ONE language, THREE accents - UK vs. USA vs. AUS English!

and everyone, welcome back to

english

with lucy. I have a great gift for you today. I've been excited about this for a long time. Soon I will be hosting two lovely guests who have generously given their time to help teach you the differences between Australian English, American English and British English, this will be a two part series, today we will focus on vocabulary and then on Next part of the video, we will focus on pronunciation, we may all speak the same

language

, English, but we have very different

accents

and we speak with different vocabularies, so this video is perfect to improve your vocabulary, but if you want to improve even plus your pronunciation and listening skills, I highly recommend the special method of combining reading books while listening to their audiobook counterparts on audible, this is how to use the method, take a book that you have already read in English or a book that would you like to read in English.

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language

. The way a word is written in English may not give you much indication about how it is pronounced in English, but if you hear a word at the same time as you read it, your brain will start making connections and the next time you hear that word you will know exactly how to spell it and the next time you see that written word you will know exactly how to say it is a very effective method and the best part is that you can get a free audiobook which is a 30 day free trial on audible.

All you have to do is click the link in the description box and sign up. I have a lot of recommendations for you, let's continue with the lesson and welcome our guests first. I would like to welcome Emma to the channel. Hi, I'm Emma from the English YouTube channel and I'm from Perth in Western Australia. I also have Vanessa Hi, I'm Vanessa and I live in North Carolina in the USA. I run the YouTube channel and I speak English with Vanessa. It's wonderful to have Emma and Vanessa on the channel. I've known Emma for a long time, four years and I recently met Vanessa.

They both have fantastic YouTube channels. and all their information is in the description box if you want to follow them so I have some photos and Vanessa Emma and I will tell you how we would say what's in these photos in our own country. You might be surprised. of the answers okay so let's start with this one in the US these are chips 100% just chips I can't believe you started with this these are chips we call chips chips the other word you use lucy is the word more complicated to say in the English language, so let's call them chips and move on, yes, I will tell you that French fries is a notoriously difficult word for English learners, it is the sound at the end French fries, you will find a lot of people who pronounce them wrong like Crips Crips when they should be crisps so here's the next one and it gets even more complicated because in the UK we call these chips so in the US the cold version is chips and in the UK the hot version is chips, let's see what Vanessa has to say about this, what she calls them. french fries I know they're not really French but we still call them French fries or you can just say French fries by themselves, the fries on the next one too, right, they're hot fries, french fries, oh my gosh, hot trail.

Ian just caught everything, fries. It's worth noting that if you go to England and order French fries or French fries, we know exactly what you mean. Well, next we have this one that we call cookies or chocolate chip cookies specifically. Well, they are cookies. I don't really hear people say. cookie, yes two against one, these to us are cookies too and we would use cookie to refer to an American style chocolate chip cookie, however if you use the word cookie in the United States you might get something that doesn't you wait Vanessa has more. about this, if you ask someone do you have cookies or do I want a cookie, they won't give it to you, instead they will give you a piece of fluffy salty bread, a cookie is salty and a cookie is sweet, so we have it if you feel like it something sweet with your coffee in the United States, don't order a cookie, you will be bitterly disappointed, okay, Vanessa was very passionate about the next one, very passionate, here's the photo.

Vanessa seems to think she knows the absolutely correct answer and has even done her research. She didn't expect Emma and Vanessa to bring out books for this video. I have proof that my answer is the most correct because you can see that my two year old son is obsessed with trucks. We have so many books on trucks. Let me. I'll tell you what truck you need, a truck with a trailer, so this is also what I would call a truck with a trailer. You could call it semi-well, that yellow thing is a truck, so Vanessa thinks it's a tractor-trailer and she's very, very sure. about that in all these books they call it a tractor-trailer so let's choose the one that really tickled me Emma thinks it's a truck in the UK we would call it a truck a truck is a truck whatever Emma is a truck okay , what about the next one?

What half the women got here. If all these girls have bangs, we would definitely say that fringe bangs are probably becoming more popular, especially colloquially, which is why in the UK we definitely call them bangs and when I started hearing the word. explosions in movies and stuff like that. I was really confused, okay? What about the next one? They are sweet, they are poles. Lily's Knollys, which are so cute, in British English, these are sweet or sometimes if you're talking to a child, they might call him. Those sweets, the lollies to us are sweets on a stick, right, what about the next one?

This is a swimsuit. Some people might call it a swimsuit. You can also call it a one-piece suit. Okay, this is a lot of fun in Melbourne, where I'm from, it really is. covering to call them togs but no one else in Australia really calls them togs they call them swimmers in Sydney they call them cozies or costumes but they are usually swimmers or bathers oh god there are other swimmers or swimmers oh my god I didn't expect to receive There are so many different ways to say swimsuit, this for us is a swimsuit, we can also say one-piece and we can also shorten it to cozy.

I remember my mother saying, "Put your underwear on before my swimming lessons when I was a kid." but that's pretty childish stuff, okay, what about the next one? this is the forest that is definitely a forest no, it is the forest forest plural this is definitely the forest I mean, in general we say that the forest forest implies a huge huge area of ​​forest trees the wood sounds like something you could hear in an old fairy tale, yes, well, Vanessa, sometimes life in England is like an old fairy tale. I think a lot of Americans have this view of England as a place with so much culture. and the story like a fairy tale and then they come and they're very disappointed, okay, what about the next one?

This is a bathroom. You could say it's a bathroom, but it would be very unusual to call a place that actually has a bathtub a bathroom. We usually use the term bathroom for public places, that room is a bathroom, yes, it's a bathroom, okay, so Vanessa played bathroom and bathroom. Now we would never use the word bathroom in British English if we were in a public place and were looking for a bathroom, we would say toilet, however if there is a bathroom there, like a bathtub, then yes, we could say bathroom too, but we would ask where the bathroom is. toilet, if you say where the toilet is, most people in the US would just say it's in the bathroom, I mean.

She's not wrong, the bathroom is in the bathroom. There's also a slang word that I use a lot, which is the bathroom. Where is the bathroom? I went to the US for a business trip and asked people where the bathroom was and they were completely confused. okay, let's move on to the next one, this is an apartment, this is mostly cold, an apartment we would never say flat, so in British English, this is an apartment, we have a block of apartments, I have lived in many apartments in my life, no Don't use the word department, okay, the next one maybe the picture wasn't clear enough for this one because Emma got a little confused, but she gave us all the options, good old Emma, ​​this is a grocery store, I'm not exactly sure. what I'm looking at in that image but it could be a cart it could be an aisle or it could be a supermarket a bingo is a supermarket for us too or we call it the stores I go to the supermarket I I go to the stores, the stores is more general, it could mean any type of store, we would never say grocery store, however, we could say grocery store, the grocery store, this is a store that only sells fruits and vegetables, very good, next one, this is a quilt, oh my .

God, the word duvet is weird, that's weird in Australia and it's called dinner. I love that Emma is saying that the word quilt is weird and then she says that in Australia it's a dinner that's weirder, Emma, ​​so in British English this is a quilt. a comforter that Vanessa apparently thinks is weird says we're going to find each other weird I didn't know what a comforter was maybe I'm too sheltered but I didn't know what a comforter was until I visited Europe we just don't have those in the US okay I'm sorry that there will be a lot of conflict over the next one, these are bell peppers, okay, they are red, green, yellow peppers, no, they are just old peppers, red peppers, green and yellow peppers, peppers, what Latin, this is English.

Well another one that is going to cause a bit of conflict is rain boots and also the jacket that goes with them is a raincoat or a rain jacket, I guess in the US we like very clear and simple names for articles like these rain boots what they are for is for the rain it is very clear rain boots I mean you are not wrong it is that American English is sometimes more simplified than British English and this is not a bad thing, really let's see what What Emma has to say when it's muddy and rainy.

I would wear my rubber boots for wet walking, yeah, I mean, we would never say rubber boots. I think I heard my grandmother say it, so it might be pretty old. -fashionable thing in British English we say wellies or Willie boots are you ready for the next one are you ready because what the Australians call it is frankly shocking let's listen to Vanessa first these are flip flops yes these are flip flops Emma what are you doing? call them when we go to the beach in Australia we wear thongs Alf Alphonse is plural and we are talking about the shoes on our feet there are thongs so I have to explain to you what thongs is a thong in British English and American English a song is like a thong is a type of underwear where there is just a string in the back instead of more fabric if Emma said to me can I borrow some thongs?

She'd probably lend me herself but I'd be a little worried, okay? Next, where would you go to fill up the tank? This is a gas station where you put gas in the car, so when I fill up my car, I fill it up at the gas station. Well, I'm with Emma again on this one, she's redeeming herself. After the thong situation, yes, we also call this a gas station, the fuel we put in our car is gasoline. I spent much of my childhood confused, but I was especially confused by the fact that Americans put gas in their cars because they thought petrels let it.

It turns out that only gasoline is missing, now the next one is quite interesting. I want to know what they call a store that only sells alcohol and this is interesting because in the United States their attitude towards alcohol is slightly different, we are very open, maybe to open up. alcohol in the UK and Australia alcohol is more controlled by the government and states in the United States this is an ABC store I just found out about because I just looked it up it means state controlled alcoholic beverages so this is a story that it sells only alcohol and that last word, state, is because it is run by the state or run by the government.

Now let's see what Emma calls it because I've heard Australians have some funny names for places like this when I go to get a bottle of wine. I go to the bottle shop which in Australia we also call bottle ooh bottle oh I love it it would sound so stupid with a British accent I just go to the bottle oh do you need something horrible oh yeah it only really works when you pronounce your T's like a bottle Oh in English British we call this unlicensed and unlicensed, okay, what about the next one? I feel like they're going to join me here, these are pants, pants, pants, old people might call them pants, well.

Excuse me, then I must be very old because these are pants, they are pants. We use the word pants to refer to Underpants. Oh, because they go under your pants. Yes, maybe they havereason. My whole life has been a lie. Underpants because they go. under your pants Oh, under your pants it doesn't work, it works fine anyway these are pants and I'm not old yet now what do we call this the little space to walk on the side of a road this is a sidewalk the concrete next to the road that people walk on in Australia is called a footpath interesting we don't say any of these things we say pavement pavement now we would never say footpath we say footpath but a footpath is not normally next to a road a pavement is right next to a road and a trail is anywhere else okay, another car related one, what do we call this, this is a highway or you could call it an interstate, a highway or maybe a highway in Australia ooh, we don't say any of these things either, We never say highway in British English interstate.

Well, we don't have two dates, so that doesn't work either. Highway. No highway sounds dangerous. It looks like you can do whatever you want, you are free to drive however you want and a big thank you to Emma and Vanessa for coming to this channel and helping me make this video like I said before. I left all your information in the description box. Be sure to watch the other video in this two-part series on pronunciation, so we'll focus on the same words that are pronounced differently in each accent. Don't forget to check audible. You can get your free audiobook which is a 30 day free trial, all we have to do is click the link in the description box to sign up and don't forget to connect with me on all my social media.

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