From YouTube
American See-Saw
You can tell this is America. How? American accents.
American Language
American vocabulary, weight in pounds or kilos. In England I would say my weight in stones and pounds.
American Buildings
Houses without fences. Houses build of flat stones.
English Homes And Parks
English homes are more often brick.
English Words
We use different words. Helter skelter. Roundabout.
Vietnam - See A Rotating See-Saw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQZammDxEI
My favourite see-saw or swing is the one which is like a roundabout, from the website, Amazing things in Vietnam. The technical name for it is a rotating see-saw, or a Flying Jenny (not to be confused with a spinning jenny.
Vietnamese Language
Vietnamese is a hard language to learn. I go to a Vietnamese Toastmasters club in Singapore. They speak English. (Only occasional asides to each other in Vietnamese.) I went to an opera performed in Vietnamese. A very small number of international words were intelligible. The writing is a mystery. I looked Vietnamese on the language learning aps. Very difficult. Luckily some of the older people speak French.
Singapore
When I shared it on Facebook, a friend in Singapore suggested that we should try the X-treme swing in Singapore.
Americanisms - British English - Singapore
1 carousel - roundabout / merry-go-round
2 Ferris wheel - big wheel (London Eye; Singapore Flyer -enclosed cabins; High Roller, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Big O, Tokyo, Japan; Mickeys Fun Wheel, Disney, California; Melbourne Star, Melbourne, Australia)
3 roller coaster - big dipper
4 see-saw / teeter-totter - see-saw
lever (pronounced lev-err) - lever - (pronounced leaver)
Handy Websites For Travellers
Rides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_wheel
AUSTRIA
Wiener Riesentrad (See film / movie The Third Man)
USA
https://www.visitusa.org.uk
SINGAPORE
visitsingapore.com
VIETNAM
Vietnamese See-saw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQZammDxEI
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/vietnam
Learn Vietnamese
duolingo.com
https://www.duolingo.com/course/vi/en/Learn-Vietnamese-Online
BRITAIN
visitbritain.org
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
You can tell this is America. How? American accents.
American Language
American vocabulary, weight in pounds or kilos. In England I would say my weight in stones and pounds.
American Buildings
Houses without fences. Houses build of flat stones.
English Homes And Parks
English homes are more often brick.
English Words
We use different words. Helter skelter. Roundabout.
Vietnam - See A Rotating See-Saw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQZammDxEI
My favourite see-saw or swing is the one which is like a roundabout, from the website, Amazing things in Vietnam. The technical name for it is a rotating see-saw, or a Flying Jenny (not to be confused with a spinning jenny.
Vietnamese Language
Vietnamese is a hard language to learn. I go to a Vietnamese Toastmasters club in Singapore. They speak English. (Only occasional asides to each other in Vietnamese.) I went to an opera performed in Vietnamese. A very small number of international words were intelligible. The writing is a mystery. I looked Vietnamese on the language learning aps. Very difficult. Luckily some of the older people speak French.
Singapore
When I shared it on Facebook, a friend in Singapore suggested that we should try the X-treme swing in Singapore.
Americanisms - British English - Singapore
1 carousel - roundabout / merry-go-round
2 Ferris wheel - big wheel (London Eye; Singapore Flyer -enclosed cabins; High Roller, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Big O, Tokyo, Japan; Mickeys Fun Wheel, Disney, California; Melbourne Star, Melbourne, Australia)
3 roller coaster - big dipper
4 see-saw / teeter-totter - see-saw
lever (pronounced lev-err) - lever - (pronounced leaver)
Handy Websites For Travellers
Rides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_wheel
AUSTRIA
Wiener Riesentrad (See film / movie The Third Man)
USA
https://www.visitusa.org.uk
SINGAPORE
visitsingapore.com
VIETNAM
Vietnamese See-saw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziQZammDxEI
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/vietnam
Learn Vietnamese
duolingo.com
https://www.duolingo.com/course/vi/en/Learn-Vietnamese-Online
BRITAIN
visitbritain.org
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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