a cuppa can be coffee or tea, but it's more common that it's tea.

1:02 And it comes from a cup of tea,

1:04 which got shortened to cup of tea, which now got shortened even more to cuppa.

1:11 A cuppa, a proper British cuppa.

1:13 Now, let's make one.

1:16 But first, I need to ask my friends because it's good to be polite in England.

1:22 All right, tree?

1:23 All right, Jay.

1:24 Fancy a cuppa?

1:26 Two sugars.

1:26 No, three.

1:27 Actually, I'm a tree.

1:28 I don't care.

1:32 Hey up, tree?

1:33 Hey up, Jay.

1:34 Shall I pop the kettle on?

1:35 Do birds live in my branches?

1:37 Yes.

1:38 Pop that kettle on.

1:41 Pop.

1:42 Now, I'm going to brew the tea,

1:45 which is to pour the boiling water from the kettle into the mug.

1:50 And to brew is to let that tea bag

1:53 infuse inside the mug for the flavors to develop.

1:57 Now, I'll tell you what I fancy.

1:59 While I wait for this tea to brew, I fancy a cheeky biscuit.

2:07 Bickies.

2:08 These are McVities digestive biscuits and they are very British.

2:13 McVities were invented in 1892 because apparently they helped with digestion.

2:21 Turns out that they don't help with digestion,

2:23 but the name stuck and now nobody cares.

2:26 The next step when having a cup of tea in England is to dunk your biscuit.

2:31 A cheeky dunk.

2:33 Now, I've been using the word cheeky a lot.

2:36 What does it mean?

2:40 Cheeky means doing something slightly indulgent that maybe you shouldn't do.

2:46 Perhaps you would use it with food, a cheeky biscuit.

2:50 You might use it with a drink, a cheeky coke.

2:53 Or you might use it with a spontaneous decision, a cheeky detour.

2:58 I might say to my friend, fancy a cheeky pint?

3:02 And my friend might say, go on then, just a cheeky one.

3:06 Now guys, later on in about 1 hour,

3:09 I'm going on a boat ride to the place where King Kong the movie was filmed.

3:15 And I need to book my tickets.

3:18 So, Ah, sugar.

3:25 Gutted, man.

3:27 My screen has just cracked.

3:29 You can see the crack across the screen.

3:31 Gutted.

3:34 Ah, gutted.

3:37 Gutted means deeply disappointed, devastated.

3:42 It's that gut feeling you get when something goes wrong.

3:47 Oh, man.

3:48 Tree, I am gutted.

3:50 Don't worry, Jay.

3:52 Every cloud has a silver lining.

3:54 Yeah.

3:56 I suppose you're right.

3:57 In every bad situation, there's a positive side.

4:01 That's a nice way of looking at it.

4:04 Speaking of that, let's look for some new words.

4:22 She's licking her kitten.

4:24 She's licking them to clean them.

4:27 And we have here a cat and two kittens.

4:31 Kittens are baby cats.

4:34 Early this morning, these two kittens were playing with each other.

4:37 They were play fighting, pouncing on one another.

4:42 It was very funny, very cute, and a very good way to start the morning.

4:49 I'm not gutted anymore.

4:50 Now I've played with this kitten.

4:52 I'm sweaty, but I'm feeling much better.

4:55 In fact, I'm starting to feel tingly.

4:59 I'm starting to feel excited.

5:01 I'm very excited.

5:02 I am buzzing.

5:06 Why am I buzzing?

5:07 Because later, I'm going on a boat ride.

5:10 In fact, very soon I'm going on a boat ride.

5:14 I'm buzzing.

5:16 I'm excited.

5:25 All right, we're ready.

5:26 Take off the tote bag.

5:27 That's a tote bag.

5:28 I'm putting on my very fashionable life jacket.

5:31 This is neon orange.

5:33 Neon is like a bright version of a color.

5:36 And this is going to help me stay afloat if I fall in the water,

5:40 which hopefully I don't because Chang behind

5:42 the camera is holding a very expensive camera.

5:44 These are the straps or the buckles and I'm clipping them.

5:49 It's very hot.

5:49 It's very sweaty, but I'm buzzing.

5:52 Say hello.

5:54 It's Uncle Lee from London.

5:58 Remember me?

6:01 This is very peaceful.

6:03 So, we're traveling again through the rivers, the rice fields,

6:07 the mountains in Ninh Binh, in Vietnam, northern Vietnam.

6:13 And this is where they filmed King Kong,

6:16 the film with the big gorilla, Peter Jackson's film.

6:20 They filmed that here, or at least a part of that.

6:22 And you can see why cuz it looks other-worldly.

6:26 Other-worldly meaning of another world.

6:29 It looks alien.

6:30 Looks like a landscape that could be on another planet.

6:34 Now, I have a question for you.

6:36 Have you ever seen any landscapes like this?

6:39 What is the most phenomenal, spectacular,

6:42 other-worldly landscape that you have witnessed in your lives?

6:47 Let me know in the comments.

6:54 So, we are moving forward on the water.

6:57 We are rowing on the water and this is an oar.

7:03 She is using the oar to row.

7:05 And the texture of this rock is a bit sharp.

7:09 We might say jagged or rugged.

7:13 There is a lady wearing a non la riding a bicycle along the edge of the river.

7:19 Around me there are giant limestone mountains with trees on the edge of them.

7:26 It's beautiful, isn't it?

7:28 It is gorgeous, isn't it?

7:29 It's hot, isn't it?

7:33 I just used the word innit,

7:34 which you might hear British people use all the time.

7:37 And innit is a combination of isn't it?

7:40 Innit.

7:41 And we use it as like a a tag question.

7:44 So, it's nice, innit?

7:46 Means it's nice, wouldn't you agree?

7:49 I would also use innit to agree with someone.

7:52 If someone says this is gorgeous, I would say innit.

7:56 Like, isn't it?

7:56 Yes, it is, basically.

7:58 I agree with you.

7:59 That is proper British, innit?

8:02 Okay, now we are heading into a cave.

8:07 All right, guys.

8:07 It's about to get dark.

8:08 Now we're going into a cave.

8:11 Flip you around so you can see.

8:16 Have you ever been in a cave before?

8:20 Nice, isn't it?

8:22 That was good.

8:24 So, in this inside this cave, there is a cool breeze.

8:27 A breeze is a light wind and cool is the opposite of warm.

8:32 So, cool can also mean good, nice,

8:34 but in the context of weather and temperature,

8:38 cool means quite cold, nicely cold.

8:43 It feels like a pleasant adjective.

8:46 It's a cool breeze.

8:47 Now I need to watch I don't bang my head.

8:52 Right, now we're getting out of the boat and going on to the land.

9:00 We're just taking a short rest, a 5-minute break before we get back on the boat.

9:05 And we're walking around these gardens.

9:09 There are flowers either side of the path.

9:12 And giant mountains surrounding us.

9:16 I actually feel very small in this landscape.

9:20 It's pretty colossal, pretty huge, pretty giant.

9:24 So, now we're walking over a creaky bridge.

9:30 Can you hear the creak?

9:31 That sound is called creaking.

9:34 And it's associated with horror films, a creaking wooden bridge.

9:39 Hopefully, it doesn't collapse before Ah, my goodness.

9:44 I'm lost for words, honestly.

9:47 So, the final English word of the day is cheers.

9:54 Now, normally you might know cheers as the word

9:57 that you use when you clink the glasses together.

10:01 That's one use.

10:02 Another use is to say thank you.

10:04 Cheers, mate, means thanks, my friend.

10:07 And the final lesser-known use is saying goodbye.

10:12 Cheers.

10:13 Cheers.

10:13 See you later.

10:15 Now, it's not goodbye.

10:17 It's just cheers, see you later.

10:19 I'm going to get back on this boat.

10:20 We're going to get back to land, and after that, I'm going to reveal the hidden

10:25 word that I've been sprinkling throughout this video.

10:28 So, stick around.

10:33 Oh.

10:35 Proper British day.

10:39 Proper good day, isn't it?

10:41 That is the secret word that I've

10:43 been sprinkling throughout this video, the word proper.

10:48 And it's an intensifier.

10:50 It can be substituted with very, really, or incredibly.

10:55 That is proper British.

10:58 Now, if you want to practice with all the words you learned in this video,

11:02 then you can do that on sproutlanguage.com.

11:05 You can practice speaking with JI, which is an AI version of me,

11:09 and he understands all of the context in this video.

11:13 So, you can speak with him to put what you learned into practice.

11:17 That is proper good.

11:20 I'll see you there.

11:25 Nice, isn't it?