This paper aims to identify the influence of American English in the type of informal exposure that third language English users might have and how this may be used as a pedagogical tool; more specifically, it aims to observe the impact of the use of ‘like’ by American vloggers on young learners of English as a third language. The study investigates the way third language users of English come into contact with non-standard colloquial forms through less structured exposure and the way in which learners understand the usage and the pragmatics of the American pragmatic marker ‘like’.