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Accents and word choices

than American I think someone wants tell me that that that I have an New Zealand accent really or London accent but I'm not sure of either one so I don't know your first picture...

Course: Accents and language differencesSection: British and American English wordsSubtitles: en

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than American I think someone wants tell

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me that that that I have an New Zealand

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accent really or London accent but I'm

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not sure of either one so I don't know

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your first

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picture uh

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sneakers

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okay um sports shoes or

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sneakers uh sneakers would you say

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sneakers or

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trainers yeah uh I think trainers

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sneakers sneaker yeah sneaker and if you

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had to pick between sneaker or Trainer

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sneaker like uh sneakers trainers yeah

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which would you say sneaker probably

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okay and what is this uh it's a sofa or

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a couch but I do say both okay but if

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you had to pick one if your life

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dependent on it a sofa a sofa

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okay

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couch it's a

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couch in German we say sofa oh really

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yes oh yeah and

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uh a sofa for three persons I would say

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yeah in British English is also a sofa

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in American is couch couch couch oh we

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also

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