Why the Aussie accent is so hard | Did You Know?

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Why do we keep hearing bad attempts at the accent in movies and TV shows? What makes the Australian accent so hard to do properly? It's challenging because it’s similar to a lot of different accents and it's constantly changing and evolving, like all accents do.
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[@aussies4trump176]

People have trouble with the Aussie accent because it is difficult to imitate perfection.

[@BigOrse420]

Fkn oath

[@shivambhatyar]

Yes and Australia doesn't exist. That's why they say no one's perfect

[@libragirl1144]

Thx!

[@toddjones7919]

The Australian accent is, hands down, one of the single most irritating in the world. Hopefully in a hundred years they will learn to sound like actual humans.

[@libragirl1144]

Todd Jones excuse me? There are aussies watching this you brainless goon!

[@zupcake]

As an Australian, you can always tell if it's a bad Aussie accent because you can hear the accent.. does that even make sense? 😂

[@chugggs3516]

Really wanted to like this comment but it would be a shame to change it from 69.

[@aka9978]

@@chugggs3516 do it. break it.

[@rupert8502]

That is so true although there are some people like me where it is a bit noticeable.

[@Keopro]

It depends on the accent though. A broad accent done right would go unnoticed but a stronger one (eg Geoffrey Rush or Rove) would stand out even if imitated well. The big example for me is Robert Downey Jr towards the end of Tropic Thunder. Fairly convincing but a stronger accent so it took a sec. Jai Courtney’s accent in Suicide Squad is real but still draws attention to itself because of how strong it is.

[@Malc664]

@@shortwavefan2487 Live in Australia.

[@poopipeboy3033]

Just repeat the phrase "Yeeeeah, naaaah" a few hundred times and it'll come naturally.

[@L4DYam3nd]

Yeah, nah, you're right

[@unfortunateobserver1244]

Oiii Yeah nah oi nah. Yeahhh. Maybe. Nahh, nahh, you'reawright.

[@nathancarter7020]

Grammar Criminal, fellow aussie never give up fight these sheep “lovers”

[@mamamiaspizzaria6649]

Or Oi Caunt

[@user-vq5sr2hd4p]

Michelle you’re doing it wrong.

[@okminitz]

Bro the Pacific rim accent was so off I didn't even realise he was trying to do an Aussie accent.

[@sparksfly6149]

It sounds like a UK accent. Don’t know where exactly from, but somewhere there.

[@Cabolt44]

@@sparksfly6149 Probably cockney, which is the closest UK accent to a standard Australian accent.

[@Nathan-cr8ck]

LukeDaNuke it sounded like full British who lived like 5 years in Australia

[@ScouserLegend]

Cabolt44 East Anglian is closest

[@jackduncan1491]

Was it?!

[@joshoboss1002]

Why am i trying to do an Australian accent when im australian hahaha

[@cashchicscars]

Ginormous Load I’ve always found it weird that, as an Australian I struggle to do a “Hollywood” Australian accent

[@prismen5535]

same, i'm from australia but when i try to a bogan outback aussie accent it just goes to shit

[@Andres33AU]

Reminds me of Adam Hills on his show (I forget the name, but it's the UK show) and when he does an Aussie accent, he's putting on a stronger Aussie accent, and one of his British co-hosts is like "Mate, you're already Aussie, why are you putting on an accent?" lol.

[@quakeplug5562]

Ginormous Load I'm aboriginal/Aussie so I can change my accent to sound more aboriginal or Aussie haha

[@hcxwj]

Andres Ulloa The Last Leg I think?

[@sophialove7976]

when I’m normal, my accent sounds like just a normal australian but when I’m angry i sound like a full on bogan with full on aussie slang 😂

[@eight35x20]

I think that’s fairly common. I have basically no Aussie accent to the point my mates call me a “race traitor” as an inside joke because I’ve never been to the States but speak with a California sounding accent. But when I am tired, drunk of angry I turn full on Aussie bogan ahaha

[@kaylag5043]

Same 🤣

[@Aw-xl8un]

Same tho

[@benj9380]

Omg yes! I don’t really say mate often, but when I’m surprised or mad I say ‘mate’ like fifty times in one sentence, and my slang goes in to overdrive

[@kingloz36]

DEAD ASS SAME

[@simplepiano7653]

I once talked to a bunch of Americans who thought they could do the Australian accent super well and I actually died. It was so bad

[@randomdude4669]

Every American thinks their accent is so flawless they could trick Australians into believing their from here

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

I just did "Hugh Jackman's" accent from Rise of the Guardians. Not sure if I was made fun of later, but they said it was a bit off

[@itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808]

"they're"

[@acookie7548]

@@randomdude4669 australians are all insecure thus our inflections, while americans should be more insecure

[@quincymcburgerking4407]

Yeah as an american I will never speak my imitation accent to an Australian lol

[@90-pillzhobart48]

Americans didn't grow up watching Australian television, end of conversation.

[@hadassah6563]

True. I can do an American accent, Coz of all the American content you can't avoid in australia. I'm not so good anymore. I don't watch much of it anymore

[@jamesgleeson6538]

Americans need to watch more tv from overseas I agree, us Aussies need to see more tv of europe apart from BBC, and other continents away from the USA, there is too much bias. Would help if China and Europe and others would make the effort too...be a a lot nicer world.

[@fearedjames]

Australian here, what Australian television? Outside news or talk shows, I barely can find anything at all.

[@jamesgleeson6538]

@@fearedjames used to be lot more...blame Sky, Fox and the centralisation of ownership, Both of these have active commentary...trying to reduce Australian representation even more

[@Cabolt44]

@@jamesgleeson6538 China and Europe do make the effort, but licensing is a massive headache. Whatever licensing agreements your country has with foreign productions, will affect how many of those will feature on your screens.

[@Venetii_]

Maybe in a hundred years we'll sound totally different. Yeah... nah

[@hugejackedman7423]

Nah yeah I'm with ya there mate.

[@yeahnah7220]

Bloody oath cobber!

[@voli293]

Possibly but I sure hope not

[@stuckupcurlyguy]

Probably, we're already morphing with the internet and American influences. We're unrecognisable from 1900

[@katial4200]

nah mate

[@morgannicholls4563]

Or when Americans confuse kiwi accents for Aussie accents 🤦

[@lkderob7685]

@Emperor Louis The Retard The Canadian accent (generally) tends to give itself away in the "ou" words - about, around - eh? 😉

[@nate2611]

Well it's pretty similar unless they have a strong new zealand accent

[@HOTPLATEGAMING]

One way to tell the difference between kiwi and aussie accents. ask them how they say fish n chips

[@rabidL3M0NS]

@@HOTPLATEGAMING you mean fush n chups?

[@eduardov.2324]

Girl, I would not know the difference 😅

[@HMASbogan]

Americans pronounce a very distinct 'r' while australians pronounce it 'ah'

[@CulturalCats]

I read that over and didn't get your point because they sounded the same, then I realised I'd just proved you right lmao

[@And3rs88]

I remember when I was 20, living in Norway going to school to learn the language we went around the class saying 'r' in our native language. It was that moment I realised our 'ah' was unique to us haha

[@HMASbogan]

@@And3rs88 how so?

[@elskabee]

Australian is what's called a non-rhotic accent. After a vowel we rarely actually pronounce the 'r', compared to say an American accent which IS a rhotic accent

[@thenextchrislawrence]

American: “Just around the corner” Australian: “Just round the Cornahh”

[@onelih5526]

The general rule of Aussie accents in movies and stuff; If you can immediately tell it’s an Australia accents. Then its a bad one.

[@Cabolt44]

Not an immediate rule at all. If an Aussie can tell its a bad accent, then the actor is doing it very wrong. Not sure why they don't just get actual Australians to do the vocal coaching for movies...

[@ohasis8331]

A lot of yanks tend to sound more Seth Efrican when they try to imitate the dulcet tones of a genuine Aussie accent.

[@loner844]

​@Cabolt44 I think its more because it's Hollywood, and they only want to have Americans involved. Apart from the occasional exception, like Rebel Wilson in the Pitch Perfect movies. But even then, they had to make up an excuse why her genuine Aussie accent didn't sound like the fake ones they like to do, so they made her Tasmanian, because everything's a bit different in Tassie, isn't it? Didn't stop them bringing in John Lithgow to do a bad accent in the third one though.

[@DemstarAus]

No that's not a very good rule.

[@miamitten1123]

Why not just hire actual Australians instead of people pretending?

[@jjsmith706]

We hire them to play Americans.

[@sandothemando8924]

Because if the end goal is to put bums on seats, it's a bit of a gamble to have an Aussie actor playing the part compared to an American actor, which feels weird saying since there are many big name actors in Hollywood who are Aussie. Still, it all comes down to that dollar.

[@miamitten1123]

+Mia Mitten .....but there are many famous Australia actors and the characters in these films/TV shows aren't the lead characters, so it wouldn't matter if they weren't super famous.

[@kikko422]

They’re actors, so...

[@chozenheart]

Because aussies are the worst actors

[@belowaveragejoh]

Dev Patel in ‘Lion’ probably had the most accurate impression of an Australian accent from non-Australian actor

[@versaarchi]

Dominic Bambi would you recommend the movie to me

[@jacksonelh]

WILDYOUTHGANG yeah its solid I liked it

[@versaarchi]

jackson nice do you know where I could stream it

[@sophie-fl8kq]

i genuinely thought he was australian when i saw the movie

[@Jakeylicious7891]

There are certain slips where Dave's english intonation slips in.

[@yasashii89]

I hope to god that an American influence doesn't creep in.

[@yasashii89]

@Big Al "sir" is American English...? And most words that are thought of as Americanisms are actually just old English words that recently fell out of use in the UK, such as "candy".

[@KuraIthys]

They're dialects, not languages. The distinction isn't hard to grasp. If you can understand someone with little to no effort almost all the time, yet speak quite differently from how they do, it's probably a dialect. If you can't understand what someone is talking about almost all the time, it's probably a different language. There are some grey areas of course. Australian is a dialect. Of English. As is American. And of course British English. (and it's regional variations) Flemish is a dutch dialect. Afrikaans is an edge case. (If you speak dutch you can probably understand Afrikaans if you concentrate, but it won't be easy.) If you look at Australian, British and American dictionaries you'd see something like 99% of the words are identical, or at least, commonly understood variants of the same idea that in most cases everyone understands most of the variants anyway, they just tend to favour one version over the other. (see trousers vs pants, jumper vs pullover, couch vs sofa, etc.) Most of the rest are minor spelling and pronunciation variants of the same words. Armor, armour. Aluminum, Aluminium, etc. There are only a small handful of truly unique words in each 'language'. Treating them as wholly unrelated due to minor superficial differences is ridiculous.

[@briantyson6138]

@@KuraIthys If you say your job is not teaching, I would say you are making a fib. Thanks.

[@_Murky_]

It already has, with the amount of media our kids are fed from the US. All they do is sit on KZbin watching "influencers" from America. They start to pronounce words differently.

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

@@KuraIthys Being a Spanish speaker understanding Portuguese and Catalan is not really that hard, even Italian, I think understanding Portuguese is easier than understanding Spanish Chilean

[@JustCakie]

The actor from lion absolutely nailed the accent I am still so impressed with him

[@farhananwar3186]

Not Cakie it was produced by an Australian company with predominantly Australian crew, they probably worked hard trying to get him to nail it

[@EH23831]

Yep! Never heard better! Could not spot he wasn’t an Aussie

[@andrewskopal3876]

@@farhananwar3186 He probably absorbed it by osmosis too. :)

[@tjwest2605]

Most hollywood impersonations turn into some weird South African hybrid.

[@BadDriversOz]

Thet MUST sound veery nawsty!

[@TimmyTickle]

Is it wrong that I read that comment in a Tony Greig voice?

[@BadDriversOz]

Nawt et awll! Eegsactly what I was aiming faw!

[@dj1NM3]

Tentin Quarintino from "Django Unchained" was perhaps the worst case of "Where fecking hell is he supposed to be from?" I've heard in quite a while. John Jarratt must have nerves of steel to not have collapsed with laughter every time Quentin's mouth opened during that scene.

[@JennhasADHD]

As a New Zealander with a similar accent to Australian and South African, I also agree.

[@freelanceopportunist559]

One of the best Aussie accents I've ever heard by a non Aussie....I was in Thailand, and some street vendors were beckoning people in Thai, and English but with a Thai accent; as we walked up, they must have sussed we were Australian, one of them said "bloody cheap mate" Perfect Aussie accent😁

[@therock8224]

In non-English speaking countries outside of tourist areas, it doesn't really matter what your accent is, you'll only be understood if the person you're speaking to can speak and understand a decent amount of English. Few Thais (or Chinese, Malays, Vietnamese, Indians, Africans etc.) can recognise the differences between various English accents (Australian, American, Canadian, British etc.) Those working with foreigners or in the tourist industry often can, but they are the exception. I find it interesting though that in non-English speaking countries Aussies can often be better understood than in America (an English speaking country!) While I had few problems being understood when I was living in America, that's probably because I don't have a typical Aussie bogan accent, but a more neutral one that is influenced by my European heritage. Also, I always use American English vocabulary when possible and say "car" rather than "cah". Only when I would forget and say things like "cinema" instead of "movie theater" would I be misunderstood. Never a problem in Asia though - anyone that speaks English well enough will understand either term.

[@Dave-rm1mb]

It's fairly easy to learn how to pronounce three words in an accent. Much harder to learn how to talk in one

[@PrinceOfLillies]

The Rock us bogans get around alright mate!! 👍🇦🇺❤️

[@therock8224]

Fair enough - in Bali, they're used to yah. LOL. But in other places you may have some difficulty being understand, that is, especially if you have a broad accent like that of the late Steve Irwin. Those Aussies with ethnocultural (ethnic) accents (many of whom were immigrants to Australia) are usually better understood when travelling or residing overseas.

[@PrinceOfLillies]

The Rock Ahahaha its not ‘yah’ it’s ‘nah, yeah’ 👍

[@savageme7330]

I am an Indian so naturally,English is not my mother tongue. I remember going to Australia for the first time and then experiencing a hilarious incident. Read it if you have time. So what happened was that my friend and I on our summer holidays planned to visit Australia. We landed in Sydney and decided to take a cab. When the cab arrived,the driver,for some reason,looked at us in a sort of anger. We looked at each other and asked to ourselves if we should really take the cab,because the driver looked really scary. Next,when we were on our way to the hotel,the driver asked us,"You've come here to die?" We were straight away shivering when we listened to this. I gathered my strength and asked,"Sir,what did you just say? Can you repeat please?" He said again,"Not a big deal. I just asked you if you came here to die." My friend got some idea about what the guy was saying. He told me that he was trying to say,"You've come here TODAY." I hope you got the point. The problem was not with the question but the accent. I remember this incident till this day. I was legitimately so God damn scared at that moment. God bless my friend who had a brain to use......

[@macaroon8497]

Lol

[@chookinathunderstorm3446]

Basic Sydney and surrounds accent... " It's a nice die." Basic Melbourne and surrounds accent.. " It's a noice day." Basic Perth and surrounds accent... " It's a nice day." That is why most successful actors and radio announcers from the 60's onward came from Perth and the Perth accent became the standard one to learn in order to get the most work in acting. It was also the standard for New Zealanders to acquire for early radio announcers and actors. After learning the Perth accent for playing the more sophisticated roles the other Aussie accents could be used for the working class or the broader accented rural country roles. Perth is the most isolated capital city in Australia and also the world, even more so in the earlier years with more difficult and longer duration to access and less accessible transport along one railway line or one unsealed, unreliable road across the vast, hot and sparsely populated Nullarbor Plains. Very funny anecdote by the way.

[@edwardwen9464]

Isn't it come from a battlefield?

[@Lockieez]

With that accent he was probably from the Sutherland Shire in Sydney. 😂

[@QanunAlShah]

Nah you'd just met ol' Ivan.

[@zacredington4776]

The hesitation sound one is MASSIVE for any language. If you can really lock in on the most common sound people make as or in place of "uhh", you can really discover a huge hint for the phonetic palette you should be going for.

[@samanthahenderson2671]

Agree. Knowing how to do the hesitation in the language you are learning is key. Whilst I'm pretty out of practice with French, it doesn't take much to get back into the rhythm of it if I throw a few "uhr"'s into my sentences.

[@mr.gilbert2790]

Uhhhhliance insurance how can we help you?

[@lffit]

as an Australian living in France I tutored an elderly French friend who cannot speak a word of English, each time we meet him we are greeted with a 'no worries' lol

[@leviroch]

lffit you god damn legend, spread that influence everywhere you can lol. . . I didnt know i needed this, but i REALLY want to here a hardcore french accent saying "Gday mate, how the fuck are yah?"

[@lffit]

must hurry up he is nearly 90 now, otherwise I will miss the boat when he leaves for the baguette in the sky?

[@xconankunx4530]

You should've taught them, how you fuckers doin'?

[@BulletMagnetMan]

and the reply "Yeah good mate! How you c*nts been?"

[@aussieausdeutschland4245]

Yep I'm in and out of Germany often myself and Im even still use Aussie sayings in German.... the in laws and german mates get it... but the look on stranger's faces is hilarious.

[@MadfellaDuke]

I've noticed in Aussie TV shows like home and away, the actors (who are Australian) put on this really exaggerated Australian accent and sounds fake

[@Andy-dz7us]

the words, Home and away - actors don't belong in the same sentence.. look-up "dumb street" on yt they parody the....erm acting. brilliantly. hope you enjoy.

[@alyssar272]

That's why it's hard for me to watch aussie shows. I almost get taken aback by how unusual the accents sound when watching them

[@mollytovxx4181]

I’ve often wondered about this too and thought of three possible reasons. 1) Most Aussie TV shows are made in Victoria. Being from WA I figured the accent might be subtly stronger over there- enough for it to sound odd on TV but not one on one (I’ve never been to Victoria so I’m not confident on this point, but when I meet people from Melbourne they do sound sliiiightly different to me). 2) I’m used to hearing British and American accents on TV, so the Australian accents stand out more in comparison. 3) It’s an “acting” voice. They aren’t speaking naturally because they are playing a somewhat exaggerated character (especially in soap operas).

[@mollytovxx4181]

I thought of another thing. 4) Actors from middle to upper-middle class backgrounds playing “true blue” type characters are exaggerating the accent because they grew up with a more general or cultivated accent and think that’s how you do it.

[@alyssar272]

@@mollytovxx4181 Idk because I'm from Vic and they still sound bizarre to me

[@Therealbackslabbath]

Start any sentence with “yeah, na” and you’re half way there. 👍

[@saltandpeppa1287]

Backslabbath Thats new zealand.

[@mstandenberg1421]

It’s pretty common in many places. In Scandinavia,Ja, nei is used.

[@rheaprashant7163]

Yeah I know when ever like we get bogged in 4WD and we can't get out without tracks then I'm like yeahhhhh nah

[@exsparky8090]

Try going to South Australia ..... now that's a different accent.

[@___lani___]

it is i didn't know we had a different accent BTW i'm from Australia

[@brownie43212]

@@___lani___ Because South Australia was the only colony established that was of free settlers, so they were more middle class British people as opposed to prison uneducated folk, so they obviously had a more cultivated accent, this led to the modern South Australia accent.

[@missym7245]

@@brownie43212 Ah of course. Makes perfect sense. I've never been there but have heard they sound different. When my forefathers came out some chose to stay in SA and the rest ended up around Leeton, NSW. The settlers who chose SA thought it reminded them of home.

[@abdn246]

I'm confused, I'm south Australian is our accent different hahaha

[@abdn246]

@rodger Hodgson interesting, cheers 😁

[@markb3146]

Aussies don't hear their own accent until they go overseas and be immersed elsewhere for a while... Coming back is a real eye opener !!! You can hear the flatness and broadening of words... not a bad thing. It does give us an advantage when learning to speak another language or accent as we can hear the tonal differences and our loose mouth can change to match that.. I learnt French in School and from Swiss-French friends... While in Europe not one person could pick I was from Australia, most thought I was from Belgium... Regional differences I can notice but it is more about the choice of words.. Only people from Victoria say something is grouse, and only South Australians, describe their from of sausage meat as Fritz, they don't dance they "dahnce" and might visit a "cahstle".... Such an interesting clip.. I love when walking around in Brisbane you can never guess if a person you may talk to from an Asian background will be full-on Aussie accent or be a first generation and still have the accent of their mother tongue.

[@JohnSmith-nz4bn]

I was so blown away by that! I never thought we sound like we did in the movies till I travelled. Couldn't believe it lol

[@alyyj1925]

true. I didn't realised how Aussie my voice sound until I did a video and watch it. I sound so Aussie Bogan. but when i speak I don't hear it.

[@serinadelmar6012]

Australians are beautiful accents, though I agree there are many, actually more than featured here. It’s definitely ever evolving too.

[@crxss8242]

I'm going to America when I'm older so I can see for my self if I have an accent..im so excited to find out yayyy😁😁😁😁

[@rebekatokovic5033]

Pre much i was in the usa for a few months then came back to Australia and I was like um eww honestly tho our accent is gross😂😂

[@savolrat]

that dialect coach was great. its so good to hear someone talk about something that genuinely excites them haha

[@peekabooicancu]

savolrat I like this comment

[@frankstein7631]

savolrat She had a very mild accent ,almost English.

[@georgi4000]

I know it’s spelt “Aussie” but it’s pronounced “O-zz-ee” or “auzzie” not “o-see”

[@Tasoq]

That bugs me when people say it like "o-see" 😂

[@jh5401]

yesss, though that's definitely on Oz for spelling their zeds with esses. You guys write Brissy, we write Gizzy, etc

[@mattniven6380]

More annoying is listening to Americans say emu 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@amp279]

@@mattniven6380 & Melbourne like it's two words Mel Boorrn, ugh!

[@HollyOak]

Generally, a double S is pronounced like a Z. Ozzee.

[@missyb9438]

Kate Winslet did the best one I’ve heard.

[@JQZ1130]

Agreed

[@kenzieandpip6839]

The sad part is that some Australians (particularly city/suburban people) hear the broad accent and go off saying it’s a stereotype and no one actually sounds like that but where I’m from, literally EVERYONE sounds like that. 😂 I’ve grown up in rural Aus and have developed the stereotypical yobbo accent and I’ve gotten countless weird looks whenever I visit the city for sounding like a bogan.

[@thefallenlmc5158]

KenzieAndPip As a suburban Victorian, sorry on behalf of us.

[@sankadill]

Yobbo and bogan accents are so far apart and yet so many Australians think they are the same. Yobbo = farmer Bogan = thongs, beer, footy

[@kenzieandpip6839]

sanka perera here, it is a grotesque combination of both. What do you do if the farmers are also thong wearing, beer drinking, footy loving bogans?

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Yeah, sitting around a table of Sydney Uni friends discussing some Aussie comedy and they all agreed "nobody speaks like that" and I announced "um, actually, where I'm from, everybody speaks like that". They couldn't believe it

[@sammyflorczak8800]

A rural accent is not the same as a bogan accent though! Who ever says that is a bit ignorant.

[@andthentheinfiresnationatt7714]

Somehow I automatically change the way I speak according to who I speak too. Bogan friends - I get a broad Aussie accent. Asian - I get a soft Aussie accent. Wog - yalla bruvas. My head - American. Anyone else or am I just weird?

[@gadoliumnitrogen7149]

Same lmao

[@Beefersist]

100%. When I was younger I had a much "woggier" accent, but since growing up and having a more broad influence my accent has shifted a great deal more anglo. But I speak to the audience in whatever way I feel they would find more familiar. I miss speaking with my hands hahahaha

[@adriankorndogs5401]

And then the Infires Nation attacked my hearteu lowkey true af sydney rep

[@rhodanosaurus]

I do a more broad accent when talking to my American friends XD I don't know why, maybe it's my subconscious wanting to appear more bogan.

[@Zazooma7]

You think in American? That's hilarious. Which accent, like californian?

[@italianplastick4031]

Put it this way, as an Aussie I can say, people either laugh at our accent, or stalk us and want to marry us just for a damn accent! 😂

[@Tester-sh1mn]

Too bad that second one doesnt work for Aussie and Aussies, If only.

[@Jakeylicious7891]

The aussie nasal sound from posh women who exaggerate the accent sounds so farking irritating.

[@pillbobaggins2766]

Rylee Ferguson married at first sight

[@andreaellis4377]

@@pillbobaggins2766 the nasal sound is distinctly eastern seaboard Australia, Adelaideans have a more cultured accent

[@mattbarbarich3295]

@Bilbo Baggins except the bogan Adeladians(which there seems to be heaps). SA seems to be either Penfolds grange or West End draught more then any other state in Oz , nothing in between.

[@fritziearago9518]

The rrrr is freaking annoying

[@EH23831]

@Rylee Ferguson you mean Prue and Trude!!

[@MelaniaRose]

Any foreigner who can portray an accurate Australian accent is talent in itself ! You pretty much have be born and raised to get an Australian accent.

[@Dev.85]

Kate Winslet, Liev Schreiber and Dev Patel. Dev explained that it took 9 months of voice coaching to get his Australia accent right for Lion and they waited for him to learn it before filming Lion.

[@tophercIaus]

Love Muffin both my parents are kiwi and moved here in their 20s. You would never pick either of them for anything but Australian. Yet my mum has a friend in her 70s who moved here from Germany at 18 and her accent is still SO thick!

[@paulorocky]

Comedians who tour here frequently seem to do ok.

[@Dev.85]

I worked with a girl who was surprised that I knew she was Kiwi. Mostly Australian accent since she's lived here for years but certain words gave her away.

[@resourcedragon]

I have met one Croat who developed a perfect Aussie accent after coming here. I asked him how he did it and he said that he always enjoyed mimicry and that was how he learned English with an Australian accent.

[@ARandomGuy24]

I watched Pacific Rim and as an Australian I didn't even think the guy from Pacific Rim was trying to sound Australian. It was so far off I thought it was one of the many British accents or something.

[@eccentriccheeze5962]

Same

[@namelessro]

Lol I thought it was just really bad Irish accent. Like super bad. Like American mum and Irish dad bad

[@desbox5396]

When US movie makers etc have to tape westeners eyes to look Asian when there were over 1 billion Asian people and they had to use " blackface" makeup when 1 in 10 citizens were Africian American, you can understand they would have trouble finding an Australian when there are only 20 million of us.

[@Stefengris]

Thank you for including aboriginal english. There are so many culture groups with so many diverse dialects. How english words are sounded are influenced by mother tongue, and the use of english words in the cadence of speech is also influential. It's really pleasing to see it included.

[@taffysaur]

I remember going to see Pacific Rim at the movies one time that I was in America, and afterwards the person with me said, “I kept looking over at you to see your reaction to the Australian characters’ accents. They were okay?” I was like, “er, no, they were terrible, I am just used to that.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dragonmaid1360]

Australian language has always been multuiculturally influenced. In my lifetime alone it has changed several times. I remember the very English tones, now the very ethnic tones. It an interesting language and accent and exciting because our collective culture is fluid and shifts which is really exciting.

[@kirkc9643]

I'm 47 and about 4th gen Western Australian and my 11 & 13 year old kids have noticeable differences in their accents and pronunciation of some words. I think a lot of theirs comes from school.

[@cman8464]

Get your multicultural BS out of here. Australia is a European and most specifically a Anglo-Saxon country. If Chinese become the majority it would drastically changed with that shift. For example ANZAC day would got out the window because Asians do not care about that shit. They do not identify with that. They will stick with their own and create a nation within a nation.

[@theark4568]

Multiculturalism has ruined Australian culture. Not improved it.

[@selfreflection449]

"Australian language".... you mean english?

[@r.b.4611]

What are you talking about we are a mostly white country and our accent is descendent from Cockney English. It is not very fluid, and most of the changes in recent time come from America, which influences much of the world with its media. I get the impression from your comment that you are just full of left-wing ideas.

[@theylied1776]

Last year I saw a BBC documentary about cultural influence and they noticed that a lot of primary school-aged children had some American inflections in their speech patterns. They attributed it to all of the movies and television shows from the United States.

[@tophercIaus]

theylied1776 I've met a lot of Scandinavians who sound like native American speakers for that exact reason. And I've met Indonesians who sound like a weird Australian/Anwrican mix because their language teachers tend to be foreign.

[@paulorocky]

Noticed that amongst a lot of Australians too

[@paulorocky]

Indians have also beem changing. Older Indians tended to speak English with British inflexions, unsurprising due to India's history in the British Empire. Younger Indians tend to have a more American inflexion, sounds weird.

[@therock8224]

I agree with you Chris. What happens in Asia (and to some extent even in other parts of the non-English speaking world) is that English language teachers tend to be from all over, you can have an Aussie guy, an American woman, a guy from NZ, someone from the UK and then another guy from Germany all teaching in their own style in the very same language school or institution, all saying "this is the right way" and so you have one person who uses American vocabulary and says things like "this is a gas station", while the guy next door teaches "this is a petrol station". Teaching materials will also use the vocabulary of the country the book was published in. The students come out thinking whatever they learned from their teachers was "the correct English" because no one taught them the differences in vocabulary between British vs. American English. The accent is also part of that to some extent, but vocabulary and sentence structure is a more significant outcome. Middy. Indeed Filipinos tend to speak with a more American accent than just about any other non-English speakers in Asia or the rest of the world. Keep in mind they were an American colony for like 50 years and also they are still heavily influenced by the USA much more so than any other SE Asian country. By contrast, in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries in the region, no matter their history you will find British English as common (or even more so) than American English.

[@NathanielTanFL]

I’m telling you, Australians have British influence due to history but also have American influence due to Hollywood. I live in australia and I pronounce words and sentences both ways interchangeably at times. Fairly interesting.

[@UndedDisfunction]

This is a really great, informative, well communicated video that holds attention without being intrusive or obnoxious and really respects the viewer. Well done with this.

[@choopa1670]

Love being overseas and seeing (OR HEARING FIRST) aussies cause you feel a connection straight away and I go say hello to get my dose of home when abroad.. Aussie accents are like no other. I always love meeting aussies with different backgrounds (like Asian or African) and they know the jargon of aussies and the pronunciations.. in my eyes THAT is the definition of being a true Australian. The way you sound when you talk always shows where someone was raised.

[@Scottyy788]

I feel kinda sad when i meet aussies that live in other countries that lost their accent

[@katehack1677]

Fascinating. Australians can do American accents but that is because we have grown up watching Sesame Street etc,too much of our television is American.

[@yusufelsayed7898]

I have a heavy NY accent and most people cant do a NY accent. We don't pronounce our Rs at the end of words which is non rhotic speech. The Boston accent is extremely difficult to do. They dont also say their Rs.

[@yusufelsayed7898]

The common American accents that Australians do are the standard general American accent. It's considered accentless.

[@Ghorda9]

@@yusufelsayed7898 "accentless" is relative to the person and where there from, most people think there "accentless".

[@yusufelsayed7898]

@@Ghorda9 I know. Most people who speak with a standard American accent think they are accentless.

[@frankstein7631]

Yusuf Elsayed I pahked the cah in Hahvahd Yahd.

[@nerdbane9376]

This is the first time I've seen the comments enabled for ABC. A lot of interesting videos I'd like to talk to others about but can't because usually the comments are disabled. Lets keep them on!

[@conoroneill8067]

I suspect that's probably because a lot of ABC News is political, and KZbin is not known for it's polite, courteous and educated debate around politics. This was probably classified as a topic 'safe' enough to turn comments on for. (Just a guess.)

[@defundtheabc3343]

I forward this notion

[@takeoffyourblinkers]

I love the fact that I can't comment on what this marxist corp spew on almost every video, my tax paying dollars at work. Fucking disgusting. Defund these pricks you pussy govt shills.

[@rivertam7827]

^^^ and that is why the comments are turned off

[@jakmanxyom]

Conor O'Neill I feel the code of restriction is not just on that though. I discovered The Daily Beast - a science programme from the ABC network - on said show's official KZbin channel years ago, and I see all its videos' comments sections closed off despite their harmless apolitical, educational content...

[@ChrisisBowser]

Very interesting. I'm Norwegian, and I used to speak with a very General American accent until recently when I moved to Australia to study. I picked up a lot of the words during my first few weeks from my Aussie flatmates, then by the end of my first semester, lotsa people said I sounded like an Aussie myself that had lived in America for a while! I didn't even realise my accent had changed until I spoke with old English-speaking friends, and they said as well that my accent had changed completely! Now I can't even mimic my previous accent before moving to Australia. Such an awesome accent though, I'm not complaining!

[@jaspertravis9036]

watching this as an actor, and that bit about where your tongue rests on hesitating sounds just opened my mind! That is a golden nugget. Thank you.

[@JamieBainbridge]

Another good one is "Yeah nah" or "Nah yeah". Seems that starting a sentence with a contradicting yes/no or no/yes pattern isn't very common either?

[@michaelclark3192]

This seems most common with sports players for some reason which is strange?

[@carlwhiston8672]

Jamie Bainbridge Yer like fuck off then🖕

[@NIGHTWULF]

in "yeah nah" the "yeah" in that is kind of like an acknowledgement or appreciating word, like "yeah i get what you're talking about but nah", with "nah yeah" the "nah" is like "no worries" or "forget that" for example "nah yeah you're good mate"

[@JamieBainbridge]

I have always thought of it acknowledging the other viewpoint but wishing to add something. Like "Yeah I agree with (this) but nah (that) is up for discussion."

[@NIGHTWULF]

it can be used that way too, its basically just a way to acknowledge their view point.

[@kngofhrts13]

Where is the Lebo fully sick hectic Accent? 😂

[@martinkuliza]

No one as available for comment they were all at the centrelink office submitting their forms hehe so they can get paid and buy more hubcaps

[@mariea.6101]

I swear I heard a Lebo at 4:20

[@BarryTheCougar]

And where's the Serbian pichka fucking accent?

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

Over in syria

[@Ghryst]

at the dole office

[@TheFinalMinutes]

Great video!! We should also consider the small differences between geographic locations. I grew up in north coast NSW and had quite a broad country Aussie accent ("maaaaate", "guh-dae"). When I moved to Perth as a teenager, the accent is a little more clipped. On a trip back to NSW several years later, family and friends remarked that I almost had a British accent - my accent had changed under the Perth influence. Now living in Melbourne, my accent is a little broader again. Amazing how we don't notice these things until we take a moment to listen to how we talk!

[@jackmarshall757]

I dont think its that hard, i have been doing an Aussie accent since i was about 6 months old.

[@hidof9598]

Are you Australian?

[@jackmarshall757]

@@hidof9598 yes

[@carlaw6981]

SIDHSHDGDHDH🤣🤣🤣

[@account-lp9du]

Dev patels Aussie accent in lion will always be the best accent interpretation everrrtr

[@NatalleeK]

It was really good! Not knowing the actor beforehand, I thought he was Australian.

[@account-lp9du]

Natallee Kae omg same and then I heard him on the jimmy fallon show and I’m like WHAT??!

[@Fingers998]

Yes! This is so true. His accent was so on point. Coming from a Melbournian (I'm from Melbourne).

[@joshuapostill4952]

I did not know he wasn't Australian, so he must have done well.

[@dw4888]

It was absolutely bang-on. Dev has always been a brilliant actor

[@chrisweir3166]

I'm a New Zealander that's just spent 2 weeks on holiday in Queensland. Not once did did I get the piss taken out of me for my accent. I was almost disappointed. Even went to Brisbane's second best Fish and Chip shop and ordered Fush and Chups. Nothing... Just good food and great service.

[@MM-dq2pi]

Sheep shagger! Is that good enough for you?

[@Dev.85]

There are a lot of Kiwi's residing in Brisbane so we are used to the accent which is probably why no-one took the piss out of you. Our apologies, will try harder next time :)

[@chrisweir3166]

Yeah.... we're sheep shaggers. But what do we do with them after we're done? That's right. We send them to the freezing works, turn them into lamb chops and roasts and sell 'em to England and Austrailia. Enjoy, matey! Lol!

[@gsf67]

Aussies should think about that, while they've got gravy and other juices on the dribbling down their mouths, eating NZ lamb for their Sunday dinner.

[@adrianwilliams6908]

Because we love our Kiwi siblings

[@potheadpikachu403]

Family's from Vietnam, I grew in Australia, sound like a New Zealander.

[@mekaylahvideos]

Is it just me or all we all aussies trying to understand why it’s so hard for them to do what’s so easy for us

[@shoutsoda6258]

I get Australians asking me where my accent is from even though I've never left Australia, but then when I fight or argue with someone or I'm surprised I take on almost a bogan Australian accent

[@sophiel4608]

shoutsoda Omg me too

[@SpaceCattttt]

Well, you look Asian, so maybe that explains it? Your parents may have a foreign accent?

[@sophiel4608]

teppolundgren I don’t think their profile pic is them

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@sophiel4608 Well, it's no one famous at least.

[@mthtmldxkpp6861]

@@SpaceCattttt haha that's actually Suga from a kpop group bts^^ it's fine if you don't know him :)

[@starcampion1605]

I'm Australian and I HATE when someone makes a statement sound like a question

[@tjwest2605]

Read this with an upward inflection :)

[@riley9663]

For some reason its ''mostly'' Woman. From what I've noticed anyway.

[@Dinofly4]

I don't think it happens as much as people make it out in my experience. I don't know, maybe in different areas it's more common.

[@Ghryst]

agree'd, chick in video got the upward inflections confused with kiwis.. thats why kiwis sound so retarded.. and i agree with Riley, mostly its teenage girls who tend to do it (i presume they get it from idolising americans)

[@dielfonelletab8711]

Yeah I hate it too?

[@prestonyougie]

I just find it funny how they go into so much detail and describing on how to do the accent 😂 onya mate!

[@teclinsoro4523]

as an aussie, it’s so funny watching people try to dissect and imitate our accent

[@benthebonza5947]

Crazy idea here, but what if in movies... THEY CAST AUSTRALIANS TO PLAY AUSTRALIANS!!!

[@user-uh9sf5sg3n]

🤯

[@theshillneckedlizard8364]

Stop it! You're using common sense! You know that's not allowed on KZbin!

[@cLaudSy]

Mind blowing! Who would of thought😂💗😵🤯

[@aaronleverton4221]

If you keep that up they'll stop casting Australians to play Yanks and Brits.

[@ramune1800]

WOAH!

[@johnnyswatts]

Urban vs regional, educated vs uneducated, young vs old, there are all kinds of sources of variation in the Australian accent. Whilst the narrator may feel that hers is the "general" Aussie accent, it's really the accent of young, university educated, urban Australians.

[@neilshepherd1904]

John Griffin. Yes that's very true. Generally speaking, young uni-educated kids very much do have their own version of the Aus accent. I reckon it's caused by smart phones. :)

[@HaiJustDangiT]

Exactly, you talk to someone on the street on the dole and half a bag of goon and you get a completely different accent. Someone from Wagga Wagga is not gonna sound anything like a person from Point Piper.

[@EarlJohn61]

Region vs Region... Eg: Queensland vs Tasmania vs South Australia vs Western Australia... Or Banana Benders vs Barracoutas vs Crow Eaters vs Sandgropers vs Sheep Shaggers (Kiwis, I know they're not Aussies, but it fits!) . I was picked out by a bartender in Somerset (UK) as a rural South Australian... 40 years after I left the bush (for work related reasons).

[@EarlJohn61]

@@HaiJustDangiT And you don't call Wagga Wagga Wagga!

[@hammercanttouchthis]

Exactly 👍

[@MultiSciGeek]

I was surprised at how good *Dev Patel* did the Aussie accent in Lion.

[@chungusmogus8832]

As an American, I always kinda thought an Australian accent sounded like a weird combination of British and Texan. That might be just me though.

[@georgiaelle3259]

That's interesting. I'm an Aussie and when I was traveling through the west coast of the USA, a few people asked me if I was from Boston. Apparently, we say "car" the same way. 😁

[@dgphi]

@@georgiaelle3259 Yeah, it's because Aussies and Bostonians don't say the "r" at the ends of words.

[@tonijames59]

Agree John! Americans that have been here for ??? a while start sounding Irish. I guess there were a lot of Irish immigrants inthe US ? There'a lot of ancestors in both histories, and eventually we'll just all sound like our vocal chords have turned into porridge or spaghetti.

[@planetdisco4821]

Yeah, naaaah....

[@carlh429]

The Aussie accent is though to be essentially a mix of Old Cockney (East London) and Irish.

[@goldboss7929]

Just pulled the perfect Aussie accent Even though I'm Australian

[@BrainBrain]

*nInE HUnDreD dOLlaRYdOos!*

[@NeonStorm5]

If this comment gets 900 upperydoos, the RBA is legally required to introduce the 900 Dollarydoo note as legal tender.

[@VenomXRaptor]

*T O B I A S*

[@gordon1124]

thats a BLOODY OUTRAGE that is

[@adamstryzlakyr2720]

Brainiac03 *i SeE yOU’vE pLaYEd kNiFEy sPooNy bEForE tHeN*

[@ladyfabulous86]

Brainiac03 ksaAm m

[@bry7487]

This was super interesting. I've always loved the Aussie accent and now living here, I can't get enough of it. But my Aussie fiance has such a subtle accent when he's not with friends. His coworker actually thought he was American. So he's picking up my accent but I'm not really picking up his. I've picked up the vocabulary though.

[@slothman4323]

Very informative, the presenter did a really good job

[@Channel-cy4lh]

3:08 Based on the massacre of the Australian accent in Pacific Rim, I think the actor should be charged. I don't know what the specific law is, but he's clearly guilty of murder.

[@trayolphia5756]

KZbin User until this video, I always just thought it was a poor attempt at a Scottish accent lawl

[@DoomKid]

Sounds fokken Oirish

[@philmoufarrege]

Crimes against humanity

[@Pusserdoc]

Could be far far worse: yes it's old (1963), but James Coburn had what must be the worst Australian accent in cinematic history in The Great Escape....

[@rainbowhistory2107]

As an Aussie with an American husband - who tries often to do an Aussie accent and sounds laughable - my message to Hollywood is to USE ACTUAL AUSSIES in your movies & TV shows! Anyone pretending to be from Australia sounds ridiculous!

[@Oh-hell-no]

You know what's worse? Having an Aussie exaggerate their accent in an American made movie. Sabrina, Down Under was excruciating.

[@sonikku956]

We hire Australians to play Americans.

[@EH23831]

Dev Patel in Lion was absolutely spot on!! Never heard better from a non-Aussie! 👍🏻

[@PlasmaMongoose]

The funny thing is that unlike the UK, we Aussies only really have 3 main accents, Ocker, standard and fancy.

[@nathanhallisey441]

We talk Strayan in Australia

[@lffit]

no worries!

[@harrisonsmyth5987]

We talk Strayan in Straya*

[@Idknaming]

I'm gonna get the misses to get a bottle of grog from the bottle-o on the way home from woop woop that's how you speak strayan for you non Aussies (translation I'm going to get my wife to get a bottle of alcohol from the bottle shop on her way home from the middle of nowhere.)

[@G_7___]

LOL australia is basically a non-white country now. It has more indian, african and chinese children in primary school than white people and as of 2015 the largest city sydney is OFFICIALLY an asian city.

[@G_7___]

+aussie gamer...LOL piss of idiot. As of the last Census Australias largest city Sydney is officailly an ASIAN city......it took only 40 years of asian immigration to happen there...... in melbourne australia the second largest city there are more non-whites in primary schools than there are whites. like it has been stated, australia will NOT be a white country in 60 years. Every time a white dies in asutralia there is one less white... that CANNOT be said for any other race/culture in the country. Australia is like America.... if you are a white american under the age of 18 in america you will will officially be a minority in 2020.. thats less than 18 months away. White nations have no culture and no pride. China will always be chinese, india will always be indian, the middle east will always be arabic and africa will always be africans.... white countries will not exist in 100 years (accroding to global birthrates) and will be made up of the above mentioned cultures.... LOL ...... melbourne australia brings in unevovled violent muslim africans from Somalia and Sudan and then wonder why they have a gang and home invasion problem... only whites could be so stupid as to suicide their own culture.... Australia will be a mandarin speaking nation and province of china in 100 years

[@GR-kw1es]

I'm from Perth and can always tell when someone is from the Eastern States, they have an up and down to their voice. It goes high then low, rinse and repeat.

[@petejt]

How does the Perth and regional WA accents compare to over east?

[@GR-kw1es]

@@petejt hard to explain but id say its more constant and a little deeper, also less nasally. Country accents if you go far enough are quite different. they seem to talk loud alot too lol

[@jasonmason6910]

glenys riley it’s true, it sounds slightly different.

[@blueberrycake6235]

I noticed that also, when we have new students from eastern states.

[@aquasheep9535]

glenys riley I'm from Perth too, apparently we have a 'posher' accent in general. I think eastern states is definitely more stereotypical Aussie than W.A.

[@Lee-fd1pb]

I'm broad like the legend we miss him bloody dearly, Steve... Oath.

[@noahjulius5062]

The guy at 2:31 sounded like a New Zealander.

[@j3n1ne]

yeah i got that too. from the way he said “minutes” he’s gotta be kiwi

[@Andy-dz7us]

I get a feeling of smugness when I hear an overseas actor trying to do an Aussie accent. "Cor blimey govna, it's a bleewmin kroyzi dingow"

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

I wonder if all the other accents American actors do are just as bad but we can't tell because they aren't ours.

[@Faxy95]

Probably because they usually say something dumb and offensive without even realising that it's some generic stereotype.

[@Cabolt44]

Isn't govna more of a cockney British term? Also the smugness probably comes from the exaggerated accents those overseas try to imitate.

[@erikkopsala3564]

The best Aussie accent by overseas actor I have heard was American Randy Quaid in the movie REAL TIME made in 2008 , he plays a Aussie hit man dying of cancer and still on the job in America , has lots of dialogue and he mostly nailed it ,. Randy Quaid’s Aussie accent gave him a totally different personality to what you’re use to from him . Top movie and great acting. Movie producer ......Randy ,can you do an Aussie accent ? Hold my farkin beer mate .

[@Andy-dz7us]

@@Cabolt44 Aussie speech patterns borrow heavily from cockney speech patterns especially when it comes to rhyming slang.

[@sophiabartlett917]

When u realise you’ve caught yourself trying to do an ‘Aussie’ accent while being an Australian that’s in Australia

[@arianagrandefanno1926]

Same 😂

[@singularit_y]

We, Australians, all had that one kid in our class that liked biking and had a Steve Irwin accent

[@CiruPlays]

as an australian, i think the problem with people trying to do the australian accent is that they dont realise that australians have 3 completely different accents, angry, friendly and tired. all of those states of mind are a different version of the australian accent, and even within those 3 there are gradients from inland to city, city people tend to flow american or british whereas inlanders tend to flow almost irish. queenslanders like me are considered almost mutant to parts of australia like melbourne, who sound straight up british to me.

[@katb7921]

Pacific Rim Australian accent was the worst

[@matiasavellanal5244]

i didn't even know it was aussie it was that bad

[@Zinkx.]

yeah I honestly didnt even realise he was suppose to be aussie lmaoo

[@Nineteen1900Hundred]

The son character's accent sucked bad, his father played by an american Max Martini, was much better.

[@basedbattledroid3507]

Matias Avellanal I didn't even know it was words.

[@TonkaGoldman-xd5iw]

Yeah Apu from the Simpsons has the best accent. NOT!

[@johndedominicisjr8973]

I love hearing Australian accents. To me, they depict a great country with some of the nicest people on earth. I have several friends from Oz, all of whom are the most good-natured, pleasant people to be around. If I had a second life to experience, it would be in Australia. Well. I’d better rethink that. I can’t control myself around Tim-Tams!

[@elflock5179]

U should seriously come here, its amazing

[@jaxxyjaxx5919]

I respect it.

[@jawn892]

Don't worry, mate. Australians can't control themselves around Tim-Tams, either ;-)

[@robsonez]

Good on ya Jonny D, welcome here anytime

[@jamesfrench7299]

Underneath, most are anything but. Nothing worse than the ugly belligerent Australian and Australians will know EXACTLY what I mean.

[@theSPUDereHD]

Americans seem able to do the Aussie accent... when they try to do a British one.

[@carloarturochaparro9014]

I´m studying english and I think that American English is the easiest accent that I can understand because in my country teachers ussually teach the american english, the second for me is the british English, but It´s very hard for me trying to understand the Aussie accent, but it doesn't matters because I'm so facinate about the Aussie culture, and I won't give up until I could understand the Aussie accent :)

[@Lemonjessy]

I have an 'ethnocultural australian english' accent! I had no idea there was a name for it. I kinda just get told I sound "really woggy". It also depends on who Im talking to. If Im at uni or work my accent becomes more standard Australian but if Im at home or talking to family/friends, it goes back to the ethnocultural one

[@hellyr3895]

Jess Limo i was born in woggy western sydney but moved to the gold coast when i was young and when i hear what my accent COULD have been like its so strange, i lean way more bogan lmao

[@Lemonjessy]

@@hellyr3895 haha thats amazing 😂 Where you grew up would definitely play a huge role it what accent you end up with. I am italian and also grew up in a really woggy area so there was no escaping it for me 😂 I mean, I can put on the standard Australian accent but when I get really into/passionate about something, my woggy voice comes out lmao

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Aw maw gawd, I cawnt beleef you jos sed da'

[@SpaceCattttt]

Make up your mind.

[@bradgotch]

Jess Limo lol “really woggy” Oh my gawd!

[@dodgeyaussie]

As an Aussie, the rising infliction drives me insane

[@Dev.85]

I only started to notice it because of Adam Hills.

[@michaelclark3192]

Me too, it seems to be more common with women for some reason, also office workers.

[@animeguy7192]

realLY?

[@godoflight558]

in yr10 english for the speeches component, my teacher commented that in my entire speech i was using rising infliction, thus saying everything as a question rather than a statement, but she didnt mark me down for it cuz its just how the entire class talked

[@jamesfrench7299]

Lee S I read an interesting article on this phenomenon and it has spread to the UK like a pathogen.

[@f.michaelbremer-cruz2708]

Thanks for this video, as it was so informative. What I appreciate most about the Australian accent is how it was forged out of necessity. If any nation proves the adage "separated by a common language", it seems that Australia 200 years ago does. IMHO, the "ad-hoc" nature of how the accent was forged by children then gives it a flexibility that allows it to remain adaptable. What's so lovely about the Australian accent is that it implies inclusion, history and an openness to what comes next. :)

[@jaxx7105]

Hire Australian actors if you want an Australian accent. Don't hire a Kiwi either, because they're all like "Where's the carr?" and we're more like "Where's the caar?"

[@mcgruffz5461]

and here's this bloke from the bush up in Beerwah Queensland!

[@LonelyDoggo]

INSOMANIAC 89

[@trinaholman4083]

I have lived in Australia for 19 years and still sound like a Yank. I have tried, really TRIED to get the accent, but have failed utterly. It is embarrassing.

[@HeyLila78]

Some children born in Australia or who migrated very young don’t even have the accent - it might be because some areas have become so multicultural and American media dominates KZbin and Free TV..?

[@trinaholman4083]

@HeyLila78: This is very true. Lived 21 months in Port Hedland, which is so chockers with immigrants from both overseas and all over Oz that if you meet 2 people with the same accent, you can be sure they are siblings. My first lesson in learning how NOT to speak in Australia: 2nd day, am asked by a bloke if I am a football fan. "Oh yes! I root for the Dallas Cowboys"! "The whole team?!? Do they pay well"? They called me Debbie for weeks.

[@lffit]

no it isnt, the Aussie accent is not all that 'noice', I have one but try to round my vowels lol

[@meeeka]

Trina Holman As for me, I arrived here a fully grown person, American but polyglot and sort of infamous for my many varied accents. But two I’ve never been able to do: a black,inner city, working class, ‘ghetto’ accent (which everyone expects as I’m biracial) or the Aussie one; I’ve been here now 23 years and my in-laws keep asking me when am I going to learn to speak “right” ? Of course they all came from Central Europe after the war and even still sound like the pre-war Austro-Hungarian empire. I’ve always been proud to be a Yank, to be aware of the pronunciation of the final “-er” syllables, to understand how vowels are pronounced and consonants are enunciated , what punctuation ans good spelling are truly for and how much they can mean. But I’ve never been more proud to be a dual Aussie and Yank since 45 moved into the White House; I’m proud I can pretend to be something else!

[@lffit]

@ dudtrish priceless lol

[@jaymcbakerk]

“Ethnocultural Australian English” isn’t an Australian accent. It’s someone speaking English with the accent of their native language.

[@rosiebrehaut1577]

The accents she showcased sounded more like the children of people who have immigrated to Australia - maybe 2nd or 3rd generation. I would think of it as an Australian accent, partly it’s characteristic of how some Australians speak, but also because it’s different from how those people would speak English if their parents had moved to the UK or the US or other English speaking countries. It has the influence of their parents’ native language and the accent of their community, but has also been shaped by the standard Australian accent.

[@lysseul2138]

Americans: *No* Me: *Noouuughuue*

[@aka9978]

Oh god once I was talking with an American over instagram and we decided to call and all he did was make fun of how I said no... :,)

[@soundlyawake]

Hey that’s me!

[@damienleigh9943]

s o u n d l y a w a k e close

[@JamesIbis]

Nick :3

[@samshort365]

Here is a true story. Many years ago, in Northern Italy, I was in a queue waiting to pay for lunch at a food court. Suddenly, I felt a sharp twang in my ears and noticed a young women talking to a man, although I couldn't make out what they were saying. They were also in the same line, but, about 3 metres behind me. I turned around and without hesitation looked right at them and said in my finest accent: "You're Australian!" The woman looked back at me bewildered ... "You're Australian!", I repeated. I'm from Melbourne and this is my boyfriend, he's from Greece, she replied, as she proceeded to explain to him what I was saying . It was then that I realised she had been speaking to her partner in Greek all along!

[@MrAnperm]

Sam Short Woah!

[@karenvickery6070]

You mean she was speaking Greek with an Australian accent.

[@simonyip5978]

Don't they say that Melbourne is the biggest Greek city after Athens?

[@arnoldschwarzenegger8005]

True story, I was in Belgium years ago, Brussels to be exact. I was in a queue buying bread at a bakery when I noticed the man at work had an accent that made me wonder. He was six-foot-four and full of muscles. I said, "do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich, and he said "I come from a land down under, where beer does flow and men chunder, can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover, yeah."

[@genroynoisis6980]

@@arnoldschwarzenegger8005 *flute*

[@hiitsmeagain1401]

0:33 There is no such thing as a normal accent. Everyone has an accent, Americans too.

[@mbackup5450]

I think they meant the original accent of the actor himself.

[@chungusmogus8832]

Some states in the US have this problem as well, for example I have never heard a good fake Boston accent.

[@ShutUpCleanYourMonitor]

oh god, Boston is something like Australia altogether because it sounds, feels, put on. as if one town got iffy with the rest of their country. example: Australia wants to be different to England. They will try really hard. to make this happen and brainwash people, their kids.

[@Zedigan]

One thing I've noticed is that older Australians born around 1940-60 Will say pronounce words like "school" "cool" and "tool" as "skewl" "kewl" and "tewl" where as younger Australians will say it "skool" "kool" and "tool"

[@meheretoday6968]

depends on where they were raised rather than when they were born I think

[@funky555]

whats the difference between k and c

[@philipsmi-lenguyen8155]

I was born in the 80s here.n i fink the way i say it is more skewl.i dnt say it with the cool.

[@philipsmi-lenguyen8155]

@@funky555 same shit different smell das all mate.other than that aye they pretty much the same man.

[@Wrz2e]

Possibly the influence from their parents from Ireland/Northern England?

[@buttholesniffer1115]

Most people butcher the Scottish accent too so 6:14 was very surprising

[@CatrionaCharles]

Butthole Sniffer I know, she nailed it! Am so impressed.

[@EllaMitsch123]

well she is a vocal coach at a university that is about the arts and acting...so she's probably studied the accent herself

[@AdamSahr-cj4kf]

That's not an accent, it's Morse Code !!!

[@robanks3895]

How accents develop is so interesting. I use to work with a lot of Australians and New Zealanders and I couldn't tell the difference between the accents.

[@_asantesana_squashbanana_]

Ask them to say fish and chips. If they say 'fush ahn chups' they're Kiwis/NZ. If they're Aussie, well idk I'm Aussie.

[@yassiral31]

thank you! my year 8's are going to love this

[@jaxr2958]

The reason it's so hard to pin down is because there is no Aussie accent. Everyone's a flipping mimic and their accent is 1/4 who they're talking to now, 1/4 who they last talked to and 1/2 hybrid of everything else they've ever heard. I'd bet if you asked an Australian actor on an overseas set to do an Aussie accent, they'd be uncomfortable. Watch an Aussie on a press tour and see how their accent will keep changing. And the reason I know is it happens to me and the people I know every time we are in a conversation with someone with a different accent.

[@TheRojo387]

Really? I digress; we're not all Crash Bandicoot!

[@hudamn2297]

I find your comment interesting... Simon Baker does a pretty decent accent playing an American in The Mentalist. Taking into account how many years he's lived in the States and played an American character, you can still distinctly hear "Aussie" when he's just being himself.

[@keithkitson8610]

Well. That's the only 'proof' needed. You and everyone you know copy everyone around them so the whole of Australia MUST do the same.

[@Loribyn]

Actually Keith, he's right -- we do. And we do it without even noticing. Australians are noted everywhere for our ease at picking-up other accents. Spend a week - just a week - in London, and the average Australian will tell you you sound like a Pom. Do the same thing in LA, and the result will be the same. And our essential _lack_ of accent is why.

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Sinnergism exactly. I think it’s because our tongue (and therefore our accent) is so flat. It’s easier to build on a flat base than it is to remove an existing structure.

[@johnny8447]

Your not Aussie unless you have a cooked mate named Damo who can rip a beer bong before the blink of an eye, punch 12 darts in under 12 seconds, pop 3 caps, 9 tabs, rip 4 cones and a grunt 5 lines. Then make up the next mornin' and got to work

[@jesse1001]

John I swear everyone knows a Damo. Or a Stevo. Or a Gav.

[@mj.jm.2110]

Jess E or davo

[@tokidokigamer6178]

John I actually have a mate named Damo

[@itsgonone]

Sorry to say this damo is a kiwi so does none of those things.

[@hammercanttouchthis]

'Grunt' lines? Never heard of that one. I'd better go ask Damo. That Darren and Damo cartoon (Ciggy Butt Brain) is still funny all these years later.

[@JoshJWright]

Aussie accent is the best. I feel mine is quite bland being from Virginia in the USA

[@edmondeyre9628]

Thanks for the compliment feller, your welcome to migrate here!

[@SnowClover]

And yet it would be considered interesting in Australia

[@muhamadizzatmdnoh1562]

I've studied in America, UK and currently living in Australia. Tbh, Australian accent is the hardest to understand imo. So thick and strong.