Misunderstanding between the US and the UK l stereotype Tik Tok reaction (Feat. Chewkz) 

"What is the biggest cultural difference between US and UK" Well...Christina is right though , there's a lot 🤣🇺🇲🇬🇧

This dude of TikTok is really a genius about english , funny as well

Another difference is about the Sports : like in US 🇺🇲 is more Basketball , Baseball and of course the Super Bowl event , in UK 🇬🇧 is more football , Premier League , FA Cup and of course the Uefa Champions League , the tournement between the best football teams in Europe , thank you ladies , Christina and Hana 💙❤

@5:45 - A Swede use "military date" (YYYY-MM-DD) but it wasn't that hard moving to Australia just to "turn the date" around to DD/MM/YYYY. US dates still confuse me at times though... _I work with computers and when I moved here in 2002 I was asked to help a company create a web interface for a database they had to keep track of jobs, like a ticketing system. The problem was that their webpage was hosted in California, USA. Queensland, Australia don't use daylight savings time but California do (PST/PDT). So in my script I had to convert the timestamp from California time to Queensland time... First check what date it was to determine whether it was daylight savings time or not in California. Based on that I had to add 17h or 18h due to the time zone difference taking daylight savings time in consideration. And then finally convert the date format from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY._

Can we give props to that dude for getting up prior to 5am to drive his friend to the airport - that's a real friend there!

In Canada, Celsius is uses for outdoor and indoor temperatures. Fahrenheit is used for cooking.

I can't believe I'm finding this today. I literally made this joke yesterday. I was talking to my friend and I said I wanted to be collected at "half five". And then I was like "It's kind of funny the way we say 'half five'. Imagine if you were talking to an American friend and they were like 'half five? Oh, you mean 2:30, because 2.5 is half of five?'" and I made a whole thing out of it, where you could take it even further and call that "half two" and then the American would think you mean 1pm.

If you want to be even more confused, bring a Swede 😂 ! When we say "half ten" we mean a half hour BEFORE ten, 9.30 . Morning or night, you figure it out from the situation.

The date difference really kills me especially since I work for a multinational company dealing with people from different countries. For written dates I always go by YYYY-MM-DD to avoid any confusion. In spoken language there is no such confusion.

What do you mean half ten is 9:30 in Germany 😂😂😂😂

The Levels of Farenheit thought process. Anything Negative: Screw this I'm staying home you'd have to be nuts to go out. 01-10: Screw this still staying home where it's warm. 10 to 20: Okay I'll go out if I have too, but I must remember to dry my hair after showering or it'll turn to ice and wear every warm thing I have. 20 to 30: I better layer up. 30 to 40: I better get the winter jacket out. 40 to 50: I can get away with my light jacket if I wear a warm shirt. 50 to 60: Might want to wear my light jacket today. 60 to 70: Now this is nice. 70 to 80: A little hot, but still nice especially when the breeze hits you and I might want to wear shorts. 80 to 90: Okay it's hot now, definitely shorts weather. 90 to 100: This is what Hell is like. Over 100: Screw this staying home and turning the AC up.

If you find yourself in an international situation, particularly with Americans and/or some East Asian people, you can always add the year at the brginning of the date and use YYYY/MM/DD format to avoid confusions

Hahahaha these tiktok videos had me rolling 😆 was happy to watch more videos of Chewkz! -Christina 🇺🇸

I like the way Christina smiles

I was born in Canada, studied in the UK and spent the last 25 years working in Switzerland. When I lived in the UK I always understood that half 10 was 10:30 but I found it interesting moving to Switzerland half 10 here or Halb Zehn would be 9:30. The argument the Swiss make is that it is half of the 10th hour of the day, which makes more sense to me when you think of the expression literally.

While in Indonesia, most of us will think that "half ten" means 9.30, because it's already "a half hour" and it took a half more to make it into ten

5:20 before Google exists, I use to calculate Celsius Fahrenheit mentally, so, why change now? 🤣 🤣 🤣

When someone says Half 10, that’s a little confusing to me. In Australia, at least for me we say Half past 10.

The biggest shock for an Italian guy watching this video it's actually to see two people talking and having fun without making ANY gestures with their bodies and their hands!!! These two young ladies are so much composed while talking. 😅😅😅

In South Africa, we do say Qauter Past xx (10:15), Half past xx (10:30) and Qauter to xx(10:45). The 'quater to' part may be confusing, but it's just the amount of minutes left before the next hour. Like 10:31, it is 29 minutes to 11. Some people just say Past xx, which is just (xx:30).

Now think about the pain of the non native English speakers... It's so difficult and confusing Historically we Indians are more aligned to British English, but again due to IT, computers, softwares etc. we need to know American English too... If I write "cancelled", Microsoft office would show it as a wrong spelling, and suggest "canceled" All these years I knew it's alluminium Now just a few days ago I came to know it's wrong, and it should be alluminum. Then I Googled it and found alluminum is American 😥😡🧐

@1:35 - So confusing... When I first moved to Australia, every time someone said like "half ten" I had to confirm, 10:30am? Because to a Swede "half ten" would be 9:30am (!), i.e. "halfway to 10" not "half past 10". And we don't use am/pm... we use morning/afternoon/evening/night... and "military time" (24h) if we write it.

1:49 - I called my grandma at 3:00 when she said "quarter of 12" for the same reason.

Wanna hear a joke? . . . . Reamur (°R) for temperature scale 🤣

I'm from a Latin American country and I live in the UK now. There are some things here that are the same as my country like the temperature measuring and the way dates are ordered, but there are others that are actually like the US in terms of pounds instead of kilograms and also the way the hour is read (generally, sometimes it resembles the way it's said in the UK). We use centimetres (inches are generally just used in construction and engineering) and kilometres to measure long distances, not miles (I think neither the US or the UK does). So I always need to google that lol.

As an American I've never heard "Half Ten", I would have been confused if that meant 9:30 or 10:30 :( That being said, definitely use quarter past/to/til or half-past all the time (for some reason no one I know uses half til, but we do say any number 30 or under til/to e.g. 20 til 10 = 9:40) Not sure if that is just a West Coast or North West thing though.

That plant do be chillin in the background tho

Im in love with Christina she's way too beautiful

hahahah these videos from Chewkz are the best ones! You and your squad always doing a great job, Christina. Congrats! X

I hear a lot of people say "a quarter past xx" in the USA, where xx is the hour. A quarter is a quarter of an hour, so 15 minutes. So a quarter past 10 is 10:15. Military time is easier and I prefer that.

Norwegian time: Half to the next hour, quarter to/past the hour, 1-14 (usually 5 or 10) minutes to/past the closest half hour. So 9:40 would be "10 past half 10".

I’ve never hear half past but I feel like I’d get it because we say quarter till or quarter after

Half ten would be 9:30 for me 😄 10:30 doesn't make sense to me at all, because it's the half of the hour to ten - so 9:30

Dear World Friends, It would make these videos a lot better if you plug-in the audio from the actual video you’re showing. It seems like the audio we are hearing is whatever the room’s Mic happens to catch. Very bad quality in that sense.

Christina is really carrying this channel this is basically her channel at this point 😆😂🤣

What Europeans don’t always get is it’s over 12 hours to get through Texas. Some states are the size of your country, so it makes more sense to have vehicles if your not in a city.

6 of November 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2:26 I've heard "half past 10" used in the U.S.

Well 4:21 also here in India I usually use motor cycle just to get a milk from near by shop lol

for celsius to Fahrenheit times by 2 and add 30 to be about right eg 0 celsius *2+30 = 30 Fahrenheit which is about right

it’s funny because she said NY has good public transportation 😂😂😂😂

In case you didn't know: water freezes on 0 Celsius and boils on 100

90 is super hot, 80 is pretty hot too.....as someone who has lived in the south most of their life......bless her heart.

The “Independence Day” in the USA, also called “The 4th of July”, occurs on July 4. Why the inconsistency? It’s confusing…

Hannah you're really nice 🙂 but I just love Lauren and Christina together ❤️ XxXxX

Yyyeeeaaahhh eeerrrmmm... How the f**" is the UK Office even the slightest bit dark? Lol

Christina could you please just stop being gorgeous holy shit broo

Thing about public transportation is that it's not fesible in every town and city in the US. UK is tiny compared to the American landmass and even in the UK, there are small towns and villages where you'd have to drive to get anywhere. I think these channels tend to suffer from city-dweller bias.

The Date Order thing actually uses the same logic, but from a slightly different point of view. The UK system says that the smallest unit first, the Day, then the Month, then the Year, right? Well in the US, we think in terms of that there's only 12 months in the year, but between 28 and 31 days per month. So it makes as much logical sense to use the month first then the day, which would get you 10.24.2022 as today's date, rather than 24.10.2022. See how the American logic works with the 10.24.22 nomenclature? That first number never goes above 12, while the second number can go up to 31.

Can anyone explain me the 'date' thing ?🙁 I didn't understand 😭

I am used to celsius but fahrenheit is not that crazy to understand once you get it - the fahrenheit scale is kind of designed around humans anything below 50 = cold; 50 - 70 = meh; 70+ = warm fahrenheit sucks for learning scientific stuff though freezing point, boiling point, etc. all hard to remember cause the scale was not built around it like celsius is

Aside from "Fahrenheit" and "Celsius", does anyone know about "Kelvin" Temp. Scale?

Thanks for this precious lesson.its been great knowledge to me.I have no words to say you are an amazing.Your video is much more better.i hope more videos from you 💕💕

"Half Ten" is short for "Half _Past_ 10", there's also "Quarter _To"_ or "Quarter _Past"._

Cheeeewksss!!!!

i say the exact minute like 34 past 9 lol,but im british

To those Americans you say the month should be first, Me : Happy fckng 4th of July!!!!

Yeah I'm an American, but I learned some German in high school. So if you told me half 10, I would be coming over at 9:30.

0:38 nice subtitles

Why drive when you can walk? Well, "time is money" as we say in America. Most people don't have the time to walk wherever they want to go. Figure that it takes about 10 minutes to walk a mile, why do that when you can drive it in less than a minute? But the thing that Europeans in general don't understand about America is about travel is that America is quite large and spread out, therefore a "car culture" developed as early as the 1920s. When tge automobile was invented and started mass production by Henry Ford, people started to get the sense of freedom to go anywhere they wanted at any time they wanted, without having to walk it or wait for scheduled trains or busses that didn't go to the exact place you wanted to go. A car or truck could though. Americans like to go for a drive just to get out or just for the hell of it. Having bigger and wider roads helps as well. European standard road lane widths are 9 ft, while American lane widths are 12 ft, or even more depending on the type of road. This allows the vehicles to be wider and bigger overall. When I examine European vehicles, I notice there is very little gap between the driver and passenger seats. Looks like you're sitting on top of one another. In American made vehicles, there's at least an additional 6 inches between the two seats, if not more. In trucks, it's probably more, as most trucks have a pretty big storage compartment between the seats. I haven't measured it, but I think it's around 12 inches wide. But back to walking vs driving. Like your American friend said there, in most areas outside a few select cities, public transportation doesn't exist. Or if it does, it's something of a last resort, as they're run down. And I'm talking about busses mostly. No one takes the bus unless they absolutely have to. If anything, most people would take a Taxi or call an Uber now. And still those are cars. And then in small towns, you almost have to have a car. As even having Ubers is not guaranteed. And small b towns in America are as big as cities in Eastern Europe. I see all these settlements shown in Ukraine, and in America, those would barely qualify as neighborhoods in some cases.

Standard clock, anything on the left is too and on the right is past,

You have no idea about the temperature in India. I live in the center part of India and the maximum temperature has gone up to 113 degree Fahrenheit which is 45 degree Celsius.

It's because the UK girl is young. I was born in the 80s and grew up with imperial measurements. In the middle of the 90s, the E.U. forced the UK to use metric system. So most British people 40+ know both systems

I waited for BoAhhWaWaawa...

If someone said "Half Ten" in regards to Time, I'd be like "WTF are you talking about?" Seriously...I wouldn't have a clue how to interpret that. When I dictate a time, I say either the [hour] o'clock, quarter after [the hour], quarter till [the hour], or [the hour] thirty. Any other minute range I'd say something near the exact time but using the the previously mentioned nomenclature. For example, 10:20 would be "Ten Twenty," or "Twenty after Ten" and 10:40 would be "Twenty till Eleven." So times before the half jar would use [Minutes after the Hour] and times after the half hour would use [Minutes till the Next Hour].

half ten is 9.30 for me because of germany time telling...

UK English I guess is popular here. We use celcius, day/month/year, kilogram instead of pound, drive on the left side. Walking, public transportation etc are very common. I can relate myself with the UK style.

Ahh.. The girl from the US🇺🇲 really got my attention😩😩

People in northern England usually say half ten, but people in southern England don’t.

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada

American here... About 5 or 6 years ago I switched my dates to yyyy/mm/dd Mostly because if sorts best as cooker file names.

in Germany， half ten is 9:30😂

Suggest, Asia Is Asia. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

Even the British person says that using the British Gravitational system makes no sense. 8:07

In Germany "halb 10" would be 9:30.

I came for bo'oh o wo'er

im european but half ten is british way and its absolutely doesnt make sense :D when we say half ten its 9:30 bcs thats half an hour before 10.. ten and a half would make sense :D

We are being taught British english in school and I've never heard just "half ten". It's either "half past ten" (10:30) or "half to ten" (9:30).

US and UK: Confusing Month and Date Chinese: 😶

we usually say half past 10, not half 10

In norway half 10 is half hour to/before 10. So 9:30😁. So if a english tell me to meet half 10 i would come 1 hour early 😎🇧🇻

funny thing if you say half 10 in germany it would be 9:30 or quarter 10 would be 9:15 if you translate it literally

Americans- god 90 degree Fahrenheit is super hot Indians - 😎😎

A pre digital watch way of saying 10:30 is half past ten.

Hmmm, just to be more confusing, instead of saying half past 10, I'd say half till 11 or instead of quarter till 11, I'd say three quarters past 10.....btw, I served in the military, USAF, so I'm used to the day/month/year set up....

Half ten? Wouldn't that be 9:30 rather than 10:30? Like half of ten(th hour), which is less than the full hour rather than more. In my native language, Finnish, we say "puoli kymmenen" (literally half ten) and it is known as 9:30 (or 21:30)

1:16 well yes, if you've never used Fahrenheit than of course its not going to make any sense to you. Its the same for Celsius though. Whenever I see something in Celsius I have to sit there doing the calculation of multiplying it by 1.8 and then adding 32 to get a sense of what the weather must be like at that Celsius degree. It doesn't just automatically make sense to me either, as if its some kind of biological instinct that Fahrenheit users just ignore lol I also don't think having freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 necessarily provides any real advantage to the system. In fact, if you live in a place where it regularly goes below freezing in temperature, I'd argue starting at a number like 32 as it does with Fahrenheit makes more sense. Because then you don't have to dip into negative numbers as often. 2:49 I've heard things like "half past" "quarter to" in the US a lot too with time. I've just never heard someone say "half ten" or "half 8", that would sound very weird and someone would probably have to ask you do you mean "half past ten?". I doubt anyone would just assume 5 am though like they do in the skit for comedy without asking for clarification first lol.

Never heated that term my guess was 9:30

American accent is so sexy. Love it.

You can get in trouble in Germany - half ten is 9:30 not 10:30

Its not us vs uk, its us vs the rest of the world 😂

Half 10 in Türkiye '10:30' 😅

Well the public transportation isnt there...cuz the country is HUGE compared to UK. Also -1 celsius is not super cold lol thats not even winter cold.

I would have thought half ten is 9.30 😅

90 f is supppperrr hotttt😭😭😭😭😭😭 thats the most american thing ever

Petrol is not gas Gas is gas Petrol is LIQUID

Bo oh woer

In USA, they play football with hands! I mean whyyyyy?????????

nobody knows why USA use Fahrenheit, inches. Because the rest of the world use Celsius and centimeters. (same thing about dates, and distances )

The UK and US metric systsems just doesn"t make sense. Celsius, kilograms, liter are pretty easy metrics.And the dates, the yyyy/mm/dd is the best.