The English We Speak: Yap

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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"Stop yapping!" Learn a word to use when someone talks a lot with Feifei and Georgie. For more great language tips and programmes visit bbclearningenglish.com

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.5	Our podcast series, Office English, is back with weekly episodes to help you improve your English at work.
0:12.7	Learn useful phrases to boost your career in English, from setting goals to using small talk, to
0:18.9	apologising when things go wrong. Follow the Learning English
0:22.5	for Work podcast to listen or visit BBC LearningEnglish.com. Hello and welcome to the English
0:29.5	we speak, where we're explaining expressions used by fluent English speakers so that you can use
0:35.8	them too. I'm Faye Faye and I'm joined by Georgie. Hi Faye
0:39.6	how are you? I'm very well. Thank you. How are you? Well, to be honest, I'm feeling pretty
0:44.2	great today actually. I woke up feeling really energetic. I felt really well rested and then I had
0:49.8	the most delicious breakfast. So the day started off really well and now I'm just really excited for
0:55.4	the week ahead because I've got lots of nice plans. I need to go out and buy some food and
1:00.1	things like that because I have a friend coming to stay so she'll need some food. Okay. Okay, Georgie,
1:05.9	there is a time for yapping and it's not now. Let's get on with the program. Oh, okay. Sorry, Faye Faye. Well,
1:13.6	you just told me to stop yapping. So why don't we learn yap in this program? Let's. YAP is a slang word
1:21.0	which means talk or gossip continuously for a long time. It refers to informal on-series chat, so it's not used
1:29.2	informal settings. Yes, I actually used this the other day because I saw a really old friend
1:34.7	who I hadn't seen for ages. I went to hers for dinner and we spent the whole evening yapping.
1:40.5	We yapped non-stop until about midnight. We had a lot to catch up on.
1:44.5	Right. So yap can be used when one person is chatting endlessly. But it's also something
1:50.4	that you can do with another person. You can both yap together. Exactly. Now, it can
1:57.0	occasionally have a slight negative connotation. When someone is talking too much and you want
2:02.0	them to stop, you can say stop yapping. Right, like what I set to you at the beginning of the
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