[General] problem in understanding TV show accent and sound

[gookenhaim]

Hi. I am learning British accent by watching a TV show called QI
at 9:40 i have difficulty understanding what they say
could you help me check what they actually said?
below is the link and I tried to write the transcript
Thank you for reading this



(4) QI XL - Series I - Intelligence - YouTube


It was all ah... complete so the national secret until very recently, wasn't it?

absolutely, that is XX part?

 

[Tdol]

It was all a complete national secret until very recently, wasn't it?

Absolutetly, there is Bletchley Park, and it is open to the public.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hi. I am learning British accents by watching a TV show called QI​.

Pluralize. There are a lot of British accents.
End all sentences with one of these: . ! ?

​At 9:40 ​I have difficulty understanding what they say​.

Start all sentences with capital letters.
Capitalize the pronoun I.

​Could you ​tell me what they actually said?

​Below is the link​, and I tried to write the transcript.

Thank you for reading this​.


(4) QI XL - Series I - Intelligence - YouTube


It was all ​completely a national secret until very recently, wasn't it?

Use a. ​There have been a lot of national secrets.

​Absolutely​​. That is ​the Bletchley Park part.

You're welcome!

 

[gookenhaim]

Thank you so much for correcting mistakes! I guess I need to make a good habit of writing formally and grammatically.
Have a nice day!

 

[Tdol]

I guess I need to make a good habit of writing formally and grammatically.

Forums are not chat- we read a lot of text and it is easier to read if it is written like normal text. It's fine to ignore a lot of conventions in chat, but it doesn't work in forums. There's no need to be formal, but making things easy on the eye to readers helps. It also helps future people looking at the language issues raised in your posts. :up:

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you so much for correcting my mistakes! [STRIKE][/STRIKE]
I guess I need to make a [STRIKE]good[/STRIKE] habit of writing formally and grammatically.
Have a nice day!

Note my corrections above. You don't have to write formal English (the kind of English we use when writing to our bank manager, for instance) but you do need to use correct grammar, capitalisation and punctuation.