I worked in a mansion that was an aged care facility in Scotland & I befriended a Scottish girl, & I felt so relaxed at one point that I asked her, “Dija-avagooweegend?” She said in shock, “I didn’t understand a word you said” Oh- I thought I better slow that down. So I repeated, “Did you have a good week end?” Alas, She was still in shock.🇦🇺
That's a good video. The presenter, who indeed has a standard Australian accent herself, is very well-informed. I am an older Australian, a retired English teacher, with some post-graduate qualifications in sociolinguistics. One last tip: Aussie is pronounced Ozzie not Ossie.
If you've got such qualifications maybe you could explain to this fellow Aussie (Ozzie) why Americans butcher the fine English language with bastardizations like ALOOMINUM for aluminium or Pooma for Puma or booeee for buoy? Whats your thoughts on their destruction of the beautiful language?
Not difficult to us Brits who have watched Australian tv all our lives 😁 It made me think, I actually watch more Aus UA-cam channels than I do American 🤔
State to State it varies too. When I was young, I schooled in Far North Queensland, and travelled to Melbourne each holidays to be with family. I had to spread up my speech, try and stop adding " ay" at the end of every sentence, in Melbourne. Going back up north, I had to slow everything down again. ( including my walking pace.🤣) It was an interesting time.
hundred percent,! I grew up in Queensland then moved to Melbourne. Was defo surprised when there was that slight difference, and people could tell. They new I wasn't from Melb almost immediately and even now after a few years here people still notice it.
@@cookiemongirl no-one picks me as a Qlder any more. It's been a very long time living down here. Funny thing is though, if I am speaking to my aunt on the phone, ( she has a strong, country QLD accent and speach) I slip back into that mode in 5 min.
I kinda like the difference in accent across state I think adds to being Australian as we are a country that prides itself as being multicultural and the difference in accent is like a nice little nod to that
My son was born in Darwin hospital though I was born and raised in Sydney. My father was an eminent physician and my mother a very classy, elegant lady and an utter snob! Upper middle class and raised old fashioned, strict, formal and conservative. I married a sailor (navy) and as a result moved around the country living in other cities and small towns. After my son was born I was outside the hospital having a cigarette and this man took a curious interest in my accent and couldn't figure out where I was from. He was a linguist and was genuinely confused as he said he normally can pick where someone is from judging by their accent. After a while I confessed I was from Sydney. I can confirm after living in 3 different states and 1 territory plus a year in New Zealand, there is a different accent across the country. Different slang, different words used and different attitudes from place to place. After 23 years in Queensland my accent changed so much, became broader and more coarse. Funnily enough, when I visit my siblings I make an effort to sound the way I was raised lest I be accused of sounding like a Queenslander lol!
Yep The two standouts for me are SA then QLD. Went on a fishing trip up far Nth Qld with a dozen QLDers and a few from NSW and when I told them their accent made them sound like Red Necks. Didn't they blow up! Well worth it! Go the Blues!
@@downunderdave5417 Yes indeed lol! 3 years in Far North Queensland, 2 in North Queensland and 18 in Brisbane. The parochial crap is real, though far far far worse in WA. At least Queensland is friendly, WA, decidedly unfriendly if you are from the Eastern States...fair dinkum, very unwelcoming over there.
Not everybody in the eastern states are unfriendly, a rather sweeping statement, I’m regional NSW there are plenty of happy folk. I do agree WA is the most parochial, and North Queensland is laid back for sure to hot not to..
@@musicdpc007 I refer to West Australians as being unfriendly towards anyone from the Eastern States. We experienced this many many times for no apparent reason. I never once in all my life said to anyone from Western Australia, "your not from Western Australia are you"? Thats what we experienced over there.
@@marionthompson3365 I apologise I misread what you said, yes you are right about the unfriendliness of West Australians towards eastern states for no apparent reason…
Jps, please try saying Ozzie like how Ben said it. Even though it has the double S, it's not a S sound like Snake or Hiss. It's more of a Z sound Zebra of Buzz
I emigrated from Scotland to Australia with my family in 1961 when I was 8 years old, almost 9. I have an Australian accent until I talk to someone from Great Britain, where my Scottish accent comes to the fore. People laugh when I switch from an Aussie accent to a Scottish accent and back again, depending on who I'm talking to at that time. The funny thing is, I don't even realise I'm doing it. I had been dating my wife for 3 weeks when I took her to meet my mother for the first time. She gawked at me when she heard my Scottish accent for the first time and asked, "Who are you?"
I used to work with a few Kiwi's & by the end of my shift my bogan Aussie accent started sounding Kiwi, so you're dead set on not realising the change in accents even if it's for a few hours. When i went to Ireland a few years ago i tried speaking in a "nice" Aussie accent so they could understand me & they thought i was Kiwi lol so i changed back to my normal bogan accent & my lrish mate could understand me but his house mates from Ireland, Macedonia, Estonia & Poland couldn't understand a word i said & i loved it!! Mind u i could hardly understand them either so it was hilarious. I went to visit a mate in Wales while i was in Ireland & my mate & his house mates are Pakistani so that was even better!! But thru cricket the Pakistani boys could understand Aussie's but with my bogan accent it was a bit harder for them to understand but i understood them perfectly, once again because of cricket. It's funny how a international sport like cricket can make us understand each country perfectly like Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, South African, West Indian etc.
I have read/heard(?) somewhere that our Australian accent & general way of speaking let’s Aussies mimic other accents very well. I speak fluent Spanish & while travelling & living in Spain I was complimented by the locals. Tbh though that’s the extent of my talent 😂😂
I was speaking to some Americans and a French woman online once a few years ago. I had mentioned having anxiety. So when we all decide to do an audio chat I figured they might not understand my accent. So I spoke normally at first, and I was right. So I slowed my speech just ever so slightly. Suddenly they understood me. But funnily enough it was the French woman that blamed my anxiety for the reason she couldn't understand stand me at first. Nope, it was all the accent Aussie accent lol
i had the same issue when i first started using voice chat with the gaming group i have been a part of for yrs now i can speak at full speed and they can understand me 99% of the time they only miss the extreme use of our slang and then only the US members most times the group member from Canada has never had any issues understanding me
In one of your package opening videos, in which you received a gift from Australia, you asked Ben whether he thought the word Aussi was pronounced Ossie ( as it looks, given the double ss) or Ozzie. You thought 'Ossie'. He said Ozzie. Ben was correct- as many of us pointed out at the time. No worries- just thought you might like to know, mate! BTW the 'rising terminal", as it is called ( referred to here as a rising inflexion) is also very characteristic of the General and Broad Kiwi accents here in NZ. Greetings from Auckland.
It has been interesting to watch you become steadily more emersed, firstly with Brit accents and culture, and now with those of our Aussie cousins. It was hilarious when we had our post-Covid family get together in August and my grandsons who were born and raised here in Kenya spent a month with my grandsons brought up in Queensland and those raised in BC. By the end, the 9-12 yr olds were unconsciously copying each others' accents. It turns out that a mix of E African English, Aussie English, and Vancouver English ends up sounding like a cross between Kiwi and Springbock. It was very amusing. Btw, you MUST watch Barry Humphries, the Aussie comedian, as "Dame Edna", preferably on one of her interviews with Parkinson. It's a hoot.
As an eight year old my family went overseas. I was born in Dubbo, NSW and had a western NSW accent, but we'd moved to Canberra where I'd developed a slightly more "cultured" tone. We spent six months in Sheffield where I began picking up a southern Yorkshire accent, which made an interesting blend. We then moved to a little town in Alberta, Canada where I added a pretty broad western Canadian lilt to the mixture. I wish I had a recording of the mixture. Everyone said my sister and I had the strangest way of talking.
Dev Patel in an Aussie movie called Lion is one of the best I've heard, he's damn near flawless. Friggin beautiful movie, can't recommend more highly. Liev Shrieber was married to an Aussie
1:09 As an Australian, I find that hilarious because I could understand him just fine 😂 6:30 What he said next: "Susie got eaten by a shark?" I love Adam Hills lol
Lol at 4:33 that is jude law and he is English, being Australian i could hear his put on Australian accent. But I have to admit that he did do a much better job at it than 99% of people do
When George Lazenby played James Bond in On her majesty's secret service he refused to do a British accent so what you're hearing is a 1969 Australian accent
Another fascinating video Joel. One explaining the differences between Aussie and Kiwi English would interesting too. "Canadians and Americans themselves often have trouble differentiating their own two accents, particularly when someone speaks with an urban Standard Canadian English accent because it sounds very similar to Western American English. There is also evidence that Standard Canadian English and Western American English have been undergoing a very similar vowel shift since the 1980s. Canadian English varies very little from Central Canada to British Columbia. But, some noticeably different accents can be found in the Atlantic provinces, most especially in Newfoundland with Newfoundland English. Accent differences can sometimes be heard between those who live in urban centres versus those living in rural settings." (Wikipedia -"Canadian English"). This is why you and I have accents that are very similar to each other. I'm in Ontario, due north of you. This accent must predate the American Revolution 1776, whereas, the Aussie accent is post-1788. The Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) have distinctly different accents, and Newfoundland & Labrador is in a league of its own. Their accent has almost an Irish lilt to it. Mind you, Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than it is to British Columbia. Great fun! Thanks Joel, John in Canada
If you listen to a Norfolk and or a Suffolk (uk) accent you will hear distinct bits of the Australian accent. This mixed with a London (cockney) and or a Kent and Sussex accent you have most of the Australian accent. These were where the majority of people transported came from.
I have a broad Australian accent as I live in the country (North East Victoria). I got into an argument years ago with some wanker from Arkansas who reckoned my accent was fake and that I was trying to impersonate Steve Irwin! The only similarity I have with Steve is that we were both born in Melbourne and for me to imitate Steve, I'd have to over exert myself as he was always at 11 for the reason he was naturally amped!
@@musicdpc007 Not wrong....I probably speak better English than the one that "tried" to have a crack at me! Then again, I don't root family members either...I'm not Tasmanian! 😁
@@kevkoala I doubt you ever get a root mate.... with that attitude towards tasmanians no woman in her right mind would bother. Also statistically speaking Victoria has more cases of incest per capita than tasmania especially your little wedge you call home, it's also a pedo haven I hear. Suits you well huh kev.
Hi Joel et al! If you get the chance watch an episode or two of Cath and Kim. Aussie humour at its best. Tongue in cheek, it’s a p#&&take of ourselves. You’ll have no problem with the Aussie accent after this….😂
Only the lowest classes of Aussie sound like Kath and Kim. In fact, in spite of growing up in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, I've never heard people who sound like them
Actually it is very interesting to check out an Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander accent because just like African and Native Americans they have a whole different tone and manner of speaking. Aboriginal people of mainland Australia had over 250 different languages if I remember right before us white people came here.
Yes, that's true, though the generic accent of Aboriginal English is pretty standard Australia wide. I have noticed a slight difference in word usage with Kimberley Aborigines though. Some of them, when agreeing with you or suddenly understanding what you're talking about will say, very fast, "Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah". No doubt there are other things that are apparent to Aborigines from different parts of the country that aren't immediately obvious to us white fullas. A bit like us Aussies being able to pick a Kiwi accent in a flash, while other English speakers can't tell the difference. I wonder if it's the same with South African and Zimbabweans.
it wasn't just white people who came to Australia during colonisation. There were even a few black skinned Scottish. Yes Aborigines had their own dialects. What I find hard to understand is why Aboriginals who live in society with everyone else have different accents. I can't get my head around that. Maybe it's the structure of their mouths. Maybe someone here can elaborate on this.
@@sophie-963 "Structure of their mouths" U must b gamin (joking/playing). I'm indigenous & can't work out if ur serious or just seriously racist. Sadly I believe it's the latter.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 Hi :) not at all racist. The speech therapist in the video talked about positioning of mouth and head regarding speech and accent. I was wondering if this may apply to indigenous Aussies, as they have a different manner of speech to non indigenous Aussies.
@@sophie-963 to say (or imply) that all indigenous people sound the same isn't true @ all. I've lived & worked all over the country from major cities 2 remote communities & there r huge differences depending where & how diff people r raised. When working in corporate I doubt u would pick me as indigenous going by my accent or the way I talk. Even now in FNQ where I will often speak (some) language with locals I doubt you'd pick an accent. When o'seas I took care 2 enunciate each word & spoke more slowly & nobody had a clue where I was from-not from my appearance or accent anyway.My non aboriginal partner from Sydney couldn't b understood tho, his accent too thick apparently. EDIT- THE BIT ABOUT 'ABORIGINALS IN SOCIETY LIKE E'ONE ELSE' & 'STRUCTURE (NOT USE OF) THEIR MOUTHS' STILL SMACKS OF RACISM 2 ME WETHER INTENDED OR NOT.
"Life is Sharks , 100,000,000, years ago when the Dinosaurs lay dying, the last thing they saw was sharks." Liev was able to (nearly) achieve his Aussie accent because he's married to one of us . (Niomi Watts) .
I remember telling someone in LA that I liked the American accent. He did not even hesitate and told me, "Americans don't have accents". I said that everyone has an accent, but he could not be convinced lol
Love ya work JPS. Quick comments 1. ‘Not moving top lip’…. Proper Strayan can be spoken without moving your mouth at all. Example trying saying “Hey mate, ya wanna cheese sandwich” without moving your mouth at all 2. THE most common phrase is “Oh, ok”. You can spot an Aussie anywhere in the world just with that phrase (ties in with the hesitation art of the video)
I play a lot of online gaming with English and Americans and I basically slow down to 3/4 pace an have to avoid all slurring. I then speak in concise sentences to reduce the length of time I speak for. Edit: West Aussie.
I'm Australian born and bred, yet most people think I am directly European by the way I speak. I guess it's just that I don't have what people single out as Australian strine. I don't know where I'd place myself exactly, especially given that only last week someone thought I was from Germany! Go figure ...
I am Aussie born and bred. My my is English and came here when she was five. I’m part indigenous on my dads side and depending on what I’m doing depends on how Aussie or how English I sound, a lot of the times people think I’m kiwi.
@@sykotika13thirteen Love the Kiwi accent! I'm part Irish on my mother's side, which weighs in now and then, but only when I think about it. One thing I find curious about English vs Australian, many Australians I have known who settle in the UK take on an English accent after a while, yet English folk who settle in Australia never lose their accent.
As a high school teacher in Australia I am noticing American creeping into my student's accents. Really interesting to track. I'll be using this resource in my classes.
Yea northern Queensland accent is different from the Victorian accent & New South Wales is different from the West Australian. Each state it's own reginal accents with slight differences, but we all know what each other is saying
Some Aussie accents are really strong that you need them to speak in slow mo to actually understand them. Being an Australian in a small rural town. I don't meet a lot of Aussies with a very strong accent. I am not one with a strong accent unless I am speaking certain words. I get told often, I have more an American accent which I'm not actually happy to hear because Australia and America has such different views that I get offended quite easily when something like my accent is compared to another's, it doesn't end great.
I'm a "naturalised" Australian. I'm a British migrant and have lived in Australia most of my life. People used to ask me if I'm South African. Most people pick up on my British accent, but I would call my now evolved Aussie accent Anglo-Oz. We are a multi-cultural society as we've had mass immigration, so the accent variant is broad. For example, we have Chinese-Aussie accents, Greek-Aussie, Aboriginal-English, various middle eastern-Aussie accents, and so on. The most popular Aussie accent in film and screen is the proverbial OCKER accent, like the guy who plays Mick Taylor in the Film Wolf Creek, or Mick Dundee in the film Crocodile Dundee. There's also the "Bogan" accent. 🤣😂
Just so you know... Most of us do not sound like Steve Irwin (the excited 'broad' accent) I think another big thing in Aussie English is if you don't absolutely have to use the end of a word you don't. a lot of the time we'll cut out the last syllable
I’m Australian I didn’t even understand myself what he said, but when we went to the states in 2013 and 2018 we didn’t have any trouble with our accent. Everyone understood us. But yes I agree, if they are real broad I have to really listen to them. I was born here, with Aussie parents
The Kylie Mole segment from a comedy TV series in Australia called The Comedy Company gives a great example and exaggeration of the end inflection in the Australian accent. Here is a video of a series of segments from the series below. Try as an American to understand it, it's definitely a product of it's time (late 1980's/early 1990's) but also the slang and accent/pronunciation. As an Australian I can understand it but I can see how difficult somebody not familiar with the Aussie accent would have. Link here: ua-cam.com/video/rpqFWkB1_bw/v-deo.html
in my opinion the girl's comedy sketch accent is indecipherable as a unique Aussie accent. It sound Aussie mixed with other accents and really badly done. But, hey, thanks 😃
@@sophie-963 it's genuine, although it is played up for laughs. It's the sort of accent I'd associate with the 90's, and the sketch is bloody hilarious, but not for everyone.
That "broad" accent is what we call the bogan accent (someone from the outback). In Sydney you wont hear it much. Because we are so multicultural in Sydney, I grew up with a Western Sydney accent (watch superwog to know what im talking about), its heavily influenced by the lebanese, greek and italian immigrants that I grew up with. My brother grew up in the 80s around alot of asian immigrants and his accent is different to mine. My oldest brother grew up in the 70s around white people and he has a different accent too (the bogan accent) - family gatherings are hilarious
The outback is the deserts and grasslands, the bush is the bush, bogans and broad accents aren’t restricted to “the outback”, what you shoulda said was country/ rural as it’s more common out in the country
its funny when he says he can just tell who the native speakers are whilst calling british actors native Australians. Goes to show just how well they did the accent.
Love this channel. As an Aussie its awesome watching you react to some of our idols and our traditions. Australia is a beautiful country and I highly recommend you visit. Also the Aussie accent is very hard to learn haha. You will tend to find broad out my side of the country. The further too central Aus, the more predominant the accent is.
As an Australian can I just say a lot of (including you Joel) Americans pronounce Aussie wrong. It is spelled Aussie however we pronounce the S like a Z, so it’s pronounced Auzzie 😂
There was actually a huge controversy more than a decade ago, involving Robin Williams explaining how he does an Aussie accent on an American late night show (I think it was Letterman). Prime Minister John Howard inserted himself into the conversation, made a complete fool of himself and ended up in a diplomatic spat with the governor of one of the US states - I think it was Alabama. Anyway, you can find both the original interview that sparked the controversy and Robin Williams doing another interview explaining the fallout (pretty sure that one was on Conan) on UA-cam.
Aussies from the city are often a mix of American and European accents along with the standard aussie accent. But if you meet drovers, truck drivers from out bush or people who live rural, they have the more Steve Irwin accents, especially the oldies.
I am 70yo Australian and I find kids and young people sound very very American. I weep for it, who wants more American influence than we already have ! Don't get me started on vocabulary and spelling where the influence of American spell checks and American media is overwhelming our individuality. I remember hearing a woman in the 90s in a StKilda trendy cafe who directed me to the "bathroom" ... it sounded full of American morality and puritanism. I was looking for the "toilet" which back then was the polite term for a "dunny". Nowadays young people default to "bathroom" but me .. I am a grumpy old man and I pointedly ask for the toilet, or even correct them if I feel obnoxious enough. This is just one of so many examples of what the "ordinary" (as opposed to "regular") Australian has been taken over by.
There’s an American voice actor, Danny Montooth, who has an impressive Australian accent. It leans towards Occer (broad) which is probably the easiest to do without slipping into a New Zealand accent, but it’s still difficult to do.
Talking with friends from other countries made me realise how fast I talk , as my aussie friend could understand me so easily but my other ones couldn’t
Check out a series called ‘meanwhile in Australia’ it’s done by a comedian who talks to himself as characters from different states..it shows the different attitudes of Australians during Covid and different situations..it’s brilliant
I'm an Australian who has been to the US many times. Most people in the US have a VERY hard time picking my accent from a British or New Zealand accent.
On the other hand we Aussies are gifted mimics when it comes to other people's accents. My Brother moved to England and apparently he has a British Accent none of us have ever heard. When he starts thinking or talking about Australia he'll subconsciously switch back.
That's definitely a thing, that slipping back into the accent, especially the broader one. Like when you catch up with mates and all of a sudden your speech goes to parkin, farkin and larkin as you stretch every word out and enunciate nothing. It always makes me smile to catch yourself doing it, it's like, yeah we've got a thick arse accent, you just change according to who you're with at times.
Mate, as a Yank and a jokester, mimicking the Aussie accent is SO hard! I slip into Cockney in 2 seconds. It's really it's own thing but having grown up on British comedians, it's really difficult
Two interesting differences within Australia that I noticed after moving from NZ, were how Perth and Adelaide say the A in chance like the English, and over east they say chance like Americans. And the other is the pronunciation of double O's, such as pool or school. Not sure exactly where you hear it, but I've heard Queenslanders say pool almost like they're saying pearl, whereas most people sound kind of like they're saying pull.
itd be really awesome if u did look at some of the native languages in australia!! i think its easy to gloss over the first nations people sometimes so a video learning about them would be super nice to see 😁
As Australian i can notice we pronounce more vowels than Americans in lots of words and the R sound it's much softer than Americans does, also our "schwa sound" it's different compare to Americans, and many more differences but these ones are just a few example of our Australian accent that's why it is very challenging to imitate, cheers mate
The Aussie accent is as unique as vegemite..Would love you to react to a song called And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda sung by Roger Williams who reall has a very strong aussie accent.. Be ready for your tissues though.. Merry Christmas Joel.. Love your comments..
The point is there is no one Aussie accent. It depends on what part of this large country you come from and what your role is. Are you well educated, do you live in a city or a rural area, do you mix with people of influence, are you from Sydney or other parts of NSW versus Melbourne or other parts of Victoria, are you from West Australia, Tasmania or the much more British-like Adelaide.
I think one of the hardest parts about the accent is the vowels. An easy way to mimic accents is nail the vowel sounds but Aus just randomly cuts certain ones and accentuate others. Melbourne is Melbin, Cairns is Cans, Brisbane goes to Brisbin, Canberra somehow goes Canbrah, Commander to Commanda. If there's a way to shorten a word we'll find a way
The standard description of Australian accents is broad (working class or rural), general (middle class), and an upper class close-to-British RP one. The general one is taking over with the upper one almost disappeared. These days also the Aboriginal accent and one based on a second-generation Mediterranean-fusion accent (Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arab).
One feature that wasn't mentioned is that there are no pure vowel sounds in the Australian accent. All vowel sounds are diphthongs. That is, the vowel slides from one sound towards another. For example, the 'a' sound found in words like 'face'. Starts as an 'a' and tends towards 'e'. For some reason (probably due to what is familiar to them) Americans hear this as an 'i' (eye) sound. A woman I know, working as a nurse in the US, terrified a patient by telling her she could "go home today". If you didn't get that, replace the 'ay' with 'i'. Listen for the vowel sounds and you'll soon get what's going on.
Love your videos man. I’ve got an answer for you from of your questions. We identify as and call ourselves Aussies, not Ozzie’s. And it’s not pronounced aus-sies it’s pronounced Ozzie. If that’s not confusing I don’t know what is. Also, anyone from Brisbane is from Brissy. Loving your work mate!! Keep it up
Very interesting. Is it only the Americans who have difficulty? As other people have said, in UK we've seen so many Australian TV & Film shows (Neighbours, Young Doctors, Prisoner Cell Block H / Wentworth , The Club, Tim etc etc etc) that most Australians come across as perfectly intelligible. (obviously, any use of dialect words and strong regional accent by any English speakers will cause difficulty)
Aussies grew up with the Simpsons, Sesame street and heaps of American shows. You will hear little Aussie kids playing games and using an American accent as part of the game, at early age. I guess that's why our Actors sound very convincing and somtimes get mistaken for Americans. Y'all just haven't been paying attention to us until now. Liev Schreiber is the best Aussie accent I've heard so far.
Meanwhile even though I've never been outside of Australia people constantly ask me where I'm from and even my own family thinks I have an acent, though to myself I sound like everyone else. My mum thinks I watched too much TV growing up, even though my brother doesn't have the same problem and we watched TV about the same amount of time.
I spent 2 months living with my partner's parents in the USA, I had to slow down everything that I said to the point that I felt like I was sounding things out. My accent was only picked up on accurately by other Aussies and those few Americans that had travelled here because Hollywood's attempts at mimicking us is deplorable at best and most Americans I came across seemed as mesmerised as they were shocked and confused when I'd speak "What was that? Say it again! No! Say it like you said it before" lol. There are however parts of Australia that I have trouble understanding the accent of particularly those that come from central Australian towns as there are so few people you meet from there and our slang is incredibly diverse, and we do speak rather quickly. The best description that I've heard to explain our accent was, to string words together, speak fast and shorten any words you can lol! The native accents and dialects were individual to each tribe, so sadly many of them haven't survived but there are still people willing to teach their languages and catalogue them. I had issues understanding Americans at times as well. British people can be very difficult to understand based on where they come from and I'm damned if I've ever understood a single word from an Irish person, other than when they're swearing but I love hearing them speak.
Tip for Americans: Aussie is actually pronounced Ozzie.
Thank you. I hope he sees this because I wasn't sure until the end that that was what I was hearing 😆
Yes I've noticed that with all Americans. Glad it's been pointed out.
Came here for this 😹🖤
was just about to comment the same 👍
Dont know where he lives but we lock our doors here and our cars to
As a Brit, I understand the Aussie accent due to watching an Australian soap opera called Neighbours for 30 years.
As an Aussie I understand several British dialects as well as Scottish and Irish and welsh and American.
You all are lazy.
its making a return now too! your welcome lol
Im sooo sorry, that Australia tortured you with 30 years of neighbours lol
@@aussiebornandbred lol that and home and away 😂
Hey sorry about that but it's only fair 200 years ago you sent the worst of the worst here so that's a little pay back
I worked in a mansion that was an aged care facility in Scotland & I befriended a Scottish girl, & I felt so relaxed at one point that I asked her, “Dija-avagooweegend?”
She said in shock, “I didn’t understand a word you said”
Oh- I thought I better slow that down.
So I repeated, “Did you have a good week end?” Alas, She was still in shock.🇦🇺
That's a good video. The presenter, who indeed has a standard Australian accent herself, is very well-informed. I am an older Australian, a retired English teacher, with some post-graduate qualifications in sociolinguistics. One last tip: Aussie is pronounced Ozzie not Ossie.
But I like hearing the Ossie better.
I came here to say the same. Ozzie not Ossie . 😁
😂The amount of Americans I've had to also correct that its pronounced Ozzie... and I'm a Kiwi lol
ozzie like ozzie ozbourne... not "ah-see".
If you've got such qualifications maybe you could explain to this fellow Aussie (Ozzie) why Americans butcher the fine English language with bastardizations like ALOOMINUM for aluminium or Pooma for Puma or booeee for buoy? Whats your thoughts on their destruction of the beautiful language?
Not difficult to us Brits who have watched Australian tv all our lives 😁 It made me think, I actually watch more Aus UA-cam channels than I do American 🤔
State to State it varies too. When I was young, I schooled in Far North Queensland, and travelled to Melbourne each holidays to be with family.
I had to spread up my speech, try and stop adding " ay" at the end of every sentence, in Melbourne. Going back up north, I had to slow everything down again. ( including my walking pace.🤣)
It was an interesting time.
hundred percent,! I grew up in Queensland then moved to Melbourne. Was defo surprised when there was that slight difference, and people could tell. They new I wasn't from Melb almost immediately and even now after a few years here people still notice it.
@@cookiemongirl no-one picks me as a Qlder any more. It's been a very long time living down here. Funny thing is though, if I am speaking to my aunt on the phone, ( she has a strong, country QLD accent and speach) I slip back into that mode in 5 min.
I was born and raised in Melbourne and have never said Ay at the end of a sentence. I have heard it a lot though.
@@sloane4836 it's mainly a QLD thing. North and inland.
I kinda like the difference in accent across state I think adds to being Australian as we are a country that prides itself as being multicultural and the difference in accent is like a nice little nod to that
My son was born in Darwin hospital though I was born and raised in Sydney. My father was an eminent physician and my mother a very classy, elegant lady and an utter snob! Upper middle class and raised old fashioned, strict, formal and conservative. I married a sailor (navy) and as a result moved around the country living in other cities and small towns. After my son was born I was outside the hospital having a cigarette and this man took a curious interest in my accent and couldn't figure out where I was from. He was a linguist and was genuinely confused as he said he normally can pick where someone is from judging by their accent. After a while I confessed I was from Sydney. I can confirm after living in 3 different states and 1 territory plus a year in New Zealand, there is a different accent across the country. Different slang, different words used and different attitudes from place to place. After 23 years in Queensland my accent changed so much, became broader and more coarse. Funnily enough, when I visit my siblings I make an effort to sound the way I was raised lest I be accused of sounding like a Queenslander lol!
Yep
The two standouts for me are SA then QLD.
Went on a fishing trip up far Nth Qld with a dozen QLDers and a few from NSW and when I told them their accent made them sound like Red Necks.
Didn't they blow up!
Well worth it!
Go the Blues!
@@downunderdave5417 Yes indeed lol! 3 years in Far North Queensland, 2 in North Queensland and 18 in Brisbane. The parochial crap is real, though far far far worse in WA. At least Queensland is friendly, WA, decidedly unfriendly if you are from the Eastern States...fair dinkum, very unwelcoming over there.
Not everybody in the eastern states are unfriendly, a rather sweeping statement, I’m regional NSW there are plenty of happy folk. I do agree WA is the most parochial, and North Queensland is laid back for sure to hot not to..
@@musicdpc007 I refer to West Australians as being unfriendly towards anyone from the Eastern States. We experienced this many many times for no apparent reason. I never once in all my life said to anyone from Western Australia, "your not from Western Australia are you"? Thats what we experienced over there.
@@marionthompson3365 I apologise I misread what you said, yes you are right about the unfriendliness of West Australians towards eastern states for no apparent reason…
Jps, please try saying Ozzie like how Ben said it. Even though it has the double S, it's not a S sound like Snake or Hiss. It's more of a Z sound Zebra of Buzz
Best to just say it the same way you'd say the Ozzy in Ozzy Osbourne
Simon Roper’s got a video on London accents over time, the ~1760 one does sound the most similar to Australian.
I agree... btw Simon Roper has some really interesting videos...
1:03 “a hundred million years ago when the dinosaurs were dying the last thing they saw was sharks” fairly clear to me
I emigrated from Scotland to Australia with my family in 1961 when I was 8 years old, almost 9. I have an Australian accent until I talk to someone from Great Britain, where my Scottish accent comes to the fore. People laugh when I switch from an Aussie accent to a Scottish accent and back again, depending on who I'm talking to at that time. The funny thing is, I don't even realise I'm doing it. I had been dating my wife for 3 weeks when I took her to meet my mother for the first time. She gawked at me when she heard my Scottish accent for the first time and asked, "Who are you?"
I used to work with a few Kiwi's & by the end of my shift my bogan Aussie accent started sounding Kiwi, so you're dead set on not realising the change in accents even if it's for a few hours. When i went to Ireland a few years ago i tried speaking in a "nice" Aussie accent so they could understand me & they thought i was Kiwi lol so i changed back to my normal bogan accent & my lrish mate could understand me but his house mates from Ireland, Macedonia, Estonia & Poland couldn't understand a word i said & i loved it!! Mind u i could hardly understand them either so it was hilarious. I went to visit a mate in Wales while i was in Ireland & my mate & his house mates are Pakistani so that was even better!! But thru cricket the Pakistani boys could understand Aussie's but with my bogan accent it was a bit harder for them to understand but i understood them perfectly, once again because of cricket. It's funny how a international sport like cricket can make us understand each country perfectly like Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, South African, West Indian etc.
I have read/heard(?) somewhere that our Australian accent & general way of speaking let’s Aussies mimic other accents very well. I speak fluent Spanish & while travelling & living in Spain I was complimented by the locals. Tbh though that’s the extent of my talent 😂😂
That's hilarious 👍🇦🇺
You absolutely should do a video on indigenous folks! Love your videos bro
I was speaking to some Americans and a French woman online once a few years ago. I had mentioned having anxiety. So when we all decide to do an audio chat I figured they might not understand my accent. So I spoke normally at first, and I was right. So I slowed my speech just ever so slightly. Suddenly they understood me. But funnily enough it was the French woman that blamed my anxiety for the reason she couldn't understand stand me at first. Nope, it was all the accent Aussie accent lol
i had the same issue when i first started using voice chat with the gaming group i have been a part of for yrs now i can speak at full speed and they can understand me 99% of the time they only miss the extreme use of our slang and then only the US members most times the group member from Canada has never had any issues understanding me
In one of your package opening videos, in which you received a gift from Australia, you asked Ben whether he thought the word Aussi was pronounced Ossie ( as it looks, given the double ss) or Ozzie. You thought 'Ossie'. He said Ozzie. Ben was correct- as many of us pointed out at the time. No worries- just thought you might like to know, mate! BTW the 'rising terminal", as it is called ( referred to here as a rising inflexion) is also very characteristic of the General and Broad Kiwi accents here in NZ. Greetings from Auckland.
Kate Winslet in the movie The Dressmaker nailed the Australian accent perfectly, she has to be the best i have ever heard.
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My jaw dropped watching that movie. Absolutely perfect execution of the accent.
Me too
Absolutely. Warren Mitchell was good too.
I agree. She is the only one who has absolutely nailed it.
It has been interesting to watch you become steadily more emersed, firstly with Brit accents and culture, and now with those of our Aussie cousins. It was hilarious when we had our post-Covid family get together in August and my grandsons who were born and raised here in Kenya spent a month with my grandsons brought up in Queensland and those raised in BC. By the end, the 9-12 yr olds were unconsciously copying each others' accents. It turns out that a mix of E African English, Aussie English, and Vancouver English ends up sounding like a cross between Kiwi and Springbock. It was very amusing. Btw, you MUST watch Barry Humphries, the Aussie comedian, as "Dame Edna", preferably on one of her interviews with Parkinson. It's a hoot.
As an eight year old my family went overseas. I was born in Dubbo, NSW and had a western NSW accent, but we'd moved to Canberra where I'd developed a slightly more "cultured" tone. We spent six months in Sheffield where I began picking up a southern Yorkshire accent, which made an interesting blend. We then moved to a little town in Alberta, Canada where I added a pretty broad western Canadian lilt to the mixture. I wish I had a recording of the mixture. Everyone said my sister and I had the strangest way of talking.
I understood every word. I guess I'm used to hearing the Australian accent on TV.
Dev Patel in an Aussie movie called Lion is one of the best I've heard, he's damn near flawless. Friggin beautiful movie, can't recommend more highly.
Liev Shrieber was married to an Aussie
1:09 As an Australian, I find that hilarious because I could understand him just fine 😂
6:30 What he said next: "Susie got eaten by a shark?" I love Adam Hills lol
Yeah same
I'm british and honestly find it baffleing how americans don't seam to understand other english speaking accents apart from their own..
Lol at 4:33 that is jude law and he is English, being Australian i could hear his put on Australian accent. But I have to admit that he did do a much better job at it than 99% of people do
When George Lazenby played James Bond in On her majesty's secret service he refused to do a British accent so what you're hearing is a 1969 Australian accent
Another fascinating video Joel. One explaining the differences between Aussie and Kiwi English would interesting too.
"Canadians and Americans themselves often have trouble differentiating their own two accents, particularly when someone speaks with an urban Standard Canadian English accent because it sounds very similar to Western American English. There is also evidence that Standard Canadian English and Western American English have been undergoing a very similar vowel shift since the 1980s. Canadian English varies very little from Central Canada to British Columbia. But, some noticeably different accents can be found in the Atlantic provinces, most especially in Newfoundland with Newfoundland English. Accent differences can sometimes be heard between those who live in urban centres versus those living in rural settings." (Wikipedia -"Canadian English").
This is why you and I have accents that are very similar to each other. I'm in Ontario, due north of you. This accent must predate the American Revolution 1776, whereas, the Aussie accent is post-1788. The Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) have distinctly different accents, and Newfoundland & Labrador is in a league of its own. Their accent has almost an Irish lilt to it. Mind you, Newfoundland is closer to Ireland than it is to British Columbia.
Great fun! Thanks Joel, John in Canada
If you listen to a Norfolk and or a Suffolk (uk) accent you will hear distinct bits of the Australian accent. This mixed with a London (cockney) and or a Kent and Sussex accent you have most of the Australian accent. These were where the majority of people transported came from.
I have a broad Australian accent as I live in the country (North East Victoria). I got into an argument years ago with some wanker from Arkansas who reckoned my accent was fake and that I was trying to impersonate Steve Irwin! The only similarity I have with Steve is that we were both born in Melbourne and for me to imitate Steve, I'd have to over exert myself as he was always at 11 for the reason he was naturally amped!
My brother in law is from Arkansas lived in australia 37 years, still has a strong southern accent, there not to bright some of them!
@@musicdpc007 Not wrong....I probably speak better English than the one that "tried" to have a crack at me! Then again, I don't root family members either...I'm not Tasmanian! 😁
I've always wondered where 'North East Victoria' actually refers to? It's a triangle shape, with the top right of the rectangle chopped off.
@@bymysidebrits1701 I'm virtually in the middle of the top right of the wedge! 😁
@@kevkoala I doubt you ever get a root mate.... with that attitude towards tasmanians no woman in her right mind would bother. Also statistically speaking Victoria has more cases of incest per capita than tasmania especially your little wedge you call home, it's also a pedo haven I hear. Suits you well huh kev.
Hi Joel et al! If you get the chance watch an episode or two of Cath and Kim. Aussie humour at its best. Tongue in cheek, it’s a p#&&take of ourselves. You’ll have no problem with the Aussie accent after this….😂
It’s nice, it’s different
@@vaudevillian7 ..its unusual :)
*Kath
Only the lowest classes of Aussie sound like Kath and Kim. In fact, in spite of growing up in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, I've never heard people who sound like them
Actually it is very interesting to check out an Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander accent because just like African and Native Americans they have a whole different tone and manner of speaking.
Aboriginal people of mainland Australia had over 250 different languages if I remember right before us white people came here.
Yes, that's true, though the generic accent of Aboriginal English is pretty standard Australia wide. I have noticed a slight difference in word usage with Kimberley Aborigines though. Some of them, when agreeing with you or suddenly understanding what you're talking about will say, very fast, "Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah". No doubt there are other things that are apparent to Aborigines from different parts of the country that aren't immediately obvious to us white fullas. A bit like us Aussies being able to pick a Kiwi accent in a flash, while other English speakers can't tell the difference. I wonder if it's the same with South African and Zimbabweans.
it wasn't just white people who came to Australia during colonisation. There were even a few black skinned Scottish. Yes Aborigines had their own dialects. What I find hard to understand is why Aboriginals who live in society with everyone else have different accents. I can't get my head around that. Maybe it's the structure of their mouths. Maybe someone here can elaborate on this.
@@sophie-963 "Structure of their mouths" U must b gamin (joking/playing). I'm indigenous & can't work out if ur serious or just seriously racist. Sadly I believe it's the latter.
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 Hi :) not at all racist. The speech therapist in the video talked about positioning of mouth and head regarding speech and accent. I was wondering if this may apply to indigenous Aussies, as they have a different manner of speech to non indigenous Aussies.
@@sophie-963 to say (or imply) that all indigenous people sound the same isn't true @ all. I've lived & worked all over the country from major cities 2 remote communities & there r huge differences depending where & how diff people r raised. When working in corporate I doubt u would pick me as indigenous going by my accent or the way I talk. Even now in FNQ where I will often speak (some) language with locals I doubt you'd pick an accent. When o'seas I took care 2 enunciate each word & spoke more slowly & nobody had a clue where I was from-not from my appearance or accent anyway.My non aboriginal partner from Sydney couldn't b understood tho, his accent too thick apparently.
EDIT- THE BIT ABOUT 'ABORIGINALS IN SOCIETY LIKE E'ONE ELSE' & 'STRUCTURE (NOT USE OF) THEIR MOUTHS' STILL SMACKS OF RACISM 2 ME WETHER INTENDED OR NOT.
"Life is Sharks , 100,000,000, years ago when the Dinosaurs lay dying, the last thing they saw was sharks." Liev was able to (nearly) achieve his Aussie accent because he's married to one of us . (Niomi Watts) .
I remember telling someone in LA that I liked the American accent. He did not even hesitate and told me, "Americans don't have accents". I said that everyone has an accent, but he could not be convinced lol
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I’m an Aussie but I like the American Deep South accent nothing better to listen to honestly
Such a common one for aussies to like. It’s like one extreme accent to another.
I found even being Australian it depends on where you live can effect the way you talk.
YEP. AND QUEENSLANDER HAVE WIDER FEET THAN THE OTHERS. SERIOUSLY.
being Australian myself I find it amusing how hard it is for most people to imitate us 😂
American accents are awesome btw
Give it a go mate 👍
Watching your videos having a coffee, it's 8 30am QLD and already up to 30° gonna be a hot summer.
Love ya work JPS. Quick comments
1. ‘Not moving top lip’…. Proper Strayan can be spoken without moving your mouth at all. Example trying saying “Hey mate, ya wanna cheese sandwich” without moving your mouth at all
2. THE most common phrase is “Oh, ok”. You can spot an Aussie anywhere in the world just with that phrase (ties in with the hesitation art of the video)
You can spot an Aussie anywhere in the world by seeing how they respond to this: "Have you ever, ever felt like this?"
I play a lot of online gaming with English and Americans and I basically slow down to 3/4 pace an have to avoid all slurring. I then speak in concise sentences to reduce the length of time I speak for.
Edit: West Aussie.
""Indigenous Languages in Australia'" is an interesting introduction
Just subscribed mate. You rock. ✌️
I'm Australian born and bred, yet most people think I am directly European by the way I speak. I guess it's just that I don't have what people single out as Australian strine. I don't know where I'd place myself exactly, especially given that only last week someone thought I was from Germany! Go figure ...
The same happens to me and I have only ever lived in Australia.
I am Aussie born and bred. My my is English and came here when she was five. I’m part indigenous on my dads side and depending on what I’m doing depends on how Aussie or how English I sound, a lot of the times people think I’m kiwi.
I thought I was the only one…..😀
@@continental_drift Must be the continental drift :)
@@sykotika13thirteen Love the Kiwi accent! I'm part Irish on my mother's side, which weighs in now and then, but only when I think about it. One thing I find curious about English vs Australian, many Australians I have known who settle in the UK take on an English accent after a while, yet English folk who settle in Australia never lose their accent.
As a high school teacher in Australia I am noticing American creeping into my student's accents. Really interesting to track. I'll be using this resource in my classes.
Yea northern Queensland accent is different from the Victorian accent & New South Wales is different from the West Australian. Each state it's own reginal accents with slight differences, but we all know what each other is saying
Most of the time 😂
The actor Jude Law in the clip from Contagion is an English actor and Dev Patel the guy from Lion is also English
Some Aussie accents are really strong that you need them to speak in slow mo to actually understand them. Being an Australian in a small rural town. I don't meet a lot of Aussies with a very strong accent. I am not one with a strong accent unless I am speaking certain words. I get told often, I have more an American accent which I'm not actually happy to hear because Australia and America has such different views that I get offended quite easily when something like my accent is compared to another's, it doesn't end great.
I'm a "naturalised" Australian. I'm a British migrant and have lived in Australia most of my life. People used to ask me if I'm South African. Most people pick up on my British accent, but I would call my now evolved Aussie accent Anglo-Oz. We are a multi-cultural society as we've had mass immigration, so the accent variant is broad. For example, we have Chinese-Aussie accents, Greek-Aussie, Aboriginal-English, various middle eastern-Aussie accents, and so on. The most popular Aussie accent in film and screen is the proverbial OCKER accent, like the guy who plays Mick Taylor in the Film Wolf Creek, or Mick Dundee in the film Crocodile Dundee. There's also the "Bogan" accent. 🤣😂
Just so you know... Most of us do not sound like Steve Irwin (the excited 'broad' accent)
I think another big thing in Aussie English is if you don't absolutely have to use the end of a word you don't. a lot of the time we'll cut out the last syllable
Bloody love it mate....killer video.....the Aussie accent is slightly different in different parts of Aus....from South Australia
"I see my job as no different to a construction worker,or Rugby player, I just use my tools to trigger human emotions"
RDJ/Kirk Lazarus
Tropic thunder
I’m Australian I didn’t even understand myself what he said, but when we went to the states in 2013 and 2018 we didn’t have any trouble with our accent. Everyone understood us. But yes I agree, if they are real broad I have to really listen to them. I was born here, with Aussie parents
The Kylie Mole segment from a comedy TV series in Australia called The Comedy Company gives a great example and exaggeration of the end inflection in the Australian accent. Here is a video of a series of segments from the series below. Try as an American to understand it, it's definitely a product of it's time (late 1980's/early 1990's) but also the slang and accent/pronunciation. As an Australian I can understand it but I can see how difficult somebody not familiar with the Aussie accent would have. Link here: ua-cam.com/video/rpqFWkB1_bw/v-deo.html
in my opinion the girl's comedy sketch accent is indecipherable as a unique Aussie accent. It sound Aussie mixed with other accents and really badly done. But, hey, thanks 😃
@@sophie-963 it's genuine, although it is played up for laughs. It's the sort of accent I'd associate with the 90's, and the sketch is bloody hilarious, but not for everyone.
It's not only the accent, it's also the wording and phrasing used! Check out Steve Hoffsteter and Danial Muggleton talking Aussie!
That "broad" accent is what we call the bogan accent (someone from the outback). In Sydney you wont hear it much. Because we are so multicultural in Sydney, I grew up with a Western Sydney accent (watch superwog to know what im talking about), its heavily influenced by the lebanese, greek and italian immigrants that I grew up with. My brother grew up in the 80s around alot of asian immigrants and his accent is different to mine. My oldest brother grew up in the 70s around white people and he has a different accent too (the bogan accent) - family gatherings are hilarious
The outback is the deserts and grasslands, the bush is the bush, bogans and broad accents aren’t restricted to “the outback”, what you shoulda said was country/ rural as it’s more common out in the country
its funny when he says he can just tell who the native speakers are whilst calling british actors native Australians. Goes to show just how well they did the accent.
hey mate, head over check out, "hilltop hoods" i dunno what song tho . maybe "still standing" or "the nose bleed section." classic aussie hiphop
As an Aussie- my first tip would be - it’s more like “Ozzie” than “Aussie” (no soft “s” sound!)
On the east they say plant but us with our British heritage say plant. It's distinctive. Like when Queenslanders say pool or school!
Love this channel. As an Aussie its awesome watching you react to some of our idols and our traditions. Australia is a beautiful country and I highly recommend you visit. Also the Aussie accent is very hard to learn haha.
You will tend to find broad out my side of the country. The further too central Aus, the more predominant the accent is.
I highly recommend watching a video on Paul Keating ripping on his enemies. It’s a pretty good time.
As an Australian can I just say a lot of (including you Joel) Americans pronounce Aussie wrong.
It is spelled Aussie however we pronounce the S like a Z, so it’s pronounced Auzzie 😂
That was very interesting 🤔 thank you
There was actually a huge controversy more than a decade ago, involving Robin Williams explaining how he does an Aussie accent on an American late night show (I think it was Letterman). Prime Minister John Howard inserted himself into the conversation, made a complete fool of himself and ended up in a diplomatic spat with the governor of one of the US states - I think it was Alabama.
Anyway, you can find both the original interview that sparked the controversy and Robin Williams doing another interview explaining the fallout (pretty sure that one was on Conan) on UA-cam.
As a native speaker i can say that was perfect, couldnt tell and i had to look it up to be sure but Jude Law is an English actor, he just nailed it.
He did a good job. You can hear that it's not his natural accent though. Kate's on the other hand was incredibly good.
Aussies from the city are often a mix of American and European accents along with the standard aussie accent. But if you meet drovers, truck drivers from out bush or people who live rural, they have the more Steve Irwin accents, especially the oldies.
Jean C l grew up in one State and still have the accent from there even though I moved around the country. Acsents are different in each state.
I am 70yo Australian and I find kids and young people sound very very American. I weep for it, who wants more American influence than we already have ! Don't get me started on vocabulary and spelling where the influence of American spell checks and American media is overwhelming our individuality. I remember hearing a woman in the 90s in a StKilda trendy cafe who directed me to the "bathroom" ... it sounded full of American morality and puritanism. I was looking for the "toilet" which back then was the polite term for a "dunny". Nowadays young people default to "bathroom" but me .. I am a grumpy old man and I pointedly ask for the toilet, or even correct them if I feel obnoxious enough. This is just one of so many examples of what the "ordinary" (as opposed to "regular") Australian has been taken over by.
There’s an American voice actor, Danny Montooth, who has an impressive Australian accent. It leans towards Occer (broad) which is probably the easiest to do without slipping into a New Zealand accent, but it’s still difficult to do.
Funnily enough, as an Aussie, I still get in trouble from my mum if I pronounce things the “American” way versus the “British”/Australian way!
We shifted to the general accent so people overseas could understand us. Especially Americans.
Talking with friends from other countries made me realise how fast I talk , as my aussie friend could understand me so easily but my other ones couldn’t
Check out a series called ‘meanwhile in Australia’ it’s done by a comedian who talks to himself as characters from different states..it shows the different attitudes of Australians during Covid and different situations..it’s brilliant
The part for Contagion (around 4:30) sounded a touch South African to me (I'm born and bred Aussie).
I'm an Australian who has been to the US many times. Most people in the US have a VERY hard time picking my accent from a British or New Zealand accent.
There is definitely a range of Aussie accents. Broad is very much home to me - in Queensland. Occa all the way.
On the other hand we Aussies are gifted mimics when it comes to other people's accents. My Brother moved to England and apparently he has a British Accent none of us have ever heard. When he starts thinking or talking about Australia he'll subconsciously switch back.
That's definitely a thing, that slipping back into the accent, especially the broader one. Like when you catch up with mates and all of a sudden your speech goes to parkin, farkin and larkin as you stretch every word out and enunciate nothing. It always makes me smile to catch yourself doing it, it's like, yeah we've got a thick arse accent, you just change according to who you're with at times.
The guy you think was spot on ,,,,is in fact. Jude Law ,, from LONDON.
Yeah, you can just tell who the native speakers are. That was just spot on. 🤣 after listening to english actor, Jude Law 4:30 🤣
Mate, as a Yank and a jokester, mimicking the Aussie accent is SO hard! I slip into Cockney in 2 seconds. It's really it's own thing but having grown up on British comedians, it's really difficult
I dunno, whattayareckon? Us Ozzies chop the start, or ends of most words and puttemalltagether. A sentence can be one whole word🤣🤣🤣
Two interesting differences within Australia that I noticed after moving from NZ, were how Perth and Adelaide say the A in chance like the English, and over east they say chance like Americans. And the other is the pronunciation of double O's, such as pool or school. Not sure exactly where you hear it, but I've heard Queenslanders say pool almost like they're saying pearl, whereas most people sound kind of like they're saying pull.
New South Wales native here... I say pool as two separate words "poo ool", it cracks people up because they think I've said "poo hole" 🤣🤣🤣
There is a lot of British influence because the Poms and us down here have the same humour. If you end up coming down here one day you’ll be fine.
itd be really awesome if u did look at some of the native languages in australia!! i think its easy to gloss over the first nations people sometimes so a video learning about them would be super nice to see 😁
Just to add: there were a lot of immigrants other than Britain's to Australia. Polish, German, Maltese, Italian, and Chinese for example.
Bro you should watch some Carl Barron, especially about the accent and thongs
It helps Liev Shreiber was married to Aussie actress, Naomi Watts.
As Australian i can notice we pronounce more vowels than Americans in lots of words and the R sound it's much softer than Americans does, also our "schwa sound" it's different compare to Americans, and many more differences but these ones are just a few example of our Australian accent that's why it is very challenging to imitate, cheers mate
The Aussie accent is as unique as vegemite..Would love you to react to a song called And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda sung by Roger Williams who reall has a very strong aussie accent.. Be ready for your tissues though.. Merry Christmas Joel.. Love your comments..
The point is there is no one Aussie accent. It depends on what part of this large country you come from and what your role is. Are you well educated, do you live in a city or a rural area, do you mix with people of influence, are you from Sydney or other parts of NSW versus Melbourne or other parts of Victoria, are you from West Australia, Tasmania or the much more British-like Adelaide.
I think one of the hardest parts about the accent is the vowels. An easy way to mimic accents is nail the vowel sounds but Aus just randomly cuts certain ones and accentuate others. Melbourne is Melbin, Cairns is Cans, Brisbane goes to Brisbin, Canberra somehow goes Canbrah, Commander to Commanda. If there's a way to shorten a word we'll find a way
Couple of tips for you. When you pronounce Melbourne we say it like Melben, Aussie is pronounced like ozzy 👍
The best I've ever heard was Robert Downey Junior at the end of Tropic Thunder...
The standard description of Australian accents is broad (working class or rural), general (middle class), and an upper class close-to-British RP one. The general one is taking over with the upper one almost disappeared. These days also the Aboriginal accent and one based on a second-generation Mediterranean-fusion accent (Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arab).
Yes this is soooo true
One feature that wasn't mentioned is that there are no pure vowel sounds in the Australian accent. All vowel sounds are diphthongs. That is, the vowel slides from one sound towards another. For example, the 'a' sound found in words like 'face'. Starts as an 'a' and tends towards 'e'. For some reason (probably due to what is familiar to them) Americans hear this as an 'i' (eye) sound.
A woman I know, working as a nurse in the US, terrified a patient by telling her she could "go home today". If you didn't get that, replace the 'ay' with 'i'.
Listen for the vowel sounds and you'll soon get what's going on.
All you need to do is watch Summer Heights High to get a taste of a variety of accents, often from the same actor playing 3 different roles
Love your videos man. I’ve got an answer for you from of your questions. We identify as and call ourselves Aussies, not Ozzie’s. And it’s not pronounced aus-sies it’s pronounced Ozzie. If that’s not confusing I don’t know what is.
Also, anyone from Brisbane is from Brissy.
Loving your work mate!! Keep it up
Oh... So not "Brisvegas"
@@melissabarrett9750 oh that’s another one we use but it’s more colloquial
The largest influences on the Aussie accent were the London Cockney accent of the 18th century and Irish.
Very interesting. Is it only the Americans who have difficulty? As other people have said, in UK we've seen so many Australian TV & Film shows (Neighbours, Young Doctors, Prisoner Cell Block H / Wentworth , The Club, Tim etc etc etc) that most Australians come across as perfectly intelligible. (obviously, any use of dialect words and strong regional accent by any English speakers will cause difficulty)
Over 120 native tribes each with their own language.
Aussies grew up with the Simpsons, Sesame street and heaps of American shows. You will hear little Aussie kids playing games and using an American accent as part of the game, at early age. I guess that's why our Actors sound very convincing and somtimes get mistaken for Americans. Y'all just haven't been paying attention to us until now. Liev Schreiber is the best Aussie accent I've heard so far.
When we say no, it sounds like 'nar'... hahahahahaha
I say nope or nup, never nah
For Brits' Aussie accents are not at all hard to understand. It must be an American thing.
Meanwhile even though I've never been outside of Australia people constantly ask me where I'm from and even my own family thinks I have an acent, though to myself I sound like everyone else.
My mum thinks I watched too much TV growing up, even though my brother doesn't have the same problem and we watched TV about the same amount of time.
I spent 2 months living with my partner's parents in the USA, I had to slow down everything that I said to the point that I felt like I was sounding things out. My accent was only picked up on accurately by other Aussies and those few Americans that had travelled here because Hollywood's attempts at mimicking us is deplorable at best and most Americans I came across seemed as mesmerised as they were shocked and confused when I'd speak "What was that? Say it again! No! Say it like you said it before" lol. There are however parts of Australia that I have trouble understanding the accent of particularly those that come from central Australian towns as there are so few people you meet from there and our slang is incredibly diverse, and we do speak rather quickly. The best description that I've heard to explain our accent was, to string words together, speak fast and shorten any words you can lol! The native accents and dialects were individual to each tribe, so sadly many of them haven't survived but there are still people willing to teach their languages and catalogue them. I had issues understanding Americans at times as well. British people can be very difficult to understand based on where they come from and I'm damned if I've ever understood a single word from an Irish person, other than when they're swearing but I love hearing them speak.
The people that you said were clearly native speakers, where all foreign actors