MISTAKES AMERICANS MAKE When Trying To Sound AUSTRALIAN | Australian Accent Tips

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Americans love to try out their Australian accent! But there are a few common mistakes that Americans often make that are a dead give away. In this video, Candice will give a few tips to avoid these common mistakes when you're trying to sound Australian and she'll explain how to pronounce things the Aussie way!
Check out Candice's Aussie themed children's show G'day Let's Play! Watching kids TV is a GREAT way to practice your Australian Accent.
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[@krakatoapinatubo6362]

This is the best tutorial for the aussie o that I've ever seen. Finally, mine sounds right.

[@MyNipplesArePointy]

I love how "apparent" and "a parent" are perfect homophones in the American accent but are quite different in the Australian accent

[@candicemoll8386]

It's true. Nothing makes sense 😂

[@chiara1545]

I had been speaking with USA accent for years and I was kinda stuck on it. Even though I'm not American, I watched this video and succeeded in spotting those little "mistakes" that blocked me from sounding aussie, I don't wanna say I'm perfect now but its still good to learn little by little, then put everything together and build up great results out of your work if you know what I mean ahaha. As always thank you it was helpful. ❣️

[@candicemoll8386]

I'm so glad you found this helpful! It does take a long time to perfect, but as you say, little by little will get you there! :-)

[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

@@candicemoll8386 When living in the US, were you taken for sb from the UK?

[@IndyDraws]

I found the whole “use your lips” as opposed to your jaw to be a VERY helpful tip. I’ve had to voice a character with an Australian accent recently and your videos have been SO helpful. Thank you!

[@Jeni10]

I’ve noticed that American short vowels are often elongated, turning them into a long vowel rather than a short vowel.

[@confusedbug6211]

as an australian who is trying to master the art of making my accent sound fake, this video was very helpful

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

Great video Candice...I've noticed that often when Americans (from the US) are tryingvti do an Australian accent, it ends up sounding a mix of British Cockney/South African/Kiwi (NZ)... Although all these accents share the non-rhotic feature (not pronouncing the r at the end of the word) there are many differences in how we pronounce the vowels...as well as our intonation (melody)... I've studied linguistics at uni and I'm fascinated by different accents!

[@candicemoll8386]

A large reason for the Cockney sound is because Americans will often use a glottal stop (stopping the sound in their throat) rather than a tongue placement. I touch on this in the Letter T video and also 'Australian Accent Tips-Very First Video'. Check them out for the info on that! :-)

[@NoirL.A.]

@@candicemoll8386 yeah in oz for the most part y'all do that 'T' becomes 'D' thang ('BUTTER' becomes 'BUDDER') when it's in the middle of the word but emphasis is on the first syllable. quite a few people in the u.k. and ireland do it too but it's not a hard and fast rule like it is in the u.s. or oz. i always wondered how that happened dual evolution maybe? either way say 'T' like 'D' involves less effort.

[@EllieGirl93]

I always find when people from the United States try to speak Australian, it always sounds like the cockney accent or the New Zealand accent haha

[@candicemoll8386]

It's true! Haha!

[@kovu713]

Thanks for the tips! I have been working on doing an authentic Aussie accent for years! And this video helped me to correct a few things I was doing wrong. I am going to keep practicing so by the time I visit Australia next year I will sound like one of the locals!

[@candicemoll8386]

That's great! I'll be interested to know if you manage to fool the locals with your Aussie accent!

[@barryford1482]

My name is Barry and in America it was always Berry. I always wondered if they got my name right or should I spell out my name for them.

[@FionaEm]

As an Aussie, I think Americans often sound like Cockney Brits when they try to do our accent. It comes out quite exaggerated. As Candice says, our tongue is more relaxed when we speak, and we don't move our jaw as much as Americans do in their native accent. Just relax things off a bit and you'll get closer to it! Also, don't feel like you have to say "mate" all the time. Nothing sounds funnier than someone from outside Australia/NZ/Britain using a word they'd never say back home.

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

So true...

[@candicemoll8386]

Haha! This is true, although I love a good 'mate' thrown into the sentence at random moments! Haha!

[@FionaEm]

@@candicemoll8386 I didn't mean you shouldn't say mate - you're Aussie so it sounds natural 🙂 I meant that Americans shouldn't.

[@NoirL.A.]

people outside the u.s. can use american words and expressions and it mite sound odd but it doesn't sound stupid. americans who do the same, however, sound like complete gompers. and you KNOW they're only doing it because they heard some person in another country say it that way and they thiink it makes them sound smart or sophisto. and it's almost always females. i'm american myself, btw.

[@chars8143]

Omg your laugh is everything💗and I also love this video✨

[@Katy38316]

Born in thailand but grew up in New Zealand I feel like the American “O” sounds more difficult than Australian “O” 😅

[@Marc_FF_Guy]

I love the 'O' sound in the word 'so'.

[@rhozzemusic]

Great video, well done!😊

[@candicemoll8386]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

G'day mate. Hello Candice. Your channel is so excellent. Thanks a lot for showing us how to learn Aussie English. " Bloody ripper ". 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

[@mariajulietaeller5911]

Hey Candice you are great! Gracias 😁. As Argentinian living in Australia everything you teach is sooo helpful. And we always learn the us American accent specially from movies or TV shows. The last tip blew my mind haha. Could you do a video about the R? I find it so hard to not pronounce haha..I really try but I feel it doesn't sound good. Thanks a lot for making this videos!

[@NoirL.A.]

spanish is a rhotic language like american english is but most british accents are not so that is probably why it's easier for you to imitate but plus that american english is far more commonly taught in north and south america which is probably also why you're more accustomed to it.

[@Caelovesasmr]

Much love to you from Australia ❤️

[@EveRiriqj]

OOOoo I love the Australian "o" sound, My second language is spanish, so it comes bit easier to me. -Also was it raining when you filmed this? I can faintly hear it lol...

[@user-bf8ud9vt5b]

Americans also often seem to slip into a Cockney accent, incorrectly inserting a glottal stop into words like butter ... 'bah'ah' rather than 'buddah' ... for example. Oh, and we keep our mouth more closed to keep the flies out. Obviously. 😉

[@candicemoll8386]

Ah yes. The dreaded FLIES! Haha!

[@user-yr4eo3rp7c]

I just love bloody Australian accent.

[@MyNipplesArePointy]

Okay I was absolutely cracking up when you described the Australian long O sound as ah-o-oo-y because that was the most fucking accurate and understandable explanation I've ever heard. I've heard many people find the Australian O to be one of the hardest to master, but I feel like your explanation would work for anyone. I did notice something though. When I say the word "go" I do notice that I am following that ah-o-oo-y sound, but when I say "going," I don't find myself doing that -y at the end, and I'd just go gah-o-oo-wing. I just thought that might be something very interesting.

[@candicemoll8386]

You are absolutely correct! GREAT observation! Check out my video about connecting vowel sounds and it's all in there. Thanks so much for your comment, I love that you found this one helpful! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5ioq6J6jJhjaqM

[@mottahead6464]

Okay..... now I get it why sometimes it seems to me like Australians speaking sometimes emit a sort of vibrating didgeridoo-like sound. It seems like it's mostly the Australian O (ahoooy) sound.

[@suraj9]

suddenly i can't seem to remember how i have been saying 'apparently' for all of my life :o

[@candicemoll8386]

Hahahaha! That will happen!

[@sandeepchoudhary5860]

U are such a stellar.. Candice !

[@candicemoll8386]

Thanks mate!

[@meSNakeIce]

Why do people call the perfect balance between work and rest as laziness?😹

[@candicemoll8386]

Haha! I think it's just the easiest way to explain it. You're right though, we're not actually lazy ;p

[@theamesavenue9834]

The jaw thing is very visible when Tom Holland does an American accent (NYC) in Spider man movies.

[@jays3176]

Before I came to Australia, I thougt Aussie and British accent are the same accent, but now I can differentiate all kinds of oz dialects.

[@Flair258]

brooooo same. I used to not be able to tell the difference. But my two favorite youtubers happen to have one of them being brittish, and the other is australian. And yeah I can now see the difference.

[@candicemoll8386]

Oh that's fun! Your ear is adapting :-)

[@jays3176]

@@candicemoll8386haha，just got a bigger ear

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[@TheWallowingMadman27]

The main difference is that Australian is twangier than British

[@JohnDBloch]

When I heard the eh sound, I thought New Zealand!

[@Thatsmessedupman]

I would have liked to see more casual word examples When you try to teach the word you do not use your accent as much as if you were just talking with a sentence. What I notice with Australians is they talk more forward with their mouth. If I smile and try to talk at the front of my mouth it feels closer to your accent. Have you noticed that you are talking more at the front of your mouth or it just because you smile allot?

[@Emper0rH0rde]

Australia is one of those places that I want to visit, but there is a very real possibility I would just be making fun of the accents all day, and trying to convince everybody that I'm not trying to be mean. Australian accents, like Southern American accents, are among those ways of speaking that can make anybody sound like the friendliest person in the world.

[@candicemoll8386]

Haha! You should definitely go. You'll love being surrounded by all the friendly accents!

[@NoirL.A.]

though because of the internet it is slowly starting to change you have to remember people in the u.k., australia, NZ, south africa, irish republic to a degree, etc. get way the hell more exposure to american accents than americans ever get to accents from those countries (i'm 54 you think american media is insular now ya shuda bin there when i was a kid!) so as a result to an american those accents may sound similar even if people in those countries mite think that's ridiculous. and especially because australian does have so much in common with RP and especially cockney it's real easy to have bleedover when trying to imitate accents from those other countries. plus, let's be frank here, an american doing a foreign accent may do one in their entire career whereas people from u.k., oz, nz, etc. who can do a convincing american accent stand to see their career go through the roof and many many more roles would then become available so fer better or worse american actors simply don't have the same career or financial motivation to really "get it right".

[@adirong]

I feel like I should apologise. I am so impressed by how articulate and erudite you are in these videos but as a Dad whose son was the right age for The Fairies, whenever you giggle I see and hear Harmony! I feel like I am retrospectively typecasting you for my own nostalgia purposes! Sorry about that.

[@candicemoll8386]

Hahaha! Ah it comes with the job. 😂 I've often heard 'you laugh like Harmony!' to which I reply, 'No, Harmony laughs like me. '😉😂 Thanks for watching none the less!

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Beck for back. Maybe they're trying for a bit o kiwi, eh? 🇳🇿

[@TheWallowingMadman27]

I live in the US & I can 100% confirm that whenever I meet someone w/ a diff accent I tell them that I can do their accent (they’re usually alright w/ it & a lot of them say I can actually pull it off)

[@candicemoll8386]

Haha! You either have an AMAZING ear... or very polite friends :p

[@TheWallowingMadman27]

@@candicemoll8386 personally I’d like to think I have both xD

[@skatardrummer1]

I don't do that to random people, but with friends, absolutely haha. Americans can't help themselves. I still mimick my husband's New York accent ans he makes fun of my Midwestern one lol

[@douglasmarinho3653]

I'm Brazilian and I always open my mouth too much when I speak Australian English but I think, hmm no R's sounds and the vowels are a little bit good but it still doesn't sound like an Australian, why? Hmm the mouth too open as the Americans do

[@e6026]

“My American friends.” *me a Canadian:*

[@n-a-t-h-a-n]

this might sound really stupid but the only way i can do a GOOD australian accent is that i have to picture lazarbeam saying a sentence and them repeat what lazarbeam sounded like

[@i-anhsieh98]

When I try to do cockney, it slips towards Australian, and when I try to do Australian, it slips towards cockney😭😭😭

[@candicemoll8386]

It's a common problem, you're not alone! Also, trying to learn these two accents at once will become confusing. Practise them individually for a block of time, you might find that will help :-)

[@IntelVoid]

I don't even use my lips that much. In my Australian accent, I can say 'The Australian dialect is kinda lazy' with virtually no visible movement in my face (just a little on the r). It's all *inside* the mouth.

[@candicemoll8386]

Yep! That's the way to go!

[@casualdiscussionenjoyer3303]

Despite living in North Carolina my whole life, I have a fairly neutral American accent. Until watching this I never realized how many words I actually pronounce with a short e

[@wcs6538]

Wow you're stunning

[@kwerk2011]

One thing that always makes me laugh hearing Americans is when they say the word "Aussie". To me it comes out sounding like "Awsy". Yes, it has two S's, but, honestly America, just say "Ozzy". Far more authentic.

[@Darla.Shmarla]

No matter what I do I end up doing a British accent 😂

[@bluey_.44]

It’s hard knowing 4 languages lol 😭

[@garypierce7380]

Apparently is the same way the British say it. Australians sound nothing like Americans mostly because Americans slur whole sentences and Australians accentuate them like they're on a vocabulary showcase. I was shocked however about how much Kiwis sound just like middle Americans with the exception of a few Australian sounding vowels.

[@Musikur]

IMHO the biggest mistake that people make is assuming everyone sounds like Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee... most people actually don't...

[@candicemoll8386]

Haha! so true! 😂

[@Jeni10]

It’s true! I don’t understand why they mimic us. We would never do that to a migrant in Australia and definitely not to a tourist! I’ve also noticed that American pronunciation has lots of problems with short vowels, they tend to stretch them out until they’re a longer form of another sound. Very strange to us Aussies!

[@sumalkumara2991]

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[@dama2803]

Saying "US American" is redundant. In other words, there's no such thing as a non US American.

[@candicemoll8386]

Not true friend! In many countries simply saying 'American' will result in a follow-up question of "Where? North or South?". I've experienced this a few times. Also, specifying the exact country is more polite in many circles, acknowledging that there is, in fact, a North and South with multiple countries in each region. 🙂

[@dama2803]

@@candicemoll8386I don't doubt what you're saying, but that's ridiculous. We (United States) are the only Americans. Actually I would even go as far to say that only Conservative US residents are true Americans.

[@dama2803]

@D KK Damm. You just made me come back and watch this video. So annoyed to hear "US Americans". Wtf is that? Seriously wtf.

[@dama2803]

Also this chick is a dead ringer for Vera on Wentworth. Google that shit and you'll see.

[@EveRiriqj]

@@dama2803 Be quiet, that's why people outside of the U.S don't like us. Your acting as if the U.S is the only country, in the world. Keep your hill billy beliefs to yourself. "True Americans"??!!! Huh??? And yes what she's trying to telling u is true, it's not something to disagree , or argue over.