"Mind Your Language" (British TV series from the 1970s), pt.2 video
Transcript of selected parts:
l am _______________ to meet you all.
We are also pleased to be meeting
you.
l am Brown.
Oh, no. You are ______________ a
mistake.
Mistake?
Yes, please. You are not brown! We
are brown. You are white.
My ____________ is Brown! l'm your
teacher.
Ah, you Proffessori.
Right, l'll just take a note of all
your ___________, ________________ and __________________.
Juan, from Spain:
Por favor señor.
Yes?
Es la primera vez que vengo. ¿Es ésta la
clase para aprender inglés?
Well, l haven't the faintest idea
what you're saying, but l'm sure you're not trying to find the needle-work
class.
¿Por favur?
lt doesn't matter! Have a seat!
¿Por favor?
Sit down.
Ah, si.
No, not there.
¿Por favur?
There.
Ah, ahí.
Max, from Greece:
What is your name?
Maximillion Andrea Archimedes
Papandrious.
l'll just put you down as Max. l
take it you're Greek?
ls right! From Athens.
Good. And what is your job?
l walk with sheeps.
You walk with sheeps? A shepherd?
You work on a farm?
No, no, no! Not farm.
But you just said you work with
sheep.
No, no! Sheeps. Big sheeps.
Ships?
Yes, Sheeps, Tonkers.
Tonkers? Tankers!
Right. l woke in office.
Thank you.
Anna, from Germany:
And your name?
Anna
Schmidt! Jairman au pair.
Ah, the usual German efficiency?
Jairmans are always efficient.
Not so. Japanese much more
efficiento.
Nein, Jairmans are ze best.
Japanese make much better terevision
and-o camelas.
Please, please, let's have no
racialism. ln this class, all are equal.
Giovanni, from Italy:
Your name?
Giovanni Cupello! ltalian.
Where do you work?
l work inna Ristorante dei Populi.
A waiter?
No, not a waiter. A cookooda.
A cookooda?
Si, a cookooda ravioli, a cookooda
spaghetti, da lasagne. A
cookooda everything.
A chef.
Okay.
Ali, from Pakistan:
And your name?
l'm Ali Nadim! From Lahor. l am
working at the moment not anywhere at all.
You are unemployed?
Yes please. Only one day a week, l’m
working.
And what do you do then?
And what do you do then?
l am going to the unemployment
exchange for to be collecting my money. Oh blimey! l get more money for not
being working than when l'm working.
Yes, but before you discovered this
secret of eternal wealth, what did you do?
Blimey. l worked at the Taj Mahal.
ln Delhi?
Oh, no, Putney. The Taj Mahal
Tandoori Restaurant. Very good chapatti and papadum.
Ranjeet, from India:
A thousand apologies for my
lateness. The omnibus was going backwards.
l'm sure there must be a more
logical explanation.
lt is the absolute truth! l was told
to be talking a number 27 omnibus. And l complied, but it went in a backward
direction.
l think you meant it was going the
other way.
That is the gist of what l am
saying! A thousand apologies.
lt's all right! Perhaps you'd like
to sit next to Ali, your countryman.
l cannot sit there! lt’s impossible.
Why is it impossible?
l am Sikh.
Oh dear l hope it's not contagious?
Perhaps you ought to come back when
you're better?
l do not comprehend the gist of your
conversation.
You said you were sick.
No, no, no. I am not referring to my
physical state of mind. My religion is Sikh. And he is Muslim!
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