I do prefer British English but listening to this episode I realized once more what a mix (or as we Germans say: Misch-Masch) I am speaking and writing! I guess that is because some of my teachers at school prefered American and some British English (and I had about a dozen English teachers!), and nowadays at work, I am exchanging mails with my colleagues in London - and one is Irish and the other one American. Never mind, I envy you all for your "lingua franca" and keep up the excellent work with your podcast (both of you!).
@@juergenhartmann4864 Thanks Juergen! We hope you enjoy our podcast too! To be honest, I also find myself using American terms or pronunciation because of the influence of Nickelodeon in my childhood. 😆
As a native German speaker with a master's degree in English and translation, I am familiar with both versions i.e. British English and American English having lived in both countries. I personally prefer British English and sometimes use British expressions here in the States where I currently reside and will get weird looks 🙂. But I usually just use the word that is used in the particular country switching from trunk to boot or from chips to crisps etc.
Very interesting! I'm a student learning standard German but when I learned the word "Fleischhauer", that has naturally become my preferred word to describe a "butcher" than the word Metzger because it's naturally easier for me to say it as a native speaker of American English. 😊
I do the same! Full stop sounds so much better than period! But I think Americans secretly hate me for it! They would tolerate me were I a native English speaker but being non-native speaker I get the “French treatment”. 😊
Let's all take a moment to realize (or realise) that there are many different native dialects of English in the world, and they are all correctly used by their local communities.
Hi Mitch. I hope you are doing well! I definitely prefer"British English" even though "American English" feels like more casual. I really like "Aubergine". You are right, "British English" is more sophisticated!
I think English subtitle was wrong for Aluminium (authentic one) British: Aluminium American: Aluminum (spelling is also different, not only just pronunciation) --> i is missing after alumin
12:20 - The subtitles: *_two_*_ maths for me_ 😁 You know, I'm rather torn between the two, Mitch, old mate. Learning English at school it was American English I was exposed to the most, except for two teachers who spoke an excellent British English. And then you have all the books I read and the computer games I played, where there would also be a pretty well-balanced mix of both varieties. Nowadays, I tend to use the British accent more and more often, even though here in Mexico it's of course the American one that's got the upper hand. Both British and American English can be either casual and relaxed, or elegant and sophisticated, it depends on the speakers involved and the context, but I admit I do prefer them both when they're the latter, _much_ more awesome. 😎 Definitely looking forward to that second part of American vs British English! Justin's also very cool, I think it would be great if he started his own American English episodes for Easy English. 👍 Big hug to both of you!
On the continent a lot of people who've learned English as a second language speak it with an irish accent, attesting to the huge number of Irish tutors who moved there. I'm not sure what version of these particular words they used. Al-u-min-i-um is a misspelling in America, which is why it's not used. There the word is spelled "aluminum." The one that kills me in the UK is the English who pronounce "a" as "or." For instance -- a woman named Magda becomes "Magdor." Agenda becomes "agendor." What law of English pronunciation is at work here? It would seem that the so-called posh people made this up. Justin was brilliant. I was with him all the way and just wondered how come Mitch didn't give over even ONE word?
Justin was awesome and I will give him trunk and diaper! Nappy sounds like having a nap and sleeping in the middle of the day! Boot is only for what you wear on your feet! 😄
American accent sound more easy,i try to hear more of the british accent watching a british show called Peep Show ,but was too hard understrand what Súper Hands is tryng to say,great video, saludos.
Funny thing is because of the really strong dialect of where I live, we call those shoes “gym shoes” bc when they first because a thing, people would only wear them to the gym (or gym class)
I might have a theory about the nil-nil part. I had a semester of gaelic and in gaelic you make sentence positive or negative. There is no yes and no, so you have to do it that way. Ta me... - I am Nil me... - I am not So maybe that's where it comes from 😊
I just loved it!!! I want part 2, 3, 4, 186749.... And I realised that I speak more American than British english. Nappy?!? Sounds like napkin!! Please, no!!!
Wouldn't it have been more fun to choose American over British English, as the more common form across the world, entertainment, education, politics, and so on? British English has way too many variations than all of North America has!
I prefer English from the country it's from obviously. Not some weird dialect of it. Every language says aubergine, and only aluminium is correct, because all other metals that end in um in the English language is the same, magnesium, titanium, uranium etc. Saying "aluminum" sounds just as dumb to me as saying "uranum" and "titanum".
Chemist Humphry Davy first referred to it as "Alumium", but ultimately settled on "Aluminum. The Brits added the extra "i" so that it sounded like the other elements (ending in "ium") and more like classical Latin. In many regards, American English is the original or older form of English because Americans seperated from England and retained words that fell out of use in England. Just like the term "soccer". The British hate the term and especially because they don't understand how it came to be, but it comes from the British term "aSSOCiation Football", and it got shortened to "assoc" when being written about in the newspapers. With the influence of Oxford "er" slang, it became "Assoccer" and lastly became "Soccer".
@@steffen6987 No, we don't call "titanium" "titanum". The point of my comment was to show how and why Americans use the term "Aluminum"; it was the original term and Americans just never stopped using it.
I prefer euro English! Not British, American, Australian, South African, Israeli English! Even less, the African, Ásian, Amerindian, Indian or aboriginal english!😊
