American here. The go to term is dorm; if you're trying to sound more formal people call it residence hall. A lot of campus guides/resident advisers will call them residence halls, but the average student says dorm.
teaandkate replied to your post “British/American English question”
As a british person i am familiar with dorm and halls of residence. Student residence can be used but we would use 'halls' over just residence xx
burntlikethesun answered your question
halls/accommodation/student accommodation is most common :)
pulledacross replied to your post
as a non-native speaker, I would say that for me "dorm" is a more familiar term because of the exposure to American college movies
foobar137 answered your question
American: 'dorm' is the universal term, IME. 'Residence hall' is the formal term that colleges use. 'hall of residence' and 'student residence' are never used.
ensignchekovsgun answered your question
I love watching you go down all the same rabbit holes I did, lol. I think I kept this in Spanish bc all articles I saw on that time period (bios etc.) had it like that (capital R), but I probably changed it 3 or 4 (or 5) times. :-)
God how did you translate this so quickly, this episode is a nightmare. All the poetic turns of phrase, plus actual poetry, plus stuff like this!
It’s tough, because if it were just modern characters talking about this historic site, even if they were English-speakers it’d make sense for them to call it the Residencia de Estudiantes - with the Residencia for short - as even the English wikipedia does. But when students from the period mention their “residencia” they’re just saying their “dorm”, and the Time Agents who are pretending to be students will do the same. It would be easy if it could just be translated directly as “student residence” and “residence”, but it seems that’s not how you say it in English, lol.
To avoid using too many different terms for the same thing, I think going for the formal English “student residence hall” at first and then using “student halls” and “halls” afterwards would be most consistent. Opinions?
