Hello from the beach!
I’m here for a Vig Village meetup.
Vig Village is my community.
It’s not a school; it’s a group of friends who practice speaking English together.
And a few times a year we meet in person.
This weekend we met in the ancient* town of Varna.
Do You Speak Beach English?
Fluency is situational.
When I’m in a pub or restaurant in Prague, I speak fluent Czech.
But when I’m in a garden talking about plants, not so much.
Yesterday, we went to the beach and I discovered my Vig Village citizens were not yet fluent in beach English.
“Have you put on… the cream for the skin – what’s it called?”
“We reserved some chairs on the sand… what are they called?”
“What is this green stuff floating in the water?”
“Is it ‘make a photo’ or ‘take a photo’?”
That’s when it’s helpful to have a native speaker handy.
Your Turn
Are you going to the beach this summer?
Do you know the beach words I mentioned above?
What other beach vocabulary do you know?
Do you know what an English person says instead of ‘bathing suit’?
Share in the comments below.
And tomorrow, we’ll talk more about beach and holiday English.
Plus, as I promised, I’ll share with you the important third step for your listening plan.
Cheers,
Mr. Vig
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sunscreen, lounge chair, boot/sea bed, take a photo ??
Sunscream is the cream you put on your skin at the beach
Seaweed is the green stuff floating in the water
You should say “take a photo” instead of “make a photo”
I think “bathing clothes” instead of “bathing suit” is more correct, but I’m not sure
Thank you very much! ❤️☀️⛱️🌊
I know only a few English words about the beach but I think is not so difficult to learn more , because they are some usual and easily words
I know the word seaweed ( lat. ALGAE) meaning sea plants without organs like a root, flowers, fruit but they have chlorophyll and other coloured pigment, blue, red, brown. Sometime they are microscopic and used for fish feeding. But when I’m in a pub or restaurant not so much, especially for drinks.
Skin protection / sun cream / sunblock / sunscreen; lounge / chaise – lounge / deck – chair; swimwear / swimming suit and this green stuff floating in the water is good to be an algae, a seaweed or a duckweed but, unfortunately, sometimes it is a green plastic bag or a bottle or other green trash and you don’t want to take a picture of it.
Hi,
I would say : sunscreen, sunbed, take a picture and seaweed
Bathing suit or swim suit ?
Some more useful beach vocabulary : sun hat, sun glasses, beach ball, flip-flops, cold drink, hot sand, sunburn, beach umbrella, have fun splashing in the water, beach towel, colorful sarong, sunset…