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Hello, and welcome to today's edition of In the air. As you know every
week on this programme we discuss an aspect of the way we live now,
and today's topic is the language we speak — English. So that's
something which affects us all. The question is, what's going to happen
to the way we speak English in the future? Are we all going to speak
like Americans? Or will British English still exist? Later on we're going
to ask you to phone in and give your views on the subject, but first
we're going to speak to two young people, one American, and one
British, who have spent time on an educational exchange in the other's
country because we thought perhaps they would have some
Interviewer: interesting ideas on the subject.
I'd like to speak to our American guest first. Hi, Samantha, welcome to
Interviewer: the show, and welcome to England!
Samantha: Thanks!
Interviewer: Where are you from?
Samantha: I'm from Albany, in New York State.
Interviewer: When did you arrive in the UK?
Samantha: Two months ago, in September, at the beginning of the school term. Interviewer: How did you get to hear about the exchange?
Samantha: I saw an advertisement in my school magazine back in the states. Interviewer: Where are you attending school now?
Samantha: In Leeds, in Yorkshire.
Interviewer: And how are you getting on?
Samantha: I'm getting on just fine, now that I understand the local accent. Interviewer: So, it was difficult at first?
Yes, because I didn't get what people were saying for a couple of days.
Samantha: I think that was the biggest problem I had when I arrived.
Interviewer: But then you got used to it?
Yes — and now it seems quite normal. In fact, in some ways the accent
Samantha: here, in the north of England, reminds me of American English. Interviewer: How do you mean?
Well, like they say bath instead of bath, or Do you want to dance
Samantha: instead of dance, like they do in other parts of Britain.
Interviewer: What's been the most positive thing about the exchange so far?
Definitely the people, especially the other students in my class.
Samantha: They're really friendly.
Interviewer: Is there anything else you like about living in Britain?
Lots of things, like the music scene in Leeds, for instance. I like Leeds
Samantha: because there's more going on here than back home in the states. Theschool has a creative music laboratory, which is really interesting.
I've got a question to ask you, Samantha, about the future of English.
Interviewer: Do you think in the future everyone will speak American English?
No, why should they? Since English is spoken all over the world, I
Samantha: guess it's only natural that there are lots of varieties.
So do you think you'll go home speaking with a north of England
Interviewer: accent?
Samantha: Oh no, I didn't mean that!
Well now I'd like to turn to our other guest, another exchange student, that's eighteen-year-old Callum Nightingale. Callum, you recently
Interviewer: returned from the US. How long were you there?
Callum: Ten months altogether.
Interviewer: And where were you?
Callum: I was in a fertile agricultural region, in a fairly small town in Mississippi. Interviewer: That's quite a long way south, isn't it?
Callum: Yes, it is.
Interviewer: What was the most difficult problem you had?
Callum: I reckon it was the climate; it was hot and humid for a lot of the time. Interviewer: How did you get on with American English?
Well, I didn't really have any problems with the accent. It was easy to Callum: understand, they speak rather slowly.
Interviewer: But did they understand you?
That's a good point. I think they did. As I was the only British person in the school they made a fuss of me. The girls all said my accent was
Callum: cute.
Interviewer: What was the best moment of your stay?
Callum: I think it was the prom, that's the school dance at the end of the year.
I want to ask you a couple of questions about American English. Did
Interviewer: you find that a lot of words are different?
Yes, especially at school — they have grades, we have years, then the names of subjects are a bit different, like "civics", which basically
means law and government. And some sports are different — football means American football, not soccer — I actually played in the soccer team. Then the American word for maths is math, without the "s" —
that seems like a very small detail. But the first time I heard it, it
sounded strange ... but you get used to it. When I came home my
mum said I had picked up an American accent, but it's worn off now I Callum: think.
Callum, do you think that in the future everybody will speak an
Interviewer: American variety of English?
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Maybe yes. I think the British will speak American English because Callum: they hear it every day now, on TV, in films and so on. Interviewer: And are you happy about that?
I don't know. I suppose I don't mind, really. Everything changes Callum: sooner or later.
Hello, and welcome to today's edition of In the air. As you know every
week on this programme we discuss an aspect of the way we live now,
and today's topic is the language we speak — English. So that's
something which affects us all. The question is, what's going to happen
to the way we speak English in the future? Are we all going to speak
like Americans? Or will British English still exist? Later on we're going
to ask you to phone in and give your views on the subject, but first
we're going to speak to two young people, one American, and one
British, who have spent time on an educational exchange in the other's
country because we thought perhaps they would have some
Interviewer: interesting ideas on the subject.
I'd like to speak to our American guest first. Hi, Samantha, welcome to
Interviewer: the show, and welcome to England!
Samantha: Thanks!
Interviewer: Where are you from?
Samantha: I'm from Albany, in New York State.
Interviewer: When did you arrive in the UK?
Samantha: Two months ago, in September, at the beginning of the school term. Interviewer: How did you get to hear about the exchange?
Samantha: I saw an advertisement in my school magazine back in the states. Interviewer: Where are you attending school now?
Samantha: In Leeds, in Yorkshire.
Interviewer: And how are you getting on?
Samantha: I'm getting on just fine, now that I understand the local accent. Interviewer: So, it was difficult at first?
Yes, because I didn't get what people were saying for a couple of days.
Samantha: I think that was the biggest problem I had when I arrived.
Interviewer: But then you got used to it?
Yes — and now it seems quite normal. In fact, in some ways the accent
Samantha: here, in the north of England, reminds me of American English. Interviewer: How do you mean?
Well, like they say bath instead of bath, or Do you want to dance
Samantha: instead of dance, like they do in other parts of Britain.
Interviewer: What's been the most positive thing about the exchange so far?
Definitely the people, especially the other students in my class.
Samantha: They're really friendly.
Interviewer: Is there anything else you like about living in Britain?
Lots of things, like the music scene in Leeds, for instance. I like Leeds
Samantha: because there's more going on here than back home in the states. Theschool has a creative music laboratory, which is really interesting.
I've got a question to ask you, Samantha, about the future of English.
Interviewer: Do you think in the future everyone will speak American English?
No, why should they? Since English is spoken all over the world, I
Samantha: guess it's only natural that there are lots of varieties.
So do you think you'll go home speaking with a north of England
Interviewer: accent?
Samantha: Oh no, I didn't mean that!
Well now I'd like to turn to our other guest, another exchange student, that's eighteen-year-old Callum Nightingale. Callum, you recently
Interviewer: returned from the US. How long were you there?
Callum: Ten months altogether.
Interviewer: And where were you?
Callum: I was in a fertile agricultural region, in a fairly small town in Mississippi. Interviewer: That's quite a long way south, isn't it?
Callum: Yes, it is.
Interviewer: What was the most difficult problem you had?
Callum: I reckon it was the climate; it was hot and humid for a lot of the time. Interviewer: How did you get on with American English?
Well, I didn't really have any problems with the accent. It was easy to Callum: understand, they speak rather slowly.
Interviewer: But did they understand you?
That's a good point. I think they did. As I was the only British person in the school they made a fuss of me. The girls all said my accent was
Callum: cute.
Interviewer: What was the best moment of your stay?
Callum: I think it was the prom, that's the school dance at the end of the year.
I want to ask you a couple of questions about American English. Did
Interviewer: you find that a lot of words are different?
Yes, especially at school — they have grades, we have years, then the names of subjects are a bit different, like "civics", which basically
means law and government. And some sports are different — football means American football, not soccer — I actually played in the soccer team. Then the American word for maths is math, without the "s" —
that seems like a very small detail. But the first time I heard it, it
sounded strange ... but you get used to it. When I came home my
mum said I had picked up an American accent, but it's worn off now I Callum: think.
Callum, do you think that in the future everybody will speak an
Interviewer: American variety of English?
第2/3頁
Maybe yes. I think the British will speak American English because Callum: they hear it every day now, on TV, in films and so on. Interviewer: And are you happy about that?
I don't know. I suppose I don't mind, really. Everything changes Callum: sooner or later.