Name: Chiến Tranh giọng tiếng Anh. (Chiến tranh giọng tiếng Anh)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:47:17.000Z
Duration: 8 min 56 s
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Tons of my followers have asked me to make a video comparing American and British English.

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I invited four of my friends to appear in this video,

so you can hear the main differences between American and British pronunciation.

I'd like to introduce you to those four friends.

And the most important thing: where do they come from?

I'll let you guys listen more now, and I'll analyze the most notable differences.

One more thing is that a lot of people have asked me what accent they should try to imitate.

If you ask me, you should imitate whichever accent you find easier.

Even if you plan to study abroad in the US, and you find the English accent easier to imitate,

There are very few times that Americans and Britons have trouble understanding one another.

To help you assess which accent is easier, I invited a Vietnamese friend to appear as well.

and she's 100% Vietnamese, so you can trust her assessment.

Okay, let's start. And from here on out, I'm going to speak English.

First, you're going to hear them say this sentence.

When you listen, pay attention to these two words.

but the English people add a /j/ sound in there, and they say /ju:/.

There are lots of other words like this, where Americans say /u:/ and English people say /ju:/.

So let's see which one Ngoc thinks is easier.

So I guess that's one point for British English.

This time, pay attention to these three words.

This is one of the most well-known differences between American English and British English:

Americans pronounce the 'r' very clearly,

and we use the back of our tongue to make that sound.

But the British people basically just make the vowel sound longer,

and they don't really pronounce the 'r' at all.

If an 'r' comes between two vowel sounds, like in the word "very,"

then English people pronounce it basically the same as Americans.

But if the 'r' comes after a vowel and isn't followed by another vowel, like in these words,

then English people don't really pronounce the 'r'.

So what does our Vietnamese friend think?

In this sentence, pay attention to these two words.

This is another very well-known difference:

the pronunciation of the letter 't' between vowel sounds.

The English people say it the way you would expect: /t/.

Now, my American friends surprised me with this one,

because I thought they would say this word like  /ˈsen ər/.

So I asked them if they always say /ˈsent ər/ or if they sometimes say /ˈsen ər/.

So this shows you that our accents are not absolute.

We might pronounce the same word in a different way depending on the situation.

Anyway, you can see this difference in a lot of different words.

So let's see which way Ngoc thinks is easier.

It's easier to pronounce British English.

Okay, this is another very, very well-known difference.

For a lot of words that have an 'a' in the middle,

Americans pronounce the 'a' the way you would expect: /æ/.

But British people pronounce it more like /ɑ:/.

is that there's no real rule for when British people say  /ɑ:/ and when they say /æ/.

For example, they pronounce this word with an /ɑ:/ sound,

This time, pay attention to the stress of these three words.

The Americans put the stress on the second syllable,

and the English people put the stress on the first.

The thing these three words have in common is they all come from French,