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tracevijai 09-12-2008 09:55 AM

Hi when you wish to learn a language you should learn the original language not the dialects. As English UK is original and English US is a dialect. I would suggest you to stick with English UK. Once you learn the language you can use according to the location.

Sketchy 09-15-2008 08:09 PM

Spelling - English English

Pronounciation - Irish

Marek 09-27-2008 04:15 PM

In The Netherlands we learn british-english, but we learn american-english subconciously. (because of the amount of subtitles movies on tv, games etc.)

So most people talk in american-english

AntiCitizen 09-27-2008 04:30 PM

Im British and i like to say cell phone and high school

chocolate 09-27-2008 05:54 PM

here in Dubai mostly people learn America english.but i am learning British English.

Beresford 10-07-2008 10:20 AM

Well, I can see that most people here prefer the British English, but I strongly adice you to follow the American English because it's so much easier to understand and speak. For example, every people who speak english around the world can always understand what an American says, but they have a hard time understanding every other types of english. An Australian easily gets American. An Irish can easily get it too. But an Australian doesn't get Irish that well, you see what I mean?
And I personally thought that the british accent was weird, but that was before I listened to australian, irish, scottish, welsh, etc. Lol.
You probably think that I'm American from these things I tell you, but I'm not. I'm European.
Watch many american movies, it's your best training. Be well.

kowaomote 10-14-2008 07:26 PM

When I was visiting some of my family in Sweden- they all studied English-English. Also, when my mom came to America (before I was born) she spoke with an English accent, but adapted to American English when she decided to take residence in the United States.

Jaydelart 10-14-2008 08:53 PM

Everytime I moved from Australia to America (or vice versa), I got my -ors and -ours mixed up. lol

I think American-English is a little more rough and simple.
British English seems a little more gentle and sophisticated.

If I were to choose between the two to learn, I'd go for American-English since it can be considered the standard form of English.
... But it really does depend on what you prefer.

In the end, they're basically the same thing... with a few differences.

clairebear 10-14-2008 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Beresford (Post 603397)
And I personally thought that the british accent was weird, but that was before I listened to australian, irish, scottish, welsh, etc. Lol.

Scottish and Welsh accents are British accents ._. *sigh*

Yuna7780 10-14-2008 08:59 PM

I don't like how American people spell stuff. I like adding random u's to some words. I normally spell everyday words "British" because I like it better:
humour
gray

Is "color", "colour" in a British spelling?

I'm not going into the topic of the spelling of gray, but I HATE it when people spell it "grey". It's... too annoying.

What I do for the fun of it, when writing on paper only, I spell "with" like "withe". The E is put in naturally from writing. When I'm in class, I always have to erase the E because I've been adding an E for years. lol


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