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Aw yeah! Today we're learning English 
with The Simpsons in a hilarious episode  

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where they head to the United Kingdom.
Not only will you learn lots of vocabulary  

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and pronunciation but you're going to learn 
a lot about the culture and what they got  

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right and wrong in this funny episode.
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So Tony Blair is talking about 
this castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

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And for us Americans when we come over to 
Europe, because we come from a newer country,  

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we don't have any castles, so we really 
want to see all these really old buildings  

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that people have here over in Europe.
But I think for Brits it's probably  

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something that's so commonplace, that you 
don't find it very interesting, right? 

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No, so I kind of understand 
this one. I guess that's why  

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they make the comment here that you Americans 
love castles because it's more of a novelty  

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for you.
Exactly. 

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Whereas for us it's not due 
to the history of the country.

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So this is just to show like 
a huge contrast of where Homer  

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Simpson comes from and Tony Blair comes from.
So a gator farm would be an alligator farm. 

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Gator is short for alligator and this is an animal 
that we have in the South United States, mostly in  

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Florida that is very similar to a crocodile.
Tony Blair replies with "Smashing" which  

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is another way of saying "Great."
However in the UK we don't really  

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use this word that much anymore. We would 
probably use "brilliant" or "fantastic" instead. 

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So in the USA we also have a lot of different 
words that you can use to say "good"  

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if you want your conversation to 
be a little bit more interesting. 

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Then you might want to watch this lesson, 
so that you can add them to your vocabulary.  

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You can find that link down in the description 
below, but just to give you a few of them  

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right now one that would say a lot is "awesome."
I think Americans even overuse this and it's a  

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huge stereotype, but it's one that you 
will really fit in with if you use. 

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And also we use "lovely" but I think this 
is even more common in the UK, right? 

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Yeah I think this is definitely 
one that Brits would use a lot more  

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and then we have words like "superb," 
"terrific" or "outstanding."

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So "cheerio" is another way to say "goodbye," 
but most people in the UK don't really use this  

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word anymore, it's more of an old-fashioned one.
Yeah I think it's just that Americans think that  

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Brits still used this word.
Yeah.

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So this is actually a stereotype that 
we Americans have of British people,  

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which we can see throughout the episode and 
really it's just we think that they're more  

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sophisticated than we are across the pond.
I didn't actually know this so it's actually  

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quite interesting watching this 
episode and and knowing that. 

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It's quite flattering, right?
Yeah, yeah. I would say it is.

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If you're enjoying this lesson then 
I highly recommend you check out this  

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lesson we made where The Simpsons Go To Australia. 

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You can click up here or down in the 
description box below to watch that lesson next.

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So British humor is often described as being 
dry, which means that you can't really tell  

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whether or not we're being serious or 
joking, because we tend to use a more  

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serious face, so it's not so obvious.
Yeah, that's so true. Definitely like  

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a lot of Brits that I've met I never 
knew if they were saying something  

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seriously or if they were actually joking.
Because we Americans when we're being sarcastic in  

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this way we tend to actually use a different tone, 
so it's very obvious and something that really  

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contrasts very heavily between American humor 
and British humor is that we have very common  

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slapstick humor, which is actually like physical 
humor of someone falling down or getting hurt or  

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something like this that you'll see in a lot more 
American shows like The Simpsons or Family Guy. 

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Yeah and in the UK it tends to be the opposite, 
it's a bit more serious and not as obvious.

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So in the US football actually refers to American 
Football, which is this sport and we'd call  

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someone who plays this sport a football player, 
and someone who plays Soccer a soccer player. 

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Actually in the US it's quite common that we'll 
play soccer when we're kids and we even have this  

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term for a "soccer mom," which is basically a mom 
who is always taking her kids to soccer practice,  

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who probably has a minivan and things like this.
But for adults we don't really tend to know the  

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rules of soccer, maybe we'll watch the World 
Cup or something like that but we're not so  

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sure exactly what's going on, and this is 
why it's quite funny that Homer says this,  

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because it really would show someone 
who knows a lot about Football when  

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in fact he's American and he does not.
That's really interesting because obviously  

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in the UK, Soccer-- Well it sounds so strange 
for me to play soccer, football is the biggest  

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sport and I think in many countries in Europe 
and maybe in others around the world as well. 

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And for us to hear soccer just 
sounds strange because it's a game  

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that you play with a ball and your feet.
Yeah I think it makes a lot more sense. 

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Yeah, and also football actually started 
out in the UK so it's the home of football,  

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that's why we also describe Wembley Stadium 
where lots of Cup Finals are played,  

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we call that "The Home of Football," as well 
because it's kind of where it all started. 

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That makes sense.