American Learns British English from a British For The First Time!!
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It was so fun teaching Christina! How was her English pronunciation for you guys? Maybe I should practice my American accent more 👀- Cady 🇬🇧
Haha
OMG! your accent is really addicted to me . Love you, Cady.
Not me shocked that you're from birkenhead because I am too lol
Your accent is adorable. Teach me 😅
Christina can learn differents accents with Lauren , Hannah and now with Cady , and also the australian accent
comentas todos los videos wn, estas obsesionado XD
I enjoyed learning more about commonly used phrases and words in the UK and some history about the northern accent from Cady! Hope you guys enjoyed the video!~ -Christina 🇺🇸
@Lucifer In Hell I am yes
@Lucifer In Hell yes I’m really interesant (that is french)/
I'm also learned about them. I'm really enjoyed to watch this video. Cady's pronunciation is so melodius. You pronunciation is also so melodius. I love both of your accent 🙂😍🤩
Maybe anyone can help me to pronounce these words:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis & Worcestershire
@Lucifer In Hell well obviously yeah 😂 if you don’t believe me I guess you can check my videos for my accent but that’s a bit weird mate
I love Cady's accent and hair
Thank you!
In British English you say "Where have you bin?" but in American English they say "Where have you trashcan". It's quite simple.
😂😂😂👏
That’s rubbish……🤪🤪😘🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
it's been.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 thanks for telling me that mate, never would’ve guessed
Cady is too pretty 😩
Thank you!
"I was stood" is an older form which doesn't sound grammatical to most of us now, but was probably at one time correct English. It's just that that dialect area retains it. It's not wrong, just old. :)
We have a similar thing in German , where the northern dialects use the standard „ich habe gestanden“ ( I have stood ) , whereas the south likes to use „to be“ : „ich bin gestanden“ = I was stood .
lol. it's wrong by modern English.
dummy.
It sounds like a double past tense usage.
It also reminds me of French where with some verbs, especially verbs of motion, you use être (to be) to build the perfect instead of avoir (to have). For example you'd say "je suis allé" (literally I am gone, meaning I have gone) instead of "j'ai allé" (literally I have gone).
Just discovered this channel a couple days ago. So fun. Love both on the channel.
My new fav person here is Cady! 😍
🥰
Using Mate is also a Australian thing
because Australians get it from the English. genius.
Americans really only use mate in combination with another descriptive word. For example: first mate, roommate, classmate, house mate, band mate, etc. Mate by itself generally means a sexual or romantic partner, though this usage is more commonly applied to animals than to people.
I use mate when i try to sound British... I'm spaniard
inmate
This English girl is really good. I don't disagree with anything she said.
Thank you! 😊
I love cady's accent cause it really reminds me of when I went to liverpool... it's just such a nice accent and so different from what we usually hear on tv series and films
I love how British people say, "water."
So cool that Cady mentions that her accent is influenced by Norwegian (I'm Norwegian) and I can kinda hear that, her accent's melody is very similar to that heard in Stavanger and the surrounding region so that's very interesting to learn that her town has a connection to Norway! :)
Its similar to a Scouse accent and the name comes from Lapskaus because we adopted a similar dish when the dock workers introduced it to us.
You should look in to the north east English Geordie accent and dialect, lots of Geordie words come from Norse/Norwegian words such as 'hyem' for home and 'bairn' for child.
@@Oxley016 Maybe Scottish too then? I know bairn is used there
@@Rose-cj7wi Aye that's true the jocks use bairn as well but I don't think there was as much Norse influence there compared to the old Northumbria area.
@@Oxley016 So much variation for such a small place, it’s nuts!
I am absolutely shocked that Cady is from Birkenhead, how did I not recognise her accent! I'm from there too 😂
Cady's accent is everything 🥰
That was really interesting! Good video today! Cady is a good addition to World Friends and she explained things well! It'll be interesting to compare the British accents of Cady, Lauren and Hana in a video. And yes I feel Christina's British accent is improving!
OMG!!! We totally need a video of Cady and Lauren together I feel like they would be amazingly fun together! And of course Christina, Christina rocks!
Cady's accent is beautiful. I guess I was thinking after a bit that it's mostly scouse with a bit of Welsh on top, sort of like Paul McCartney's accent with a bit of Tom Jones mixed in.
It's similar to Canadians too with it rising often at the end of statements, which sounds very friendly. I sometimes wonder if we Americans end up sounding somewhat arrogant to others when we go down at the end of sentences, it could leave the impression that we think what we said is absolute fact and not up for debate (maybe something we picked up from having so many German immigrants, like my family?). The floor is open.
Well Birkenhead is in Merseyside like Liverpool but it’s the opposite side of the river.
That’s because Wales is practically next to Birkenhead, if her parents went anymore west & gave birth to her in Wales, she would of been Welsh. When Wales gets independence from U.K., hopefully Birkenhead & Liverpool become part of Wales.
I felt she has a bit Scouse accent too
They have scouse accents there. Look at Paul Ogrady. They're even called plastic scousers because they're seen as fake scousers and then on another part of Merseyside you have woolybacks like Johnny Vegas but outside of St. Helen's the rest of Merseyside, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral, City of Liverpool all have scouse accents.
The waiter sat me at the table is ok. I was sat at the table - yeeech. I was sitting. Sat, stood are not past participles. I'm a pom but I'm with Christina on this. Drives me up the wall.
Cady pronounces the the t in "quite" distinctly, but replaces the the double t in "little" with a tiny glottal fricative so it sounds like li[gh]le. A tiny hint of the t at the end. A glottalized t.
Also, same for "bottle" or "button".
We don't say lit tel, kit ten, ket tle we say littul, kittn. Kettull. I'm from Liverpool. It's mostly the younger generation.who pronounce 2 TTS. We don't use the southern glottal stop either. (Pronounced eyether)! Aged 82
@@irenejohnston6802 I'm an American so I don't even use a t sound in those words. I say "keddle" or "liddle" or "boddle". (I do say "button" with a t sound.)
Think "butter" vs. "button".
It's been almost 40 years since my last formal linguistics class, but IIRC, we use an alveleor flap instead of tongue tip tap to create the t sound for double tt's , so we produce a d sound, basically.
Why? Who knows.
Also I’m Northern Ireland we sometimes say the t as a slight d, it’s not a hard d just like a mix of soft t and d.
Americans pronouncing t as d and Brits using soft ts or cutting the t is for the same reason. T is a stopping sound and slows down speaking speed/disrupts rhythm. /d/ is just a voiced /t/ so the voicing makes up for the loss of accurate mouth shape when speaking quickly.
I think Brits say "Proper" a lot too. I like that :-)
@@nissiidk7574 we proper do use the word proper like mate
Never heard “Birkenhead” and “really nice” in the same sentence before! 😂🤣
IT’s other’s side of mercy side
Lmaoooo yep not the usual descriptive word for there
Oh, love Cady's accent, it is so melodious, I can listen to it the whole day
Cady's accent sounds a lot like Saoirse Ronan's to me. Love them. 💛
She sounds more like a simmered down Cheryl to me.
lmao saoirse has an irish accent, and cheryl has a geordie accent (newcastle) whereas cady’s is closer to scouse (liverpool)! it’s cool to see how non-brits interpret the accents.
@@kpr..14 I know Cheryl is from Newcastle and Cady said she is somewhere close to Liverpool and Wales. But The Geordie accent does sound closer to in some ways she ends her sentence than the Irish accent. I'm surprised there is Norwegian influence in her accent. I would've thought the Scottish accents up in the north would've had more Norwegian influence, especially in the Shetland Islands.
because she's Irish and Cadys accent is a mix of the two.
genius
There is a high number of people in Liverpool with Irish ancestry. Many Irish people migrated to Liverpool a long time ago and the Scouse accent (Liverpool accent) was heavily influenced.
There’s one thing about the way even Christina is talking about American accents that needs to be pointed out. Americans do not use a D in place of the T in words like water or bitten, it’s an alveolar flap or a glottal stop depending on the word. Although it sounds slightly like the D sound it isn’t as hard as a D sound. When people use a full D sound to imitate an American accent it sounds harsh and possibly even mocking. So if you’re sincerely trying to imitate an American accent don’t go full on D for those Ts lighten it up a bit sort of like moving in the position to make a T sound but don’t aspirate the T sound just stop at the back of your teeth.
When she said that I just figured she was talking about her own of speaking or maybe the Northeast accent. I don’t make a d sound when I say water. I looked up an American English pronunciation video for the word and it’s not a d sound on there. Basically I say it the same as I say waiter but instead of way ter I say wah ter. I wonder if she say way der for waiter. In that case she must pronounce wader and waiter the same way.
I use a glottal stop in words with T before N, like bitten.
@@MrJovon321 bi^in i have said the Brit way bit_ten and i am an American from NYC. i get that water has a glottal stop it is a softer quicker "D" but it certainly not "T" lol. I would say "water" as wawduh or woaduh depending on how u wanna spell it.
aye well it sounds more like a d than a t mate
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Welcome to World friends Cady!
Thank you!
I honestly think people from the UK believe that they have more accents than other places. I'm from the UK and I used to think the same thing, that was until I learned Spanish and realised that the Spanish speaking world has tons of accents too. Another thing, I don't think Americans can hear such a stark difference between an accent like Cady's Vs someone from the South of England. I was surprised to hear an American say that exact thing, but it made me think about it and I started to try and hear the simlarities whilst trying to filter out the difference from my trained brain (of a lifetime's exposure listening to English accents) and to my surprise I started to hear them as the same. It took a little bit of time, but honestly, they're so similar if you're able to hear them in a different way.
I can tell you this: in italy... we have some quite different accents also every 5km!
Having trained ears we may guess the town of everybody or the bigger town near their little one.
It's quite incredibles
Yeah, even in USA, there are tons of different accents...
Actually you can find more spanish sccents and dialect of spanish in Spain than in the rest of hispanic world, same for french of France and of course english from England. The place of origine of a language always is gonna show more varieties than other places
As someone from the UK I will say we know every country has alot of accents but what's weird about the UK is that its so small and you can walk 45 minutes to any direction and the accents you hear at your original spot will be vastly different from the one you hear in your new location. It's just that there's alot of languages in the world as although you can speak the same language your accent can get influenced by alot of other factors like environmental so its hard to say which language has the most accents (not to say that's what you were saying)
@@igot7mencalledgot76 i can repeat: in italy the lenguage can be different every 5 km! In the same city too. That means "can you see the huge differences between 2 cities far 50km? And 500?"
And also: it isn't only a different pronunce of the same words, but a different way to use words.
For example : in my town "what are you doing" (che cosa stai facendo/ cosa fai) we say "icchè fai" , 5 km there they say "il che fai", far 80km to the South "ma che fai" and it is so for quite every word and phrase wherever you go
Saw Cady from another channel Awesome World in which she explains British Culture to some Koreans which I liked and have to say very classy and gentle she is :)
Good to see you here!
@@cadyroll Hello Cady how are you doing?
@@austintandoc8187 I’m great thank you! I hope you’re doing well too
She sounds like a super polite Scouse ❤
Southerner here! I say "bin" instead of "been" unless I'm speaking in theatre or something like that. I am from Devon though so I have a bit of a west-country accent haha
It's the same dilemma with pen and pin.
@@garyfontenot2786 You pronounce pin like pen?
@@JoshHutchersonOfficial No, pen like pin.
@@garyfontenot2786 never heard anyone say it that way before 😮
Geordie here and I thought 'bin' was a southern thing like, and pretty much everyone says been.
I like this British accent in particular .. It's quite different 😆
Thank you 👌
"I was stood waiting" is a more passive statement than "I was standing waiting". It suggests you weren't doing it out of choice.
The British I encountered don't even use the word 'hot' but 'warm'. Heard him say all the time 'Oh it's quite warm today' when I'll shout 'Warm huh!? It's SOOOOOO HOOOOOT today!' as we were in Singapore and it's easily 34°C by lunchtime and so humid!
aye that's canny warm like mate
7:17 In American English, they use the /ɪ/ of "silver pin" in the word "been". The dictionary confirms this: Been /bɪn/ not bean : )
So much fun and flurishly... Thanks a lot...
I was stood there silently.
I stood there...
kkk
In the situation of creating the verb be,
It's impossible that I was stood...
The premitive meaning of be is ... not move...
Verb be was created to show the meaning
not move of the would- be hunted ...
In the later time it wad developed into the word describing the notion of be equal to ... or be like ... I suppose....
The British girl reminds me of Lester from Red Dwarf, in the way she speaks
You mean Lister, but Craig Charles is a Scouser too.
8:25 What you have there is the "past perfect" & "past perfect continuous" tenses.
I was standing means you were stationary on your feet before and during the event you're recalling.
I was stood means the act of standing was completed. If it was by you then the simple past tense would suffice "I stood". "I was stood" makes you the object, so somebody else could have stood you there.
There is no right or wrong, language creates its own rules through popular usage. But, you could substitute a verb that conjugates similarly...
"I was drunk from a bo'le of wa'er".
@@ethelmini I dunno why my phone made it Lester
Because their both scousers
It is simply called English not British English.
Lol you can be “stood up” at the bus stop..
I love Cady's accent
Everyone speaking about Cady's hair. 🚶♂️🚶♂️
I find it interesting that this channel has American girls for example from Massachusetts or North Carolina and they sound pretty much the same, rather than having traditional New England or Southern accents. Conversely, the people from England in the channel have very distinctive regional accents which are easy to hear, such as the girl in this video who clearly sounds as someone from Northern England, even to a non-British lay person like myself.
I am not an expert, but that matches the perception that regional accents are dying out in the USA under the influence of national media maybe, whereas regional accents and even nonstandard dialectal grammar (as in "I was stood") are still a real thing in the UK.
You both seem to really like the word "like" as a comma 🤣
Where I’m from in the U.S. we use english quite differently. If a British person says mate we know what they mean but we use it like significant other, or as a verb which means to have sex. Also, our pronunciation of been is not “bin” or “bean” but “ben”. I have “ben” to the store.
4:40 Yes, it's true, even in Scotland. A guy jostled me in the street and told me : sorry mate!
Grammatically incorrect!😂😂😂
I also wanna be an English teacher so I just was like: 🥲 yeah... slowly dying
Love this video❤😂
Birkenhead isn’t small I know of villages near me with 10 houses or less
Bin is just older pronunciation that been. That's why we say both in the UK.
Try the following:
1. Aluminum
2. Jaguar
3. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
l love Christina’s eye and everything
Love you♥♥
I like to learn English from a British 😄
first lesson, it's a Briton not a British...
you mean a Brit or English person.
not a British
@@nissiidk7574 uhhh no.
I’ve seen a guy from the uk in us refer to a “bag” as a “sacket”. He was looking for one, and it threw me off and he had explain it. I told him I would if said said, and while shopping for I think he felt stupid calling it a bag not a sacket. It seems like a simple way of say it
I love Cady's accent ❤
Thank you!
man i really never thought about the "i was stood" before because its so natural for me to say in regular conversation. I've also noticed the problem with me using "am" a lot instead of i am but ive also never been great with grammar
In Boston we say wicked for quite. Wicked rainy out.
Not really the same thing, with the word quite you are downplaying things whereas wicked is playing things up a bit.
@@Oxley016 wicked is replacement for very.
@@BostonBobby1961 Yeah that sounds more like it, quite and very are completely different in UK
In Return to Oz, Fairuza Balk says "a place that I've been to" like "bean." I figured it was her Vancouver accent because a little girl from Kansas wouldn't say it like that.
When I would have singing lessons with David Friedman, he would always tell me that I was trying to sound British because I would pronounce Ts that he said I pronounced as Ds when speaking.
Lauren? 🥺
I'm Australian, and Cady's accent sounds to me like a mix of Scouse and London. As for been/bin, we say "I've been to the shops" and "Put it in the bin." We would never say "I was stood".
I have to agree with Christina..."was stood" is just wrong to the ear. The only was that I can think of "stood" being preceded by "was" is when "stood" is part of the grouping "stood-up", otherwise one need not include "was" at all. I think it has to be because of the fact that was is a past form of "to be". I wouldn't say "I am stayed," instead it would just be "I stayed". The use of the "was" or "am" helper verbs are unnecessary and strange in this case.
On the “been”, I say where have you “Ben” not so much with an i. And “Bin” isn’t a trash can but a container such as a plastic bin to store stuff in in your attic or something.
Bro, it was The Liverpool Port That the Norwegians came to.
Correct, that’s near where I’m from
Sweet girls. I like both
Christina says quite a lot herself I'm surprised she didn't bring that up.
Can u do more scottish accent stuff
I love the Scottish accents!
I just think of Cady Heron when I heard Cady's name. Anyone else?
I just love hearing the English accent
Sorry to say, but when i close my eyes and try to understand what cady saying, my brain feels like "HEY HEY! HOLD ON! WHAT DID JUST SHE SAY?" 😭😭. But i enjoy this video 🎉🎉
Why would you say your history is boring? Your history is what makes you who you are.
She meant when ppl heard history about others county!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "I was stood" refers to the state of the speaker, much like "I was laid" or "I was sat/sit", so it is grammatically correct.
You also have it in other languages, too, and in a lot of them it's even considered high-level.
I can give two examples off the top of my head, both in Semitic languages. Hebrew - הייתי עמוד (literal translation: I was stood [Google translate will tell you it's "I was a pole/page", which is also correct, but it's not the one I'm referring to), הייתי ישוב (literal translation: I was sat), etc. Arabic: كنت أجلس (literal translation: I was sit), etc.
I don't know enough about other languages in order to provide accurate information about them, but here are my examples.
At " I was stood" part, I don't know why, my brain thinks about Passive Voice automatically
But it's weird, right? Wkwk. Like, why someone or something that help you to stand make you sound more British? 😅
That explains why her accent sounds like from NORSEMEN in Netflix. Norwegian-ish
Yall gotta get a AAVE speaker on here
True I'd be interested to see how non Americans would react to it.
In some parts of Germany people also say "I was stood" even though standard German is "I have stood".
Her eyes remind me Seorsa Roan's. whatever the spelling of that name is)
When will Emily be back ? :(
Ned's Atomic Dust Been.
Whatever. Say what you want to say. It's not my business.
I know Grey Cells Green is a banger.
Yeah, many British people know they speak incorrect sometimes like 'I was sat down on a bench" instead "I was sitting down on a bench" but they don't care about that actually. In fact, if you'll say like this it might them think you're British ;))
This was interesting. Especially the I was stood. I have noticed some Brits who use me for my. It reminds me of the USA people who use them for those or seen for saw. Like Christina, It drives my inner English teacher crazy. 😂
I’m American but I don’t pronounce water like a d. I say wah- ter. And I find how we pronounce it varies by area. I have heard Americans say wooter and wah dah 😊
Isn’t using me for my a pirate thing 😂
@@WarriorsCats777 Shiver me timbers 😂 🏴☠️
Aye we do the me for my thing a lot up here in north east England.
I don't think she explained 'quite' as well as she could have.
Quite means 'exactly' - 'not less and not more than...'.
If something is 'not quite ready', you may assume that it soon will be.
"Quite right, sir!" - You are exactly right, without exaggeration or understatement.
Quite is a quantifier, not a superlative. If you really feel the need to use 'quite' in a superlative phrase, you have to add an actual superlative to it. You could say something like. "That was quite the best meal I've ever eaten." although that is a little old fashioned these days.
Quite the best, quite the worst, quite the most etc.
In America, they seem to think it means 'very', which it certainly doesn't.
Never tell an English girl she is 'quite good looking'. She will not take it as a compliment, because it isn't one. You are saying that while she isn't ugly, she isn't exactly beautiful either.
Hello
bruv its first of april, why is there Christmas Music XD
Hi
Very good. 👍👍
I'm not Liverpoolain but I think "alright mate " sounds to be more scouse but you can replace mate with lad.. like.. alright lad?
A friend of mine was brought up in Clacton-on-Sea in the Forties. He would use 'Matey' alot in his speech. Friendly, it would be, "Come along in, Matey!", however, if he was having no truck with someone's attitude, he would say, "Now, just haaaaang onnn a minute, Matey!"
0:24 Brit 14.5 is where I live this is the most pacific I’ve ever been about my location. My accent is very unique to me.
5:00 yes when we say it sarcastically then we mean the opposite.
More friendlier?
I love Christina but hearing her say that then say she's an English teacher made me lol.
I wouldn’t say bean in the United States or eles it sounds like been
I find it so funny when they say “British English” because English is… well English 😂why don’t we just say English for British English and American English/Australian English for the others? Hmmm
exactly.
she's learning ACTUAL English not British English.
it's just English
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 so words like elevator, truck, sidewalk, etc are just English?
@The Batman Who Posts We say lift. Nit elevator.
We say path not sidewalk because it's just logical.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 you also took words from other languages, pretty sure at least 20% of English words were taken from French, like entrepreneur and restaurant.
So if only English exists, what language is elevator, truck, sidewalk, etc?
@The Batman Who Posts Lol.
English took it's structure from the Greek and Latin with Arabic and French thrown in.
Then we got Shakespeare to roll it all in to one.
Sure. French gave us resume too, Cafe, Souflet and a range of other words too but that's besides the point. They took words from English too.
As someone with an English degree, "I was stood" really gets at me, too.
When I first arrived in England, I was taken aback by it as well... They also use "I was sat".
"Wa-er"... omg, for me as a polish person, it souds so bad. I mean... if you speak this way, cutting many words like that almost break my ears. It's like a machine gun shooting wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-... xD
I pernounce it as been not bin
Cady - A tangential question for you. Where is the boundary between north and south England?
not cady, but personally, anything south of sheffield is south (but i believe in the north, midlands, south divide haha). this coming from a northerner.
Where is Emily ?? Who knows
The English accent is the British accent actually the British accent doesn't exist a lot of American don't know that lol 😂. The UK consist of 4 countries England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Island. So there's obviously 4 different accent in the the United Kingdom the English accent, the Welsh accent, the Scottish accent and the Northern Irish accent. Then, of course there's different regional dialects from each of these 4 countries. Even the USA have different American accents and dialects from different states I bet the world mostly think we either sound like someone from California or New York.