American English vs British English

An exercise of English reading ... differences between American English and British English by a native Spanish speaker

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• American
• English
• British
• reading
• lecture
• ingles

[shmuli9]

This is hilarious (though probably unintetionally so)... The "American" accent sounded like a weird cross between Southern US English and Canadian English (or more or less like Minnesotans), and the British accent sounded somewhat like what one would call a "mid-Atlantic accent" ('is that person from the UK or North America?")

[pascaweb]

@shmuli9 I am south-american but interesting what you think about my accent, greetings

[James131285]

Its english VS American English. No such thing as british english.

[pascaweb]

@James131285 here in South América we tend to differenciate this two major families so in this context is right to say "British English"

[swampdonkey152000]

@James131285 Apparently you're not from America, 'cuz when you're from America you speak American god dammit!

-Just kidding.

[pascaweb]

@swampdonkey152000 certainly I am from America but not native English speaker, so that makes me from the "other"  América, the one with happier people!!! : )

[VannevarBush]

"YOUR not English" ...LMFAO!!!

[jimjim]

Actually, the way you were speaking English naturally is closer to generalized English than your "American English" style. What most non-Americans believe to be an American accent is a Mid-Western American accent.

[1stLordTheAdmiralty1]

@MsNeoDraven I'm from Manchester and there is nothing wrong with the way i wrote it.It would perfectly be accepted in England that way.

[MsNeoDraven]

@1stLordTheAdmiralty1 Don't you mean "There is nothing wrong with my grammar, cockhead" and "Where are you from"? Exactly.

[1stLordTheAdmiralty1]

@MsNeoDraven Nothing wrong with my grammer cockhead.Where you from???

[MsNeoDraven]

This is the same battle with Spanish,Portuguese and French. The American continent can not help our history and culture. It's not illiteracy it's culture difference. Not all people from the Untied States even speak the same so stop spreading misconceptions about Americans. We don't have to speak the same as Europeans because our culture is more mixed and different from yours and that goes for all of the major European languages here.

[MsNeoDraven]

@1stLordTheAdmiralty1 Your grammar is horrible and yet you want to talk about literacy? It's not just with English. Many other languages that come from Europe are different than it is in the Americas. I speak 3 languages that are from Europe and I hate when Europeans complain about how different people in the Americas speak, it's ignorance. Our culture is different so of course there is going to be some language variations. You sound like the Portuguese people who love to bash Brazilians etc.

[1stLordTheAdmiralty1]

Americans are illiterate.They can't spell correctly and the pronounced every word the way it is spelled example the word Lieutenant which in correct English is pronounced left-tenant .There's lots of examples of this in the American tongue they don't understand the English language

[nostalgiamelancolia1]

@manslutt perfected it? how come it's the correct,perfect English comes from Britain? if you really want to increase your knowledge of English,you must study the Oxford dictionary,not the Webster one because English revolves in Oxford university,not in the American Ivy League.here's an example of a rich knowledge of English:

"He was unhappy in his job for years but always fought shy of admitting it" Oxford University Press.

[PsychoticElectronics]

WTF DO THESE PEOPLE MEAN BY ENGLISH ACCENT!?!?!?! AMERICANS DONT HAVE ACCENTS!!!!!!

[SHUKLAPATELA]

U R TOTALLY FAILED IN BRITISH ENGLISH.