Video Lesson

Approaching strangers in London

necessarily interested in talking to anybody I've never I don't think I've ever spoken to some unless I've dropped something or someone's picked it up is it okay to approach som...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: What people think about LondonersSubtitles: en

Download the app

Get more from this video in the app.

Open this lesson in Sublex to translate subtitles, save new words, and track your progress.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Learn English in the Sublex app with subtitles, saved words, and lesson progress.

English subtitles

Read the lesson transcript

33 subtitle cues

6:08

I'm talking

6:08

necessarily interested in talking to

6:10

anybody I've never I don't think I've

6:13

ever spoken to some unless I've dropped

6:15

something or someone's picked it up is

6:17

it okay to approach someone on the tube

6:23

I think it depends who they are okay and

6:26

what they're doing not doing the rat

6:28

race I'm absolutely not that would be a

6:31

big faux pas they'll just be that that

6:33

sort of thing that would really ruin

6:35

someone's day and then they started

6:37

speaking to me oh I just want to do my

6:39

own thing don't do that they've got a

6:41

dog definitely yes

6:44

I don't think people talk on the tube a

6:46

lot they don't like to talk on the train

6:48

particularly is it okay to make

6:50

conversation on the tube on public

6:51

transport I've never tried making

6:53

conversation when I've been on there

6:55

okay why is that you get the feeling you

6:58

can't do it yeah I think everyone's just

7:00

sitting there quietly really if you're

7:02

in the tube yeah you can't be friendly

7:04

to everybody because you're on it 500

7:07

times a year and every time it's

7:08

different people so Brits who outside

7:11

London are there

7:14

it's easier to talk to them it's like I

7:17

wouldn't say that that's a stereotype to

7:19

say that they are nicer yeah okay but

7:22

it's like in London

Keep exploring

Other sections in Britain and other cultures

More to learn

Try another course.

Download the app

Keep learning in the app.

Keep your words, lessons, and progress in one place with Sublex.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Learn English in the Sublex app with subtitles, saved words, and lesson progress.