Name: Top 10 Basic English Phrases To Visit Britain
Uploaded: 2018-07-25T05:02:49.000Z
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So, you're coming to Britain. Maybe it's for a holiday, maybe it's a business trip, maybe it's to study.

Well, here are the ten basic English phrases that you need to know.

All right, if there's one word you need to know if you come to Britain, it's thank you.

Uh.... if someone opens the door for you we say thank you.

Uh... when the waiter or waitress brings your food, we say thank you.

So, we've got lots of different ways to say thank you. We've got thanks. We've got thanks so much.

Uh... we've also got cheers; that's a really nice informal way to say thank you. Cheers.

So, make sure you learn one way to say "thank you" at least, and use it all the time.

Now, this is a brilliant word because it has loads of different meanings.

The one meaning is to get attention, someone's attention.

So, you can say, "Excuse me, um, excuse me," and that means you want their attention.

Uh... it can also be uh... an apology, a way to apologize.

So, "Oh, excuse me," is a way to say "I'm sorry".

It's also really good when you are walking around the city to go past people.

You could say, "Excuse me," if you want to kind of walk around them, uh... make sure they know that you're there.

So, it's a word that has a lot of different meanings; super useful.

Perhaps the most useful word in English is "sorry"; we use sorry all the time.

I mean, we use sorry to apologize even when we didn't do anything wrong.

For example, if someone bumps into me, I'll say sorry.

I don't know, it's a bit weird, I know, it's crazy.

We also use sorry to get someone to repeat something.

So, if we didn't understand what they said, we could say, "I'm sorry?" and that's a way to ask them to repeat what they said.

Now, I'm sure your English is much better than you think it is.

But if you don't feel totally confident with your English when you're here, you could say to someone, "I''m sorry, but I don't speak much English."

I''m sorry, but I don't speak much English.

That's a great phrase to use to prepare someone for a... for a conversation.

And, hopefully, they'll be a little bit slower in their speech.

They'll say things more clearly to help you to understand, uh, what they're saying.

Now, sometimes people talk really quickly, so you might want them to repeat what they've just said.

So you could say, "Could you say that again, please?" Could you say that again, please?

Hopefully, they'll repeat what they said and you can understand them.

A super useful phrase that we use all the time is "I'd like". I'd like...

It's exactly the same as "I want"; we use it to do everything.

To order food, for example, you could say, "I'd like a hamburger, please."

If you are at the tube station, you could say, "I'd like a ticket, please."

So, "I'd like" is a really useful phrase.

The "I'd" is "I would", so, "I would like", we contract it, "I'd" like. I'd like.

So, what do we say when we want to find something, when we want to locate where something is?

There are lots of different phrases we could use.

Uh, we use "excuse me", maybe, to get someone's attention, and then we could say, "Um... excuse me, do you know where the nearest toilet is?"

Or, "Do you know where the nearest tube station is?" or "Do you know where the nearest ice rink is?"

Uh... you could say, "Uh... excuse me, do you know where Buckingham Palace is?" Do you know where Buckingham Palace is?

So, a nice phrase to find where something is.

Of course, if you want to know the price of something, you could say, "How much is blah, blah, blah?"

So, "How much is this?" "How much is that?" "How much is this t-shirt?" "How much are these jeans?" etc.

Another essential phrase when you come to London is, "Could we have...? Could we have...?" So it's a very polite way to request something.

So, for example, "Uh, could we have the bill, please?" Could we have the bill, please?

Or, "Could we have the menu, please?"  Could we have the menu, please?

So "could we have" or "could I have" is a nice, polite way to request something.

Um... a little bit like earlier when we looked at "could you say that again"; nice polite way to request something.

Our final phrase for today is maybe the most important, although I know I've said that about every phrase so far.

"Do you have wifi?" Do you have wifi? These days, we always need wifi, we always need to be connected.

So the phrase "Do you have wifi?" The most important. You could also ask, "Um... What's the password?" What's the password?

So, if they do have wifi, you could say, "What's the password?"

That's the little word or number that they'll give you so that you can get connected.

Eat Sleep Dreamers, I hope you found that useful. I hope that when you come to Britain, you can use all of those phrases perfectly.

Remember, I've got new videos every Tuesday and every Friday helping you take your English to the next level.

I've really enjoyed this walk around London, guys; I'd love to do it again sometime.

Until next time, this is Tom, the chief dreamer, saying goodbye.