2020-09-23
11 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry.
And welcome back to the podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language, to help you to improve your vocabulary, your spoken English, for business purposes, or just for general communication.
As always, I'll give you my contact details at the end of this particular podcast.
So I always ask if you have anything that you would like to me, like me to include.
And I'm happy now to include one of your requests.
And from several of you, you've asked me to give some details of differences between American English and British English.
Well, of course, it's the same language, or so they tell us.
And the Americans sometimes, I have a lot of friends in America, so they won't mind me saying this, but a lot of the times Americans think they actually invented the language, which of course they didn't.
They changed it, but they didn't invent it.
So lots of words have become americanized.
And yes, a lot of american words have found their way across the ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, to the UK, because of the wonderful tv series and programs and movies that the Americans have made.
And this has brought about an exchange of the language.
So in lots of cases, the language gets a little bit confused and we're not always sure whether it's American English or British English.
And in lots of situations, who cares?
Or does it really matter at all?
Well, there are lots of differences, and some of them are relative to where we live, some of them are relative to our tradition.
So you.
Yeah, it can be and is important for some people, a couple of words that I really, really don't like, and this is slang words that have been introduced from America.
And the two words wanna and gonna.