POSH ENGLISH: Old-fashioned British English Expressions

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  • @MacakPodSIjemom
    @MacakPodSIjemom 5 років тому +101

    Upon my word! Most of those words I've learned from my English language books, or from literature, and I use them online. Never knew I could come across as a posh person. Toodle-pip, old chaps!

  • @JoelRudewicz
    @JoelRudewicz 3 роки тому +11

    Is it me, or is this lady just the cutest?

  • @raiseyourworld5324
    @raiseyourworld5324 4 роки тому +18

    Many above are still used as general daily language today: How do you do?, Cheerio, Chap. Darling, Dear (without the 'my'), Ghastly, frightful, glorious, marvellous, gosh, Heaven forbid (rahter than God forbid), Well I never, chin-chin and hear, hear. Also another way of sayng 'goodbye' would be 'ta-ta for now'. Within sentances: "He was very nice chap", Darling, can also be used between platonic friends "could you be a darling and pass me my coat", "Really darling, that just wont do", "What a ghastly colour", "Frightful weather outside" when torrential rain, snow blizzard etc , "What a glorious day" either beutiful sunny weather or havind.had a lovely day out somewhee that was really enjoyed. "Marvellous" usually when something better than good, used on it's own or in sentance "What a marvellous day we have had", !Gosh!" either used on it's own as an exclamation or in sentance "Gosh! that was good" or !Gosh! that was a bit hairy" (hairy being used as 'frightening', an abbreviation meaning 'hair stand on end', So, not all are "old fashioned" but still in use today :-)

  • @giovannitabasso2411
    @giovannitabasso2411 2 роки тому +4

    In some lessons of yours you gave us advice to take somebody's speech and way to talk as our personal model for self-training. Well, I just think you'll be mine: your way of teaching is the best I found out so far. Keep on teaching, please, despite the great efforts the videos require. Cheerio!

  • @videogra5645
    @videogra5645 4 роки тому +12

    Never knew that "marvelous" and "splendid" are old words. We use it now regularly

    • @diegoyuiop
      @diegoyuiop 4 роки тому +1

      Who is "we"?

    • @videogra5645
      @videogra5645 4 роки тому +2

      @@diegoyuiop You don't use "marvelous" and "splendid" in your vocabulary?

  • @Effaly_
    @Effaly_ 5 років тому +92

    I have a weakness for old posh British English. It just sounds so lovely. 🥰

    • @Lat265
      @Lat265 3 роки тому +1

      Snob! Come to a poor part of U.K. and say that in a bar!

    • @Gonkawonga
      @Gonkawonga 3 роки тому +1

      read P.G.Wodhouse. love his Psmith series

  • @ingvarr3016
    @ingvarr3016 4 роки тому +7

    So Jade, you're so spiffing when your trying to teach us speak poshy. Luv u )

  • @rafli6966
    @rafli6966 5 років тому +41

    It's been a while.. Glad to see you back..

  • @Jeanne7774
    @Jeanne7774 Рік тому +2

    I love this kind of English that people don't speak anymore! It is most charming!

  • @RSkyCar
    @RSkyCar 5 років тому +4

    The 'Downton Abbey' great example and fun to watch.

  • @stevenhuffnagel
    @stevenhuffnagel 5 років тому +16

    Just when you've had enough of those over-edited teaching videos recommended to you by UA-cam (oh, sugar!), Jade comes up. Spiffing, my darlings! I need to go and have my morning cup of tea and start my stupendous weekend.

    • @Dawwwg
      @Dawwwg 5 років тому +1

      Hear hear, old chap !

  • @blueline308
    @blueline308 5 років тому +4

    Perhaps your best video yet ! Always look forward to seeing you Jade. 🙂👍

  • @jeoenriquez7151
    @jeoenriquez7151 5 років тому +14

    Love it. I wish you were my English subject teacher in school.

  • @ForestKicks
    @ForestKicks 5 років тому +6

    My favourite thing about your videos is how you always scoot in from the side

  • @runito75
    @runito75 4 роки тому +1

    Your videos are fun Jade. Real spiffing! Jolly good!

  • @Mx25a
    @Mx25a 5 років тому +17

    By Jove, old bean, can I say its marvellous to see you back! without any leeway of doubt it is indeed. Good show, thanks. And... tally bally ho!

  • @azaharuddinansari8681
    @azaharuddinansari8681 5 років тому +2

    Old is gold just like old words thanks for sharing knowledge

  • @tatapanawasebi
    @tatapanawasebi 4 роки тому +6

    Splendid! Jane, I love this lesson!

  • @naythitiworada1157
    @naythitiworada1157 5 років тому +5

    FAB lesson! You did great. Thank you Jade.

  • @aparecidoferreiravais321
    @aparecidoferreiravais321 5 років тому +2

    Hi Jade glad to see you again
    You're awesome I love your videos and you have a lovely accent
    Thanks a lot my dear teacher have a great Sunday 😉🇧🇷

  • @aidarouselabe23
    @aidarouselabe23 5 років тому +5

    I sounded posh just watching your lessons. Thanks Jade!

  • @Blueshot111
    @Blueshot111 5 років тому +2

    All hail my dear. Spiffing lesson. What fun. I haven't laughed that much since I read Macbeth in school.

    • @beeflat4287
      @beeflat4287 2 роки тому

      Right, I had many laughs, as well.

  • @larsw8776
    @larsw8776 4 роки тому +7

    In my part of the world we're taught 2/3 of these expressions as normal English at school.

    • @manni1998
      @manni1998 3 роки тому +1

      me too
      (late 70s in Germany)

  • @eugenebar6646
    @eugenebar6646 10 місяців тому

    Such a marvellous lesson! Quite splendid 🎉

  • @lgeray1
    @lgeray1 5 років тому +15

    Reminds me of that wonderful sitcom of the nineties called 'Keeping up Appearances', where working-claas lady Hiacynth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouqueeee') aspires to climb the social ladder - this effort is as desperate as it is in vain... Each episode ended in a complete desaster - so funny!

    • @Peter1Europe
      @Peter1Europe 4 роки тому +3

      "Lady of the house speaking "

    • @Lat265
      @Lat265 3 роки тому

      There’s nothing funny about The British Class System, it’s not as bad as the Indian Caste System, but according to the US couple that have been to Britain for You Tube Tube videos, they said there is much more of a class system in the UK compared to the US. I am from Britain, i hate posh accents, makes me want to punch a posh person!

    • @lgeray1
      @lgeray1 3 роки тому

      @@Lat265 You are right, no class system has ever been funny, however, satire can make fun of it.

  • @beeflat4287
    @beeflat4287 2 роки тому +1

    Hi, splendid lesson, thank You very much. Btw I am sitting here in good old Hamburg listen to Your entertaining expressions and explainations of my beloved second and mother/father language of Yours. Some of these words and sayings I luckily know already from the Pirates Of The Caribbean and My Fair Lady. Surprisingly, there‘re a few we do have in German with the same meaning : Old chum - alter Kumpel or God forbid - Gott behüte and hear, hear ! - Hört, hört ! Well, I do enjoy Your lessons, cheers

  • @onuralpalp890
    @onuralpalp890 5 років тому +3

    I think Ten Minutes is enough a video, in generally im watching old videos for learning. thanks jade for your channel ;-)

  • @mehdielharaki7050
    @mehdielharaki7050 5 років тому +4

    Thank you very much for your help . Your student from Morocco 🤗

  • @arunasimas
    @arunasimas 5 років тому +9

    At scholl weve learned to say how do you do how do you do, but when i first visited the uk it was more like ohrightmate:D lol

  • @lucindawinehouse2002
    @lucindawinehouse2002 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Jade
    I learned all these expressions in my History Classes at secondary school . I attended secondary school from 2013 until 2018
    However I still use these expressions in my English even though I left school 3 years ago I still remember the vocabulary from my history classes
    My History teacher used to greet the class with How do you do ? and the class answered with How do you do ?
    And as the students were leaving the classes we said Cheerio

  • @bogdancristea9270
    @bogdancristea9270 3 роки тому +5

    When I came to Cambridge to start my PhD, I thought I would impress my supervisor with such outdated language (of course, I had no idea it was outdated, I just thought it was nice and posh). But he wasn’t impressed at all: he spent the next couple of years trying to make my work sound like a researcher’s from the 21st century instead of one from the Victorian age.

    • @fanusbiru8902
      @fanusbiru8902 3 роки тому

      Lol but the old language is the best

    • @lucindawinehouse2002
      @lucindawinehouse2002 3 роки тому

      I use all this language even though i was born in the 2000’s (2002)

  • @arsonlover2616
    @arsonlover2616 2 роки тому +2

    even tho i am not a british myself
    i quite like to use british accent for my formal english

  • @edsoncastro2988
    @edsoncastro2988 11 місяців тому

    Muchas gracias por la lección.

  • @meharnosh
    @meharnosh 4 роки тому +2

    Your explanation is marvelous Jade:)

  • @marksanders2237
    @marksanders2237 4 роки тому +2

    Spiffing job "Jeeves" ironing my newspaper!

  • @stefaniechong9640
    @stefaniechong9640 5 років тому +12

    Welcome back Jade.

  • @thilakasirispathiranage9981
    @thilakasirispathiranage9981 5 років тому +1

    What a frightful old chum! ........ What a spiffing idea? Happy Thanksgiving to the staff of engvid.

  • @nguyenminhthao9926
    @nguyenminhthao9926 5 років тому +2

    hello teacher. I really love your accent. Please release some more videos about topic-related vocabularies. For example, family,... Thank you

  • @cvoque
    @cvoque 5 років тому +2

    Upon my word, what a splendid comedy talent!

  • @gkemalb2704
    @gkemalb2704 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for sharing. Get it easy.

  • @winterahmed1
    @winterahmed1 5 років тому +4

    Yes… Finally, they are called Posh English, and we have them in a lesson. I really needed this long time a go, Thank You Jade, Thumbs Up.

  • @ram31299
    @ram31299 4 роки тому

    Good accent... good one to learn better!! Hear hear I say it as loud as I can.
    I like Toodle pip one!

  • @hassanjim9920
    @hassanjim9920 5 років тому +3

    thanks, you have a wonderful accent...

  • @aligbeer
    @aligbeer 5 років тому +1

    Hi Jade I love you and I love your videos it’s really useful and I am appreciate your amazing job I love your Way to teaching you are amazing you are my angel sweetheart 🙏

  • @dmitryglushenko2624
    @dmitryglushenko2624 5 років тому +1

    A jolly good one, Jade, thank you

  • @حسامسماوي-ب4ث
    @حسامسماوي-ب4ث 5 років тому +4

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ... I love you from Iraq

  • @reptoidcommand1060
    @reptoidcommand1060 5 років тому +1

    Merry Christmas and a.......
    Happy New Year !!! .......
    ...Jahhyd dahhling !!

    • @reptoidcommand1060
      @reptoidcommand1060 5 років тому

      Where is my precious little upvote!
      Now you see it...now you don't..bleckkhkk! (I'm not crazy..it was there!)
      Somebody's plaayyhhing gaheeems! (I love it!)

  • @SVLOGS1M
    @SVLOGS1M 5 років тому +2

    Happy to see you again, it's been a while

  • @robertogerol1200
    @robertogerol1200 4 роки тому

    Wow I loved !! Stupendous performance and your smile... have no price

  • @israeldasilvacouto1060
    @israeldasilvacouto1060 5 років тому +2

    Awesome teacher!!!

  • @puturro
    @puturro 2 роки тому

    you're just lovely explaining all this.
    I have a question: how do British people use the word "love" to address someone who's not close? how does that work?

  • @Albion89
    @Albion89 Рік тому

    Could you make video about Scottish-English ?

  • @VigilanteMian
    @VigilanteMian 3 роки тому

    When I was in school we were taught to say “How do you do.” I never knew about the phrase “How are you” till I came to America.

  • @mchlwilson1
    @mchlwilson1 2 роки тому

    I say! Absolutely topping of you!

  • @realwarriorscholar
    @realwarriorscholar 2 роки тому

    Your lesson was marvelous darling! Toodle pip!

  • @CatoRenasci
    @CatoRenasci 3 роки тому

    You should listen to the Noel Coward song “I went to a marvelous party”. - very posh, priceless.

  • @konstantink6764
    @konstantink6764 5 років тому +3

    A funny lesson! Thanks!

  • @aristodimospapafloratos4852
    @aristodimospapafloratos4852 3 роки тому

    Splendid video ☺️☺️. Really we appreciate it very much !!!

  • @ravent3016
    @ravent3016 3 роки тому

    Old-school posh folk are so OTT. :)
    I've seen too much Jeeves and Wooster, because chin-chin was the only phrase I didn't know.

  • @해를보자
    @해를보자 5 років тому +7

    she's so pretty and good teacher ~!!! 앗힝 ~!!

  • @kangkinkang
    @kangkinkang 3 роки тому +1

    In Singapore, instead of saying WTF, we say What The Fish 😀

  • @ambrogiolorenzetti4628
    @ambrogiolorenzetti4628 7 місяців тому

    as a posh person, I can confirm that is a great video.

  • @Ankit3933
    @Ankit3933 4 роки тому +1

    My parents used refer their old friends when I was child like he was my school/class fellow or something like that

  • @iuriemilicenco7887
    @iuriemilicenco7887 5 років тому +2

    I´m very impressed.

  • @stobbi38
    @stobbi38 4 роки тому +2

    8:53
    Her: "when they can be bothered to show uo there, because there's not a lot of... "
    Me: "Space."

    • @islamadam8502
      @islamadam8502 4 роки тому

      "because there's not a lot of things they need to debate these days."

  • @horatiodreamt
    @horatiodreamt 5 років тому +7

    What about "old bean"?

  • @you-know-who9023
    @you-know-who9023 3 роки тому

    Spiffing lesson Jade 👍😃

  • @fernandobautista3200
    @fernandobautista3200 5 років тому +1

    Muchas gracias profe, eres única!!!

  • @andredingstertsao
    @andredingstertsao 4 роки тому +8

    Lol. Remember when I started to learn English we actually greet each other with How Do You Do on a daily basis.

    • @Lat265
      @Lat265 3 роки тому

      Yes, because English people are fake.

  • @faisaldeshmukh3653
    @faisaldeshmukh3653 5 років тому +2

    I need. This is so important

  • @brd8764
    @brd8764 4 роки тому

    Thanks jade. It has been so. We renovate.

  • @aikinskonadu3919
    @aikinskonadu3919 5 років тому +1

    wow thank you very much dear

  • @mbachiropractic
    @mbachiropractic 3 роки тому

    Absolutely fabulous 🤗😬

  • @diehardAMD
    @diehardAMD 5 років тому +2

    The "how do you do" is like Japanese "genki desu ka" -> answer "genki desu" where ka means ?

  • @harryshine3381
    @harryshine3381 5 років тому +1

    Doing good job Jade......

  • @JulioLeonFandinho
    @JulioLeonFandinho 5 років тому +2

    You could say also 'tata and farewell!' If you're leaving some place...
    Don't ask from who I listened this expression

    • @DJ-gl8rw
      @DJ-gl8rw 5 років тому

      Viejotrueno
      I bid you

  • @wut9042
    @wut9042 5 років тому +1

    Glorious!!

  • @jejeijaa2234
    @jejeijaa2234 5 років тому +2

    How do you do?and how are you Both I really have a class in199x hong Kong,But no one used it at the time@@Just say how are you?

  • @RichardDworkin
    @RichardDworkin 5 років тому +1

    Wonderful!

  • @zizo-d8m
    @zizo-d8m Рік тому

    78٪
    I got 7/9
    thank you Jade

  • @Worldcitizen2020
    @Worldcitizen2020 5 років тому +1

    Welcome back Jade

  • @GB-ek2em
    @GB-ek2em 3 роки тому

    « Hear, hear ! » = « Oyez, oyez ! » in old French. (from the old verb « Ouïr » = « to listen ») :-)

  • @夏夢アイ
    @夏夢アイ 5 років тому +4

    British: Cheerio
    Me: **Gives Cheerios cereal with milk**

  • @Ahmadsyar
    @Ahmadsyar 5 років тому +15

    it's weird to witness english person impersonating an english person at 2:11

  • @vIkSyNeX
    @vIkSyNeX 3 роки тому

    My mum never swore she used to say. For Foxes glacier mints.😆

  • @chamcham9174
    @chamcham9174 3 роки тому +1

    I really wanna learn English not just by listening or watching videos but by talking to someone who is fluent in it but I have no one to talk to😔

  • @strafrag1
    @strafrag1 3 роки тому

    Scarlette O'Hara said "Oh, fiddlesticks" in Gone With The Wind.

  • @natn41r
    @natn41r Рік тому

    Used to use "bugger" a lot without knowing what it actually meant, lol.

  • @brickbreaker666
    @brickbreaker666 5 років тому +1

    nice to know

  • @misadate8688
    @misadate8688 5 років тому +1

    i actually use bugger quite a lot

  • @nikhhiilreddi1371
    @nikhhiilreddi1371 4 роки тому +1

    Is the phrase "Pip Pip" still used?
    which also means "good bye"

    • @alexojideagu
      @alexojideagu 4 роки тому +2

      Nobody in the UK says Pip Pip even the Royal Family. It's Americans who perpetuate that phrase as being British. It's rarer and more old fashioned than anything in the video.

  • @georgethomas7781
    @georgethomas7781 5 років тому +1

    Marvellous

  • @ملطنينان
    @ملطنينان 4 роки тому +1

    Hello, my name is abdel.please what mean. this words prefixes and suffixes?

  • @Bizarro69
    @Bizarro69 2 роки тому

    "not gonna say what it means... Uhm... So moving on from that." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @natalia5778
    @natalia5778 5 років тому +3

    Who's on the bridge ? I didn't understand :)

  • @LIHUI-MOTORS
    @LIHUI-MOTORS 5 років тому +1

    Welcome back.

  • @Ian_Butterworth
    @Ian_Butterworth 2 роки тому

    This video is the dialogue of Nigel Bruce's Dr. Watson opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes.

  • @stankormy5717
    @stankormy5717 5 років тому +1

    The English language sure has changed!

  • @meenki347
    @meenki347 5 років тому +4

    You're adorable. You're my Liza Dolittle. ♥️

  • @tazaoumur
    @tazaoumur 5 років тому +3

    My English teacher at school used to say that the only correct way of greeting people is "How do you do?" (and that the response has to be the same).

    • @Lat265
      @Lat265 3 роки тому

      Tell her to go away……..