Hello everyone how are you doing today it's Atsu. Today I really want to quickly
talk about native English. What is native English? There are so many
ways to slice and dice it and different people would define it in a different
way, but how I define it is it's English spoken by native speakers literally, but
I just want to weed out, for example, English spoken in the Philippines
English spoken maybe in South Africa... Well South Africa may be a little iffy
but, well, I want to define it as English spoken by people who consider English as
their mother tongue. So American English, Australian English, Kiwi English
of course they are all native English, and British English, that is native
English as well. So that's how I define native English. In this video today
what I want to do is, so first of all I've just defined it so you know what
native English is. The next thing I want to talk about is "Is there actually
a need to speak native English?" "Is it actually necessary?" That's the very first thing I want to talk about.
The next thing I wanna talk about is "What is the gap?" "What's making up the gap between native English and non-native English"
Of course there are lots of different ways of defining what non-native English is, but I'll talk about that as well.
There are the two main topics I wanna touch on. "Is there a need for it?" "What is the gap in between?"