I have learnt most of my American culture from these videos… as a Brit it is absolutely amazing how different countries can have a similar language but use it so differently!
Just FYI, as an American who’s spent time in England - his portrayal of American culture is funny because of the nuggets of truth in it, but it’s *definitely* caricaturised 😅
If you go from Michigan to Alabama in the United States, it’s almost unbearable. Well, for me anyway. I was raised by an English major who was ramrod hard about speaking correctly. The people say things down here in Alabama that just don’t make any sense. I still feel like I’m in another country🤣🤣
I was an American teaching in Australia. Pretty much the same thing! That first day, a class of six-year-olds asking me if they could “rub out the board” and “chuck this in the bin.” I was hesitant to say yes because I didn’t know if some horror would rain down on me! Great video, as always. Thanks!
But the funny thing is, if you study the English language, American English has a ton of words that British English threw away. Also our accents are pretty different even from other British colonies because we left in the middle of the Great Vowel shift. So vowel pronunciation is closer in a fair number of cases to Middle English than UK English. We didn't have anyone telling us to make nice rounded vowels. Anyway, if you're looking for who is more correct, there's actually some good arguments to be made in a lot of cases for America. Depends on what particular aspect you're discussing, and what you're using as a metric for correctness.
@Jennifer Hanses Brit here.. you're correct.. For example we may laugh at the American pronunciation 'erb where we say "herb" having added an h in 19th Century...but Americans pronounce the original French word..
@@dawnoneill1773 i km ow i am Irish but my relatives are mostly live in America so i am just speaking how would with them also most people on here are from America
I just realised how confusing it is for eastern europeans to learn most of our english from US content and then go to London and try to communicate there. I swear we're not taking a piss at you 😆
Unless you have been a teacher, you won't know once a teacher, always a teacher. It's been 14 years now that I'm on another career but I still remember the humour during my years as a teacher. Kids are funny. For those who are trying to enlighten others that you're not teaching at the moment, yes we know and we still love the content.
I love your channel so much! It's certainly amazing how hard I laugh over your videos (not that it's a bad thing, on the contrary!), so keep up the marvelous work! ❤️🇬🇧
it would be funny if the student in the last one told the teacher that rubber is another word for a condom in the US gotta make sure your pencil doesn't give your paper an STD or an unwanted pregnancy I guess
The date thing🤣🤣🤣. I'm American.... But teach Spanish. I require my students to write the date with the day first like, you know, most of the world... Some of them never do get it. "What do you mean, Miss? There aren't 13. (16, 24, etc) months in a year!". 😆
This reminds me of my college Spanish class. My professor couldn't stay in one region of Spain or on one continent long enough for me to grasp the language.
As a South African I love these videos. Because we are sort of caught in the middle we use all of the words. Like we all know that a torch and a flashlight is the same thing. I think the British English came to us through culture as we were a British colony while American English came to us via TV programs. During the old regime we could not get British make TV shows.
As an American the biscut cookie thing really confused me. Read in a book once that the person ate chocolate biscuts and it took me a long time to realize it was what we call cookies
in my primary school, we had to do like full on sport in 37 degrees celsius bc our "true blue aussie" teachers said "not very true blue aussie of you to be wheezing all over the place people were like having asthma attacks (australia) 😭
The kids would DIE if you told them to put a rubber on the end of their pencil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL You would never hear the end of that one!
It's funny how I'm also feeling this now that I've moved back to Canada, despite having been raised and spent 2/3rds of my life in the states. .........I still get confused about dates that take place in the first half of the month. 😅
I think he has probably experienced most of them 😂 I'm an immigrant in the UK and have been confused by most of these things, just the other way around 😂😂😂
the date thing is one of the few things i would never for anything get used to. how scrambled! first a month than you jump back to day and then to years? noooooooo
I’m a Londoner. Lived in the US for 47 years. I was an English teacher in Alabama for 21 years. Every year on the first day of school many kids would ask me to “say something in English!” True story!
I always hated it when students or coworkers complained it was *cold*. Please bring a jacket and shut up lol. I’m hot natured always have been. You can always add layers but there’s only so much you can take off lol.
@@samuel_playz8274 ik what a flashlight is lmao, i'm californian myself. i haven't really noticed what torches are in america though. i'm pretty sure it's a long stick with fire.
An American told me once that Celcius was the temperature of the water and Fahrenheit was the temperature of humans. Me: you don't freeze quickly, do you? 0F ~ -18C
