look everyone knows Americans originally come from a little island in Europe called the United Kingdom and they took with them the lovely English language but today not only does the Atlantic Ocean divide the two Nations but there's also a huge difference between the language we say trousers they say pants we say football they say soccer we say biscuit they say cookie English from the UK is perfect how did they mess it up they decided to come all the way to Miami and I brought with me this lovely book the official guide to British English with
this gorgeous book and my help I'm going to test Americans on their British pronunciation vocabulary and general knowledge and hopefully by the end of this video they'll be able to say I speak British English anyway we better get cracking let's go hunt down some Americans yeeha what's your name my name is Clinton where you from I'm from North Carolina nice how good your British English um so so cool what's your name Denzel nice where you from Miami mates all right how good's your British accent we'd have to see mate what's your name Emanuel nice and
where you from Miami Miami Britain do you know any British English hello what's your name hi there I'm Vincent AAL I directed The Genius of Johnny Versace alive documentary on the fashion designer made in Italy Johnny Versace where and where are you from I'm originally from Baltimore Maryland good and how good's your British English do you know much a bit um I am from as I said Baltimore Maryland and Lord Baltimore founded Baltimore Maryland Lord Baltimore started this Colony wow I mean I don't know if this English I'm speaking or what y'all want to call
it but I thought this was my great version I'm doing now it's okay we have the official guide official guide to British English so the first round British ackson round one read out the sentences in your best British accent I'm go for a a at the Pu that's really good first one room to improve but I'm going for a pint at the pub and going for a pint at the pub I'm going for a p for a pint at the pub that's pretty good n was all right I'm going to number two can I get
a bot of water that is that's nice just like the queen oh my God a queen can I get a bottle of water can I get a bottle of water nice kid that's really good can I can I get a bottle of water number three it's Tuesday I in it in it it's Tuesday in it it's Tuesday in it perfect perfect it's Tuesday in it what is this word uh in it is isn't it in it is Tuesday isn't it we you want to say the T we say Che Tuesday Tuesday it's Tuesday it's Tuesday
in it good and number four let's go for a Chey nacho nandos nandos I'm trying here people give me a break let's go for a cheeky nandos let's go for a cheeky nandos nice let's go for a Cheesy nandos a cheeky nandos oh it's cheeky I'm so sorry sorry it's my my handwriting is terrible number five will you up at will you up at taking the piss mate will you stop taking the piss mate will you stop taking the piss mate will you stop taking the piss mate seems like you had a bit of practice
with this one will you stop taking the PX mate the piss mate oh the piss will you will you stop taking a piss mate I think that's a pass round two pass round two round two vocabulary in this round you have to read the sentence and guess the slang wow those two are having a proper chinwag chin what do you think a chinwag is oh my definite chinwag is China Chicken those two are having a proper chinwag what you think of chinwag is a kiss or some type of chin wig or something like a CH
Chinese wig a Chinese wig is that what you think my mom's telling me that but like I think I I screwed up on that one chin wag so the chin like wagging like it's chewing eating uh having a chat having a chat what chin your your chin like and then wagging oh like a fish out of water bit like that yeah what do you think is it having a chat having a chat chin wig do you have any slang for chinwag or like having a chat in American English if I had to choose slang for
chinwag it'll be hey holler at me okay holler at me yeah holler at me that's the American term for from my parts where I'm from ghetto slame hey holl at me peoples um maybe it's a like a chat or conversation yeah good what is there anything in American English that would be similar uh those two are having a proper sitdown uh let's have a sit down let's have a sit down let's have a talk or in many cases let's have an intervention if one of our friends is like uh doing stuff that we're concerned about
and they're like going over the deep end uh you know we want to have a proper intervention where we can kind of focus on them and say hey let's get you through this let's have a serious chin whack yes that's it last night I pulled a bird last night I pulled a bird last night I pulled a bird this one's a little bit scandalous a little a little bit not too much damn these are I pull the bird this is not easy um to pull a bird a scandalous female well it is about females b
a bird is female in in British English Okay I pull that bird well uh well I caught a girl out or something like I met a girl last night or something and did what I mean I was hoping we have some type of sexual intercourse but that's that's it so it could be anything from like a kiss to a bit more okay so basically I I spent time with a lady last night something you often do well exclusively at night time really take a shot what what does that mean uh oh get a girl yeah
yeah yeah is that the same take a shot but be the same in American English I mean take a shot at your girl like you know but I was thinking more like an alcohol shot but this is pulled like pull the bird means like you you pulled the girl right yeah so it could be just like you kissed or or more who knows the bird is normally what we say for like girls we say my right a bird my bird interesting my bird last night I pulled the bird mate I pulled the girl good excellent
so you kissed a girl maybe you did a bit more who knows yeah have have you called a bird recently yeah mate I'm waiting on her she wanted to meet me out here mate oh really okay all right we better run through this quickly okay a bird is a lady oh my God yeah we also say my Ms my bird my Ms okay last night pulled a a Ms okay got it would not have known that one so it's um you spent some time with a lady of some could be a kiss could be more
got it got it very cool that's cool to know the road the roads are choca block today the roads are choa block today choco block choco block the roads are choco block today the roads are choco block today that accent's pretty good though thank you thank you thank you I'm getting the more pages I flip the better I think I'm getting what do you think choco block is Chua block is breaking up some cocaine or something traffic yeah yeah well lots of traffic lots of traffic all right the roads are choca block today choca block
this so that like Miami so they're jammed up or they're yes jammed is anything else in American dis uh the the roads are completely um filled up they they're jammed up bumper-to-bumper traffic the roads the roads are busy oh the roads are okay it's like like a traffic jam yeah yeah how would you say that you have any sort of slang for that slang it's JP it's Jam pack it's j i just we use initial JP for JP the roads are JP yeah JP jamack the roads are chak block today the roads are full of
traffic yeah ding ding ding nice okay okay you are Ming minging you are minging you are minging you are minging you are minging you are minging what is this word minging minging minging okay uh you are minging you are minging mate what do you think minging is you are being crazy mate it's something horrible but not crazy you are minging oh you are minging you are minging you are you are nasty mate would you mean nasty minging yeah like well disgusting mean disgusting you say nasty yeah we say nasty got anything else in American English
for minging um nasty disgusting you tripping mate tripping yeah we we have like another say your Butters in the UK your but your Butters oh no you heard that one though no I haven't heard it sounds something horrible to say well yeah not terrible but not the nicest thing you're maybe arguing or uh you're minging you're um disgusting yeah disgusting oh my gosh it's bit bit bit horrible to say but you are minging okay if I you are minging you are minging okay if I had to guess what you are minging is that like you
mingling with somebody and y'all singing or something it's something really horrible to say to someone like you minging you up my language people but I just love the colorful language you you are you are disgusting you are disgusting how would I say this in American English American English you fou you you vile you fou like you foul like you foul disgusting I'm learning a lot I never that one either yeah you're foul can I pitch a mate what do you think is can I pitch a mate wow I a do not use this in Miami
can I pinch a mate uh okay can I pinch a mate think of faggus it's definitely not what what I'm thinking right so can I can I pinch a mate can you help me out mate in what way with money not money not M you you are you give someone something but not money a hand is a a cigarette oh a cigarette you what you call this is there any slanging for cigarette in the US well we call it a square let me get a square square a square square like the the shape square is
that a normal cigarette or a funky cigarette no regular cigarette regular cigarette mates can I pinch a mate through cigarettes yeah bags or cigarettes I I remember that somebody of the same sex can you pinch their body but um or is it have anything to do with can I get a cigarette or something yeah a is a cigarette yeah general knowledge are you ready round three knowledge round how many countries are there in the UK two 4 or 100 two 4 or 100 in the UK how many countries make up the UK I reckon two
F answer can I phone a friend reaches um I say two is my final answer it's four I was just missing two yeah he's England Scotland ain't never been on the other side I just remember two that I went to England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland Northern Ireland there's Scotland there's Wales um and the United kingd of Great Britain Northern Ireland Wales Scotland where am I from where's Oxford or London oh Oxford London England England yes so the UK the United Kingdom is England Scotland Wales and England Scotland well else and Ireland yeah exactly four
D yeah yeah four do you know do you know the four for a bonus point no mate all right next question which of the following was not invented in the UK chicken teiki teika masala I don't know what to say chicken TI Masala chicken matini masala which of the following was not invented in the UK chicken liquor Masala chicken tick Masa Masala beans on toast peanut butter the second one is beans on toast peanut butter which one was not invented in the UK going to go with the obvious peanut butter is it made here I
think invented here though I think so it sounds like it would be it doesn't sound like a UK food I'll tell you that much have you ever tried beans on toast I haven't fire you no no no my wild guess is growing up in the urban community and the projects you know I'm thinking we made peanut butter so I would have to go with peanut butter reges correct nice okay you're on a row now oh yeah I'm on a row like cotton nail beans on toast I think that's very British unfortunately and peanut butter is
so Skippy and jef and America so peanut butter is very American okay so peanut butter yeah and it was kind of during the time of when we went up to space uh in the ' 50s and 60s and so they wanted to have uh things that they could eat that wouldn't spoil finish the sentence that you are likely to hear in London mine the blank option one man second option Queen third option Gap mind the mind the queen no mind the queen something you might hear in a train station mind the man mind the gap
there's like a space okay queen queen is my final answer mind the queen mine's the queen what the hell I thought London was all about the queen it's something you might hear on the train or something you will hear on the train sorry on the Underground on the subway Gap yeah mind the gap mind the space when you get mind the gap okay mind the gap Queen Gap yeah it's something you hear like when you get on the train you hear like mind the gap like mind the the space okay oh Gap okay M the
Gap absolutely have you been on the London Underground I did indeed I love it it's great what colors are the public buses in London option one pink second option red and third option blue blue mate not blue that red red that red yeah yeah if I was in London I will have to go okay think outside of Miami blue buses I will say the buses are pink pink buses almost okay and we know on the color spectrum pink is the lightest shade of red so I have to go with red Yes red K Ching one
more question and you are British all I want is a room somewhere far away from the cold nights air with one enormous chair wouldn't it be lovely okay um how many Harry Potter Harry Potter books are there 71025 final question the lightning around this for who Wants To Be A Millionaire 1 million pound 1 million pounds and I hope and kiss the queen I can pass on kissing her I'll say 25 20 final answer to be British to be British my final out I would have to go with 25 7 10 or 25 seven seven
nice even though I didn't read them seven I think we can officially say you speak British English I guess we can officially say I'm going to the UK oh it's seven it's seven but but I think for your effort and time we can say you are British I am British how do you feel like I do in here English I feel the same well I think it's official you are British you don't need this anymore you don't need it you have passed how do you feel I feel wonderful M 71025 um are you yeah give
confidence you got it I think it's lucky seven seven is seven yeah are you big Harry Potter fan I love Harry Potter Daniel rank cliff and I had a wonderful time at Sundance Film Festival many years ago okay so I have officially done my job mission complete I have converted Americans back to what they should be British the queen's English if you want to continue practicing your English check out this video this one here click it now smash the like button and I'll see you next time
