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

[Music] and everyone and welcome back to english with lucy i have got such a treat for you today i've been excited about this for such a long time I am shortly going to welcome two lovely guests who have generously given their time to help teach you the differences between Australian English American English and British English this is going to be a two-part series today we are going to focus on vocabulary and then in the next part of the video we are focusing on pronunciation we may all speak the same language English but we have a very different accents and we speak with different vocabularies so this video is perfect for improving your vocabulary but if you want to improve your pronunciation and your listening skills even further then I highly recommend the special method of combining reading books whilst listening to their audiobook counterpart on audible this is how you use the method take a book that you have already read in English or a book that you would like to read in English I've got plenty of recommendations down below in the description box and read that book whilst listening to the audiobook version on audible reading alone will not help you with your pronunciation because English isn't a strictly phonetic language the way a word is written in English may not give you much indication at all as to how it's pronounced in English but if you listen to a word at the same time as reading it your brain will start making connections and the next time you hear that word you'll know exactly how it's spelt and the next time you see that word written down you'll know exactly how it's pronounced it is such an effective method and the best part is you can get one free audio book that's a 30 day free trial on audible all you've got to do is click on the link in the description box and sign up I've got loads of recommendations down there for you right let's get on with the lesson and welcome our guests firstly I would like to welcome Emma to the channel hey there I'm Emma from the English YouTube channel coming at you from Perth in Western Australia and we also have Vanessa hi I am Vanessa and I live in North Carolina in the u.s. I run the YouTube channel speak English with Vanessa it's so lovely to have Emma and Vanessa on the channel I've known Emma for a very very long time four years now and I've recently got to know Vanessa both of them have fantastic YouTube channels and all of their information is in the description box if you want to follow them so I have got some pictures and Vanessa Emma and I are going to tell you how we would say what's in these pictures in our own country you might be surprised at some of the answers okay so let's start with this one in the u.s. these are chips 100% just chips I can't believe you started with this one these are chips we call these crisps crisps the other word that you use lucy is the most complicated word in the english language to say so let's just call them chips and move along yeah I'll give you that one crisps is a notoriously difficult word for learners of English it's the sound at the end crisps you'll find a lot of people mispronouncing them as Crips Crips when they should be crisps so here is 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 it what Vanessa has to say about this what does she call them these are french fries I know that they're not really French but we still call them french fries or you can just say fries by themselves the next one's chips as well right they're hot chips hot chips oh my god hot trail Ian's just caught everything chips there it is worth noting that if you go to England and you order fries or french fries we know exactly what you mean okay next we have this one we call these cookies or chocolate chip cookies specifically okay they are biscuits don't really hear people saying cookie yes two against one these for us are biscuits as well and we would use cookie to refer to an American style normally chocolate chip cookie however if you use the word biscuit in the United States you might get something that you are not expecting vanessa has more on this if you ask someone do you have any biscuits or I want a biscuit they would not give you this instead they give you a savory kind of fluffy type piece of bread a biscuit is savory and a cookie is sweet so that we have it if you fancy something sweet with your coffee in America don't ask for a biscuit you will be bitterly disappointed okay Vanessa got very passionate about this next one very passionate here is the picture Vanessa seems to think that she knows the absolute correct answer and she's even done research I did not expect Emma and Vanessa to get books out for this video I have the proof that my answer is the most correct because you can see my two-year-old son is obsessed with trucks we have so many truck books let me read to you what truck do you need a tractor-trailer so this is also what I would call it a tractor-trailer I might call it a semi alright that yellow thing is a truck so Vanessa thinks it's a tractor trailer and she's very very sure about it in all of these books they call it a tractor-trailer so we're gonna go with that one that really tickled me Emma thinks it's a truck in the UK we would call this a lorry a lorry it's a truck whatever Emma it's a lorry okay what about this next one what half the women got up here if these girls all have bangs we would definitely say Fringe bangs is probably becoming more popular especially colloquially so in the UK we definitely call this a fringe and when I started hearing the word bangs in movies and things like that I was really genuinely confused okay what about this next one this is candy they are lollies Lily's Knollys that is so cute so in British English these are sweets or sometimes if you're talking to a child they might call them sweeties lollies for us are sweets on a stick right what about this next one this is a swimsuit some people might call it a bathing suit you can also call this a one-piece okay this one's really funny in Melbourne where I am from it's really covering to call them togs but no one else in Australia really calls them togs they call it swimmers in Sydney they call them cozies or costumes but generally it's swimmers or bathers oh gosh there's another one bathers or swimmers oh my word I did not expect to receive so many different ways of saying swimming costume this for us is a swimming costume we can also say one-piece and we can also shorten it down to cozy I remember my mum say and get your cozy on before my swimming lessons when I was a child but that's quite a childish thing okay what about this next one this is the forest that is definitely a forest no it's the woods woods plural this is definitely the woods I mean in general we say the woods forest implies a huge huge area of trees of woodland the wood sounds kind of like something you might hear in an old-fashioned fairy tale yeah well Vanessa sometimes life in England is like an old-fashioned fairy tale I think a lot of Americans have this vision of England as a place with so much culture and history like a fairy tale and then they come over and they are just so disappointed okay what about this next one this is a bathroom you might say it's a restroom but it would be really unusual to call a place that actually has a bathtub a restroom usually we use the term restroom for public places that room is a bathroom yeah it's a bathroom okay so Vanessa touched on restroom and bathroom now we would never use the word restroom in British English if we were in a public place and we are looking for a bathroom we would say toilet however if there is a bath there like a bathtub then yes we might say bathroom as well but we would ask where's the toilet if you say where's the toilet most people in the US would just say it's in the bathroom I mean she is not wrong the toilet is in the bathroom there is also a slang word which I use a lot which is the loo where's the loo I went to the States for a business trip and I asked people where the loo was and they were utterly confused all right let's move on to the next this is an apartment this is mostly cold an apartment we would never say flat okay so in British English this is a flat we have a block of flats I've lived in many flats in my life we don't use the word apartment okay the next one maybe the picture wasn't clear enough for this one because Emma did get a bit confused but she gave us all of 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 trolley it could be an aisle or it could be a supermarket a bingo it's a supermarket for us as well or we call it the shops I'm going to the supermarket I'm going to the shops the shops is more general it could mean any type of shop we would never say grocery store we might however say grocers the grocer's this is a shop that just sells fruits and vegetables all right next one this is a comforter oh my god how weird is the word comforter that's weird in Australia that's called a dinner I love that emma is saying that the word comforter is weird and then she goes to say that in Australia it's a dinner that's weirder Emma so in British English this is a duvet a duvet which apparently Vanessa finds weird say we will find each other weird I didn't know what a duvet was maybe I'm very sheltered but I didn't know what a duvet was until I visited Europe we just do not have those in the US okay I feel there's gonna be a lot of conflict about this next one these are bell peppers okay they're capsicum red green yellow capsicum no they're just plain old peppers red peppers green peppers and yellow peppers capsicum what Latin this is English okay another one that's gonna cause a bit of conflict these are rain boots and also the jacket that goes with it is a raincoat or a rain jacket I guess in the u.s. we like really clear straightforward names for items like this rain boots what's it for it's for the rain it's very clear boots for the rain I mean she's not wrong it's American English is sometimes more simplified than British English and this is no bad thing really let's see what Emma has to say when it's muddy and rainy I would put my gum boots on to walk around in the wet yeah I mean we would we never say gum boots I think I've heard my grandma say it so it might be quite an old-fashioned thing in British English we say wellies or Willie boots are you ready for this next one are you ready because what Australians call these is frankly shocking let's hear from Vanessa first these are flip-flops yeah these are flip-flops Emma what do you call them when we go to the beach in Australia we wear Alf thongs Alphonse it's plural and we're talking about the shoes on our feet there are thongs so I have to explain to you what thongs what a thong is in British English and American English a song is like a g-string it's a type of underwear where there is just one string at the back instead of more fabric if Emma said to me can I borrow some thongs I would probably lend herself but I'd be a bit concerned okay next one where would you go to fill up your car this is a gas station where you put gas into your car so when I fill up my car I fill it up at the petrol station good I am with Emma again on this one she's redeeming herself after the thong situation yes we also call this a petrol station the fuel that we put into our car is petrol I spent much of my childhood confused but I was especially confused by the fact that Americans put gas into their car because I thought well petrels quit it turns out it's just short for gasoline now the next one's quite interesting I want to know what they call a shop that only sells alcohol and this is interesting because in America their attitude towards alcohol is slightly different we're very open maybe to open to alcohol in the UK and Australia the alcohol is more controlled by the government and the states in the United States this is an ABC store which I just learned because I just looked it up it stands for alcohol beverage controlled state so this is a story that 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 have heard that Australians have some fun names for places like these when I go and get a bottle of wine I go to the bottle shop which in Australia we also called the bottle ooh bottle oh love it it would sound so stupid in a British accent I'm just going to the bottle oh do you need anything awful oh yeah it only works really when you pronounce your T's as a bottle Oh in British English we call this an off license and off license okay what about this next one I feel like I'm going to get ganged up on here these are pants pants pants old people might call them trousers well excuse me I must be very old then because these are hands down trousers they are trousers we do use the word pants to refer to Underpants oh because they go under your pants yeah maybe they are right my whole life has been a lie underpants because they go under your pants Oh under trousers doesn't work does it well anyway these are trousers and I'm not old ever yet now what do we call this the little walking space beside a road this is a sidewalk the concrete beside the road where people walk in Australia is called a footpath interesting we don't say either of these we say pavement pavement now we would never say sidewalk we do say footpath but a footpath is normally not beside a road a pavement is just beside a road and a footpath 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 freeway in Australia ooh we don't say either of these either we never say highway in in British English interstate well we don't have two dates so that doesn't work either freeway no freeway sounds dangerous it sounds like you can do whatever you want you're just free to drive however you like and thank you so much to Emma and Vanessa for coming on this channel and helping me to make this video as I said before I've left all of their information in the description box make sure you watch the other video in this two part series on pronunciation so we're going to be focusing on the same words that are pronounced differently in each accent don't forget to check out audible you can get your free audiobook that's a 30 day free trial all we've got to do is click on the link in the description box to sign up and don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media I've got my facebook my Instagram and my Twitter and I shall see you soon for another video you [Music] [Music] you

Channel: English with Lucy

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Id: 66aG5P0kQpU

Length: 20min 12sec (1212 seconds)

Published: Sat May 16 2020