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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
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Hey guys.
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How's it going?
Okay.
So.
This one.
Oh, that's a big question.
From Macho-san.
Okay.
大学一年で IELTS.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that a test?
Yeah, it's a test, right?
…を取得しようとしています。
イギリス英語とアメリカ英語の違いを教えて欲しいです。
That's it.
Oh, that's it?
Yep.
Big question right there.
Big question right there, man.
Big question.
Big question.
Well, obviously, if you'd be precise, you havetons of differences, like list of differences, Iguess.
Yeah.
Biggest one is, I would say, accent, you know.
Okay.
Biggest one is accent.
And then the phrases, you know, sometimes liketrash, bin.
Oh, the words.
Or how they pronounce it, garage, garage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They have a lot of those as well.
True.
That's it, though.
That's it.
I'm sure there are many more.
But the biggest two things are pronunciations andvoice.
Yeah, pronunciations and voice, I would say, interms of language learning.
That's like the two biggest factors, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
Yeah.
You're right.
I don't know where you are at your Englishlearning journey that you're asking this questionright now.
But, yeah, I would say that's the big one rightthere.
I think Japanese people are more, they can easilydo the British accent better, like easier.
Like the L and R.
Right.
It's said it's closer to Katakana.
True.
Yeah.
I agree with that.
Yeah.
Right.
But I kind of understand this question becausewhen I started, well, not only me, like people,
when people in Japan start learning English, wedidn't know like what's the American English,
what's the English, like British English, what'sthe Indian English.
We didn't know what's the differences.
Oh, like you didn't have a concept of theseaccents?
Yeah.
It's all kind of same to us.
It's English.
Oh, I see.
It's all English to us.
How, I don't know about you, but you think theaverage Japanese people can tell if they hearEnglish,
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if it's British or American or, I don't know,Indian English or Chinese accent or,
how much do you think they can tell?
I think it's very low.
Oh, is it?
Oh, okay.
But I think to many Japanese people, the Americanpronunciations sound like it's the native English.
Okay.
Because in schools, we listen American English.
That's right.
That's true.
So, I know some friends who are listening toBritish English and saying,
なんかこいつカタコトやな。
I see.
Or like, この人はネイティブじゃないね。
I see.
But it's the British English and he's obviouslyfrom London or somewhere.
And to me, it's the native British English.
But someone like them, people like my friends,some of them didn't like, like feels different.
Oh, okay.
I see.
So, somewhat, they can somewhat get it.
Yeah, they feel something though.
What do you think about, what do you think aboutwithin the United States,
there's different accents within the States,right?
Like, for example, like the southern accent.
Yeah.
I don't think so.
I don't think like average or in average, ingeneral.
I don't think, I don't think we can catch thosethings.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or like the hood accent.
Ah, maybe not.
Maybe not.
But I think some people feel like, oh, it soundslike hip hop.
Like, it sounds like this guy's rapping.
Like what, how black guys talk?
Maybe.
Yeah.
Or like hood accent, so like southern accentmaybe.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Because to some people, oh, is he like a rapper orsomething?
Oh, okay.
So I think people can feel something, but notprecise as like, oh, this is something, somethingaccent.
It's just a...
Yeah.
Okay.
I think so.
In France, what's the...
In France?
Yeah.
You mean people study in school?
Yeah.
Italian, Spanish, German, English.
I mean, they don't have like one specific secondlanguage.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
It's the country, the language spoken in theneighbors.
Oh, I see.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
You get to choose which one you want to do.
Yes, yes, yes.
So if you choose English in France, what accent doyou think that would be?
It's British.
Oh, it's British.
Okay.
Yeah.
I was surprised when I went to France, I was inEnglish class as a second language.
Okay.
And the teacher came to me and came to the classand she was like, good afternoon.
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Let's get started, the class.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, the pronunciation was obviously like verymuch British.
To me, it was like too British.
Like you're doing it too much British?
Yes, yes.
I guess the same as in Japan, the teachers, likeJapanese teachers trying to pronounce AmericanEnglish and sometimes they do it too much.
I guess it's the same concept.
I see.
Like they try to be real.
Yeah, right, right, right.
It makes sense like if you look at it, you know,like historically.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right, true.
As a, you know, as a Japanese student that only isexposed to the Japanese type of English learning.
Right.
I guess it's going to be a, you know, a bigexperience, right?
Yeah, it was a surprise to me.
What is this accent?
That's true.
Yeah.
I thought it was French accent English at first.
Okay.
Because the teacher wasn't English lady.
I see.
She was French lady.
So I thought it was, oh, this is how French peoplepronounce English at first.
Okay.
But I understood that it wasn't French accent.
It was British accent.
I see, I see.
And students too, like everybody speaks spokenBritish accent.
Ah, I see.
Excuse me, can I go to bathroom?
Things like that.
Yeah.
They didn't pronounce like can, can I, can I.
The British accent has different accents withinthe British accent, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you know which one that was?
That was, I think, very London, I would say RP.
RP?
Yeah, the very standard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Like, yeah, one of the, yeah, very posh.
One of the British, the most British accent.
Oh, is it?
I think so.
Wait, what kind of, what are the major types ofBritish accents?
So I think one is the Queen's English.
Yeah, I've heard of that Queen's.
Yeah.
And RP, it's very close to Queen's English, Ithink.
But more casual, I would say.
And I know there were one, I forget the name, butmore like a 労働社階級英語 in London, I think.
London is the name of the accent? London accent?
Yeah, they have like, within the London, they havelike basic London accents.
And you have those types.
Oh, okay.
And if you go like Northern, you've got completelydifferent.
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Oh.
Like a Liverpool accent.
Okay.
Like a Scottish accent.
Birmingham accent.
But major accents are like RP is the standard, Iwould say.
The most popular is RP?
I think so.
Oh, okay.
Because it's like a received pronunciation.
Oh, is that what it stands for?
Yeah, it's like a 標準語.
This is the 標準語.
Okay, I see.
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
RP and the 労働社階級英語, I forget the name, those twoare, I think, the most common, I think.
I see, I see.
But the teacher in France, she was trying to speakin almost Queen's English.
Like very, very much British, I would say.
Okay, okay.
But she was trying to be?
Like you can tell she's an RP?
I don't know.
Mystery.
Mystery.
I don't know.
But her, how she pronounced it was very...
Yeah.
On the, what was it side, Polish side?
Yeah, Polish side.
Posh side.
Yeah, very 保守型, I would say.
Okay.
Yeah.
She was wearing very dressy.
Mm-hmm.
So she dressed like a...
Yeah.
Very posh as well.
Queen, I think.
Oh.
Majestic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Just like that, exactly.
She was about to have tea, I guess.
Tea?
During the class even.
Oh, she was going to meet the Queen?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what I saw.
A little tea party?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.