Diferences between American English vs British English
Please spend a few minutes helping me, I'll be very thankfull!
Since the passion of the language was born in my heart, when I was... 9 or 10 years old I think, I always liked (and prefered) the American English, because fo the movies, the musics and I had grown watching american movies on TV. But now that I am 33 years old, I have plans for moving with my family to Canada and the examination that is extremely impotant to give me that opportunity - IELTS - is based on British English!
What can I do now?
In Portuguese we have the same situation: there is Portuguese that is spoken in Brazil and there is Portuguese that is spoken in Portugal, there are a lot of diffference between of them!
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God bless you.
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Diferences between American English vs British English
Please spend a few minutes helping me, I'll be very thankful!Since the passion of the language was born in my heart, when I was... 9 or 10 years old I think, I always liked (and preferred) the American English, because of the movies, the musics and I had grown watching american movies on TV. But now that I am 33 years old, I have plans for moving with my family to Canada and the examination that is extremely important to give me that opportunity - IELTS - is based on British English!
What can I do now?
In Portuguese we have the same situation: there is Portuguese that is spoken in Brazil and there is Portuguese that is spoken in Portugal, there are a lot of difference between of them!
Please feel free to correct the text.
God bless you.
You are doing well. However, what level in IELTS are you working towards? Apart from a few dozen words written and pronounced differently, you would do quite well, probably IELTS 5-6.5 - Personally, I don't believe that you'd have much problem here in Canada which uses some American English and some British English that varies somewhat in different parts of the country.
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Thank you so much! Hearing it from you make me feel a little bit more comfortable and reliable!
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I believe you have already given the answer to yourself. You said the IELTS is based on British English, so you should look in that direction. If you learn standard English that doesn't depend on expressions, slang and idioms, you should do okay.
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