Show 356 Tuesday 24 April

If you met the queen of England, what would you say?
Nice to meet you.
Pleased to meet you.
Lovely to meet you.
How do you do?

Stick News: wilfing

By the way, the reason I can't remember stuff about New Zealand English is because my English has changed a bit from living in Japan for six years.
For example -- I have started using some American English because a lot of the textbooks in Japan are in American English so I've got used to it.
Sometimes it's laziness, sometimes it's for conversation flow -- for example I know that if I say "primary school" the conversation is likely be disrupted while they ask what it means ... so I start saying "elementary school" and then I end up just getting used to it.
Japanese English also sometimes creeps in sometimes too.... oh dear.
Anyway, this isn't really a problem for communicating in general. It's only a problem when I start explaining something to a student and get all mixed up half way through.

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Show 356 Tuesday 24 April
The Daily English Show
http://www.thedailyenglishshow.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wilfing
• queen
• of
• England
• Prince
• William
• Kate
• Middleton
• ESL
• EFL
• ELT

[StevenGarcia0]

OUTSTANDING

[kultur09]

great show

[Youaresorancid]

...and now I've watched your whole vid, I know why, hahah.

[Youaresorancid]

Hey lady, you've got a New Zealand shirt on, cool.

[tomokh]

It's very common in Asia to say "toilet" in referring to the bathroom. People use it in Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. When I first had to use it in Taiwan, it was an uncomfortable feeling too. >_> Then, when I went to Japan, "toileto" was interesting to hear. Finally, in my visit to Australia, I got use to reading signs that said "toilet" everwhere.

[luxztizer]

I found saying bathroom in Japan (especially if literally translated) could be confusing since in most cases the room with the toilet was not the same as the room with the bath. I tried to say toilet though I found doing so a little uncomfortable.

[luxztizer]

I don't know if someone mentioned this already but "How do you do?" can mean either c or d.  "Nice to meet you." or "How are you?". It can also mean both simultaneously, in America at least.

[findmysecretgarden]

Yeah..i went to the same uni as Prince Williams cousins. I never felt more working class in my life. :-(

[findmysecretgarden]

lol-just lol

[sevenlg2007]

i never thought how simmilar New Zeland was to the US in that our idea of class system really is not understood or at least it does not have Real understandable boundrie system.

WIKI says "Lavatory derives from the Latin lavātōrium." they it go on to say it is "namely the polite and formal euphemism for a toilet and the room containing it"