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

624. 88 English expressions that will confuse everyone (Part 1)

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

Luke Thompson

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

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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624. 88 English expressions that will confuse everyone (Part 1)

An episode about British English slang and culture, featuring expressions that Brits know but everyone else finds confusing. Here are the first 30 expressions in a list of 88 that I found on independent.co.uk. Includes plenty of funny improvised examples to make you laugh out loud on the bus.

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0:00.0

Hello folks, before we get started here, here's a quick word from my sponsors and also the details of a London Leptsters meetup that is happening soon.

0:09.0

So the podcast is sponsored by I Talkie as usual, and I Talkie is a great way to find one-to-one teachers.

0:16.2

You can go on to their website, check out all the different teachers, all their different qualifications

0:20.7

and skills and things and when you find someone that you're

0:24.0

interested in having lessons with you can very easily organize a lesson and

0:28.1

then you have basically an English lesson at home because you do it through Skype.

0:33.0

So it's extremely convenient.

0:34.6

You don't need to actually leave the house.

0:37.0

It's great.

0:37.8

And when you buy some talking time, I-talk he will send you a voucher

0:41.6

for a free lesson.

0:43.2

Okay, right then, so that's the sponsorship thing.

0:46.4

Now let me just tell you about the next Leptster meetup

0:50.9

which is happening in London. So any London Leptsters? Hello, you're

0:55.9

welcome to come and join us for the London Leptster meetup. I will be there for

1:01.1

this one. I'm going to be in London at the weekend that weekend so I'll be there and so the date and time.

1:07.0

So it's going to be Sunday the 17th of November.

1:10.0

Sunday the 17th of November at 2 p.m. at the usual venue that's the Fitzroy Tavern

1:17.4

16 Charlotte Street Fitzrovia London W1T 2LY I love the Fitzrovia area of London. It's the kind of place that would kind of feature

1:27.6

in a Sherlock Holmes story or something. So the Fitzroy Tavern from 2 PM, I be there so let's play some board games and

1:35.8

have a drink. Zdenek from Zdenek's English podcast is organizing it.

1:39.7

Zdenek's organizing it so if you could send him an email to let him know that you're coming

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