I have learnt most of my American culture from these videos… as a Brit it is absolutely amazing how different countries can have a similar language but use it so differently!
Just FYI, as an American who’s spent time in England - his portrayal of American culture is funny because of the nuggets of truth in it, but it’s *definitely* caricaturised 😅
I was an American teaching in Australia. Pretty much the same thing! That first day, a class of six-year-olds asking me if they could “rub out the board” and “chuck this in the bin.” I was hesitant to say yes because I didn’t know if some horror would rain down on me! Great video, as always. Thanks!
But the funny thing is, if you study the English language, American English has a ton of words that British English threw away. Also our accents are pretty different even from other British colonies because we left in the middle of the Great Vowel shift. So vowel pronunciation is closer in a fair number of cases to Middle English than UK English. We didn't have anyone telling us to make nice rounded vowels. Anyway, if you're looking for who is more correct, there's actually some good arguments to be made in a lot of cases for America. Depends on what particular aspect you're discussing, and what you're using as a metric for correctness.
@Jennifer Hanses Brit here.. you're correct.. For example we may laugh at the American pronunciation 'erb where we say "herb" having added an h in 19th Century...but Americans pronounce the original French word..
I just realised how confusing it is for eastern europeans to learn most of our english from US content and then go to London and try to communicate there. I swear we're not taking a piss at you 😆
@@dawnoneill1773 i km ow i am Irish but my relatives are mostly live in America so i am just speaking how would with them also most people on here are from America
Unless you have been a teacher, you won't know once a teacher, always a teacher. It's been 14 years now that I'm on another career but I still remember the humour during my years as a teacher. Kids are funny. For those who are trying to enlighten others that you're not teaching at the moment, yes we know and we still love the content.
I love your channel so much! It's certainly amazing how hard I laugh over your videos (not that it's a bad thing, on the contrary!), so keep up the marvelous work! ❤️🇬🇧
The date thing🤣🤣🤣. I'm American.... But teach Spanish. I require my students to write the date with the day first like, you know, most of the world... Some of them never do get it. "What do you mean, Miss? There aren't 13. (16, 24, etc) months in a year!". 😆
it would be funny if the student in the last one told the teacher that rubber is another word for a condom in the US gotta make sure your pencil doesn't give your paper an STD or an unwanted pregnancy I guess
The kids would DIE if you told them to put a rubber on the end of their pencil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL You would never hear the end of that one!
As a South African I love these videos. Because we are sort of caught in the middle we use all of the words. Like we all know that a torch and a flashlight is the same thing. I think the British English came to us through culture as we were a British colony while American English came to us via TV programs. During the old regime we could not get British make TV shows.
I think he has probably experienced most of them 😂 I'm an immigrant in the UK and have been confused by most of these things, just the other way around 😂😂😂
This reminds me of my college Spanish class. My professor couldn't stay in one region of Spain or on one continent long enough for me to grasp the language.
As an American the biscut cookie thing really confused me. Read in a book once that the person ate chocolate biscuts and it took me a long time to realize it was what we call cookies
I’m a Londoner. Lived in the US for 47 years. I was an English teacher in Alabama for 21 years. Every year on the first day of school many kids would ask me to “say something in English!” True story!
in my primary school, we had to do like full on sport in 37 degrees celsius bc our "true blue aussie" teachers said "not very true blue aussie of you to be wheezing all over the place people were like having asthma attacks (australia) 😭
It's funny how I'm also feeling this now that I've moved back to Canada, despite having been raised and spent 2/3rds of my life in the states. .........I still get confused about dates that take place in the first half of the month. 😅
the date thing is one of the few things i would never for anything get used to. how scrambled! first a month than you jump back to day and then to years? noooooooo
I always hated it when students or coworkers complained it was *cold*. Please bring a jacket and shut up lol. I’m hot natured always have been. You can always add layers but there’s only so much you can take off lol.
@@samuel_playz8274 ik what a flashlight is lmao, i'm californian myself. i haven't really noticed what torches are in america though. i'm pretty sure it's a long stick with fire.
An American told me once that Celcius was the temperature of the water and Fahrenheit was the temperature of humans. Me: you don't freeze quickly, do you? 0F ~ -18C
I have learnt most of my American culture from these videos… as a Brit it is absolutely amazing how different countries can have a similar language but use it so differently!
Yep so true. Also a British immigrant going to American school 😞🥲
And I've learned so many British things from this bc I'm american
I now speak British and American
Just FYI, as an American who’s spent time in England - his portrayal of American culture is funny because of the nuggets of truth in it, but it’s *definitely* caricaturised 😅
“You probably won’t have any of these mate.”
Had me dying 😂
"You've got a test to fail." Damn
I actually live Gloucestershire and we do have really good fish and chips and a beautiful countryside ;)
How's the weather in gloo gloster sheeer?
This is basically me when I switched from a British school to an American school. Absolute nightmare.
I was an American teaching in Australia. Pretty much the same thing! That first day, a class of six-year-olds asking me if they could “rub out the board” and “chuck this in the bin.” I was hesitant to say yes because I didn’t know if some horror would rain down on me!
Great video, as always. Thanks!
As an American, whenever I think of torches, I think of the ones from the Medival Times instead of flashlights! 🔦 🇺🇸
I think of tje statue of liberty cuz its surely not holding a flashlight
Yeah i was confused at first bc my school told us (My school is in germany) "we only learn america english " what do we learn? Both
Nah mate they r lanterns from the olden times. We use 💫torches💫.-me, a brit
I’m not American and in a British school I think of that as well
any time Jonny corrects him*
me: are you forgetting who is British here?!
But the funny thing is, if you study the English language, American English has a ton of words that British English threw away. Also our accents are pretty different even from other British colonies because we left in the middle of the Great Vowel shift. So vowel pronunciation is closer in a fair number of cases to Middle English than UK English. We didn't have anyone telling us to make nice rounded vowels.
Anyway, if you're looking for who is more correct, there's actually some good arguments to be made in a lot of cases for America. Depends on what particular aspect you're discussing, and what you're using as a metric for correctness.
@Jennifer Hanses Brit here.. you're correct.. For example we may laugh at the American pronunciation 'erb where we say "herb" having added an h in 19th Century...but Americans pronounce the original French word..
I grew up in Pennsylvania and I would've LOVED to have a Teacher such as yourself.
Muito obrigada por me ajudar a esquecer, por momentos, as contrariedades da vida. Adoro o seu sentido de humor, muito criativo. Abraço de Portugal
I just realised how confusing it is for eastern europeans to learn most of our english from US content and then go to London and try to communicate there. I swear we're not taking a piss at you 😆
Who else wishes that he was their English teacher
Me 🙋♀️
Me!!
I want him as an english teacher, but I also love mine too much :(
He WAS my English teacher 😂. I knew he had a following but I was surprised to see how much he blew up.
@@Sparkda
that is seriously amazing !!
As a teacher, what was he like ??
No johnny, a period is something that women get every month.
Actually it is both
Its actually "AnOtHeR dAy aNoThEr SlAy PERIOD!!!"
@@Madmax-mf8ly not if your British XD
@@Madmax-mf8ly not if you are Irish or English a period is just the ladies menstrual cycle! To stop a sentence it's a full stop that goes at the end.
@@dawnoneill1773 i km ow i am Irish but my relatives are mostly live in America so i am just speaking how would with them also most people on here are from America
"Blinker!"
"Turn signal!"
"I take it back - this is the most annoying thing!"
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Unless you have been a teacher, you won't know once a teacher, always a teacher. It's been 14 years now that I'm on another career but I still remember the humour during my years as a teacher. Kids are funny. For those who are trying to enlighten others that you're not teaching at the moment, yes we know and we still love the content.
The date segment 🤣! Tempted to write the date in day/month/year format on the first day of school to see if they say anything. 😂
It is the most logical system used outside of computers
I would love him as my teacher, seriously his jokes are so funny
I love your channel so much! It's certainly amazing how hard I laugh over your videos (not that it's a bad thing, on the contrary!), so keep up the marvelous work! ❤️🇬🇧
I love this series
Same 😂
One thing you missed is that in the US a 'rubber' means a condom!
It would be a guy snickering and making some joke upon hearing him say "rubber."
The date thing🤣🤣🤣. I'm American.... But teach Spanish. I require my students to write the date with the day first like, you know, most of the world... Some of them never do get it. "What do you mean, Miss? There aren't 13. (16, 24, etc) months in a year!". 😆
it would be funny if the student in the last one told the teacher that rubber is another word for a condom in the US
gotta make sure your pencil doesn't give your paper an STD or an unwanted pregnancy I guess
That roast at the end of 16 just bumped it up to 35°C
The kids would DIE if you told them to put a rubber on the end of their pencil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL You would never hear the end of that one!
I just loved the debate over Gloucestershire and Worcestershire! 🤣🤣🤣
Me (Australian): British and Aussie vocab is very similar
As a South African I love these videos. Because we are sort of caught in the middle we use all of the words. Like we all know that a torch and a flashlight is the same thing. I think the British English came to us through culture as we were a British colony while American English came to us via TV programs. During the old regime we could not get British make TV shows.
nobody gonna talk about the british siri
Sometimes I wonder if he actually had these conversations with his students
I think he has probably experienced most of them 😂 I'm an immigrant in the UK and have been confused by most of these things, just the other way around 😂😂😂
This reminds me of my college Spanish class. My professor couldn't stay in one region of Spain or on one continent long enough for me to grasp the language.
Love your videos
Mr. Thomas: you probably don't have any of these mate
Student: 😐
Me: 🤣
The way I’m talking to these kids like I’m there😂😂😂
As an American the biscut cookie thing really confused me. Read in a book once that the person ate chocolate biscuts and it took me a long time to realize it was what we call cookies
I went absolute crazy when I heard Worcestershire pronounced wrong! 😂😂
I’m a Londoner. Lived in the US for 47 years. I was an English teacher in Alabama for 21 years. Every year on the first day of school many kids would ask me to “say something in English!” True story!
So the student whips out a wooden stick and lights it.
flashlight vs toch made laugh so hard 😅😅😅
so true
37 Celsius is pretty warm no matter what
in my primary school, we had to do like full on sport in 37 degrees celsius bc our "true blue aussie" teachers said "not very true blue aussie of you to be wheezing all over the place people were like having asthma attacks (australia) 😭
Lol “you’ve got a test to fail”
He's recording these in the classroom. I wonder how many times a student walked in on him filming youtube videos.
Blinker is what its called in Massachusetts
It's funny how I'm also feeling this now that I've moved back to Canada, despite having been raised and spent 2/3rds of my life in the states.
.........I still get confused about dates that take place in the first half of the month. 😅
No. 22 be like:
Johnny (Donkey): Wor-ses-ter-shy-ree. Now that sounds fancy!
You (Shrek(and me)): *It's Worcestershire!*
Hey for all the Brits out there a shirt is called a shirt in the us never heard a shirt being called a flannel and we also call it a washcloth
This was SO AWESOME!!!!!
I LAUGHED My A$$ Off!!! :::
Eyyy I’m from Essex too
Brilliant 👌😅I am from Essex born in London...
Gloucestershire..haha. Next time ask teacher thomas if he's ever been to Butlin's Minehead..😂😂
Different ways too write dates
12th of april 2021, april 12th 2021, 4/12/2021, 12.4.2021
the date thing is one of the few things i would never for anything get used to. how scrambled! first a month than you jump back to day and then to years? noooooooo
I need the British Siri in my life
Making sure my pencil has a rubber on it would have a completely different meaning in my school 😂
I did school in America for a year ... I underestimated how different the language was 😂
A full stop is called a full stop because a comma doesn't do a FULL stop but a full stop does a FULL stop.
Confusing isn't it.
its not-
its a FULL STOP dont u dare call it anything else🔫
I always hated it when students or coworkers complained it was *cold*. Please bring a jacket and shut up lol. I’m hot natured always have been. You can always add layers but there’s only so much you can take off lol.
I will DIE ON THE HILL that a flashlight is NOT the same thing as a torch.
I am from Australia and the English is soo close to English
I can’t do this today full stop
As a Canadian, ITS A TURN SIGNAL
The lights went out
Thanks Billy I would have never noticed
I have a flash light
GIMME that
The lights went out how's it working?!
in america, a torch is a stick with fire
...i think
A flashlight is a 🔦 in America
@@samuel_playz8274 ik what a flashlight is lmao, i'm californian myself. i haven't really noticed what torches are in america though. i'm pretty sure it's a long stick with fire.
3:28 You guys think 37° is hot?
Try living in 43°.
truth
As a person sensitive to heat, I need British siri in my life 😂
I thought in the last one Johnny was gonna put a condom on his pencil! 🤣
So true mate😂
It’s so funny. I can relate when your talking to an American & your a Brit lol
as a Hong Konger, we use Amarican accent but English words XD
I HAVE THE SAME TACO BELL SIRT!!!!!
Y’all be teaching each other lol
He’s “Essex Babe”😂🥲
An American told me once that Celcius was the temperature of the water and Fahrenheit was the temperature of humans. Me: you don't freeze quickly, do you?
0F ~ -18C
For 1:27 y'all put the month before the day?How does that make sense
omg ikr it makes so sense at all
I’m not bringing hate but when a student asks you something just say yes
I get this why wod u name a full stop '' period"
Missed opportunity for a condom joke in the last one
Its a blinker! Cause it ✨blinks✨ *blink, blink*
I just realised the student was wearing an animal crossing shirt at the start lol
This is painful as a British man
Would love a British Siri.
You can actually program Siri to be British.
I’m surprised you don’t throw out any English sarcasm
1:28 ahhhhhhhhh that's the birthday date of the closest person to me ❤️❤️❤️👁️👄👁️
24 the temperature man
Living in Australia I feels like we're combination of both british n american
If they said what’s Celsius I’d say ask ur maths teacher
1:28 Every English person knows this
This reminds me of the time I heard an American talking about Joseph Merrick and they were like 'Joseph Merrick was born in Lie-cess-ter'.
your so funny mate i agree that the u.s dont use a blody turnsignle
When you are early and dont know what to comment😂
Lol
I am from Canada I don’t know what a blinker is
I would love if you were my teacher
I don’t understand Americans like all the words from England is what they are called in Australia
Haha yess to Celsius
As an American, I’m on the his side. The students are irritating lol
I’m cold and confused
We follow uk English so ya it's confusing
✨BrItIsH sIrI✨