Do they learn British or American english? Which do they prefer?
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Anonymous2010-05-23 9:20
Here in Scandinavia British English dominates. I think East Asians generally learn American English.
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Anonymous2010-05-23 11:05
Not that I had the preference. Most schools here in East Asia offers only American English.
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Anonymous2010-05-23 13:12
America english because AMERICA ENGLISH IS BEST ENGLISH
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Anonymous2010-05-23 13:31
In Germany it is both (i guess?)...
We started with British but later were told many American words and the differences between AE and BE (it is not that big so it does not really matter which you learn).
The only annoying thing is that teachers try to speak with the British accent...
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Anonymous2010-05-24 19:04
In france we learn british english, and i don't really like it...
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Anonymous2010-05-25 5:20
>>6
whys that? Or are you referring to englsih in general?
In Poland we learn British, but it's not a very big difference
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Anonymous2010-05-26 1:29
Indonesian here,
the books here use American English but the English teachers who went abroad to improve their English mostly went to Australia which is closer to British than American English. So we got a mix of both but mostly American.
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Anonymous2010-05-26 13:01
Hungary. Learn British, prefer American.
The reason why everyone learns British is that Britain/France/Germany are kinda competing for the students, they give you free books and shit, just learn their language. America doesn't give a damn.
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Anonymous2010-05-26 22:25
In Russian school they taught us a mix of British and American:
>I learnt that the color of this axe is gray
They never mentioned that there is difference between US and UK and other Englishes, and we never learnt anything about punctuation.
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Anonymous2010-05-27 11:41
In Finland my teachers told us to choose either one and use that. Text books and the accompanying CDs had a bit of many regional accents.
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Anonymous2010-05-27 18:12
>>7
No, i just don't like the british accent that all the english teachers have.
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Anonymous2010-05-27 18:36
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Because there's no such thing as english punctuation.