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B1 Intermediate English 3:11 Educational

Americans Don't Understand English | The Jonathan Ross Show

The Jonathan Ross Show · 5,676,642 views · Added 1 month ago

Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

Difficulty

Subtitles (88 segments)

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the thing about Americans that I've

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thought about the language is that they

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speak they say they speak English but

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they've had to change it to make them

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understand it more go with me on this

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because I've thought it

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through they've changed some of the

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words so they've taken the English

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language but they've looked at some of

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it and they thought no no I think we

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need a little bit more explanation here

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okay that's my American

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accent so things like pavement so they

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can't work work with pavement so they've

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changed it to sidewalk they needed more

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information they needed to know where

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they were going to be walking so that

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they wouldn't get run over so that's I

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