ESSENTIAL BRITISH SLANG: Important informal ENGLISH vocabulary [speak English fluently] 

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Hi Ashfaq, all of the slang in this video is very commonly used and is polite, so you can use it in exactly the same way and in the same contexts that you would use the more formal vocabulary. Because it is informal, it is used much more than the formal alternatives. I am perfectly comfortable using this language with my family, friends, teachers, strangers... The only words that I might not use in a formal situation are the slang alternatives to 'drunk', but you probably wouldn't be discussing that topic in a very formal situation.

Thank you! I see you have lots of academic English videos. I teach EAP during the summers and it's on my list to create academic skills content. I'll definitely refer my students to your channel. So many videos, so little time!

@@EnglishWithEm Hi Em, sure it will be great to engage in win-win collaboration with you. Just let me know if you have any ideas or would want to write on our blog. Anyone that read any of your content on our blog that wanted to be your student would then become your student without us getting any commission. :)

The present perfect simple is used when we are more interested in the result than the action. I have painted the door. Doesn't it look great? (I have finished painting the door and I am happy with the result. The present perfect continuous is used when we are more interested in the action than the result. I have been painting the door. I'm covered in paint and I'm tired. (The action could be finished or unfinished. We don't know the result yet, but we know what action I have been doing).

I have read the book you let me, I finished yesterday ( this is present prefect we use aspecific time ( yesterday ) when we using prefect we say I have read book. Present prefect continues I have been reading book you let me I got one more chapter. I want to know the difference but the first has yesterday so I get confused. Thank you

@@abdimohamud4604 the first phrase combines 2 tenses: I have read the book you lent me (present perfect - no specific time). I finished yesterday (past simple - specific time). If you want to say when something happened, you have to use the past simple. It is clear from these two phrases that you have finished reading the book. I have been reading the book you lent me and I have got one more chapter (present perfect continuous - the action has been in progress for a period of time and is not finished).

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I haven't heard the monkey one before! I asked my mum and she told me it's a London expression, so I don't know how I haven't come across it 😂

Ah, yes! That's one for another video!