hello everybody I'm Daniel Welsch welcome to the romantic Ventas neighborhood
here in Madrid as you can see I'm here with my lovely friend Jane and
today we're going to talk about a couple of differences between British and
American English in pronunciation I will be representing American English Jane
will be representing British English Jane would you like to tell us a little
bit about yourself well I'm from the north of England a little city called
Leeds but I lived in London too so my accent is very generic I won't be
talking in Yorkshire today great okay so Jane from Leeds in the north of
England we have 12 words here we're going to go through the words and the
examples the first word is water water I say water with the soft American Dee and
Jane uses the hard T also her R is different what's that water very
different there this is of course something that you drink to hydrate
yourself so the example I have here is could I have a glass of water could I
have a glass of water lovely very different pronunciation there so the
differences are the D or the T actually that I pronounce like a D and also the R
that she doesn't pronounce and I pronounced like another example of the R
and the T is party party yeah party I say are you coming to the party on
Friday are you coming to the party on Friday very nice how she sounds aimless
an example those were both the T and the r how do we have examples also of
changing word stress an example for example garage carriage yeah Jane has
the stress on the first syllable of the word I have it on the second syllable so
garage carriage the example we have my car is parked in the garage my car is
parked in the garage great also notice when she says car he doesn't pronounce
the R she says ha great adults adult is a person who is not a
child adult I put the stress on the second syllable Jane I don't adults on
the first syllable great so our example is when you're an
adult you'll understand Daniel when you're an adult you'll understand great
I hope I hope to be an adult someday right now I'm still a teenager next one
we have kilometer kilometer in England the United Kingdom and also in the
United States we use miles and not kilometers but if we're here in Europe
we use kilometers and Jane pronounces it can I beat that kilometer
can I meet that great so our example it's five kilometers from here it's five
kilometers from here did I say that right my bidding Spain teyla it's five
kilometres from here great okay another one we have
advertisement advertisement something on television or on the radio attempting to
convince you to buy a product so advertisement advertisement I thought
you would say advertisement or something oh you're quite right
advertisement advertisement advertisement great okay so my am Korea
yeah your American is rubbing up on my charisma my American charisma makes her
speak more American when she's with me that's like for any last for the
duration of this video yes we'll go back to speaking with our respective accents
in a moment so have you seen Apple's latest advertisement have you seen
Apple's latest latest advertisement I have a versus mode great after that we
have a fruit or vegetable it's technically a fruit a lot of people
consider it a vegetable tomato tomahto yeah okay so that's a
change in the vowel I say tomato with eight and she says tamati with aw great
also of course the t ii t i print in software way than she does so I'm
going to buy some Tomatoes I'm going to buy some Tomatoes
great schedule this is a big difference schedule is the plan for things you have
to do during the day I apologize for the light um how do you say that Jane shit
you all schedule great so schedule and schedule call so Jane
let's see your schedule like for tomorrow once you all shy to a light for
tomorrow it's kind of like today um aluminum aluminum actually in British
English I have just discovered that they pronounce it in a different way we
pronounce it in American English and also that they spell it in a different
way aluminum is a metal the solar colored soft metal and we say aluminium
jane says aluminium aluminium with an extra syllable that write it with an
extra I and that's where you hear the aluminium we say aluminium so these
sandwiches are wrapped in aluminum foil our sandwiches are wrapped in aluminium
foil great aluminium aluminium um a difference in the vowel again progress
progress progress progress I say it was an odd jane says progress progress with
an O so we're making a lot of progress we're making a lot of progress
good okay um home the difference here is between o and hime home which she
pronounces was like an O sound o different sounds in phonetics they also
write them differently so let's go home okay I'm sure it's a small difference
but notice a wall and finally we have laughs in American English laugh this
was an ad hahaha laughs in British English it's all laugh
great so don't laugh at me the American accent makes me off
great thanks you lost even um well thank you Jane for joining me on this video
I'm a problem Daniel my pleasure I hope you out there on YouTube have enjoyed
this new format with my friend Jane and I hope you learned something about the
pronunciation of British English go to my website aprendemos english.com
for a lot more thanks for watching bye bye hello I'm from sorry you can tell I
was gonna have to say that sofa