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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

177. What Londoners Say vs What They Mean

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Learning, London, Accent, Language, Pronunciation, Uk, Vocabulary, Teaching, Listening, Podcast, Learn, Education, Language Learning, Comedy, Grammar, British, Speaker

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is based on an article from the trendy/hipster website "Buzzfeed". It's about some common things that Londoners say, and what they really mean. It'll not only teach you some vocabulary, but will allow you to get under the skin of London and find out some real inside knowledge of what it's like to live there for real. I'll go through the list and explain everything for you. For more information click here http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/177-what-londoners-say-vs-what-they-mean/‎  Article originally published on BuzzFeed here http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/what-londoners-say-vs-what-they-mean . Photo illustration by Matt Tucker, Dan Kitwood / Getty/paulprescott72/Thinkstock

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0:00.0

You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information you can visit

0:05.0

teacher Luke dot WordPress.com.

0:10.0

Hello there, welcome to a brand new episode of the podcast. How are you doing?

0:16.0

You good? I expect you're probably sort of listening to this on your way to work or something,

0:24.0

or maybe on your way back from work.

0:25.9

I hope that you're on your way back in a way because you're generally in a better mood,

0:30.9

aren't you at that time? If you're listening to this on the way to work,

0:35.3

you're probably sort of, I don't know, you're probably feeling a little bit tense about the day,

0:40.1

depending on what you've got ahead of you, you might just spend your whole day sitting at a computer or something,

0:46.0

but you might also have one of those more high pressure jobs where you've got to perform.

0:52.0

Maybe you're a teacher or something like that and you've got to go

0:54.3

in front of your class and perform. Or maybe you're leading a meeting or presentation at work

0:59.4

today. The pressure's on. So you're kind of thinking about that as well perhaps.

1:03.9

But if you're on your way back from work, just the world is your oyster, isn't it at that moment?

1:09.4

You just feel a burning sense of potential, you know, when you're... you just left

1:15.0

left work you walk out of the office and you're when you've just left work you walk out of the office and you're like

1:19.2

ah freedom you know like that movie Brave Heart?

1:23.0

That's how you feel, isn't it, when you walk out of work at the end of the day.

1:27.0

Freedom! You know, you've got your freedom back again.

1:30.0

And you think, oh, think of all the possibilities, think of all the things that I can do with this free time that I've been given at the end of this day and you think of all the things, I could watch a movie, I I could read a book I could conquer the world

1:45.0

with this feeling and then you get home you realize oh I've got to do some housework and

1:49.9

then I've got to you know cook dinner and eat the dinner and then I've got to, you know, cook dinner and eat the dinner and then I've got to sort of, I'm

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