CANADIAN vs AMERICAN English Language & Culture - Interview with a Canadian

My Canadian (or *Canadien if you are from Quebec) friend Josh visits us while in the States (the USA) and we discuss some differences between Canadian versus American English and Culture.

We also learn about a dialect of English from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania called Pittsburghese. "Yins ready for this??"

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CREDITS (to our beautiful friends and language partners we couldn't do this without you!)
Spanish Translation: Alejandro Gutierrez
Italian Translation: Marika Capraro
Portuguese Translation: Ygor Arataque
Editor: Calvin Hanson
Footage: Calvin Hanson Creative

[evandro]

Let's share this channel. Camille is helping us a lot. Your tips are very important for our learning. Thank you!!!

[magoviral]

🤣🤣 este video siempre lo recordaré, aprendí bastante sobre las diferencias entre ambos países pero a la vez hay mucha cercanía entre culturas. Me reí mucho, es una entrevista muy chévere como siempre. Sigue adelante ❤️❤️❤️

[davidfriesen]

Greetings from Halifax, Canada. I arrived here via Josh's Facebook post. Know him from my days in Guelph.

Having moved to Nova Scotia from Ontario 10 years ago, I notice language variations across the country.

There's ant and aunt. Ontario, pronounced the same (ant). NS? Aunt is drawn out, Awwwwnt.
Sure and shore: different in Ontario, pronounced both as shore in NS.
Ontario: somewhere, nowhere, anywhere never end in "s". NS, an "s" is added to the end.
Degrees of quality - Ontario: Good, better, best. NS: Good, some good, Right some good.
Ontario, electricity is "Hydro", but NS is "Power".

Nationwide, ordering sliced or shaved deli meat, is by the "kilo-" (the "-gram" is implied), and kilo is pronounced "key - low".

However, distance is inconsistent: sometimes "KEY - low - Mee - ter", others, "kill - AWE - mud - dur"

A "plug-in" is a glade brand air freshener, unless you live in Northern Ontario, in which case a "plug-in" is a wall socket or receptacle.

Camp: in urban areas, a camp is a week long summer vacation spot for kids lead by counsellors.
In rural areas, camp means one's family owned cottage, or hunting cabin.

Ikea (Swedish flat packed furniture retailer) in Ontario, is "eye key ah".
NS: a small few pronounce it "eye kay ah"

[piamariavee]

So fun to learn how flags and sorry are said so differently, I had no idea! And also, as a Finn, hearing Canadians talking about hockey is just so fun, haha!

[PizzaChefArgy]

Very interesting video, congratulations..

[jessierosales]

Fun interview. As for me, I love the way Canadians pronounce the word "about." As for a language mishap, I was in England in 1989 and was at a ticket booth to buy theater tickets and the booth agent asked me what sounded like "windfor?" I just couldn't understand until the people behind told me "for when do you want the tickets?" 😳

[marikacapraro]

Great video! I learned so many new words with this video especially I learned that if I go in Thailand I don’t have to play ping pong, so thank you so much for the information 😂😂😂

[Golgomax]

Caramba amiga eu ia te perguntar qual a diferença entre o sotaque canadense e o americano!

[laudemar-A.B.]

Vocês moram num estado que fica perto da fronteira com o Canadá 🇺🇸🇨🇦