Do you speak BRITISH or AUSTRALIAN English? 🇬🇧🇦🇺
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Have you ever wondered about the fascinating contrasts between British English and Australian English?
In this eye-opening video, we delve into the nuances of language with the help of Pete from Aussie English.
@AussieEnglishPodcast
From everyday vocabulary distinctions like "chav" in the UK and "bogan" in Australia, to quirky differences such as "flip flops" vs "thongs" and "Wellies" vs "gumboots," we uncover the unique linguistic flavors of both regions.
But that's not all! We also explore the divergent pronunciations and grammatical quirks that distinguish these two vibrant English dialects. Whether it's the subtle inflections in accent or the distinct grammatical structures, there's plenty to discover and appreciate.
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As an Aussie that is not a 'bogan', most friends and work colleagues do NOT say half of the words as portrayed here. We get a lot of British media here and we also have a lot of connections that still exist.
I agree with the slang generally, but I do wear trousers, we have a block of flats and everybody here has enormous exposure to both US and UK terminology.
Cheers mate
Yeah. He’s trying too hard to be bogan.
I agree. I do use the slang terms at times, but more often than not I say the full word.
I agree that not everyone in Australia is a bogan.. 😂
Aussie here. The man in the picture was wearing pants or trousers, not trackies. (Trackies = tracksuit top/pants.) We used to call apartments 'flats', and still do to some extent. We use the same naming conventions for floors as the UK. Ground, first, second etc. And we don't always call a toilet a dunny 😅 We also say loo, or occasionally bog if we're among friends. Esky was a brand name that became a general term for that kind of item.
So helpful. Thanks!
I agree. trackies are track suit pants or similar.
I like what Kiwis call a Esky i.e. a Chilly Bin
Aussies don’t really say flats nowadays but they would understand it
I usually use flat or unit. Apartment to me is a large and fancy flat. I don’t like apartment as I see it as as an Americanism
I speak a mixture of British, American, and Australian. In my country I learned British English, moved to the U.S. and learned American English, now I’ve been living in Australia and have picked up some of the Australian English.
Your career is similar to mine, I learned American English at school, I am living in Australia and at college I have been learning British English😂😂
And the last steps are visit India and South Africa,oi I forgot Canada
Stunning and fascinating video. Extremely informative and enriching. Thanks for recording it.
Thanks for such a nice 👍 comment
I was craving for a video like this. Thank ya, mate! 🙏🏻
No worries mate! Make sure to share
Thank you soooo much for the beautiful video. I enjoined it with my two arab kids. ❤❤🌸
That is amazing!!!
*Estoy aprendiendo el acento Británico y me gusta mucho"
Saludos desde Morelia, México.🇲🇽
Thank you very much, your video's have been really beneficial to me. 😊😊😊😊
Wonderful to hear that
@@InstantEnglishUK 😌😌😌
That’s quite interesting to me because I have learned English in Australia but I love British accent so my English journey has been putting myself into both accents 😅
Oh brilliant
thank you sir actualy i realised that video was from my suggestion so i wanna thank you so much
You’re always welcome mate
I’m a Colombian person and when I started learning for first time I feel in love with British accent. Everyday I practice my English only with British videos. It’s so elegant for me.
Glad you like it 😎
😊thanks, it was so interesting
You are welcome!
I am Italian and I speak a mix of British and American English. I didn’t have any previous knowledge about Australian English, so thank you for this interesting video.
Where abouts in Italian are you from mate? thanks for the support too!
@@InstantEnglishUK Central Italy :)
good to see you back my teacher, from ethiopia, oromia❤💚❤
I never left my friend
I mean, my notifications didn't show me your new videos. this is cause i say it, i know you never left my teacher
so cool!!
Thank you!
I'm not a native English speaker, so I use to mix up accents. When I am stress or nervous I tend to have a more caribean/latin american kinda accent, but if I'm more relax and well into the conversation my accent then morphs into a more american/brittish accent. Depending on the topic or moment I can swich to a more american or brittish accent. Maybe is the occational aussie word, but is weird on me as the australian influence is week on my speech almost non existant.
Thanks so much for the video, and remembering this stuff if very important if you want to travel to the UK or Australia, even if you are just interested in the culture and else. Simple but useful. Well done!
My mum has American heritage and part of my family lives in Wisconsin , I live in the UK and I must say I have a bit of an American accent lol! This was an awesome video I loved hearing the dialects between the accents ❤.
I was born in Australia but spent a few years as a kid in the uk and eventually after a few more countries returned to Australia and as my mother was English I say both ways depending of who I’m with but understand both.
In Australia we would calls flats units, but we also use apartments and flats. I personally avoid apartment as I think of apartments as being larger and fancier flats. We also say ground floor here. However we may also say lower ground floor rather than basement in some cases.
Very occasionally you will see the ground floor as being referred to as the first floor, which is quite disorienting.
So so good! 👍🌟❤
Thank you! Please share
I speak British English
Same here too you 😊
Don’t we all?
We say toilet, like most other Australians. Dunny sounds a bit forced or ocker. Would you really ask “where’s the dunny?” In David Jones for example? 27 hundred? I think that’s unusual, but I live in Queensland. We’re not all ockers.
same
Same!
Esky is a brand name owned by Coleman originally by Malley, all others called coolers here in Australia
These names of become the referred term after some time… just like hoover or tupperware
British English is so beautiful, and much easier to understand.
But runners is a really cool word for shoes.
So you like a bit of both?
@@InstantEnglishUK Yeah, but British English is much better because the letters T and D have a T and D sound. And the words: "important, hat, cat, car, dance" in British English, they have sound wonderful for example
Pommy English seems to have stopped using the present particple.
For example:
Pom- "I was stood on the footpath when the accident happened"
Or "I was sat on the seat when it suddenly collapsed"
Also "ground" seems to have been replaced by "floor"
Yes I've always wondered about that past participle thing too. Very odd.
I’m only here in Australia for a month now, and I’m already starting to shift to an Australian accent😂
No way! What’s your favourite part?
I learnt American English, followed by Australian English at Metropolitan areas in Australia. When I travel outback or country towns, some speaks like him, but not all of them even in there, any more.
There's dialect variety in Australia. As a native speaker I mostly use the English options, but I understand the Ozzie ones.
our local pub served bangers and mash and we used to change it to frangers and gash. -we were not popular with the bar staff who had to correct it.
Hmm 🤨 I don’t get it
Happy to see Pete in your video! Why did he stop making videos on his channel 😢
He’s a busy man
That's great
Half and half, I'm a Kiwi. We would have to add, Jandals (Flip Flops), and Chilly bin (Esky)
Interesting
Been tought British but it is worth to know the cultural aspect and be aware of the differences
Cheers 🇵🇱
Brilliant! Great attitude
"I'm eating lollies".
Australian: 😄
Brazilian: 😮
As a Croatian, I speak more American English, but I'd love to learn more about Aussie English - I find it very interesting 😊
I’m going to do a collaboration with Canadian English next ☺️😎
I mean flip flops 🩴 are like thongs for your toes so it’s very valid 😂
I’m a mix of British and American. I live in Mexico. So there’s lots of American influence here. But my schools have been always British!
Ground floor is definitely the rule in Australia, G, 1, 2, etc.
I'm South Aussie and constantly get asked about my English accent!
South Australian accent is strangely British. I’m a dual citizen of Oz and UK so going to Adelaide is always jarring 😂
I speak New Zealand English. It seems that I mostly use British sayings though.
Definitely I love British English...greetings from Colombia
Hey, did you see my Colombia video here?
I speak British AND Australian English but I’m British by birth but am an Australian citizen.
Im well-known about British English for 6 years almost I owned over British English in terms of quick comprehending its pronunciation, vocabulary and lots of comprehends remaining in the British English sweetness ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅🏴🏴💯
Wha?
I speak mainly Australian english but I still have British english influences such as words like Wellies instead of Gumboots and mostly say toilet or loo as dunny is a bit coarse
Interesting
I'm Australian, living in Sydney, and think the flapped 't' pronunciation sounds bogan. I think Pete is deliberately thickening his accent.
With regard to "apartments". Sydney is located in NSW so this can vary between states. It used to be "a block of flats" and apartments were usually "serviced apartments", sort of permanent hotel accommodation. Then, a new system of land titles was introduced and the title for what was a flat became a "Home Unit". So now we have "a block of units" and that is how they are advertised. However, my daughter and other young people frequently refer to them as 'apartments'.
Thank you for the video… was interesting…. Although as an Aussie… I wouldn’t agree with everything our Aussie friend had to say… He used a lot of slang words not correct Australian English. A toilet is a toilet, if you used dunny in polite society, then you really are a bogan. But Loo is often used, it’s not considered bogan. Some of us might say 12 hundred. But we certainly use “and” for. One Hundred and Twenty… not like the US One Hundred, Twenty. Sanga is slag.. We know what a sandwich is, and we definitely Use Ground Floor…. You will find a big G in lifts… and not elevators. I do find it cringe worthy when my fellow Aussies use too much slang to be common languages. Yep.. we use slang a lot.. but please point it out as being a slang word.. Otherwise all good…. Thanks again for the comparisons.
Malay - English and we pronounced "Roadblock" as Roblok
I grew up in the UK speaking British English but being in London we mostly spoke cockney, we called trousers "Dacks"...I emigrated to Australia back in 1970 and now I speak Aussie English although Aussies usually pick up my English accent even though I pronounce my words same as Aussies.
Mine Accent have been mixed. Per example : I have pronounced: T with sound of T ; D with sound of D ; R vibrate : per example: Water - WôtáR.
That is absolutely normal! 😀
Interestingly, in the UK the unit of a flat is ‘flat’ when writing addresses, whereas in Australia the unit of an apartment is ‘unit’.
What do you mean unit?
Unit is a single flat or apartment.
Sausages/snags on the bbq, but bangers when done with mash.
In the UK, yes like I said in the video
That's awesome! Would you mind to share with us about Canadian English accent/grammar vs British accent/grammar? It'd be awesome as well. Cheers!!! @instantenglish
Im working on it
Thanks for an amazing content, as usual really engaging&informative👍🏻 Good luck! With all the respect, a good Fella from Kazakh Republic🇰🇿😊
Thank you mate
As most Brazilians I've learnt to speak the american accent but also to understand some British words. Australian is new to me, but I wish I had British accent, the absolut elegance 😊
Big up Brazil 🇧🇷❤️
I can speak Mandarin and Japnese , British, American , Australian and Hindi my mother tongue
You are smashing it!!!
About the sport shoes ,if i say sneakers ,would you say it 's UK ,US or both ?
We use the word in France too
I think it's of American origin. In Australia, we understand (and you'll hear used here) any variation (sneakers, runners, trainers, track shoes, athletic shoes, sports shoes, ...)
@@Carl-md8pc ok.merci
Have loved British accent since very young, no other accent is gonna change my mind. Aussie accent is interesting though, similar but different.
Who is trying to change your mind these accents are just a fact of life whether people like them or not is up to them.
Great video. Always learning. Nevertheless I speak American English.
Perfect! That’s totally fine 😎
I speak Filipino English, Pakistani English which is similar to Indian when it comes to accent. And been living in New Zealand for the past 6 1/2 year and trying to sound like a New Zealander which is really cool.
That is cool! Good luck with that mate
@@InstantEnglishUK Thanks heaps. 🙌
I'm sure I could understand you better than British people.
@@ballsxan thankyou for saying that.🙌
This was fun, but in reality many of the terms Pete was using are slang terms, not everyday terms. It depends on context.
Most people I know would say, I will buy sausages, but may use snags when saying what they will barbecue. We also calls them bangers, usually in the context of bangers and mash.
I hear sandwich used far more than sanga. I rarely hear the toilet referred to as dunny.
Interestingly I use sneakers for the foot ware, but I think that is an age thing.
Also, it is only in broad Australian that you flap your Ts. I certainly pronounce my Ts in water, better, etc.
I’m an older Australian who has lived in more than one state and our words for things do vary from state to state. We use use pants but also trousers for what the man was wearing, they definitely weren’t trackies, those are tracksuit pants. The shoes shown are called runners, sneakers or joggers depending on where you live. We have flats, apartments and home units. When I was a child they were all called flats, these days it’s mostly boomers who call them flats, Gen X will call them home units and the younger generations will tend more towards apartments. Your chavs sound more like our ferals. Bogans like beer, flannelette shirts and singlets and drive modified cars.
Iam from Bangladesh. I like British English. It's very easy.❤
Perfect!
You have enlighted me ,,,I thought I had misundertood when I Heard twelve hundred ( 1200) now I now My ears were fine 😂😂
Glad you got it now mate
The thongs got to me 😂.
Kettle is not synonymous with teapot imo. A kettle boils the water, the tea then steeps in the teapot.
I mentioned that in the subtitles, it was more a reference that some people may confuse in the UK
Also, Pete mentioned that too
Also used to call them a jug in Australia.
In my country (NZ) students live in flats. But if the same 'flat' comes on the market its called an apartment.
I speak London British :)
My pronunciation is like British English, but my intonation may not be very British. Is that okay?
Of course
I'm Filipino and we use American English but sometimes I use British English to be different haha
Thongs (the knickers ) are called G strings or Geebangers in Australia
haha thanks
Australians used to say flat but real estate agents started calling them apartments to make them sound more up market and now everyone does.
I’d need some proof to confirm this
Agreed. Ex Pom Full Aussie here. When I first came to Oz 34 years ago, I rented a flat. Now I live in an apartment. 🤷♀️
And the MOST important thing: DON'T WEAR thongs, flip flops, sandals or whatever, especially in the street, unless you are on the beach (litteraly, on the sand).
I speak mixed English 😂. Growing up learning American English, having professors from England and Scotland in uni, being in Australia for 8 years, having worked with a chef from Glasgow for a while. Now I’m in Canada getting half people saying that I sound British and the other half saying Australian. But I definitely don’t say thongs here as I’m aware of what they are here 😁
Where are you from mate?
@@InstantEnglishUK I'm from Taiwan :)
Do a South African English one, please
I need to find someone first
The toilet. First time I hear a bug. We call it the throne. Montreal here. 🤣
Canadian, New Zealand, Irish, Scottish English please❤️🥺
I am working on Canada now 😇
@@InstantEnglishUK Will there be more of the above? It would be interesting to see a similar video about accents in the UK. Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Liverpool
I got more of British in my accent, but is impossible not to have a little of American.
Could you please do a video about GET IN / COME IN ?
I'm often confused about these 2 expressions and hesitate which to use .
Merci
I said " i must get in " wanting to mean " i must go back inside my house because it rains ".
I hope i didn 't really said IL FAUT QUE JE ME TIRE !!! 😂😂😂
I think it’s better if I make a short video about this instead of a long form version 😎
@@InstantEnglishUK that 's what i think too
Get in is an instruction. Come in is an invitation.
we have a word in spanish: "chavo" (male) or "chava" (fem) which is more about being immature and very young
Mine is mixed everything together 🗿
Nice! Where are you from?
I speak 'I'm drowning in an ocean'- English
Where’s that Fiji?
You can make one the difference between American English, Australian English and British English.
Love from India 🇮🇳
Thank you!
Thanks to this video i discovered that i have a mix of Australian, British and American english... Idk how did i fucked up so bad 🤣
It’s great that you know so much
Both are awesome, but I speak British
Esky is just a brand generalisation.
That happens quite a lot like tupperware or hoover
I use my flip flop at home
Specially when i have shower 😆
Speak British English 👍🏼
That’s true! We normally use slippers because it’s cold haha
Aussie ❤
6:08 who edited this and put "mom" in the subtitles? You should know that both Britain and Australia spell it "mum".
Auto generated subtitles and then I go through them to correct any mistakes. I am a one man band editing, filming, teaching etc so I may some of the subtitles. Unfortunately they don’t have a British version, but I think it’s not really a big issue tbh
The Aussie guy is using more slang than most would in every day speak to be honest, probably pulling them out for this exercise lol. The majority of Aussies speak with a "general" Australian accent, so a bit softer than what he's displaying here which is more of a broad accent. Everyone expects us all to sound like steve Irwin but we don't. There are multiple Australian accents and differences between certain regions.
You should get someone on with an ethno-austalian accent. (Born and raised here but with a very, very distinct accent from the influences in their community).
South Australians pronounce things more similar to British and the eastern states tend to be somewhere between english and the US in a lot of pronunciations.
I never say sanga or arvo. Mostly bogans or regional people say dunny... people usually just say toilet. (Or loo if they're a bit older like grandparents )
An Apartment if it's got several floors or is a high rise. Flats tend to be single or low story buildings. But more often these days you will hear the term - Unit - rather than flat for single or low rise. And that is how it would be displayed on an address.
Kettle and also Jug is another word. Electric jug.
The flapped T's (like the US) i think has evolved over the decades. Most eastern states do this. I think South Australia doesn't do that as much and maybe Perth/western Australia? But this generalised, as not every single person in the eastern states will have the flap t sound.
The more I ponder this video, the more I’m annoyed that not everyday spoken slag is being presented to the world as general Australian speech
Thanks
Interestingly, as an older Australian, I would say, "The Aussie bloke . . ." rather than use the US term guy.
My favourite English is British.
Amazing! Why?
I speak amerenglish !!! 😅
I love your videos ,they 're hilarious
Have you watched the British vs American long video on my page?
@@InstantEnglishUK do you mean the one called " do you speak british or american english ? "
If so ,i have
And the result ,as i said is : i speak amerenglish !!!! 😅😅😅
@@InstantEnglishUK when i was still a university student ,i had both british and american teachers ,it can explain why ! 😄
I like both, but I speak with an American accent.
I love all of them, but British is best haha
Questo è il motivo per cui mi rifiuto di imparare l'inglese. È una lingua inesistente
What does this mean?
@@InstantEnglishUK Significa che non esiste. Ognuno può usare lessico, pronuncia e morfosintassi a piacere. Su 10 inglesi non ne esistono due che parlino la stessa lingua e per questo soprattutto la pronuncia è incomprensibile. Se è la più parlata lo si deve solo al fatto che gli Stati Uniti hanno vinto la guerra.
I speak British English!
Amazing
Ta mate
I mixed British with American English 😂
Nice! Where are you from?
I had to laugh at English pronunciation. I sometimes have to put the subtitles on when watching UK shows as some accents are so far from what i am used to and a lot of English people don't open their mouths enough when they speak.
That is a true a lot of natives eat their words or mumble unfortunately
British of course🎉
Perfect!
I speak broken English (hope to change it)
Keep following / watching my videos. I’ll help you
I think i speak Australish:)))