Name: 英式英語與美式英語 (British English vs American English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:38:29.000Z
Duration: 8 min 38 s

She's from the UK and she's an English teacher. Yep.

Anyway, as an English learner I have a lot of questions about the English language

總之  身為英語學習者  我有一堆跟英文有關的問題

and I'm going to ask these two a lot of questions today.

Especially (because) she's from America, and she's from England, so...

尤其一位來自美國  另一位來自英國

American English vs... English... English? English English.

So one of the things I always get confused by is grammar, of course

讓我最常覺得困惑的當然是文法

When I was in school, I was taught that you can't really

use words like "already" or "yet" with past tense.

already 和 yet不能和過去式放在一起

So I'll just go ahead and read these sentences for you guys

so can you tell me which one is more natural for you to say?

你們再和我說哪個聽起來比較自然

Yeah, for me probably "He's already left" so "He has already left."

我覺得是He's already left 也就是 He has already left."

And my teacher told me that you CAN'T say "He already left."

老師說我們不能用"He already left."

I'm going to read this sentence again, so tell me which one's more natural.

我要唸下一句  你們再跟我說哪個比較自然

Can I have a bath? 或是 Can I take a bath?

Can I have a bath? I used to say "Can I have a bath?" too.

You also say "Take a nap" right? Take a nap? Yeah.

你也會說 "Take a nap"  對不對? Take a nap? 對

I'm gonna have a nap. Yeah, "Have a nap."

I don't think that's very common in America.

So for these... it's not wrong, but it's not common.

所以這一題  不算錯  只是不常用

因為不是很普通   所以我也開始用"Take a bath."

I feel like you can't "have" a bath. Like, "Can I have a bath? Thank you!"

我覺得你沒辦法"have" a bath 就好像"Can I have a bath? 謝謝"

That's the impression I got when you first told me, "Can I take a bath?"

你第一次和我說"Can I take a bath?"的時候   我就是這種感覺

Like, how possibly can you "take" a bath? I'll just carry this out.

你怎麼可能"take" a bath  把它帶走嗎?

I'm gonna go have a nap. It's more gentle.

我要have a nap    聽起來比較溫柔

It sounds very proper. ~I'm going to have a nap~

I think all those British English things sound very proper to us.

我覺得英式英文聽起來都很正式

That's interesting. Their way sounds more proper and politer?

很有趣   英式英文聽起來總是比較正式和有禮貌

Except "I was SAT by the fire." We don't say "was sat."

除了"I was SAT by the fire."   我們不這樣說

You don't say "was sat." You have to say "was sitting."

你不能說"was sat"  你要說"was sitting"

I'm on Rachel's side. Why are you bullying me?

我同意Rachel  你們為什麼要欺負我?

Okay. If you're from Norfolk that's how you talk.

好   如果你是來自Norfolk的話  你就會這麼說

Oh, another one. This is- I hate this one.

You know, everyone uses Microsoft Office and Word to write things and

你知道   大家都會用微軟的軟體像word來打字之類的

every time I type the word "travelling" it always corrects my English.

每一次我打 "travelling"  它都說這是錯誤的

I've been in a similar situation where I've been  typing something up at work

我也是  每次我在打字的時候也會碰到這種情況

and it comes up like [THIS IS WRONG.] And I'm like... what??

它會顯示"錯誤"  我就覺得... 蛤?

So I go on google and I'm like, is this really wrong??

And google's like, "Eh, you can use both. It doesn't really matter," you know.

然後GOOGLE說"呃其實兩個都可以  差不多啦" 你知道嗎?

And it underlines the word with that wavy red. That angry red.

I've added so many words to my dictionary.

我已經在我的字典裡放新增了很多字了

I don't care! This is how I'm gonna do it.

I just get really annoyed every time I have to add those "new" words to the dictionary.

每一次要新增新字的時候我都覺得很煩

This is something that we say both ways in Japan.

セーター and ジャンパー Sweater and jumper.

セーター 和 ジャンパー 也就是Sweater 和 jumper

Yeah, that could be a sweater. But here, I'll show you a British jumper.

那算是sweater  可是我可以給你們看一種英式的jumper

When she has that Christmas jumper and it's got like a snowman or a reindeer on it or something

就是她有一件聖誕jumper  上面有類似雪人或馴鹿之類的圖案

But one thing that I really agree with you on is

We just don't use the word trousers. That sounds so old-fashioned.

我們不會用trousers  聽起來好過時

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英式英語與美式英語 (British English vs American English)

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