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  • Thanks for coming and with the gay thing. British men confuse my gaydar, To me most British men sound gay.

  • @ShadeToSun You're confusing well spoken with gay, I assume because most gay people you know are also well spoken? A lot of Americans think all Brits sound gay which is quite offensive and weird.

  • @MisterCrolla Actually I feel it has more to do with the 'lilt' in the voice. Brits speak more tonally and that is the quality I perceive.

  • i iz from withinshaw

  • Cool fact - In the early days of colonization in the Americas, the American accent then was closer to the English accent now and the the English accent was closer to what the American accent is now. The main difference is the transition in both dialects to and from being rhotic (rhotic referring to the pronunciation of the 'r' sound). So there is no 'right' and 'wrong', 'original', 'correct' or 'incorrect' really. They're just different and touting one as better than the other is stupid.

  • I really like your videos, because for non-native speakers they're very informative :)

    And I love your accent <3'!

  • @TRWolf You do not sound posh...

  • I forgot about first floor and ground floor, because I live in the US since 1994. I'm from Brussels, Belgium, and I'm African and Caribbean origin. Great video. I had to relearn the difference between the first floor and ground floor...

  • So true, American spelling is usually different

  • UK is better. Football is played foot on ball. Fuck usa

  • @EddieNeverSleeps  That's right!

  • @EddieNeverSleeps fuck the uk

  • US-English isn't a language. They just insist on spelling real English incorrectly

  • British English: Welsh (yes, they are what's left of the original residents of Britainia) + Latin + French + German, with some Hindi and Chinese mixed in.

    American English: All of the British + Native American + Portuguese + Spanish + any other words we liked the sound of.

  • @redmnm123 In England the school years are years foundation-6 at primary school (seven years all together) than it years 7-11 at secondary school than you go to sixth form/college for 2 years. After which most people would go to university.

  • Can you explain how school goes? Like the different grades. Like grades 1-5 is elementary school, 6-8 is middle school and 9-12 is high school. I heard the UK school system is different.

  • @redmnm123 In britain we have, for example, primary school starting with Nursery, reception, reception 2 then year 1 up to year 6 (out year 6 is your grade 5) then we go to secondary school from year 7 to 11 and the last 2 years we either go to college of 6th form hope tht helped :)

  • @redmnm123 You have reception which is for 5-6 year olds. Then you have year 1 to 6 in primary school. (ages 6/7 to 11/12). Then after primary school students progress to Highschool ages 11/12 to 16. Then after that you have the CHOICE to go to College for 2 or 3 years depending if you pass or not. Then you go to University for Degree.

    In highschool students can achieve GCSE grades (qualification) IN college students can achieve A levels and in University degrees

  • us the best

  • Woo, go the North! :D I'm from the Wirral, but have moved down South (waaaay down South, all the way to Canterbury) for uni - slowly converting all me mates into Northerners - they now say Tar instead of Thanks. Anyway, I have cousins in Ilinois and so randomly pop onto blogs like these to see what Americans make of our "British" accent. Decided I love yours the most just becuase your a Northerner! 'bout time the US heard our side.

  • I'm from Rhyl :D

  • Thank you so much for this !

  • repeatly press 1:11

  • @cheater722 Why? Me going "cphhphtr gmpphhs" instead of "computer games"? :P

  • @TRWolf OH i meant 1:10 you will hear someone eating his microphone

  • @cheater722 Exactly! I was trying to say "computer games" but sounded like I was choking on my own nostrils instead.

  • The word 'Realtor' is a trademark, believe it or not. It can only be legally used to refer to a member of the National Association of Realtors.

    And by the way lol, it's /REAL-tor/ not /REE-luh-ter/. Almost everyone mispronounces this.

  • I WAS BORN IN WYTHENSHAWE!!

  • iv have played those games aswell they were awesome

  • I'm from America and the word realtor doesn't make sense to me either. But we do sometimes call them a real-estate agents but normally we just say realtor

  • Something else, when Americans refer to "jumpers" a lot of us refer to the one piece suit that a car mechanic would wear or a prisoner would wear. Love the videos :D

  • @GunsOfThePhoenix Ah, what we'd call overalls... I thought you guys called those coveralls.

  • can you tell me in which accent Eric Idle in "life of Brian" is singing the "final" song? (Always...) thx

  • @MsLissome Cockney. It's a London dialect.

  • The English language came from the ''Roman Empire'' after they invaded Britain in 0043.AD. Before then Britain was a land of pagans

  • Great way to try to bridge our common language. Cheers 

  • Man your accent rocks

  • And to us Americans, a pinafore is an apron, except that we don't call it that anymore. And if you are in the elevator of an office building, they will might have a button marked G (sometimes it's B), but if you press that you will not go to the Ground floor, you will go the the underground Garage.

  • you sound cheshire

  • @jadekillcity

    HELL YES!

  • reppin manchetser!

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  • @LOLOLOLCallum really you can prove that?

  • true English sounds nice, but some people sound just fuckin crazy! is this the same for you, but reverse? do some Americans sound completely stupid to you? the answer is probably yes. can British copy American dialect as easy as we can adapt to pure English?

  • @GONNASLAPYOMOMMA British English is not pure english. American English and Briitish English just developed separately because of the distance of the countries.

  • @Da1UHideFrom no such thing as 1 true english language its constantly evolving notice i avoided the words Developing or Going Backward.

    dont know why they call themselves English thats like spain calling itself Visigothia or something there was a Terrible invasion by normandy changed the island Completely you know. Regards

  • @troddsy William the Conqueror pushed the natives into Wales, I'm a history buff myself. My point was towards GONNASLAPYOMOMMA who called British English 'pure English'.

  • @Da1UHideFrom havent perused his account but must be odd having a name like that! since you know quite alot would you suggest the angles and saxons were at war with each other until a specified time? strange the jutes get barely any mention

  • @troddsy I only know a little about Anglo-Saxon England. Being American I know more about American history and the world wars.

  • @Da1UHideFrom erm...yeah

  • XD we arnt all tea guzlers we like to drink coke XD

  • do something on geordies :)

  • i freaking like english , the british accents , they are really beautiful to listen , that's why i'm here to study in UK

  • I'm American and I think we have messed up proper English.

  • omg!!! the guy at 1:28 looks like the guy from the movie glory!!!!!! right he looks like robert shaw's friend who became general? except he had blonde hair. btw luv ure vids.

  • In America,you log on and off when using a computer.in Britain,you can log in an d out of it.

  • @nostalgiamelancolia1 I've never really thought about that! You're right, but we use both really.

  • I thought this was uk vs usa but after 3 mins of you talking about yourself I kind of zoned out.

  • @OhPhilly Try watching video 1 first then instead of video 3 part 1.

  • I sound just like you, and i'm from Manchester. Everyone says my speech is clear.

  • Fun fact :) In early America, when they were voting on a national language, the English language won over German by 1 vote. 1 miniscule, or I suppose in this case it wasn't quite miniscule, vote and everyone could have been speaking German. Fascinating to me, really. Not to be off topic, just something I thought of when you brought up the whole UKs saying it's their language and they speak it better.

  • @GluckImUngluck us doesnt have official language

  • @CaptainProtonEIC This was early, colonial America, when the only states in the "US" were the earliest ones. English is the official language of at least 28 states, including those early states from that time of voting.

  • do socttish people still hate the english?

  • @MrSkycity007 A lot of them do, yes. But not all of them I don't imagine.

  • @TRWolf well you slaughtered them at Culloden so i dont blame them... but i have nothing against you, at all i love both countries.

  • @TRWolf No they don't.....

  • @MrSkycity007

    Not half as much as we hate them.

  • @MrSkycity007 most do out of the way they have been brought upbut many like myself dont

  • @MrSkycity007 groundskeeper willie:"they took our sheep and our women, then they gave our women back, which was worse!!!"

  • @MrSkycity007 no not me, we kind of pretend but we watch all the English tv and stuff so if you say you hate the English its just stupid

  • @MrSkycity007 England subsidises their higher education system to a large degree, so it can't be all hatred.

  • @MrSkycity007 Yes everyone else in the Uk hates the English and the English hate everyone else in the Uk

  • @username951100 i don't.. i like the welsh and scots and irish.. only person i dont actually like is piere or however his name is spelt.. its annoying because when your talking to a friend and the french cunt pushes you out the way to talk about cheese and baguettes (not saying all french say that as i like some french people) gets kind of annoying

  • @username951100 Pshaw and Taradiddle !!

  • you're from the north aren't you?

    nice vid

  • @icetigerist Yup. Vid 1 essplains :)

  • and doesn't matter both countries are great they have they're own amazing things and they both have they're downfalls all countries do nones perfect nones horrible

  • You sound moor like a london north east accent, instead of the strong Manchester accent

  • @Ericules555 You're definitely not from the UK then ;) Anyone from London would know clearly that I'm from 'The North', my accent's not noticable so much to Americans, but in the UK its quite clear.

  • @TRWolf haha no the US from Arizona the south western desert state

  • @TRWolf My ancestors (some of them, anyway) came from near Manchester, so I have been curious as to what the local English sounds like. When I listen to you I can tell you're from the north because of your l's produced in the back of the throat and your short u's (as in much) but i really don't hear much regional accent. By contrast, I understand very little when someone speaks with a thick Scouse accent.

  • @TRWolf he's from "Opp Ne'awth".

  • @Ericules555 hahaa london accent? you can hear the northern accent when he says 'short' and 'through' and 'for'.

  • @Ericules555 LOL "a london north east accent" ? what is that then? cockney? jafaican? 

  • @pacmandem no a london or a north east england but tbh i dont know im from the south west in the US

  • @Ericules555 Yeah I know mate I was winding you up ;)

  • @pacmandem lol to be honest the only one i can tell apart is the harsh cockney accent which sounds aussie n is similar to the southern accent here gerogia alabama etc..

  • @Ericules555 Yeah i know what you mean. there's 'new-skool' cockney which sortof emerged late 90s early 2000s which is locally termed "jafaican". you might like havin a look at that...

  • @Ericules555 The best way to tell the difference between the different English accents is to listen to the vowels.

  • I know you said not to comment on the realtor but alot of Americans pronounce it like we would if it were spelled relator I think it might be a southern and Yankee type of a thing though :)

  • Your "autumn" picture is of where I went to college! That was a surprising treat. That's Mirror Lake at Ohio State University.

  • :D watch my video about American and English accents. I'm American.

  • See, when I hear a British accent, I assume that you're posh or stuck-up, even though I know that's a bad assumption. And I assume you're very smart because most Brits are generally very well-spoken. I stop myself from assuming that in conversation though, as it would be quite rude. I have one British friend, and after a little while I got used to it and didn't think anything of the accent at all. Funny how that works! I love your video by the way, very informative and cool!

  • @NYWAORCANZ not only cant you spell but you cant insult people for shit. nice try mate but you just embarrassed yourself.

  • @NYWAORCANZ no one cares. you're all yanks

  • @pillok91 Why do you Brits always think that by calling us Yanks we're suppose to feel insulted? We love that name. In fact we have a base-ball team called the New York Yankies. Besides the yankies won the civil war and they fought for a good cause (free'd the blacks from slavery). So to all you British people who think that "yanks" is insulting us, it's not!!

  • @babyboy3kingz wow you idiot. none of us use it as an insult. its just what we call you. we dont think it offends you because we know it isn't an insult. most of us know that you have a team called the new york yankies so dont talk as if its new information. so the next time a brit calls you a "yank" dont take it the wrong way as you did with me.

  • @pillok91 "no one cares. you're all yanks" Umm yeah, ok you "idiot". Alot of you Brits do try and use it as an insult. I should know, I've been arguing with you dumb-fucks on these channels (tooth & nail) for quite some time know. But what ever home boy!!

  • @babyboy3kingz yanks hve called me a "fuckin brit" and stuff but i dont take it as an insult.not my fault if you take things the wrong way. if you spend so much time arguin with brits on these channels then id suggest you find a different pass time.

  • @pillok91 I have plenty to do but I never back down from a challenge especially if the challenge is coming from a Loud mouthed Brit!! BEsides I just explained to you that the word Yank is not insulting, so I really dont know what you're talking about!! Either way tak care and God bless!!

  • @babyboy3kingz a loud mouthed brit? funny seein how you've said more than me and you're using exclamation marks which indicates that you're the loud mouth and you're the one stressin out. you dont know what im talking about? not too clever huh? try calming the fuck down.

  • @babyboy3kingz - Just FYI, people from the southern part of the U.S. also sometimes call people from New England "yanks," and they absolutely mean it in an insulting way.

  • For some reason, you sound like Stephen Merchant to me. xD

  • @Rioxka Really? He's from an utterly different part of the country from me! I wouldn't mind doing the voice of Wheatley though that would've been fun, hehe.

  • I'm American, but you mentioned the word "posh" does that mean rich?

  • what's with all the hateful comments on this video? random people attacking homosexuality and politically correct usage of the word "yank." although honestly if someone from the UK called me that, I'd remember from American History that it's just what Americans were called. You can't expect them to know exactly which states were the yankees in the Civil War. They're just sticking to their history in which we are all yanks.

  • fall used to be a part of autumn, in the celtic calendar- which was divided into, i think three parts.

    particularly, the part before leaves are fully falling but a sudden drop in light and heat in mid september was something different.- the solemning.

    and the more wintery november end also had another name before going into yule.

  • @NYWAORCANZ I call my girl friends "guys" all the time. Honestly, I'm sure the fact that I actually don't know what the difference between "Great Britain" "The UK" "England" etc is unfairly ignorant, but it doesn't change the fact that when I say "The UK" I mean "those people in the vaguely England-ish area with the cute accents." Why expect a British person to recognize a distinction that, sadly, many Americans don't even recognize.

  • Posh. Heh.

    Most Americans don't seem to get England has a north, at least past London.

    Cool vid mate!

  • @Vinnieification and only a small amount of london is posh, try going to tottenham or newham and talk posh :L

  • I would like to show gratitude- enjoyed all the videos =)

  • @shivanthing Thanks :D

  • Nice one,Subscribed.

  • very good

    Abilio de Mendonça

  • very good

    Abilio de Abilio

  • why cant u have realy long vids

  • @crowbarjordan123 Dunno, ask YouTube.

  • @TRWolf thst retarded

  • do a us vs ca or uk vs ca

  • @vfire27 I don't know them well enough to make such a video. You make one! :)

  • @christiscoming1 look darling, being gay isn't a curse god gave us the right of free will and that is just how we like it. god didn't create cars we did. god didn't create medicine, MRI's, cat scans and books and literature so by your logic any one who uses something god dint create must repent and not use it

    Jesus had two dads and he turned out ok

  • you´re videos are pretty good, i´m Mexican. And you have solved some questions i had. You´re videos are helpful. thanks

  • Are you a good example of a Mancunian accent?

  • what the hell is posh

  • @KONKRETEJUNGLE1 Upper class. Rich. Snooty. Snobby.

  • @TRWolf ahh thnx..and a treacle tart?

  • @KONKRETEJUNGLE1 Treacle tart is a traditional English dessert. It is made using shortcrust pastry, with a filling made out of golden syrup (also known as light treacle... there's also dark treacle which is thick and horrible, and for some reason popular on Bonfire Night) ...a little lemon butter, and breadcrumbs. The tart is normally served hot or warm with a scoop of clotted cream, ordinary cream, ice cream or custard. Some more recent recipes add cream or eggs to make a softer filling.

  • Interesting linguistics article I read a few months go (which for the life of me I cannot remember, apologies) claimed that the US accent is in fact closer to Old British than the accent [received pronunciation mostly] you hear nowadays in the UK.

    I think it makes sense, think about it, the intonation goes up on the letter "a" and the letter "r" is more pronounced in Northern England and US than it is in Southern England (where the RP English is mostly spoken).

  • Just thought I'd mention that for those "we invented the language so know how it should be spoken" Brits out there... try to rethink that statement.

  • @BowNow If you're talking about the pre Anglo-Celtic collision then the article comes as no surprise. My American friend always heralds his country's literature as the finest for it's tradition of breaching the boundaries of sytnax, or at least, as he bluntly put it, "it's free". I pointed out to him that Irish literature did this long before and Mark Twain can be considered a cognate writer of the Irish vein.

    I wish you'd recall the article of mention - bet it'd make a jolly good read!

  • I respect your wish

  • @Christiscoming1 I'm sorry, but I do not share your religious beliefs, so kindly don't apply them to me.

  • @TRWolf

    which christian that I am giving the bad name.

  • @TRWolf i suggest u to remove those pathetic comments instead of answer :)

  • @Christiscoming1 If you believe god did not intend homosexuality, how do you explain the fact that a large portion of giraffe sex is homosexual? And no I am not being snide, I would actually like to hear you explanation. Being that giraffes are not an isolated case, when not pursuing a female for the purpose of reproduction there have been numerous reports of same-sex couplings occurring in a multitude of animal species, homosexual and bisexual tendencies are found to be quite common in nature.

  • @Christiscoming1 Are you a troll on the internet?

  • @Christiscoming1 I'm catholic ill just have the priest absolve my sins.

  • @Christiscoming1 can you PLEASE not bring religion into this?! So what if he's gay? Is he harming you in any way? Why would you want to change him?! GOD made him the way he is...

    People like you give Christians a bad name.

  • @blueheart26

    Which God? s you mean to tell me God himself is Gay. Well if it is true true God made him that way than how come all of us are not gay.

  • What does it?

  • @Christiscoming1 What does what?

  • Haha lol I'm welsh :)

  • you said llandudno wrong

  • @bookworm5596 I'm English, I said it the English way, I didn't want to spit on my microphone ;)

  • Why do you chose to be gay?

    God loves you and the way you helping people that's nice, so I will pray for you to change your lifestyle.

  • @Christiscoming1 I didn't choose to be gay, it's just who I am. Did you choose to be straight? I don't know any gay people who would have purposely chosen to be gay, because it's not easy.

    As for my "lifestyle", I don't dress in drag and go to gay bars or anything, I just happen to be in love with someone who is male rather than female. It's hardly doing anyone any harm.

  • @TRWolf

    You're gay and understandably you're defending yourself. Okay seeya.

  • @Christiscoming1 Please don't make me describe the overwhelming evidence suggesting a genetic cause for homosexuality. I really hope your trolling.

    I will think for you that you will change your views.

  • @Christiscoming1 homophobe god squaddie

  • @Christiscoming1 dude im christian but come on. your making us look bad. you dont know its a choice!

  • I love learning the different slang or terms, these videos are quite helpful :-)

  • D: How did I get here??? Oh yah I was looking for yaoi...

  • @Darkrose40 Yaoi lead to my videos?!

  • I'm czech and sometimes I am very confused. For instance I couldn't understand what is the difference between "first floor" and "ground floor", until one my friend (she is an American) explained me. Why is it not unified?

  • @Ondrus21 In the UK, the FIRST floor is the first floor ABOVE ground level, in the US it's the ground floor itself.

  • @TRWolf Yes I know. But I don't understand, why the british use anything else than the americans, for one thing. Both englishes have the same base.

  • @Ondrus21 Oh I see. I don't know to be honest, just different cultures and developments in the two countries.

  • @TRWolf Presumably. Anyway, this is very interesting.

  • also we do play american football in the uk infact we have our own league and teams, rounders IS NOT baseball rounders is softball and in australia they play soccer call it fotball play american football rugby and their own national sport aussie rules football whbich I like a cross polination between rugby soccer and american football.

    get a clue mate.

  • @LifeForm0 You're unneccessarily rude.

  • @LifeForm0 learn how to use commas

  • I've always seen the UK as America's closest friend, to be honest.

  • Im spanish and i moved to Uk like one year ago, right. i think that uk english and amrican english is THE SAMe the difference is just some words and sentences and in uk people speak faster! But i like it! sometimes i get anoying with the fucking language ;) cause i just hear Bla Bla Bla...

  • @twilightsagasuperfan Spanish can sound fast too! Whenever I was on holiday in Spain, I found myself trying to remember the little Spanish I'd learnt, and was constantly saying "Despasito Por Favor!" lol

  • @TRWolf thats funny cause for intance my mom always used to say to brithis people: can you speak slow so that I can unferstand u hahaha in my opinion i dont speak spanish so fast but maybe when you r learning a new language it seems faster isnt it?! But i still love english is quite interesting!

  • @TRWolf Spanish from Spain sucks!!! come to Uruguay we have the best accent hahaha.

  • CANADA FTW!!!!! ...jk

  • Why r we leaving out Scotland?

  • @Joloptylop9080 Because I don't really know much about Scotland I'm afraid, I've never visited! Although apparantly I have a lot of family up there, the Italian lot who own the chippies and pizza places ;)