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🧐 ”where are you from” VS ”where do you come from”


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exRanger profile picture exRangerSeptember 2021
Americans use both, but the latter is more commo along the eastern seaboard -- New York, New England and The Chesapeake.
AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgSeptember 2021
Both questions have the sense of asking about the location you are from.

In general, ”Where do you come from?” tends to be more used in British English whereas ”Where are you from?” is more often used by Americans.

For that matter, Australian English speakers tend to use, out of the two, almost exclusively ”Where do you come from?”

That all being said, the emphasis of ”Where are you from?” tends to be ”Which city or town do you originate from?” whereas ”where do you come from?” is asking about your original country or region.

However, not all native speakers use these forms in that manner. I’ve had experiences with native American English speakers asking me ”Where are you from?” when they had not been able to guess my origins, such as when I’ve been speaking neutrally accented English and thereby not revealing that I was Australian because there were non-native speakers in the group.