hi yeah welcome back to real life
english so we are four native english
speakers from different countries each
with our unique accents so today we're
going to play some games that are going
to help you to learn some of the
differences between our four accents
regarding pronunciation vocabulary slang
and cultural aspects
so i'm ethan from the usa
andrea is already she's expecting her
baby but she was kind enough to come and
share her wonderful british accent with
us
hey guys happy to be here
and then we have casey our newest
fluency coach joining us from cape town
south africa
hey everyone nice to be here
and i'm very excited to have ollie from
australia back in the virtual studio as
a special guest
oh yeah what's up everyone long time no
see
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so today we're going to be playing a
game so there are 20 cards that we can
choose from each card has some
information about pronunciation
vocabulary slang and cultural aspects
and if the card is talking specifically
about your country then you can feel
free to share your thoughts on it first
and then the rest of us can jump in and
share our thoughts are you guys ready
let's do it i'm excited
andrea
okay i'm gonna go for my favorite number
number two
what's the food like in your country
oh this is interesting i feel like
lots of people
think that
british or like english food is not very
nice i think maybe
sometimes people think it's very bland
or there are some traditional dishes you
know like fish and chips bangers and
mash which is sausages and mashed
potatoes and things like that
but
the uk is such a diverse country that
it's amazing like you can find any
cuisine and that's something that i
really love about the uk um yeah we also
have like fish and chips and baggers of
mash we normally eat fish and chips on a
friday um that because australia like
the uk is so multicultural we have like
everything that you want to eat um it's
amazing
it's so weird because we have exactly
the same
like it's this i guess it's the british
influence but um yeah we do the same
thing fish and chips so popular here as
well
oh that's surprising i don't know i
don't know why i wouldn't imagine fish
and chips in in south africa
um
cassie do you want to go next
sure let's go for number eight
is that from your your country
it is
a sami is a sandwich uh it could be any
kind of sandwich yeah
i don't know exactly where this name
comes from though i i guess it just
sounds
cute like a cute version of a sandwich
perhaps
a little sandwich we call it a singer
like s-a-n-g-a
in australia what are you having for
lunch i'm having a singer so i guess it
might like you know
be like a
non-cute way of saying sami
that's interesting because in the uk
like a shortened way of saying sandwich
is asani
so it's very similar to the south
african one but instead of an m we have
an n as like sandwich sani i don't know
in american english it would be a sami
yeah let's go for all the ones eleven
get my bingo calling on what do you
think it is let's let's play the
guessing game
breakfast breakfast
yeah breakfast yeah it's brekky what are
you having for brekkie breakfast yep
that's probably our cute way of saying
breakfast
i like to use that lunch sometimes as
well because it's just breakfast seems
like too much of a mouthful
so much easier
yeah we use it as well in the uk
how you doing yes same in south africa
it's just spelt differently we have
sort of the accent on the e and we use
ie at the end
ricky
oh okay well i like twos so i'm gonna go
for number 12.
oh
what's this
let's grab a slab from the bottle later
can you understand this question
i think the viewers will know what
butler means because i've i used to talk
about that all the time
in australia we call this a bottle-o
i think that's like the best the best
possible name that you could have for it
so it's so
so strange because it sounds like also
it's a really good name because it
sounds like whoever invented that name
for it was maybe a little bit drunk
perfectly
bottle o is where you can buy alcohol um
and and a bottle i was like you can't
buy alcohol in supermarkets like you can
in many parts of the world and a slab oh
what do you think of slab is yeah see
this is really weird for me bottle oh i
remember if people have seen the one
language three accents video they'll
probably remember it
so a bottle o in the uk we would call an
off license
although
you can buy alcohol in supermarkets in
the uk
um
a slab i don't know because a slab makes
me think of like something big you know
like a plank of wood or like a slab
of meat or something
it's just a um a case of beer like 24
beers in a box
um so we call this a for a glass bottle
a stubby and um the can is a tinny
god we're so cute down here aren't we
you're so cute yeah people who come to
visit i remember that growing up from
like watching neighbors and home and
away
and
like when people were trying to do the
australian accent they'd be like do you
want a tinny mate
[Laughter]
okay some people believe it's always hot
and sunny in south africa is that true
definitely not um it snows in uh the
western cape which is my province so in
winter we have quite a bit of snow and
people are quite surprised to know that
yeah
i i certainly am yeah it's the present
but you guys are quite far south right i
mean if you go south of south africa
it's the next thing's antarctica so
exactly yeah that's right it's very cold
in winter and i think even in summer
we have quite a bit of rain and it's
really not uh consistent
temperatures here so definitely not
always hot and sunny
yeah okay so i'm gonna go for my
birthday the 9th of october so number
nine that's also my birthday it's crazy
all right well uh what comes to mind
when you hear the word
blixen is that i'm not bad i butchered
that pronunciation
is that from south africa
it's actually an afrikaans word so
we did use it in english too but yeah
it's an afrikaans one uh i reckon that
it's something to do with the weather
when it's quite hot and sunny
and maybe like oh it's hot it's it's
blick some outside let's go and
i don't know i've got no idea okay so
blip blipson is basically
um someone
it could be a verb or a noun so you
could be a blitzen or you know you could
blitz them someone so when we use it we
basically mean that someone is like what
an idiot you know like you bless them
you did something bad you you know you
messed up in some way or if you blitzen
someone you're giving them like a
a whooping a hiding you're hitting them
it's quite a
an aggressive one
so your parents could tell you like i'm
going to blips on you if you do
something
what comes to mind when you hear the
phrase don't skinner about me
don't skinna about me is that like when
someone's talking about you or something
like
talking about you behind your back or
something
yeah that's it
oh wow really oh wow andrea
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is there anything about your country
that you would like people to know more
about
oh
that's interesting
i've got one oh no you go
go for it
well um i really like that i mean it's
not very exciting but if you're a hiker
like the uk has a lot of public
footpaths and you can literally walk
around the whole country and it's not
dangerous there's not going to be snakes
or spiders or lions that jump out and
attack you it's like
quite safe to walk around england and it
has a beautiful coastline so that's what
i think people don't think about when uh
talk about the uk
nice thanks for that promotion
i work for tourism uk
yeah i think i mean i i don't know maybe
people are aware of it but one thing
that i've said it before as well i said
it earlier like i love the fact that the
country is so diverse and
it's just
a big
boiling pot melting pot rather of like
different
ethnicities and everything and
growing up i loved that about it because
you just learn so much about different
cultures i would say something similar
to what always said about the uk
for the us is that like people tend to
think of like new york los angeles miami
but there's just like so much between we
have like all these amazing national
parks where you can see these things
that you would never
uh really
imagine could exist you know on earth so
i think that that's something definitely
don't just go to the cities like
definitely check out the national parks
and um
small town america as we like to call it
um for south africa i think that people
generally still think that we're
you know
surrounded by lions and giraffes and
walk around in the bush
no
[Laughter]
they sat in new zealander
oh really
oh i didn't know that
um
i didn't know that but uh english
speaking south african sound australian
definitely not true
no i think when when i was younger i
don't think i could tell the difference
i think even now maybe maybe it's like
if i heard a certain accent
it depends like a lot where because i've
heard a lot of very different south
african accents
um and some of them are like very strong
and it's like pretty
it doesn't sound like like other uh
english-speaking accents but if it's
like kind of like a lighter accent then
i could see
if someone weren't um didn't have much
experience hearing australian or new
zealand or south africa that you could
confuse it
can you like give an example of a word
perhaps that sounds
i have no idea well you guys like for
example with the er
in all of your accents you you do like
if there's an er at the end of the word
you kind of drop it you do like the
schwa sound
um
so that's something that definitely if
you're an american it's just like it
sounds like a different english accent
and if you're not very experienced uh
like watching tv series or having
traveled or met people from those
countries you might just
hunk them all together you know into the
same like non-american accent
not me i'm more worldly than that but
i'm just
not so well traveled american see i
think
i have an example where i think south
africans might sound like the new
zealanders um
when that you say the number seven and
the number ten
seven
seven say again seven
ten and what's the other one ten ten
two yeah i reckon because seven
definitely that in new zealand they'd
say like i'm gonna sorry new zealanders
seven like that how you said it
and they say ten ten two yeah
uh okay i'm gonna go for number one
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oh gosh some people believe that
australia is a very dangerous country
because it is home to some of the
deadliest creatures in the world such as
snakes spiders and crocodiles
what do you think about that
well
i walk my dog on an abandoned golf
course with long grass and lots of trees
and lots of bushes and i've never seen a
snake in um my 30 years of life so
yeah i mean there are some like i kill
spiders uh in the house every now and
then um but you know um they're deadly
animals you know they're they're
everywhere it's funny like in colorado i
think people would definitely be like oh
australia it's very dangerous but then
we have like we have bears we have
mountain lions which are pumas we have
uh rattlesnakes so but it's not like
i've never i don't think i've
seen rattlesnake i've heard them
and i've seen bears but i've never
actually seen a mountain lion i've heard
them but i haven't seen them people have
that same
um
the same idea about south africa lions
snakes all kinds of
um even mosquitoes right like oh i'm
going to africa and i might get
malaria
i mean it's possible not saying not
ruling it out it could happen to you but
it's really unlikely
say this phrase out loud in your native
accent
i go to work at eight
okay i go to work at eight o'clock every
day
i think we'd all say this is quite
different do i go now
okay all right
i go to work at eight o'clock every day
actually i think i sounded far too
aussie then i go to work at eight
o'clock every day
i wanna try and say it like you so i
would say
i go to work at eight o'clock every day
i go to work
i go to work at 8 o'clock every day
it's not very good that's good
i guess i'd say
i go to work at 8 o'clock every day
uh let's go for number 14.
valentine's day
[Laughter]
the 14th
oh i like this when you are full of
beans you are do you guys know
i think
we've learned this one before wealthy
for me if you've said this in the states
it sounds like you're gassy because
bean's
gassy
[Laughter]
but i know it doesn't mean that so
yeah it means like you're full of
i don't swear it means like you're full
of nonsense like you're um
that's what we use it for like oh he's
so full of beans today like he's like my
son is full of being today's full energy
and he's just like optimistic like he's
yeah in the uk it would be similar we
say that when someone has a lot of
energy that they're full of beans
maybe not so much with if they're up to
mischief but definitely if you're full
of beans then you're full of energy
full of beans full of he's got ants in
his pants ah yeah yeah we would probably
say you've got ants in your pants
in your pants
yeah or sometimes we call like um crazy
kids red drink like because they drink
like red drink like red fizzy or soda
and like their sugar makes them go
psycho
say this tongue twister i feel like i
don't want to go first doing this
all right i'll go i'll go
ernest edgar eyed everything everywhere
ernest edgar i'd everything everywhere
ernest edgar eyed everything everywhere
let's go on to 17.
oh this is like andre and i's favorite i
think
yeah it is i recognize these
you're going to try it with a with a
cockney accent andrea
oh that's really hard
[Laughter]
betty bottle brought some butter but she
said the butter's bitter
yeah
you're never disappoint
[Laughter]
ollie thanks so much for for joining us
and and andrea as well
yeah it was really nice to have the four
of us together here
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learn even more about different accents
in english with this other lesson we
made let's check out a clip
this is of course a pepper
i almost agree with you i would call
that a bell pepper because we have many
different types of peppers in my part of
the united states at least and in
australia it's a little bit different
because for me pepper is something
really hot and spicy and this is not
spicy this is called a capsicum this is
like the most bizarre word i have ever
possibly imagined for this vegetable
it's a really difficult word for
something quite simple