Name: 2024年7&8月號Unit 4-1【是「color」還是「colour」？ 英美用法大不同】- 完整課程講解
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Hello everyone and welcome to A+, English, I'm Mike.

And today we are beginning our article, American versus British English, what's the difference?

Yes, it's famously said, I forget who said it, but they said Britain and America are two countries divided by a common language.

Okay, that's true, they both speak English.

But different culture and even different spelling, different words, so it's good to kind of, yeah, it's good to be familiar with some of the differences between British English and American English.

Luckily, with television and movies, we can be exposed to both, but some of that might lead to a bit of confusion when you're watching a British TV show and they refer to things with words you've never heard before if you mainly grew up learning American English.

So let's look at our warm-up question here, it's what do you know about British English and when do you usually hear it?

Well, as you know, I grew up in Australia, so that's why I tend to follow British English in terms of usage and even spelling.

Yeah, so you know what, but there are times when I might incorporate Aussie slang and British English speakers might not commonly use.

For example, phrases like get a mate or no worries.

That's right, or using terms like billabong.

Most people wouldn't know what a billabong is if they didn't live in Australia.

And of course, I'm from Canada, and Canada's kind of interesting because we often grew up learning more British English in school, especially many of the spellings of words.

But then, of course, we're also very exposed to American English.

We get American TV, American radio, living in Canada.

So we're kind of familiar with both, but often it's hard for us to decide which is the best because both are so common.

It can be something that causes confusion, but it can also just be an interesting feature of this common language that isn't exactly the same all around the world.

So let's get into our article and learn more.

In Taiwan, most people learn American English instead of British English at school.

However, both of them are common abroad and quite different.

Let's check out three different things about them.

People use different words for the same things.

For example, in sports, Britons say football, but Americans say soccer.

I guess it's safe to say that over the years, Taiwan has had more of an American influence.

If you went not too far away to Hong Kong or Singapore, you'd probably find students much more familiar with British English.

But I think here in Taiwan and probably in Japan and Korea as well, American English is the most common form of English taught in schools instead of British English.

So in Taiwan, when we say most people are taught American English instead of, that just means rather than.

This actually reminds me of a moment when I spelled the word color, c-o-l-o-u-r.

And one of my students corrected me, insisting it should be color, c-o-l-o-r instead.

I'm like, okay, that's just British English, the way we spell English.

That o-r at the end of the word, flavor, favor, color.

That will often have an extra u in the middle for British and commonly Canadian, Australian, New Zealand English as well.

I often have to fight with my keyboard when I'm typing on my phone because it's kind of set to American English.

But if I send a message to my mom or a Canadian friend, I always have to say, no, no, no, I want that u there when I spell color.

However, it says both of them are common abroad and quite different.

So, yeah, they are quite common as we mentioned.

There's different parts of the world where they'll be more common.

But they are different, different enough to be a little bit confusing and certainly be something to be aware of.

So let's check out some differences between the two languages or the two forms of the language.

In fact, I enjoy learning various expressions from different English-speaking countries.

And I think even accents, 口音, can be fascinating.

And, yeah, remember that word we just saw earlier, abroad?

That just means overseas, 在海外, right? 國外.

That is not a British or American English difference.

That is just a different word with a different spelling.

These words, these different forms of English will be noticeably different.

We're talking about word choices or the words you use to talk about certain things.

For example, in sports, Britons, that's people from Britain, they would say football.

And, of course, here we're talking about the game that you play with kicking a round ball with your feet, the type of game that we see in the World Cup.

So Americans would say soccer for the sport that they play in the World Cup, but they would say football for, like, the Super Bowl where they wear helmets and throw the ball and that.

Whereas Brits would say football for soccer and American football for what Americans call just football.

And, of course, with word choices, there are also other common examples like lift.

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2024年7&8月號Unit 4-1【是「color」還是「colour」？英美用法大不同】- 完整課程講解

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2024年7&8月號Unit 4-1【是「color」還是「colour」？ 英美用法大不同】- 完整課程講解

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2024年7&8月號Unit 4-1【是「color」還是「colour」？英美用法大不同】- 完整課程講解