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I am from the U.S.A. I am not sure of all the cultural differences, but units of measurement is a big one. We also have language differences, but they are minor. By that I mean that you and I can probably converse quite well.
I am American, live in Minnesota. Why you ask?
because i am english and noticed a load of the peeps here were american.
oh, do you get much of our televition over their? we get some things like desperate housewives, friends, and some cartoons.
also, is it kainda strange speaking a language that didnt originate form the country you were born in?
I’m American. I spent just a couple of weeks in London, and the biggest surprise to me was that I couldn’t understand a lot of the people (especially the people selling tickets for the tube) at all. I mean, I know what they say about us being divided by a common language, but British TV and radio are no problem at all for me, while talking to a lot of Londoners on the streets was nearly impossible. I had an easier time understanding the people who spoke English in Paris and Berlin than in London.
We get lots of British TV (especially BBC), and some radio. I’ve been watching it since Tom Baker was Dr. Who.
Also, I think that your last statement would upset the Brits who claim that what we Americans speak doesn’t count as English!
well People you have to come to Australia to speak proper English.Its a mixture of Polynesien,Welsh,Irish,Aboriginal,Scottish,French and bit of barbyman.com…..
I’m English.
I think the problem is that UK accents are broader and more varying than is shown on TV. Especially the stuff that gets exported to US.
I’ve been to America twice in the last year, and Americans had terrible trouble understanding me (I’m from Liverpool / northwest).
I kept getting asked if I was from Ireland or Scotland, and my accent isn’t even that broad!
Yet I had no trouble undertaning the American accent, because I’m used to hearing it on TV.
hey useful. yep, no stones here. Yeah, living here in Texas, probably a ten minute drive close to ex-President Bush’s new home…
useful wrote:
oh, do you get much of our televition over their? we get some things like desperate housewives, friends, and some cartoons.
also, is it kainda strange speaking a language that didnt originate form the country you were born in?
Yeah, we do get the BBC and some (if i remember… shows like Keeping Up Appearances… they air on public television, they seem old-fashioned). I would say that I like a lot of music coming out of Britain.
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hey useful. yep, no stones here. Yeah, living here in Texas, probably a ten minute drive close to ex-President Bush’s new home…
useful wrote:
oh, do you get much of our televition over their? we get some things like desperate housewives, friends, and some cartoons.
also, is it kainda strange speaking a language that didnt originate form the country you were born in?
Yeah, we do get the BBC and some (if i remember… shows like Keeping Up Appearances… they air on public television, they seem old-fashioned). I would say that I like a lot of music coming out of Britain.
Yeah, we still get Keeping up Appearances inflicted on us here too, thankfully they don’t make that show anymore! No comparison to the quality programmes we do have!
We need to send programmes out like Shameless, or The Street, The Royal Family, Ideal and Life on Mars. Gavin and Stacey is good.
But, then again I don’t know how well they would translate to an American audience? They’d probably have more of a cult following.
skippi wrote:
I kept getting asked if I was from Ireland or Scotland, and my accent isn’t even that broad!
Yet I had no trouble undertaning the American accent, because I’m used to hearing it on TV.
Interesting that you mention the American accent you hear on TV. I am from California. When I was a child, my parents drove me across the U.S.A three times to visit family on the east coast. The accents I heard as we traveled, amazed me. Because I was from the place where most TV shows were made, everyone understood me, perfectly. I loved hearing the differences in the way words were pronounced and used.
c-eek wrote:
skippi wrote:
I kept getting asked if I was from Ireland or Scotland, and my accent isn’t even that broad!
Yet I had no trouble undertaning the American accent, because I’m used to hearing it on TV.
Interesting that you mention the American accent you hear on TV. I am from California. When I was a child, my parents drove me across the U.S.A three times to visit family on the east coast. The accents I heard as we traveled, amazed me. Because I was from the place where most TV shows were made, everyone understood me, perfectly. I loved hearing the differences in the way words were pronounced and used.
I wasn’t in anyway being derogatory, or inferring that American’s don’t have regional accents. I can tell the difference between someone from New York and someone from Texas (a broad comparison I know, but you get the gist).
Would you be able to tell the difference between somone from Leeds and someone from Manchester as easily?
I meant it was easier for me to go to your country and understand than vice-versa! As i have been hearing American style syntax all my life.
Not all performers on TV are from Calafornia, nor are all programmes set there.
Most of the TV shows we export are set in London / the south and all the actors seem to have a middle Queen’s English BBC accent! It annoys me, as my country is far more rich and diverse than that!
I’ve been told that I have no accent, even since I grew up in Texas. I lived in suburbia, so I guess that has an impact. Not your country accent. It’s pretty cool to surprise people from elsewhere saying that I’m from Texas and expected me to sound different. It’s also weird too because I’m Asian. Sometimes I think that it would be kinda cool to have an accent just to make things interesting. There’s nothing more lively than to hear someone who speaks words differently than I do.
It’s interesting to me that a “lot” of Brits think that what we Americans speak as English doe’snt count. The earliest settlers to English America,were known as “Virginia Cavaliers”. They were all drawn from the upper class of England. Whilst, (yes whilst), it is true ,that most of them perished, those of them who survived, became the foundation of America.
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