[18:18] English Listening Practice: Classic Lines from Waterloo Bridge

Learning English isn’t just about mastering grammar and vocabulary—it’s more important to use it naturally in real-life situations. However, textbook sentences are often too formal and quite different from how people speak in daily life. To speak authentic and natural English, you need exposure to conversations in real contexts. Here, we’ve selected commonly used English expressions from daily life that cover social, work, and travel settings. These examples will help you break free from 'textbook English' and learn how native speakers truly communicate. Below is the content from this episode, 'Episode 1, Part 5: Waterloo Bridge.' Stay consistent, and make your English closer to real life!

I hope it will. I pray it will. That's wonderfully kind of you. Do you think you'll remember me now? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Do you think you'll remember me now? I think so. I think so. For the rest of my life. Excuse me. How nice you look. Thank you. What do dancers eat? Oh, dieting is mostly... You're precious yet not fair. Oh, no, not tonight. What could you suggest that would be particularly rich and indigestible? The crowd says very nice. And wine. There's no rules for it. It's not fair. The crowd says very nice. And wine. There's no rules for it. It's not fair. It's not fair. The ballet was beautiful. I didn't think so. Well, experts never know. It takes outsiders to know what’s beautiful. That proves you’re not an outsider. You... Glad to see me again. Yes. Nice sense of reservation. Well, I suppose there is one. What? Why? What's the good of it? You're a strange girl, aren't you? What's the good of anything? What's the good of living? That’s a question too. Oh, no, wait a minute. I'm not going to let you get away with that. The wonderful thing about living is that this sort of thing can happen. The shadow of a death raid. I can meet you and feel more intensely alive than walking around in peacetime, taking my life for granted. I don't think so. I do. Do people have to kill each other to feel more alive? That’s got nothing to do with killing. Either you're excited about life or you're not. I've never been able to wait for the future. When I was very young, I climbed to the top branch of a high tree, stood like a diver and announced to my horrified governess, 'Now I shall leap into the future!' And jumped. I was a husband for two months. You should let the future catch up with you more slowly. Oh, no, no, never. I can't help it. If we'd met in ordinary times, in an ordinary way, we'd just be telling each other what schools we went to. We're much further along, don’t you think? Are we? You know we are. Thank you. To us. I still don't get it, not quite. What? Your face. It’s all youth, all beauty. Why don’t you still get it? You know when I left you this afternoon, I couldn’t remember what you looked like. For the life of me. I thought: was she pretty? Was she ugly? What was she like? I couldn’t remember. I simply had to go to the theater tonight to see what you looked like. Do you think you'll remember me now? I think so. I think so. I think so. For the rest of my life. But what is it about me you still don’t get? Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve now come to the last dance of the evening. I hope you’ll enjoy the farewell waltz. I’ll tell you later, let’s dance now. I should leave these candles. You’ll find out. I’m going to play the three-four line. And never part of mine. You’re all the three-four line. And is the whole lifetime. For all life, my dear. For all my life, I’ll still take a path for kindness yet. For all my life. For all my life. I’ll write to you. Will you answer? Of course. Wonderful evening, wasn’t it? Yes, thank you very much. When I come back, we’ll go there again. Yes. That’ll be our place. That’s where we’ll always recapture this evening. Do you think we’ll ever see each other again? I think it’s doubtful, don’t you? Yes, I suppose it is. What was it you started to tell me in the restaurant that you didn’t understand about it? No, you’re going into it now. No, but tell me, please, I’d like to know. Well, it struck me as curious ever since I met you, you know, from that very early moment ages ago. But you’re so young, so lovely, and so defeatist. I mean, you don’t seem to expect much from life. Well, aren’t I right? For instance, I met you. I liked you. And now, just when we have to pause, perhaps we’ll never see each other again. You can’t conceive that then. I’ll never see you again. Yes, I can. Is this where you live? Yes. Well, nothing to do about it, is there? Nothing yet. Except to say goodbye. I suppose so. Goodbye. Goodbye, Myra dear. Goodbye, Myra. Keep well. Yes, you too. Keep well. Nothing can happen to me. Your lucky charm will see to that. I hope it will. I’d pray it will. Goodbye. Goodbye. Please leave me, Frist. All right. I’ll see you then. Myra! Myra! Myra! Myra! Myra! I can’t believe it. It is you, isn’t it? It’s really you. The room. It’s really you. Don’t let me look at you. I’m not dreaming, am I? I think I’ll find you here waiting for me. It’s a miracle. You’re alive. I was a month so I waited for this moment I began to think it would never come. How did you know I was coming? Did you tell anyone? Mother? I’m not darling, none of the hair. Gina, where’s your nerve? It’s over, darling. It’s all over. We’re together for always. You’re alive. It’s extravagant. I’m not a poor darling. Come on. We’re going to sit down. Darling, don’t cry. It’s a happy ending. Have you missed me? Did you think I was... Didn’t you know I was indestructible? How could I die when we’re engaged? Did you think I’d break our engagement? You don’t know me, young woman. I was wounded and semi-lost my identification. It’s a long story. I’ll tell you someday. I was in a German prison camp, pretty nearly signed off. I got out and went to Switzerland. Mother came over, of course. Mines and oh mines. And then I heard she lost touch with you. I almost lost my mind. What happened? Did she find you? Did you get in touch with her? No. You didn’t know I was coming? No. What are you doing at the station? Are you looking for a friend? Yes. Well, I’m the friend you were looking for. Who was he? I insist upon knowing. Who was he? Who did it go? No one in particular. Just a little short of a miracle. And I should run smack into your life when you were waiting for no one in particular. Ah, here we are. Good strong tea. This will buck you up. Come on. Drink this. I want to talk to you. I’ve got a thousand questions. You want to be enough too. I’ve got a job. Where is it? What does it pay? Not that it really matters, because you’re quitting. You’re quitting at this instant. I’m not going to let you out of my sight this time. I’m not going to let you out of my sight this time. I’m not going to let you out of my sight this time. You want to marry me. You understand that? No, darling. You’ve been through a lot. Haven’t you? I’m often... Pretty tough, eh? And I wasn’t there to help you. Shh. That’s all over now. I’m going to make it up to you. I’m going to make things easy for you. I never want to see you cry again. Except for happiness. I’ve already had an idea. You were alive. But you were in the world. I’ll never leave you again, darling. Never. And now, Miss Lester, I have a program. I’m a man with a program. I’m informing my mother that I found you in record time and we’re coming up on the evening train. Excuse me while I find a phone—and don’t you move until I come back to you. Lady Margaret! Lady Margaret! Lady Margaret! Yes, madam? I must see you. But of course, madam. I can’t marry Roy. Sit down quietly, dear, and tell me. I must go away. I should never have come here. I knew it was impossible. But I kept deceiving myself. I’ve got to go away. I must never see him again. My dear, if I don’t know what it is, I’m sure I can help you. No one can help me. But my dear, what can it be that is so terrible? Has there been someone else? Lady Margaret, you are naive. Myra. Yes, yes, yes, madam. Yes, that’s not what you know in your mind, but you are telling yourself can’t be true. Is true. Myra. Why didn’t you tell it? I didn’t have a good reason. Oh, I can give you plenty of reasons. I was hungry, I was poor. I thought Roy was dead, but I couldn’t make you understand. It wouldn’t help me. I don’t know what to say. But it’s my fault as much as yours, for not having understood, for not having taken care of you. Oh, don’t be naive to me. If I leave early in the morning, if I never see Roy again, would you promise me you’ll never tell him? I couldn’t bear to hurt him like that. Myra. Oh, let us wait until the morning. Let us think this over. Will you promise? I promise. Thank you. You’ve been so good. I wish I could’ve been all that you hoped. Wait for me. Myra. Myra, it’s Roy. Myra. Oh, no, it’s going. Oh, it’s you. Hello, Kitty. Where’s Myra? She’s not with you? What are you talking about? She left last night. Without telling you? She hasn’t been here then? What else did you walk out of here with you the other day? Of course. I was just having a bite to eat. So, darling, what’s happened? She left a note that she couldn’t marry me. Was there any trouble with your family? No, no, no. It’s incredible, Kitty. I can’t understand at all. My only last night we were together and she told me she was happy. When did you leave? The first train to London. She must have arrived hours ago. Well, she hasn’t been here. Where is she? Kitty, if there’s something I haven’t understood, I’ve felt it in the back of my mind ever since I came home. You know what it is. Tell me. Tell me. I think you’d better face it, Roy. I suppose she means you’ll never see her again. Why not? I don’t know. Don’t ask me. Kitty, what’s in your mind? If you don’t tell me, I’ll go to the police. I’ve got to find her. Oh no, don’t go to the police. Why shouldn’t I? Roy, can you take it? No matter what you find out about her. What are you hearing? Answer me. Can you take it? No matter what I find out, it won’t make any difference. I’ve got to find her. Well, come on then. We’ll look for her. Hello, Kitty. Have you seen Myra? No. Are you sure? I know she has a bit of what comes in here. And Myra, particularly. Come on, I tell you she ain’t. She ain’t. All right, take it. Why not just sit down here for the fight. Seen Myra? No, I didn’t. She’s about four days. Where is she going? The Riviera? If you see her, tell her I’m looking for her. Will you? All right, I will. Say, Mac. Hi, sister. Seen Myra? We’re told you’re for Myra. She don’t usually come around till after midnight. All right, you’re sick. The Roys, she don’t seem to be anywhere. There’s only one place we haven’t tried. What place is that? Waterloo Station.