Jc Mitchell

It's Your Round! A Survival Guide for the American Anglophile (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this world of global travellersAmerican holiday seekers, jetsetters, expats, and expat wannabesthere are plenty of helpful guides on the bookshelves with names like Speak Swahili In 15 Easy Lessons, How To Live And Work In Antarctica, Doing Business in Nunavut, Buying Retirement Property in North Korea, and the like. This guide does not even pretend to be one of those. What it does pretend to be, and hopefully will actually succeed in being, is a social guide for American Anglophiles who want to spend some time in Britain understanding the natives while not provoking gales of laughter and abuse in the process.

A common assumption for English-speaking people moving to, or even just visiting, a different English-speaking country is that life will be a breeze simply because they (supposedly) speak the language. They're assumed to be able to completely understand and communicate with the British, and to always know what to do when and where and whyand how, for that matter. But British English is quite different from American English.

The goal of this book is to give the reader a basic working knowledge of British language and customs from an American point of view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: JC Mitchell
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310919107
• Artikelnr.: 70916593

Autorenporträt

Having grown up in Long Beach, California, I spent a decade in Seattle and currently live in England, originally in Kent and now in Yorkshire. I acquired 28 years of experience in computer graphics programming and website design and 24 years of experience writing about coffee and beer.

I have contributed articles to local CAMRA publications, Tramlines, and SmellTheCoffee.Com. I have also written music reviews and blurbs for tourist attractions. I have appeared on local radio as Sheffield's resident American coffee aficionado. Among my many jobs I have worked on a research project on the Sheffield Flood of 1864. I have also been a digital photographer of antiques and of tourist attractions. I currently work in a university library.

Besides writing I also play piano and keyboards, I cartoon a bit, I walk a lot, and I'm pretty good at table tennis. I have a degree in Radio, TV, and Film Production with a minor in Music Composition and a diploma in Computer Programming, and I can speak a bit of Spanish, French, and Russian. And, of course, I am fluent in British, American, and Yorkshire English.