Do you speak American?? Stats show you do.

[lakkon]

American vocabulary is better and it's easier.

[kamuimac]

Hi, i live in römerberg and i wonder what you think about these stats??. Portugal is speaking American more than any other european country. The most dominant culture always win.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...language-study

english is not my native language but i use it quite often in work .

this is actualy pretty funny since not long ago i was attneding a few hour seminar in english and one of participants had a lot of fun pointing out my "americanisms" and how X,Y,Z would be said in british english

guess im watching way to many US series

[faithbane]

Do people really say speak American?

Isn't it just english with a different accent.

How can you even know if a portuguese person speaks american,isn't it just english with a portuguese accent?

The categories are spelling and vocabulary so I am assuming this is a data that measured those differences. For example the differences between the words below would make it British or American:

Vocabulary:

chips vs fries

Spelling

Colour vs Color

[Wyrt]

One thing for damn sure those Scotts sure hell don't speak any known language.

The language they speak is called Scots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

[Zmiley]

I'm from Norway,
when it comes to spelling I always try to keep it British English, but I probably use a lot of American words without even thinking about it / realising.

[Independent voter]

It's American culture, all those movies and TV shows.

In lot's of places around the world, people will say, 'do you speak American?'

[lakkon]

It's American culture, all those movies and TV shows.

In lot's of places around the world, people will say, 'do you speak American?'

Yep,, so true.

[Dellis0991]

The language they speak is called Scots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

I said that as joke but okay.

[Sangris]

I work in a hotel, and usually when I speak to guests from Great Britain (we get a LOT of Irish people, for example), they say I sound like an American.
FYI I have never been to America in my entire life and acquired almost all of my vocabulary from online forums, games and tv shows.

I'm German btw.

[Wyrt]

I work in a hotel, and usually when I speak to guests from Great Britain (we get a LOT of Irish people, for example)

Oh no, what have you done!?

[Blobfish]

More people are saying Y'all in Aussie..

Which is ok because we are Southerners.. (Southern Hemisphere).


I can never tell the difference between a Canadian or American accent when I run into someone from either Canada or USA.

Someone told me to always ask if they are Canadian first, as a Canadian will feel insulted if you call them American..

I think that is silly, but I now always ask "are you Canadian" first.

[ellieg]

More people are saying Y'all in Aussie..

Which is ok because we are Southerners.. (Southern Hemisphere).


I can never tell the difference between a Canadian or American accent when I run into someone from either Canada or USA.

Someone told me to always ask if they are Canadian first, as a Canadian will feel insulted if you call them American..

I think that is silly, but I now always ask "are you Canadian" first.

Bump into them. If they say sorry first, they are canadian.