American vs. British English

[centurian]

Sounds like you've got a big chip on your shoulder young lad.

It certainly sounds like it doesn't it? And how can a word be much shorter just because of one letter?

Someone told me once that 'America is a land of 250 million wankers, and they don't even have a word for wanker'. I wouldn't say that was necessarily true though. There are some awesome babes walking around California - I think they grow on the trees out there.

 

[marchh]

American english rocks, english sounds so nasal when they talk, I never liked their accent tough. It's horrible, american english sounds more cool and most ppl are easier to understand (except some hillbillies of course)

 

[KrummohrHengst]

i also hate BE, because of the pronunciation, the worst is oxford english...

 

[Falves]

hate BE.

we got a geography teacher last year (bilingual, geography in english) that was even worse than BE. it was very hard to listen to her, so i like listening to an american movie or else like pulp fiction (kinda love that movie), because it just easy.

at my school it's really sick. up to the 7th grade you learn BE, then 8th grade AE, 9th grade is about australia, so again BE, 10th again AE.

just kinda stupid, but so is our skool.

 

[Fun_Boy]

In my opinion the stress and pronunciation of BE is very awkward. Such as '<can't<. ( Someone has already told u,huh? ) One day I read some British newspapers, wondering about what differences there are between British English and American English. All in all we have to accept that. Anyway, the stress sounds strange, but we can understand everything !

 

[RinTinTigger]

Damn thatz whatz really annoyin me...
i used to speak damn good British Oxford!
but hangin arround in germany with my best man (a former US Soldier!)
just got me a fuckin US accent which i really hate somtimes

The OXFORD was damn coool....

this us shit is just so Street-Like =)

 

[lovevoltage]

Always when I try to fake BE, I do sound very french. AE is easier to speak, more difficult to understand. What do you think about the other accents?

 

[RinTinTigger]

Well...there is one i Realy adore...the Manchester Accent...it just sounds like a mixture of northern german with dutch and BE =)

just awesome...

But how comes everyone tries to adapt the accent from where hes livin/stayin..that also happens during vacation and stuff ^^

STRANGE =)

 

[Marx1980]

Hi together,
i like BE very much, maybe it's because i grew up with it, because my dad ist british.
I don't understand why you talk bad about BE?
like other people said it's a slang and sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes not. it's the same when mexican or texican people speak english, it's sound funny but it's there way of speaking english

 

[Aepi]

I like both BE and AE. At school we learned BE and at the university i had a american teacher, so i´ve learned the AE, too.

 

[Tartan Glenn]

Try Scottish English ,it`s the only way to talk English (ask any sassenach)

 

[KingRing]

I can better speak AE.
But i think BE is easier for british people.

 

[lauranlammas]

American English sounds so much better than British English. One of my english teachers speak BE and it's sound terrible. : SS But i don't have right now her lessons. : ))

 

[Jahjah]

No doubt..BE! Rule Britania!

 

[ganxxta1994]

I like both

 

[jerome]

I like AE more, cuz it's just easier in every way and I’m kinda happy that all my bilingual teachers are Americans, also my English teacher. My dad actually dislikes that fact, cuz he thinks AE sounds awful, well I don't think so. In my opinion it sounds way better than BE, also there might be more ppl on earth that speak AE. Neither AE nor BE is gay... it’s very individualistic which kinda English ppl prefer. I dislike the fact; that Americans and British always need to run down each other.

p.s. I'm 15 years old and I totally know my English isn't perfect, so pls don't blame me for any mistakes.

cya
jerome

 

[CokeGuitarist]

I think AE sounds much better than BE and for me it's easier to speak! so I prefere the AE!

 

[wanadoo]

BE is the sexiest way to speak english =)
Like: "Yeah girl, whatever. Just keep on talking"

 

[2005]

Nobody says "I don't think this guy has what it takes to tempt me." better than a lady with a strong British accent, don't you think?

I just luv British English. I also love the accent with singers like John Lennon or even someone like EMF singer James Atkin. It gives the performance some kind of subtle (dare I say, arrogant?) edge above American English.

Frenchies speaking English are the worst imho. You'll also almost immediately recognize a native German-speaking person. They use the "the" way too much...also most people don’t get the pronunciation right. sentence melody (intonation) is another problem, you can learn it from UK TV series though...
watching something like "Pride and Prejudice" may also help next time you need to dump someone with style :öm:

 

[dave1812]

I think AE is more like you talk in public, BE always reminds me back to my time in school where we had those stiff assed British English "dramastuff"

 

[Evrae]

I am english and I get annoyed with americanisms in BE. It still bugs me when american say aluminium as alluminum.

 

[MaGiKaL]

AE might be easier to speak, but i prefer BE. Might be cause I'm not a big fan of america anyways...

 

[bubisoft]

In School we lern only Brtish English, but i really don´t like this language,
and because I never hear American English, I like this language more.
=)

 

[Skray]

i like american english more, because its a little bit easier than british, but i am not an english expert

 

[frake]

I really do prefer AE. It's more reasonable! i mean , BE is harder to understand, even if it sounds nice sometimes! thats in my point of view!