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British or American English?

hi welcome to a new episode of easy English this week we're interested to know which form of English is more commonly used today British English or American English so we found...

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

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hi welcome to a new episode of easy

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English this week we're interested to

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know which form of English is more

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commonly used today British English or

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American English so we found various

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objects that you can see here which have

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completely different vocabularies for

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the two forms of English and we went to

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Minster in Germany where British English

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is more commonly taught in school to see

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which of the two vocabularies they're

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more instinctively using nowadays if

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you're also interested to know whether

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you're using British or American English

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then why don't you play along and let us

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know in the comments below before we get

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started if you're a regular easy English

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viewer but not yet a subscriber then

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quickly subscribe below here we go uh

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out of curiosity do you think you speak

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American or British

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English um I think British I think

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British yeah the English that's taught

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in in German classes probably more

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British English I think rather American

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yeah why is that uh because the media I

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consume is mainly American by the way

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what what do you think you are speaking

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good question I don't know

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actually I think I'm nearer than British

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