are actually together here In person and It's the

first video that we're doing together physically so what um

so we thought this would actually be the perfect opportunity

to talk about some differences In our accents because

where are you from andrea so I'm from london I was born In the uk

and I'm from colorado In the united states as many of you may already know

and so we wanted to talk about some words that are different

in american and british english so this will help you a lot If you are

learning one accent and you want to transition to another

maybe you want to travel and you want to know what words

people from that other country might not understand yeah It's just really useful

because also If you watch lots of different tv

series and movies some of our words are different

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or american english so It's really useful to know exactly

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so our first word these are chips of course no ethan I'm really

sorry those are not chips so what are chips for you so chips are

something that's hot that you would have like with a burger

or something so these In british english

are crisps because they are crunchy and they come In a packet

but the hot things they're called french fries well

yeah I guess they are and I guess they are for us as well

like If you're going to certain fast food restaurants

they are french fries but we still call them chips

in the uk all right so you better not get confused If you want them cold

in the usa chips If you want them hot In the uk

say chips exactly uh chips please a few more

just a few more okay girls we are ready for scrabble

i'll grab some snacks oh potato chips please

oh so I can hear about how much you hate yourself all night

and how about what would you call these so these are biscuits but biscuits are

not sweet yes they are why what are you talking about those are

cookies of course see cookies for us we have cookies as

well but cookies are like a chocolate chip cookie or

something but there's lots of different types of biscuits

so generally In the uk you would say that these types of sweet hard what

you'd say cookies or biscuits as you said we would call

those cookies biscuits are actually something

different In the u.s and I think they probably

don't exist In the uk but It's actually something savory

we might have It at breakfast with gravy on top of It

which I think Is another thing that can be different It's like a white sauce

with bacon and It's a really delicious breakfast If

you're ever In the us and you want to try something really typical

you can get biscuits and gravy that sounds like a really heavy

breakfast It Is american breakfasts are very heavy but british breakfasts are

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so we have some different vegetables as well what would you call

that kind of like long green one that you

not a cucumber but It's one that you would cook up yeah we would call this a

courgette courgette It sounds very french we would

call It a zucchini yeah so yeah I guess we

some of these types of vegetables we kind of take the

french word for It because It does sound very french all right

and zucchini would you say that's more italian that sounds more Italian doesn't

it i wonder why we got the Italian and you

got the french yeah it's really Interesting we need to look

into that and find out why if we have any Italian or french fans

out there that want to offer some clarification here and

there's another one that I think the american name Is

actually really weird because who knows what It has to do with this

it's called an eggplant It looks nothing like an egg maybe someone thought It did

yeah and It doesn't really taste like an egg

what would you call that we call that aubergine

which again Is french Isn't It yeah so if you're In the u.s and maybe you know

the word aubergine sounds like a lot of latin languages uh

and you want that kind of vegetable and or

you see It on the menu an eggplant you can know that that's not actually

anything to do with eggs so If you actually If I went to america

and I asked for aubergine do you think people would

understand what I was saying no I don't think so I think I just learned that

from being around british people so definitely If you're In

the us and you're saying aubergine I don't think or a courgette I think

they're going to think that you're not a native english speaker yeah

they'll be really confused wouldn't they so we have one more thing having to do

with food kind of with food If you go to a

candy shop does this exist In the In the uk a candy

shop It does but we call It a sweet shop so what do

you buy at a sweet shop so at a sweet shop you buy all those

kind of sugary sweets the ones that can be

like fizzy cola bottles milk bottles uh you know gummies yeah you would call

them gummies we don't really say gummies oh really

yeah i said It earlier to you because when I

was thinking about It I wanted to make sure like we were clear on what

we were talking about but we call gummy bears gummy bears

um but yeah we just call them sweets it's like haribo and things of the story

right exactly so we call that candy

if you go to a candy shop that's also the kind of things that you would find

the gummy bears and anything that's kind of like uh hard or

chewy or different things like that usually with a lot of different colors

uh but for us sweets I would generally think of like

anything that's sweet so I could also think like cakes

pastries so If you say a sweet shop I might even think It's like a bakery

maybe ah no It wouldn't be but I kind of find

that a little bit confusing because what would you then call chocolate you

call chocolate candy as well don't you not really I think It could definitely

be associated like In a candy store you'll find chocolate

and the pronunciation there Is quite different as well because we say

chocolate and you say chocolate so It's like a bit

of a shorter eye sound there right yeah and

yeah so chocolate you might think about that though because we have

candy bars right that's what I'm thinking of yeah

because I would say I want some chocolate or a chocolate bar

but you would call It a candy cane candy bar but a candy bar because we have

chocolate bars as well but chocolate bars

would be like If It's just pure chocolate a candy bar

is when It has like different candy bits inside of It like

or maybe different things like pretzels toffee things like that that makes sense

you've kind of made It a bit clearer for me now because that's kind of one that

i've even found confusing as well sometimes so we are covering a

ton of vocabulary In this lesson already uh so If you are like me and It's kind

of difficult for you to remember a bunch of words

there's a lot of great tools out there and techniques

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it's a really great lesson and there's so many tips there on how you can

memorize vocabulary so It's really It goes really well with today's

lesson as well because we've taught you a lot of new vocabulary

exactly so be sure to head over there after you finish this lesson and

now we'll continue with a few more words next we're going to move on from food

we'll talk about clothing I think we have a lot of different a lot of uh

differences with clothing as well there are loads so

for example If I go to the uk and I want to buy some green pants

where are they going to take me you want underwear no I want pants of

course long pants but those are called trousers

trousers that's that's like one of the words that definitely I think americans

didn't know but It just sounds like very it sounds very british or like very old

english or something like that to us yeah this Is actually quite funny

because I was speaking to my sister the other day and she was living

in colorado actually for like six years and my nephew because he was born there

and grew up there a lot of the words that he speaks are american english

words so he still says pants as In trousers that we would say

in britain and my sister was saying oh I'm going to

start teaching him some of the british words now so that he understands

when I'm saying certain words as well so yeah

for us we say trousers you don't say this at all do you no

we don't say that at all we just say pants and the other thing would be

underwear or underpants yeah we still say underwear but pants

generally means um your underwear and usually more men's underwear because

the female underwear are called knickers actually I don't

know If you knew that's a very british word as well

yeah I woke up wearing somebody else's trousers

no pants I've got normal memories i don't believe this son of a pitch well

i call 9-1-1 what oh no my phone Is In my other fence

okay so talking about pants so If you call

pants underwear then what would sweatpants be

so these In the uk we would call tracksuit bottoms

so It's quite long so not everyone says tracksuit bottoms

we would shorten It to say trackies trackies yeah

so you have uh sweatpants and then you might have like a sweatshirt In the u.s

yeah we call a sweatshirt a jumper a jumper

and why do you know what that comes from i

don't actually no I'm not sure but I know that

quite a european way of saying It would be pull over have you heard that as well

i have heard that yeah but I'm not sure a sweatshirt

so a sweatshirt Is a jumper right but then you also have

sweater yeah we have a sweater a sweatshirt Is more like the one that

doesn't have any hood or anything like around It

and then like a sweater Is more like what your grandmother might knit for you

for christmas yeah so that's a jumper that's a jumper

so sweatshirt would that be like a track shirt or something like that the

whole thing we call It a track suit okay but people don't tend to use this

word that much anymore this was more like the 90s kind of

shell tracksuits I don't know If you remember those but the ones with the

hood we just call them hoodies a hoodie yeah that's for us as well

but If It's without a hood that might be a sweatshirt

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