British English And American English: What’s The Diff? with Helen Zaltzman
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
Sony Music
4.9 • 21.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:42.7 | Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Benes and every week I sit down for 30 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious |
| 0:50.1 | This week I'm curious about English English and American English. What's the dip? |
| 0:54.6 | So I'm speaking to a Luzionist podcast host where is expert in English person Helen Zoltzman? |
| 1:00.4 | You guys you know that I live for a British moment about harder than I live for anything and we've got gorgeous |
| 1:06.3 | Helen Zoltzman host of the Luzionist podcast. I said your last name right absolutely perfectly. Oh my thank you very much |
| 1:12.2 | So you are a podcast host extraordinaire ass and a British person. Yes, slash word enthusiast. Yes |
| 1:20.9 | And tell recap what the Luzionist podcast is for the children. Okay, and for the adults because a lot of them have not heard it either |
| 1:29.7 | So it is it's kind of like an entertainment show about language and how we use it and why and |
| 1:35.1 | I guess because a lot of people like that's a bit niche |
| 1:38.7 | But language is a tool that pretty much everyone alive participates in and we're pretty good at it without having to think about it |
| 1:45.6 | And then when you think about it, like |
| 1:47.4 | That's weird or often that's terrible |
| 1:51.3 | So it's just I'm picking these things |
| 1:53.7 | So one thing that I always thought was is that maybe a southern accent like a southern American accent is really just like a British accent that like got |
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