For everyone who has to watch this vid for a school task: 1. X-mas Jumpers 0:16 2. Pantomimes 0:44 3. Getting drunk at party 1:39 4. Advent Calendars 2:16 5. Writing letter to santa 3:00 6. Stockings 3:17 7. Brandy and carrots 3:36 8. Christmas tree 3:50 9. Christmas meal 4:13 10. Christmas TV specials 5:15 11. Christmas message 5:35 12. Crackers 6:23 13. Mince Pies 6:58 14. Christmas chocolate 7:30 15. Boxing day 7:35 16.??? Choppin down da tree 8:10
I love British people. And UK. I am Polish btw. ,live in Finland since 1/3rd of my life, and can’t say the same about Finns ;) I just love similarity of Polish and Uk holiday traditions and a bit of that old school vibe and manners in many individuals I meet... just love you people you’re great!
In Italy we mostly eat! We have a huge dinner at Christmas Eve, a splendid lunch at Christmas day and we eat leftovers on the 26th of December. Yes, food has a very special place in our hearts.
I saw Cliff Richard and the Shadows in Cinderella in Jan 1967. After, you could go around to the back door and Cliff would sit in the cloak room and use the counter to sign autographs and pose for pictures. My favorite is Black Adder Christmas, a yearly must. And, yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie. The Wise Men followed the Christmas Star. Harod asked them to come back and tell him where the King of the Jews was. The lights on the Christmas tree represent the Christmas star. If you leave the tree up, Harod could follow it to the Baby Jesus. Therefore it is considered bad luck to leave the lights up past Epiphany. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas...God bless from the USA
@@PlayingCOLDX Thanks for replying! I've always been interested in knowing what people in other countries do in December. In the Americas Xmas runs all December long. How do you go about December in Nepal?
@@woodrowwitham5204 well, I come from Indonesia, in my city we always celebrate Christmas very merrily, because it's the day we are waiting for, and we usually make cookies and other dishes for the guests who will come to greet, and also we always play fireworks at Christmas celebration at night, we also don't forget to go to church at night on December 24 and in the morning on December 25, after coming home from church we all started saying "Merry Christmas" to each other and also I always celebrate Christmas together with my extended family.
I can't believe you forgot to mention Christmas cards! In Italy that tradition has unfortunately faded away - maybe due to the ridiculous price of the stamps nowdays, but in the UK it's still alive 😊. It's such a pleasure to me sending fancy cards to my Brit friends, and they are all so pleased to send one back. Sometimes they add a sort of report of what they did along the year: holidays, job changes, any kind of adventures, etc.
I live in Italy and there's no tradition of Christmas cards😖 I have to ask my friends in London to send me some. Christmas in uk is magical and I miss it😳
Advent calendars are traditional here in Sweden too, though ours have 24 doors since we celebrate on Christmas Eve. Behind the doors can be pictures or pieces of candy. Some broadcasting companies publish their own calendars, and have a children's show with it, and at the end of each episode the door of the day is opened. Presents are commonly distributed late in the afternoon or early in the evening of Christmas Eve. I can't say I've ever photocopied my private parts, but I have photocopied my face. And I certainly have made a fool of myself at the company Christmas party. More than once. 😁
When I was a child, well and not such a child, I used to go to ask for the bonos around the neighbourhood. There were three of us and we went house by house playing a tambourine singing Christmas carols and the neighbours gave us some coins.
Ha ha ha - my dad opened the jar of canberry sauce and put it on his toast for breakfast. He moaned and said " this jam has no taste ." He wasn't wearing his glasses and is getting on a bit. Meaning , he's old!
What about going to carol services,Christmas shows,midnight mass.Possibly the only time that people go to church apart from weddings,funerals and christenings.Going to a Christmas service can be a tradition for some.Writing and sending Christmas cards to members of the family and friends.I am the only guy who does not shop for Christmas presents on Christmas Eve.
Love all British Christmas traditions! You forgot to mention the Christmas Markets Tom! visiting them and drinking mulled wine is a great part of the Christmas season! 🎄🍷🇬🇧
Where I live, there used to be a Boxing Day fox hunt gathering in the centre of town. Horse owners gathered and loads of hound dogs with them. It was once a tradition but banned and {A'hem, cough} it still goes on behind the scenes.
So many Christmas traditions, its wonderful. I think many families have their own Christmas traditions unique to them too. For us music was always an important Christmas tradition as important as a long walk on Christmas day. We always go to Christmas carols or a Christmas concert like Handel's Messiah, Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcacker, what ever is on and good really. I think music figures quite big for many in the UK.
I'm from Czech republic and Christmas carols are one of most important traditions for our family ✨ I love a good walk on a Christmas day too, especially when it's snowing ❄️
Oh, in the US we have pigs in a blanket as well, but they’re cocktail wieners (mini hotdogs) wrapped in crescent dough from a tube. My family personally has them more around New Year’s Eve.
Merry Christmas to you too! I lived in England as a child, and have always held up the idea of an English Christmas as being magical - probably because of those yummy traditions - mince pies, chocolate, mince pies and more chocolate
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish my mother raised by a German Father and French Canadian mother had presents on 24th when a santa would come and deliver the packages. Then Grammie would have traditional Tortierrre ( pork pie) ready for breakfast on the 25th
Eat Sleep Dream English yeah it is. And we don’t have father Christmas, who brings the presents. We have the Christkind (Baby Jesus). On the 25th we just stay at home or we meet other family members and the celebration goes on. A lot of food is involved 🤪.
Martha Anderson A kind of Santa comes to us too, but not on the 24th. Nikolaus (Santa), accompanied with Krampus, comes on the 6th of December and brings little bags of sweets.
It's so funny though, traditionally in Poland people dress their Christmas trees on the Christmas Eve and have them untill the 2nd of February. But I really enjoy having them earlier here in the UK!
Dear Tom, you are awesome. Just having my breakfast and listening to your X-mas traditions. Brings back all the memories from the time I lived in UK donkey years ago. Done and seen it all. Thanks for all your videos!! Merry Christmas to you!!
Свитер Jumper Создавать рождественское настроение get you in christmas spirit расслабиться To let you hear down пантомима (короткое слово) Pantoses наряжать шарами, мишурой, гирляндами положить подарки под елку Put presents undenearth the tree есть то, что осталось со вчерашнего дня Eat leftovers from yesterday
Brandy and carrots?! 😂 I never thought father Christmas was this "adult". In France it is tradition to leave cookies and a glass of milk, much more sweet 🙂🍪🥛
In Canada we go to church on Christmas Eve for a concert, eat sweets and tea when we get home, up very early Christmas morning open gifts,eat a huge breakfast of eggs bacon flap jackets in Maple syrup, cranberry jam.Then off to visit relatives for the day with a huge Turkey dinner at Grannies house.Lots of tea n coffe very little booze.Some cherry or wine here n there. Hahahahaha then get out the next day and do it all over again for aa week.Unsualy the dinner is at a different relative each day.most worker take the week off. Hahahahaha Merry Christmas from Nova Scotia
My Christmas is with all my family that’s in the state at the time. We feast and open presents from relatives on Christmas Eve and I open my moms presents on Christmas Day and eat again that day
Good you refer to Father Christmas, not Santa Claus! Note, however, The Queen didn't mention her 'annus horibililis' at Christmas - she used it in a speech at the Mansion House...tut tut, but seasonal greetings!
Every year I send my daughter in California a Christmas pudding through the post( post costs a fortune) she pours brandy or rum over it at Christmas dinner, which is the British tradition, then sets it alight. Gives it an even lovelier flavour. Of course I’ll be doing that also, I always say one for the cook and one for the pudding ha ha! Cheers! Hic!
Traditions here in the U.S. are SO regional and/or personal that it'd be impossible to list them all. With that said, decorating both inside and out is a big deal for a lot of people. Not just the Christmas tree, but lights and many other decorations. Some type of big meal is also common. For my family, it's my grandmother's lasagna, which is crazy (and a vegetarian's nightmare) made with hundreds of homemade mini meatballs and four other kinds of cold cuts and four other kinds of cheese.. So good! In our house we also do Christmas crackers, because when I was younger and I learned about the British tradition I thought it was fun and, perhaps surprisingly, they're easy to get here in the U.S. (last year I was determined to get some very special Christmas tree-shaped crackers from Marks & Spencer, which turned into a major ordeal haha). Christmas shows and movies are also a big deal here, although often we watch them on the days leading up to Christmas. All the old Rankin & Bass shows like Rudolph and Santa Claus is Comin to Town, A Charlie Brown Christmas, the original animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas, movies like Elf and Love Actually (naturally), Home Alone and, of course, Die Hard. And there's always Christmas music playing. I prefer a lot of the swing versions of Christmas standards from the '50s and '60s, mixed in with a few newer tracks.
While most Christmas traditions I've experienced are American, the main twists I have seen and partially experienced due to being of Puerto Rican descent are the foods. Among them are pasteles, coquito, pernil, and arroz con gandules. The first and last ones were prominent at home. Having pernil was not due to personal family reasons. I learned of coquito recently, and had it not been due to the caloric content, I would have made some this year. I do know of the tradition of parrandas, but having only celebrated Christmas in New York, I have never experienced it. Similarly, I have no knowledge of Three Kings Day. If you don't mind my asking concerning Christmas jumpers, what is your opinion on them outside of the season? The reason I asked is I picked up two, and one is a white version of the Rob Roy tartan/Buffalo plaid. I really like it, and have wondered if it can be worn during the other winter months.
In BC Canada, most of your traditions are identical to mine. A few differences, chocolates in the advent,Father Christmas is Santa Claus, no bread sauce.
Don't buy a Christmas jumper. Save your money and just decorate a jumper that you already have or buy the cheapest one from a charity shop,by doing that you are supporting the charity and not buying from a company that will manage very well without your money. I think you can have a fantastic Christmas, without going into debt.
0:55 And if you were a brownie or rainbow you'd get a pantomime every year on discount with you're group (and there'd be a kid with tons of snacks to share)
In Arentina is summer during christmas. So we usually having a dinner in our garden or in a fresh place. We eat "asado" (cow) or lamb. But at midnight we drink champagne with winter's deserts.. for example cake (chistmas pudding could be??)..
In Australia we also have warm Christmases. Prawns, maybe lobster if we can afford it, cold meats, only hot roast dinner if it turns cold. For dessert, something with icecream in it. At least we don't wear those awful pullovers.
What about going on evening walks to look at everyone's Christmas lights? Especially on Christmas eve. I've done this since I was a kid and now as an adult me and my boyfriend each grab a bottle of beer and do the Christmas lights walk.
I’m from Bulgarian, we share quite similar traditions with the UK, but I live in Spain 🇪🇸 and here is different. They have their presents on 6th January, the Three Wise Kings are bringing them. I’d never heard of this story before I came here🤔🌲
In Germany we have on 26th on december "Stefanus steinigen" (to lapidate Stefanus). It´s just another excuse to go the whole day to some different bars and drink a lot. It begins mostly somewhere around 11 and ends in the evening. "Stefanus steinigen" because 26th it´s the namesday of Saint Stefanus and he was killed by throwing stones on him. If your name is Stefan or Steve/n, this can get an expensive day, because you are expected to invite your friends for a drink.
In our family (in South Germany, but I don't think all German families celebrate Christmas that way) Christmas always started with a Christmas dinner around 6pm. The food was different every year, but something traditional for us in was "Spätzle with Schnitzel, Kartoffeln und brauner Soße". Don't know how to explain what that is, but its delicious!😂 After the dinner we sang christmas songs together, and then the kids were sent upstairs, where we had to wait for a while and play with our toys. Then, a bell rang and we knew the "Christkind" was there. I'm not sure what the english word for "Christkind" is, its the same as santa, but its religious and would be translated with "baby jesus". Anyway, we kids ran down the stairs as fast as we could because we wanted to see him, but we were always too late 😂. The "Christkind" brought lots of presents that all layed under the tree, and then the best part for us children came: we gathered around the tree, opened up all the presents, ate christmas biscuits and played with all the toys. That went on till it was late at night, and then all people went home and we went to bed. At the next day we would wake up super early and play with our toys in our pyjamas for the whole day :).
Here in Argentina Christmas is a very special celebration. Personally, I love it! Our tradition is to join ALL THE FAMILY together on Christmas Eve (we're about 70 people) and have a huge and insane party, we have some talented nephews who sing and play music all night... While the others eat basically eat an drink!! BTW ... Tom why did you spoke so quickly in this video? It was very difficult to understand... Anyway I love these cultural videos about British people!! 😀
I recently discovered you buddy and, I absolutely love your lessons..are quite friendly and very cultural as well. Thank you , you treat us as adults learning a foreign language and not as if we were silly strangers. Love you. Your speedy speech is all I needed. I can,t stand many other teachers speaking to me as if I was an i...t . If I don,t catch-all in the first place,.it does not really matter. I will get all next time. Thanks again.
Happy Christmas, Happy New Year to those of you in the UK! Love you guys and the UK as I'm part English/Scottish/Irish on my maternal side and German/Swiss American on my paternal side! OK, so we got over here in the early 1700s and fought you guys i.e. Red coats in the Revolutionary War and won! lol Still love Plum pudding and have also worn crazy Xmas jumpers/sweaters over the years as well! Thanks for sharing your wonderful traditions, cheers~
As a kid I always got up at daft a clock and my kids did too but this year for the first time I never got up till 8am as my youngest is 17 now but still we were excited and opened all our pressies straight away. 🎁
I live the UK but my family isn't Christmas so they don't celebrate it. But I love going to all the christmas parties at work and with my friends. Black Friday is the best day to buy Christmas presents, I always get the expensive ones then. I remember I went to Trafford in Manchester to shop on Boxing day and we went at 10am and still all but one parking lot was full at that time and you could barely move in the shopping centre with queues to pay in Zara all the way out the door. It was like the whole of Manchester decided to go there on Boxing day
Happy Christmas ... Have you ever created a vid on UK "puddings" ... There seems to be many different types and many stages of meals when they are eaten. Yorkshire... are they like a bread? some are baked some are steamed ... its a bit confusing and I believe our dear friends in the UK eat them most often .... If you have a vid, please let me know ...if you don't... please create one when you run out of other ideas!! THANKS!!
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For everyone who has to watch this vid for a school task:
1. X-mas Jumpers 0:16
2. Pantomimes 0:44
3. Getting drunk at party 1:39
4. Advent Calendars 2:16
5. Writing letter to santa 3:00
6. Stockings 3:17
7. Brandy and carrots 3:36
8. Christmas tree 3:50
9. Christmas meal 4:13
10. Christmas TV specials 5:15
11. Christmas message 5:35
12. Crackers 6:23
13. Mince Pies 6:58
14. Christmas chocolate 7:30
15. Boxing day 7:35
16.??? Choppin down da tree 8:10
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Grazie bro
Mi hai salvato, grazie bro
Grazie compa ti voglio bene
you are doing God's work
I love British people. And UK. I am Polish btw. ,live in Finland since 1/3rd of my life, and can’t say the same about Finns ;) I just love similarity of Polish and Uk holiday traditions and a bit of that old school vibe and manners in many individuals I meet... just love you people you’re great!
Merry Christmas every one, I wish you all the best this year 🎅🎄🎉🎁
Same to you friend.
@@namankumar9478 yep
This 2020 or next 2021 😂
2020 part 2
In Italy we mostly eat! We have a huge dinner at Christmas Eve, a splendid lunch at Christmas day and we eat leftovers on the 26th of December. Yes, food has a very special place in our hearts.
We do exactly the same in Argentina! All the Christmas thing is about food
The same goes for Germany!
No leftovers for my family at Boxing Day. It was a totally different menu, from the previous 2! Then, you'd have leftovers! Lol
Same applies for Hungarians
What food to you eat on Christmas Eve?
Talking about jumpers I listened to a joke.
"What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kanguroo?
-A wooly jumper"
😂
Funny!
The old ones are the best.
I love a sense of humor
Just love how you mistyped kangaroo it is like an accent 😀
If im ever gonna master british english and culture youre one of the reasons and people to thank to love this channel
5:55 I've got a feeling that we might hear 'annus horribilis' again this year, because what a f***ed up year this has been.
I saw Cliff Richard and the Shadows in Cinderella in Jan 1967. After, you could go around to the back door and Cliff would sit in the cloak room and use the counter to sign autographs and pose for pictures.
My favorite is Black Adder Christmas, a yearly must. And, yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
The Wise Men followed the Christmas Star. Harod asked them to come back and tell him where the King of the Jews was. The lights on the Christmas tree represent the Christmas star. If you leave the tree up, Harod could follow it to the Baby Jesus. Therefore it is considered bad luck to leave the lights up past Epiphany.
Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas...God bless from the USA
It's always been my cup of tea knowing other's culture
i love everything about Christmas even though we don't celebrate Christmas in my country.
Can I ask you where you're from?
@@woodrowwitham5204 Nepal
@@PlayingCOLDX Thanks for replying! I've always been interested in knowing what people in other countries do in December. In the Americas Xmas runs all December long. How do you go about December in Nepal?
@@woodrowwitham5204 😂😂😂I'm not from Nepal
@@woodrowwitham5204 well, I come from Indonesia, in my city we always celebrate Christmas very merrily, because it's the day we are waiting for, and we usually make cookies and other dishes for the guests who will come to greet, and also we always play fireworks at Christmas celebration at night, we also don't forget to go to church at night on December 24 and in the morning on December 25, after coming home from church we all started saying "Merry Christmas" to each other and also I always celebrate Christmas together with my extended family.
In Poland a Christmas special film is "Home alone":) not single Xmas can go by without Kevin:)
I think it’s pronounced ‘Keviiiiiiiiiin’
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish You are definitely right
There's the same tradition in some russian families 😅😅😅
Same in Mexico. Made even better when parts 1and 2 are broadcast back to back.
Same in Slovakia! And also traditional old Czechoslovak movies 😂
I am so excited I will be seeing my first Panto in January when I come to London for a vacation. Goldilocks and the Three Bears!
I can't believe you forgot to mention Christmas cards! In Italy that tradition has unfortunately faded away - maybe due to the ridiculous price of the stamps nowdays, but in the UK it's still alive 😊. It's such a pleasure to me sending fancy cards to my Brit friends, and they are all so pleased to send one back. Sometimes they add a sort of report of what they did along the year: holidays, job changes, any kind of adventures, etc.
I live in Italy and there's no tradition of Christmas cards😖 I have to ask my friends in London to send me some. Christmas in uk is magical and I miss it😳
Markus Solveig the reports about family and years events etc are called ‘round robins’.
@@thelandofmint we used to, back in the days.. we sent Xmas cards, Birthday cards, letters...but maybe you,'r too young to know that! Lol
Advent calendars are traditional here in Sweden too, though ours have 24 doors since we celebrate on Christmas Eve. Behind the doors can be pictures or pieces of candy. Some broadcasting companies publish their own calendars, and have a children's show with it, and at the end of each episode the door of the day is opened. Presents are commonly distributed late in the afternoon or early in the evening of Christmas Eve. I can't say I've ever photocopied my private parts, but I have photocopied my face. And I certainly have made a fool of myself at the company Christmas party. More than once. 😁
I dont think hes had an advent calendar in a while, ours have always had 24 doors too, even though we dont celebrate on Christmas Eve.
When I was a child, well and not such a child, I used to go to ask for the bonos around the neighbourhood. There were three of us and we went house by house playing a tambourine singing Christmas carols and the neighbours gave us some coins.
Ha ha ha - my dad opened the jar of canberry sauce and put it on his toast for breakfast. He moaned and said " this jam has no taste ."
He wasn't wearing his glasses and is getting on a bit. Meaning , he's old!
What about going to carol services,Christmas shows,midnight mass.Possibly the only time that people go to church apart from weddings,funerals and christenings.Going to a Christmas service can be a tradition for some.Writing and sending Christmas cards to members of the family and friends.I am the only guy who does not shop for Christmas presents on Christmas Eve.
Potevano mettere i sottotitoli anche in italiano
i approve
Love all British Christmas traditions! You forgot to mention the Christmas Markets Tom! visiting them and drinking mulled wine is a great part of the Christmas season! 🎄🍷🇬🇧
That's a German tradition
Kem Yes and it has now been adopted by Brits too. It's a wonderful tradition
Where I live, there used to be a Boxing Day fox hunt gathering in the centre of town. Horse owners gathered and loads of hound dogs with them. It was once a tradition but banned and {A'hem, cough} it still goes on behind the scenes.
So many Christmas traditions, its wonderful. I think many families have their own Christmas traditions unique to them too. For us music was always an important Christmas tradition as important as a long walk on Christmas day. We always go to Christmas carols or a Christmas concert like Handel's Messiah, Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcacker, what ever is on and good really. I think music figures quite big for many in the UK.
I'm from Czech republic and Christmas carols are one of most important traditions for our family ✨ I love a good walk on a Christmas day too, especially when it's snowing ❄️
Oh, in the US we have pigs in a blanket as well, but they’re cocktail wieners (mini hotdogs) wrapped in crescent dough from a tube. My family personally has them more around New Year’s Eve.
We have here in Germany the Advent calender and the father christmas in chocolate too. We have for food duck or goose with red cabbidge and dumblings.
My Boxing Day Tradition is going into the freezing sea in fancy dress and then everybody sitting round a fire eating Christmas food
Merry Christmas to you too! I lived in England as a child, and have always held up the idea of an English Christmas as being magical - probably because of those yummy traditions - mince pies, chocolate, mince pies and more chocolate
In Austria we have just 24 doors on our advent calendar.
Oh really? Is that because the 24th is the main event?
In Germany as well. We get our gifts on the 24th after dinner
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish my mother raised by a German Father and French Canadian mother had presents on 24th when a santa would come and deliver the packages. Then Grammie would have traditional Tortierrre ( pork pie) ready for breakfast on the 25th
Eat Sleep Dream English yeah it is. And we don’t have father Christmas, who brings the presents. We have the Christkind (Baby Jesus). On the 25th we just stay at home or we meet other family members and the celebration goes on. A lot of food is involved 🤪.
Martha Anderson A kind of Santa comes to us too, but not on the 24th. Nikolaus (Santa), accompanied with Krampus, comes on the 6th of December and brings little bags of sweets.
It's so funny though, traditionally in Poland people dress their Christmas trees on the Christmas Eve and have them untill the 2nd of February. But I really enjoy having them earlier here in the UK!
All Polish families I know (including mine) take the tree down on the 6th January, the Three Kings day. Perhaps it's different in your region?
My mother did that (in England) when I was a little girl. I don`t because there wouldn`t be time! Too much to do.
We have Christmas dinner on 24th in Poland with 12 dishes. My bf is from UK so good luck tomorrow haha ;)
Dear Tom, you are awesome. Just having my breakfast and listening to your X-mas traditions. Brings back all the memories from the time I lived in UK donkey years ago. Done and seen it all. Thanks for all your videos!! Merry Christmas to you!!
Свитер
Jumper
Создавать рождественское настроение
get you in christmas spirit
расслабиться
To let you hear down
пантомима (короткое слово)
Pantoses
наряжать шарами, мишурой, гирляндами
положить подарки под елку
Put presents undenearth the tree
есть то, что осталось со вчерашнего дня
Eat leftovers from yesterday
Brandy and carrots?! 😂
I never thought father Christmas was this "adult". In France it is tradition to leave cookies and a glass of milk, much more sweet 🙂🍪🥛
That sounded wired to me too
I just asked my friend in Wales and he said he and his kids do cookies and milk 🤷🏾
I’m from the US and I personally did milk, cookies and carrots. Could just be my family though.
Really positive video! Tom, I wish I could celebrate Christmas with you!
I'm French and never missing HM Xmas message!
Thank you, I have learned a lot from your channel. Keep going!
Hahahaha you’ve missed watching Love Actually. Oh I long for the time watching it with me mates every Xmas when I studied in the UK
I like mince pies with brandy sauce, and CHRISTMAS pudding!! my favourite from this seasons.
"Turrón y polvorones" in Spain! 🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬🍬✨✨✨
It’s beginning to sound like Christmas.
In Canada we go to church on Christmas Eve for a concert, eat sweets and tea when we get home, up very early Christmas morning open gifts,eat a huge breakfast of eggs bacon flap jackets in Maple syrup, cranberry jam.Then off to visit relatives for the day with a huge Turkey dinner at Grannies house.Lots of tea n coffe very little booze.Some cherry or wine here n there. Hahahahaha then get out the next day and do it all over again for aa week.Unsualy the dinner is at a different relative each day.most worker take the week off. Hahahahaha Merry Christmas from Nova Scotia
Last year I experienced all these traditions in the UK and they were all lovely. The mulled wine was nice too 😋
😋😋😋😋😋
My Christmas is with all my family that’s in the state at the time. We feast and open presents from relatives on Christmas Eve and I open my moms presents on Christmas Day and eat again that day
You forget the mince pie for Santa 🎅
Good you refer to Father Christmas, not Santa Claus! Note, however, The Queen didn't mention her 'annus horibililis' at Christmas - she used it in a speech at the Mansion House...tut tut, but seasonal greetings!
Every year I send my daughter in California a Christmas pudding through the post( post costs a fortune) she pours brandy or rum over it at Christmas dinner, which is the British tradition, then sets it alight. Gives it an even lovelier flavour. Of course I’ll be doing that also, I always say one for the cook and one for the pudding ha ha! Cheers! Hic!
7:27 got me like: well, if you insist ...
Merry Christmas to all, around the Earth and above! May all have a Happy and Prosperous New Decade!!!
Merry Christmas to you too :) from the second class of a High School in Italy. We love your videos to improve our English.
Loved the bit with you eating a mince pie and offering it to us 😂 You’re so generous!
Going around singing Christmas carols at houses
Gorgeous guy, gorgeous review of British X-mas traditions! Thank you!
Traditions here in the U.S. are SO regional and/or personal that it'd be impossible to list them all. With that said, decorating both inside and out is a big deal for a lot of people. Not just the Christmas tree, but lights and many other decorations. Some type of big meal is also common. For my family, it's my grandmother's lasagna, which is crazy (and a vegetarian's nightmare) made with hundreds of homemade mini meatballs and four other kinds of cold cuts and four other kinds of cheese.. So good! In our house we also do Christmas crackers, because when I was younger and I learned about the British tradition I thought it was fun and, perhaps surprisingly, they're easy to get here in the U.S. (last year I was determined to get some very special Christmas tree-shaped crackers from Marks & Spencer, which turned into a major ordeal haha). Christmas shows and movies are also a big deal here, although often we watch them on the days leading up to Christmas. All the old Rankin & Bass shows like Rudolph and Santa Claus is Comin to Town, A Charlie Brown Christmas, the original animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas, movies like Elf and Love Actually (naturally), Home Alone and, of course, Die Hard. And there's always Christmas music playing. I prefer a lot of the swing versions of Christmas standards from the '50s and '60s, mixed in with a few newer tracks.
Glad to read what the previous entry says about Italy. In Spain is almost the same.
While most Christmas traditions I've experienced are American, the main twists I have seen and partially experienced due to being of Puerto Rican descent are the foods. Among them are pasteles, coquito, pernil, and arroz con gandules. The first and last ones were prominent at home. Having pernil was not due to personal family reasons. I learned of coquito recently, and had it not been due to the caloric content, I would have made some this year. I do know of the tradition of parrandas, but having only celebrated Christmas in New York, I have never experienced it. Similarly, I have no knowledge of Three Kings Day.
If you don't mind my asking concerning Christmas jumpers, what is your opinion on them outside of the season? The reason I asked is I picked up two, and one is a white version of the Rob Roy tartan/Buffalo plaid. I really like it, and have wondered if it can be worn during the other winter months.
Though I hadn't felt like festive season this year because of covid pandemic, I found this video and merrily enjoyed it!
cheers:)
In BC Canada, most of your traditions are identical to mine. A few differences, chocolates in the advent,Father Christmas is Santa Claus, no bread sauce.
Thank you so much, really interesting! You're the best! Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas!
Don't buy a Christmas jumper.
Save your money and just decorate a jumper that you already have or buy the cheapest one from a charity shop,by doing that you are supporting the charity and not buying from a company that will manage very well without your money.
I think you can have a fantastic Christmas, without going into debt.
I liked this video a lot - thanks
I’m in our local pantomime EVERY year 😂.
7:27 I am watching this while eating my dinner. Feel like you really feed me 🤣
We always get Christmas pyjamas on Christmas Eve
Loved all those traditions but the best must be the mincepies. Thanks.
Watching this is 2020. I'm thinking after this year we had the whole of Britain probably forgot to take down their 12 after Christmas. 😂😅
0:55 And if you were a brownie or rainbow you'd get a pantomime every year on discount with you're group (and there'd be a kid with tons of snacks to share)
Lovely video!! No jingle bells in the UK?
We sort of slowly down to celebrate christmas than before. It's a little sad to me. Merry christmas and a Happy new year.
Happy Christmas, Tom
In Arentina is summer during christmas. So we usually having a dinner in our garden or in a fresh place. We eat "asado" (cow) or lamb. But at midnight we drink champagne with winter's deserts.. for example cake (chistmas pudding could be??)..
In Australia we also have warm Christmases. Prawns, maybe lobster if we can afford it, cold meats, only hot roast dinner if it turns cold. For dessert, something with icecream in it. At least we don't wear those awful pullovers.
Christmas pyjamas 🙌
What about going on evening walks to look at everyone's Christmas lights? Especially on Christmas eve. I've done this since I was a kid and now as an adult me and my boyfriend each grab a bottle of beer and do the Christmas lights walk.
I’m from Bulgarian, we share quite similar traditions with the UK, but I live in Spain 🇪🇸 and here is different. They have their presents on 6th January, the Three Wise Kings are bringing them. I’d never heard of this story before I came here🤔🌲
At last Dil someone mentioned the three wise men it should all be about Jesus being born thanks x
In Germany we have on 26th on december "Stefanus steinigen" (to lapidate Stefanus). It´s just another excuse to go the whole day to some different bars and drink a lot. It begins mostly somewhere around 11 and ends in the evening. "Stefanus steinigen" because 26th it´s the namesday of Saint Stefanus and he was killed by throwing stones on him. If your name is Stefan or Steve/n, this can get an expensive day, because you are expected to invite your friends for a drink.
I love xmas with all the lights candles and food
In our family (in South Germany, but I don't think all German families celebrate Christmas that way) Christmas always started with a Christmas dinner around 6pm. The food was different every year, but something traditional for us in was "Spätzle with Schnitzel, Kartoffeln und brauner Soße". Don't know how to explain what that is, but its delicious!😂
After the dinner we sang christmas songs together, and then the kids were sent upstairs, where we had to wait for a while and play with our toys. Then, a bell rang and we knew the "Christkind" was there. I'm not sure what the english word for "Christkind" is, its the same as santa, but its religious and would be translated with "baby jesus".
Anyway, we kids ran down the stairs as fast as we could because we wanted to see him, but we were always too late 😂. The "Christkind" brought lots of presents that all layed under the tree, and then the best part for us children came: we gathered around the tree, opened up all the presents, ate christmas biscuits and played with all the toys. That went on till it was late at night, and then all people went home and we went to bed. At the next day we would wake up super early and play with our toys in our pyjamas for the whole day :).
Spätzle with Schnitzel, Kartoffeln und brauner Soße" pork cutlet with spatzle ( specific type of egg noodles), Potatoes with brown gravy
Martha Anderson Danke! 👍
My whole class looked this video which our English teacher found :P
Yeah We Love Christmas I'm from the PHILIPPINES❤
Mulled brandy or other spiced drink
I dont have a jumper😟
Here in Argentina Christmas is a very special celebration. Personally, I love it! Our tradition is to join ALL THE FAMILY together on Christmas Eve (we're about 70 people) and have a huge and insane party, we have some talented nephews who sing and play music all night... While the others eat basically eat an drink!! BTW ... Tom why did you spoke so quickly in this video? It was very difficult to understand... Anyway I love these cultural videos about British people!! 😀
Thank you for this wonderful video
I recently discovered you buddy and, I absolutely love your lessons..are quite friendly and very cultural as well. Thank you , you treat us as adults learning a foreign language and not as if we were silly strangers. Love you. Your speedy speech is all I needed. I can,t stand many other teachers speaking to me as if I was an i...t . If I don,t catch-all in the first place,.it does not really matter. I will get all next time. Thanks again.
Getting drunk? Really? Ha ha ha! You did not need to wait for Christmas for that !!!
Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, mince pies, Christmas cards and crackers all come from England I read.
Happy Christmas, Happy New Year to those of you in the UK! Love you guys and the UK as I'm part English/Scottish/Irish on my maternal side and German/Swiss American on my paternal side! OK, so we got over here in the early 1700s and fought you guys i.e. Red coats in the Revolutionary War and won! lol Still love Plum pudding and have also worn crazy Xmas jumpers/sweaters over the years as well! Thanks for sharing your wonderful traditions, cheers~
As a kid I always got up at daft a clock and my kids did too but this year for the first time I never got up till 8am as my youngest is 17 now but still we were excited and opened all our pressies straight away. 🎁
I actually love mince pie!
I’m surprised to see that there are so many different traditions than the us has. It sounds like way more fun than our Christmas
you didn't mention Elf on the shelf)))
Ah yes, one of the newer traditions!
I live the UK but my family isn't Christmas so they don't celebrate it. But I love going to all the christmas parties at work and with my friends. Black Friday is the best day to buy Christmas presents, I always get the expensive ones then. I remember I went to Trafford in Manchester to shop on Boxing day and we went at 10am and still all but one parking lot was full at that time and you could barely move in the shopping centre with queues to pay in Zara all the way out the door. It was like the whole of Manchester decided to go there on Boxing day
The Boxing Day walk for sure.
its a very interessting video .very cool
Teacher Tom :), thank you for this (pre)Christmas special.
Thanks for this video,Tom. I really learnt a lot. Kindly do more videos on British culture.
Loved it! Cheers
Congratulation . Thank .
Happy Christmas ... Have you ever created a vid on UK "puddings" ... There seems to be many different types and many stages of meals when they are eaten. Yorkshire... are they like a bread? some are baked some are steamed ... its a bit confusing and I believe our dear friends in the UK eat them most often .... If you have a vid, please let me know ...if you don't... please create one when you run out of other ideas!! THANKS!!
Great video, merry christmas
Your video is a big masterclass akhy
Merry Christmas thanks for the valuable informations