Do the Americans speak English better than the British?

Nightingale   Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:58 am GMT
"It was a male bird as they are the ones who do the beautiful singing."

I'm a girl and I can hardly sing for my life... so that works =p
Awols   Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:00 pm GMT
I'm back with a bang! Glad. Everytime I see myself backtracking, trying to make sure I'm being realistic in my views concerning which of the country on both sides of the pond speaks better English. There's definitely no answer to this since idiomatic English is based on an individual. Oh man! Some Americans have said and wirtiten cool things. So do the Brits. It's =.
AUS   Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:44 pm GMT
Hallo, you two nations!
I'm addressing the American and the British.Why don't you count us, the Australians as an English speaking population?We too, do speak English, really ;) I see everyplace the saying "British and American accent are really different".Hey look over here! Our AUS pronunciation is different too.And a British can hardly understand us, really.You dont get our phrasal verbs well.All the same for South Africa! Answer this, pls!
Awols   Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:42 pm GMT
It is true diversity is 'interest stayed'. Australians are native speakers and have an accent that should be recognised as beautiful. Their English is superb, admitting a lot of unusual beautiful phrases that even Americans are buying into of recent, like: I'm down on you; Good avo = Good afternoon. Man I love Aussie flows more, though.
Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:53 pm GMT
ROCK ON Aussie!!!!!
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Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:54 pm GMT
Americans don't like Australian English very much. It sounds funny, with words like "crikey".
AUS   Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:12 pm GMT
Thanks Awols. I got really elated when heard your statement.By the way, Guest, what's your intent?Are you disparaging the Ausies!We are not that down-and-out as you look down on us!By the way, the Americans have fucked up the American English!The only true language belongs to Ausie and the Britain.
Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:14 pm GMT
You're not even Australian, and even if you were, Australian English sucks anyway. Americans like British English, but Australian English sounds laughable to them.
AUS   Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:27 pm GMT
Ha ha ha.That is like a platonic love.Americans like British English, because it's better than theirs!But British don't like American English.Have no doubt about whether I am Australian or not.Because that's true.
Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:34 pm GMT
Why don't you use articles correctly, then? I think your actual native languages probably doesn't have articles. Am I correct?
Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:37 pm GMT
"native languages"->"native language"
Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:53 pm GMT
Hmmm, it's obvious from Aus's English that he/she is not a native English speaker. I just wonder why he or she should wish to pretend to be Australian.
Guest   Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:55 pm GMT
Not that there's anything wrong with being Aussie, obviously :-)
Hiroki   Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:41 am GMT
Hi mate, AUS!! I am a Japanese guy learning English. I like Australian accent though most Japanese learn American English at schools in Japan! I wish I could speak like Aussies because it sounds friendly to me, but it is really hard to do it because most of English language material sold in Japan is based on American accent.

By the way, do Aussies find out who is from Britain by thier accent? I have once heard that Australian accent is very much like British one. Can you tell British people and Australian peaple by accent? I just wonder that as a keen English learner!!
Jack Doolan   Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:26 am GMT
Hiroki

Australians have no difficulty in detecting any of the several English, Irish, Welsh or Scots accents. We can also detect the New Zealand version though it is more difficult. New Zealand English has differences in vowels and uses a few words which are not much used in Australia.

There are at least three Australian accents. There is "educated" Australian. "broad" Australian and another form spoken in parts of South Australia which derives from old German immigrants and 1950's English immigrants. Some experts say there are other small areas where Australians have differences in accent including the New England region of northern New South Wales and north-western Queensland. "Broad" and "educated" Australian are spoken throughout the continent.