The English We Speak: ' anorak'

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🗓️ 21 March 2011

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this series you can learn authentic English words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. This week's word is 'anorak'.

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0:00.0	This is a download from the BBC.
0:03.0	For more information and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com
0:08.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak.
0:14.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:17.0	Oh there goes another train.
0:24.0	What do you mean, another train?
0:27.0	It was a D-5900 cars, diesel-electric locomotive, the last one in operation.
0:35.0	Uh, okay.
0:37.0	And due to arrive at 1203 is the class 170 turbo star British diesel multiple unit train from Edinburgh.
0:48.0	Great.
0:50.0	You don't sound very interested?
0:53.0	Well, I'm not. You do realize that you are a complete anorac when it comes to trains, Wong.
0:59.0	An anorag that's a kind of code. Yes, I'm wearing an anirac, but I'm not a kind of
1:09.1	of code, William. I'm Wang Fay. Yes, well the word Anirac is used to describe people who have an obsessive
1:17.5	hobby about something that not many people are interested in. I see you mean a hobby like train spotting but I thought
1:26.4	everyone liked it. Well what's so interesting about standing in the cold waiting for rare types of train to arrive.
1:35.0	The only trains I'm interested in are the ones which get me from A to B.
1:40.0	He's a total anorak. He always stays in and watches Star Trek.
1:48.0	My friend is a bit of an anorak when it comes to dance music. He knows every DJ and every track, when they were
1:57.0	published, how high they got in the charts. I prefer just to dance to it.
2:03.0	So you really don't like trains.
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