His australian accents were really good. Ironically the only thing that gave it away for me was the way he would say "Australian" it still had an american ring to it. It still sounded a bit like Austrelian. but overall this is super impressive
How fascinating, thank you! This was really instructive. I recently learned that I have a cultivated accent, which is a description that makes me feel like a class traitor, haha. My mother speaks with a general Australian accent unless she's doing public speaking, when she instinctively slips into cultivated, and my father has an incredible broad accent - people who've called him on the phone just after lunch sometimes apologise for waking him up!
When I moved to Australia, I was introduced to the broad accent in the western suburbs of Sydney. My thought was it sounded like speakers were chewing their vowels and they sounded very rounded
Wow, as a "Cultivated" Australian English speaker, you've got the diphthongs bang on. Also, with the intonation - Cultivated Australian English does tend to go to the RP side. I also have the weak vowel merger in non-morpheme final positions, which distinguishes my English from RP and Estuary (abbot and rabbit are perfect rhymes in my speech). Also, yep, I tend to pronounce my t's strongly rather than flap them but can glottalise them before consonants, which distinguishes me from General Australian and Estuary.
I have a cultivated Australian accent myself and you're the closest match I've seen of any UA-camr! The one thing I'd add is that the pronounciation of "Australia" is more like "A-stralia" or "Uh-stralia" in my accent- we don't really pronounce the "Aus" part :) I watched your cockney/australian video too and that was fascinating. Also as someone said below- the clear pronounciation of the letter "t" in the cultivated Australian accent is similar to RP. In 'broad' or 'general' Aussie you would pronounce the letter "t" as a "d" most of the time, in the middle of words, and soften it at the end. In cultivated, we tend to pronounce the "t" a little more thoroughly.
I grew up mad bogan but when I went to Uni I switched to a posh Aussie accent so as not to be so noticeable - I was just pondering the relation between posh Aussie and RP - I'm having a small identity crisis.
Same thing with me, I grew up with a more "bogan" accent then went to catholic school and uni and began to switch for a more cultivated accent to blend in more
@@AccentHelp ah I've had the identity crisis for awhile - I've forgotten what my true or actual accent is ... depending upon my social company I can switch my accent but which one is more true to who I am?
@@scotuslaurentius2763 I don't think there's such a thing as your True accent. We're all chameleons, to some degree, so adapting your accent is just another sign that you're alive and still changing! It's likely it will continue to shift. No worries.
@@scotuslaurentius2763 dont worry almost everyone in my extended family does that. I don't think it is unusual for people in Australia. Sometimes when my mum talks to her mum her accent gets so broad she sounds like another person.
The main difference is in the 'ahh' sound, for example in 'car' or 'large'. Australians use a much broader sound, similar to the one used in Irish or northern English accents and also in rural East Anglian accents - but never in RP or Cockney. That is the way you can instantly tell if someone is either from Australia or the south east of England and this strong 'ahh' is usually present in all Australian accents.
@@ByeByeBelly British people and Australians wouldn't normally confuse the two because of the different 'ahh' sound. Also cockneys use glottal stops more instead of a 't' sound in the middle of words whereas Australians often use a soft 't' that sounds quite similar to a 'd', just like Americans do. A lot of vowel sounds in broad Australian and cockney are almost identical though. I've heard that Americans can get them confused and even that they've assumed strong Yorkshire accents are Australian accents because they are so unfamiliar with them.
@@susanhall9871 I’m a Londoner and Melbourne I noticed seems to have alot of cockney terms and influence they are miles different but Americans wouldn’t probably have a clue
I was looking for the accent that Australian journalists used to use in the 70's and earlier and came across this. Fascinating, to say the least, listening to you traverse the accents was quite surreal and quite subtle. I did a double take the first time I heard it, really cool how you do that.
@MACABRE L.A. To a point yes, but the lower socio-economic regions still had a stronger Australian accent. RP English seems to have been a thing with higher society and journalism back then. Of course this isn't a total generalisation as I'm sure we could find lower and higher socio-economic regions that would buck this trend.
@MACABRE L.A. Yeah, it is fascinating and sometimes a bit cringeworthy, particularly around the white Australia policy. Looking back that was an embarrassing time.
One difference is pronunciation so things like privacy and vitamin in RP are quite different even to a cultivated Australian accent where it’s like pry-vacy compared to the RP priv-acy. One thing that really differentiates cultivated from more general and broad Australian accents is the pronunciation of the letter t. Broader accents dull the t to almost more of a d sound while it’s usually still a t in cultivated accents which is something which stands out and does make it sound more posh.
My accent (cultivated Australian) is often mistaken for a British accent... I was often teased in school for enunciating the i in nine, as in shine... The lower class kids definitely singled me out in that way but I was poor myself. My accent had been passed on when my parents entered a lower social class...
Would you be willing to do a dialect recording for me? I'd love to have an example of your accent to share with actors. No worries if you'd rather not, Brendan!
I'm from Adelaide, and I've always had people from abroad think I'm British. It's funny because I'm definitely not posh, and my parents were total working class people.
I've got a cultivated Australian accent and get the absolute piss taken out of me working in the UK and seeing its relations to RP make me realise why now, especially when working in the regions! My father was an Australian radio announcer in the 60s so it makes sense now.
Every time I see your uploads I get an urge to purchase another one of your accent guides. Learning is just so damn fun, but I'm saving up and need to start being responsible hahaha. If ever you go Apple iBook format though, I'll be going on a shopping spree...
I play D&D with my friends your accent break downs help me invent my own for my world! If you haven’t seen “The Expanse” I recommend it there is an invented accent they invented for the belters you might find interesting.
Great video. As an Australian it really pains me that our accent is always portrayed as that super-broad, Crocodile Dundee/Steve Irwin style in Hollywood movies, although I suppose Hollywood loves the cliche that we all live in the outback surrounded by Kangaroos. To be fair our accent is incredibly difficult to replicate properly - I find people who try always sound like a mix of broad Aussie/Kiwi/South African/Cockney.
Did your kangaroo type this? C'mon, we know they've taken over... I've been working on my Aussie accent for years, and I still find it a big challenge! Indeed, the drift towards the other accents is incredibly common... Would you mind simplifying your accent for us Americans, so we don't suck at it so badly?
@@AccentHelp Okay, okay yes, a kangaroo forced me to type that & a koala made me wear an Akubra hat! As for tips the key is in the vowels - this is where accent attempts end up sounding slightly kiwi. Australian's would say 'hat' whereas the vowel sound with a Kiwi accent would be 'het' . We say 'cat' they say 'ket'. :) You do a great job though! Kate Winslet did a good job in the movie Holy Smokes too.
@@Ali-qy5ic I appreciate your kind words, kanga. Please tell Ali thanks as well, and wish him luck with his chimps on the Barbie doll house, or whatever that saying is.
Glad I could help! I was afraid it was still too muddy, but I hoped, if nothing else, that if I talked around it enough, I might share the info that's most useful to you.
Excellent video and very useful (and explicable) to this Aussie with a cultivated accent (level of education is the other divider, alongside wealth/socio economic status). Thank you! I was born in Oxford (UK) to Aussie parents, and left when I was 4yr. Until I was about 14yr, whenever I read out-loud I would automatically switch to an RP/UK accent. It was very odd because I hadn't learnt to read when I left the UK. I had to teach myself to maintain my usual accent...Don't know if you've heard of that kind of phenomenon...
i've recently found out i have a posh aussie accent. ive had alot of people mistaken me for english and brought this up with a friend and my boss the other day. i thought it was so amusing and weird but both told me i have a slight english accent. one of them said i sound like a 'rich, private school girl'. i feel fancy as f haha
Fascinating show, so correct with those Aussie diphthongs. RP was taught in private schools in Australia - AusTRAYLIA being the acceptable common pronounciation (with my emphasis). However comically the broad accent comes out more like Straya. HM The Queen, back in the 1960's was taught by Sir Robert Menzies to pronounce Australia properly, after she was caught out calling it ORStralia. The giant mixing bowl of Australia's population and accents now often sees newsreaders pronouncing it as AusTRAALia.
I’m a Yank who recently discovered the old Australian tv series “Kath & Kim”. I’m trying to get a handle on the accents and dialect of “Trude” and “ Prue”. I cannot understand a damned thing they say 😂
I'll be finishing up my IPA materials this fall, so I'll be diving into clarifying some that I find incredibly helpful in examining speech for accents for actors, but that's a little ways off... Any specific ones you'd like clarification on? I could do a post...
@@wagnerjunior6524 I think it's actually going to be more about what diacritics are most helpful for describing accents in general. I'll work on that and make another video.
@@wagnerjunior6524 In planning it, I'm realizing I'll need to cover them in a few videos. I'll get the first one done this week and follow up with the others.
Can you do one on the "Pilbara Accent" North West of Australia, It is influenced by the Indigenous people ie even white, malaysion aussie etc have this same Pilbara Accent when living there or raised there.. I personal have this accent and alot ofnew zealanders will ask if Im from new zealand and alot of latinos will ask if im latino, dont even have a passport, never been to their countrys... so would be quite interesting
You did ok but the way you say "Australian" isn't the general way we say it. My husband and I are working class and we say Osstrayleeun, not Ostrayan (that's the thick broad "bogan" accent). We pronounce Australian fully
I have no idea what these concepts ("estuary", "RP") refer to, but I noticed the subtle difference between the three. TBH 'cultivated' and the next in line are still similar enough to me to be splitting hairs (Aus-born & 30 years young), but 'broad' hit a nerve. You missed one thing though, and that's the humorous, hard to dissect dialect we call "Strine". To be truly proficient in Aus accents you need to be at least able to imitate it, but you'll asphyxiate before you get it done. I don't know whether there was a point to this comment but I'm posting it anyway.
Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush are typical examples of a modern Cultivated Australian Accent. There was also 'old' Cultivated Accent very similar to historical RP. It is almost extinct and not spoken by anybody under 70.
There are more than three accents in Au. Three Accent : Cultivated Australian, General Australian, broad Australian( in outback). The biggest difference: DipHthong. Intonation: RP=More fluctuating, Au: More bends. Diphongs: 1. Price /aɪ/: RP-no round. AU= round. ; 2. /oʊ/ & /əʊ/ no big distinction; 3. /aʊ/ -->/æʊ/, 4. /ei/ & /oi/ no big difference in CA. Summary: C.A has more common with RP. There's no big difference between RP and CA with sounds, but Intonation and placement.
I feel the Cultivated Australian is a fake, put on accent now - similar to the transatlantic accent. You only hear university professors or thespians using it now, and most certainly didn't grow up with it. No one under 40 spoke like that, even at the most elite private schools.
As someone with a "cultivated" Australian accent and family members with RP due to English heritage. I'm impressed with how detailed this short video was. My general observation would be Australian accents in general, are lazy compared to RP. This would make sense as my grandmother can't stand people with "bogan" or broad accents as she believes the individuals were not brought up "properly".
I don't buy into the "lazy" default explanation. (I prefer the word "efficient" at least - why work harder than you need to in communicating to the people you talk to, unless there's a problem and you're unclear. --the wider the circle of people you talk to, the more likely to have to alter your speech to be understood by a wider range of folks.)
Also there's the Adelaide accent, which is different again. Basically the major cities have different accents, while the rest share a working class accent
Thanks for that most edifying insight, Professor Higgins. It's a tough job, but somebody has to shake a fist at clouds, or they'll never stop changing.
Fail video because he is trying to say too much (in the nine minutes) he drops into other accents while speaking which only he is "aware" of, because viewers don't know the differences or they would not be watching "to discover" what the different sounds are. Make videos for three minutes only.
I play D&D with my friends your accent break downs help me invent my own for my world! If you haven’t seen “The Expanse” I recommend it there is an invented accent they invented for the belters you might find interesting.
That beard is cultivated.
His australian accents were really good. Ironically the only thing that gave it away for me was the way he would say "Australian" it still had an american ring to it. It still sounded a bit like Austrelian. but overall this is super impressive
that's an impressive ability to subtly shift accents with all their nuances well done and very informative thankyou 👍
How fascinating, thank you! This was really instructive.
I recently learned that I have a cultivated accent, which is a description that makes me feel like a class traitor, haha.
My mother speaks with a general Australian accent unless she's doing public speaking, when she instinctively slips into cultivated, and my father has an incredible broad accent - people who've called him on the phone just after lunch sometimes apologise for waking him up!
That's an incredibly good grasp on the Aussie accents
Thanks! It was a really challenging accent for me for years, and I still wrestle with my confidence with it.
@@AccentHelp Can confirm that your accent sounds fantastic- honestly, you could have fooled me into thinking you were Aussie!
@@jazlynr8316 Oh, stop!
...not really... keep going... Thanks!
Cultivated Australian accents do not flatten Australia.
When I moved to Australia, I was introduced to the broad accent in the western suburbs of Sydney. My thought was it sounded like speakers were chewing their vowels and they sounded very rounded
Hands down the best cultivated Australian accent I've heard, uncanny how easily you can switch too!
Wow, as a "Cultivated" Australian English speaker, you've got the diphthongs bang on. Also, with the intonation - Cultivated Australian English does tend to go to the RP side. I also have the weak vowel merger in non-morpheme final positions, which distinguishes my English from RP and Estuary (abbot and rabbit are perfect rhymes in my speech). Also, yep, I tend to pronounce my t's strongly rather than flap them but can glottalise them before consonants, which distinguishes me from General Australian and Estuary.
I have a cultivated Australian accent myself and you're the closest match I've seen of any UA-camr! The one thing I'd add is that the pronounciation of "Australia" is more like "A-stralia" or "Uh-stralia" in my accent- we don't really pronounce the "Aus" part :) I watched your cockney/australian video too and that was fascinating. Also as someone said below- the clear pronounciation of the letter "t" in the cultivated Australian accent is similar to RP. In 'broad' or 'general' Aussie you would pronounce the letter "t" as a "d" most of the time, in the middle of words, and soften it at the end. In cultivated, we tend to pronounce the "t" a little more thoroughly.
We don't say straya like he did either... Most common accent pronounces it uhstraleeun, definitely not that more bogan astraya
I grew up mad bogan but when I went to Uni I switched to a posh Aussie accent so as not to be so noticeable - I was just pondering the relation between posh Aussie and RP - I'm having a small identity crisis.
The last thing I want to do this year is contribute to another freakin' crisis... Please forgive me!
Same thing with me, I grew up with a more "bogan" accent then went to catholic school and uni and began to switch for a more cultivated accent to blend in more
@@AccentHelp ah I've had the identity crisis for awhile - I've forgotten what my true or actual accent is ... depending upon my social company I can switch my accent but which one is more true to who I am?
@@scotuslaurentius2763 I don't think there's such a thing as your True accent. We're all chameleons, to some degree, so adapting your accent is just another sign that you're alive and still changing! It's likely it will continue to shift. No worries.
@@scotuslaurentius2763 dont worry almost everyone in my extended family does that. I don't think it is unusual for people in Australia. Sometimes when my mum talks to her mum her accent gets so broad she sounds like another person.
The main difference is in the 'ahh' sound, for example in 'car' or 'large'. Australians use a much broader sound, similar to the one used in Irish or northern English accents and also in rural East Anglian accents - but never in RP or Cockney. That is the way you can instantly tell if someone is either from Australia or the south east of England and this strong 'ahh' is usually present in all Australian accents.
What is the position to create the cultivated Australian versión of the long /a:/ vowel?
Do ppl confuse Australian with cockney..?
@@ByeByeBelly British people and Australians wouldn't normally confuse the two because of the different 'ahh' sound. Also cockneys use glottal stops more instead of a 't' sound in the middle of words whereas Australians often use a soft 't' that sounds quite similar to a 'd', just like Americans do.
A lot of vowel sounds in broad Australian and cockney are almost identical though.
I've heard that Americans can get them confused and even that they've assumed strong Yorkshire accents are Australian accents because they are so unfamiliar with them.
@@ByeByeBelly These two are generally confused
@@susanhall9871 I’m a Londoner and Melbourne I noticed seems to have alot of cockney terms and influence they are miles different but Americans wouldn’t probably have a clue
I was looking for the accent that Australian journalists used to use in the 70's and earlier and came across this. Fascinating, to say the least, listening to you traverse the accents was quite surreal and quite subtle. I did a double take the first time I heard it, really cool how you do that.
@MACABRE L.A. To a point yes, but the lower socio-economic regions still had a stronger Australian accent. RP English seems to have been a thing with higher society and journalism back then. Of course this isn't a total generalisation as I'm sure we could find lower and higher socio-economic regions that would buck this trend.
@MACABRE L.A. Me too, I was just making an observation of older news reels and early TV. I wasn't around either, I'm only a year older than you.
@MACABRE L.A. Yeah, it is fascinating and sometimes a bit cringeworthy, particularly around the white Australia policy. Looking back that was an embarrassing time.
@NoirL.A.which era did they sound more “British”
One difference is pronunciation so things like privacy and vitamin in RP are quite different even to a cultivated Australian accent where it’s like pry-vacy compared to the RP priv-acy. One thing that really differentiates cultivated from more general and broad Australian accents is the pronunciation of the letter t. Broader accents dull the t to almost more of a d sound while it’s usually still a t in cultivated accents which is something which stands out and does make it sound more posh.
Are you talking about "t" in the middle of words like "butter", or just "t" in general?
My accent (cultivated Australian) is often mistaken for a British accent... I was often teased in school for enunciating the i in nine, as in shine... The lower class kids definitely singled me out in that way but I was poor myself. My accent had been passed on when my parents entered a lower social class...
Would you be willing to do a dialect recording for me? I'd love to have an example of your accent to share with actors. No worries if you'd rather not, Brendan!
I'm from Adelaide, and I've always had people from abroad think I'm British. It's funny because I'm definitely not posh, and my parents were total working class people.
I had a processor from Adelaide who sounded British to me. I think he was from the upper class, as he acted very "civilized" and "proper".
I’m from Adelaide too. I get asked if I’m British even by people from Adelaide. Even though I was born and grew up here
@@jzen1455 Likely, there is an Old Boy's network in Adelaide, descendants of the first free settlers who founded the city.
Glad you're adding more amazing content to this channel! 😊
I've got a cultivated Australian accent and get the absolute piss taken out of me working in the UK and seeing its relations to RP make me realise why now, especially when working in the regions! My father was an Australian radio announcer in the 60s so it makes sense now.
Why did they take the piss where was you in UK
I have to say that your content is the only one of it's kind in the whole youtube. Keep up the superb work
Every time I see your uploads I get an urge to purchase another one of your accent guides. Learning is just so damn fun, but I'm saving up and need to start being responsible hahaha.
If ever you go Apple iBook format though, I'll be going on a shopping spree...
I play D&D with my friends your accent break downs help me invent my own for my world! If you haven’t seen “The Expanse” I recommend it there is an invented accent they invented for the belters you might find interesting.
Thanks, Brett!
Great video. As an Australian it really pains me that our accent is always portrayed as that super-broad, Crocodile Dundee/Steve Irwin style in Hollywood movies, although I suppose Hollywood loves the cliche that we all live in the outback surrounded by Kangaroos. To be fair our accent is incredibly difficult to replicate properly - I find people who try always sound like a mix of broad Aussie/Kiwi/South African/Cockney.
Did your kangaroo type this? C'mon, we know they've taken over...
I've been working on my Aussie accent for years, and I still find it a big challenge! Indeed, the drift towards the other accents is incredibly common... Would you mind simplifying your accent for us Americans, so we don't suck at it so badly?
@@AccentHelp Okay, okay yes, a kangaroo forced me to type that & a koala made me wear an Akubra hat! As for tips the key is in the vowels - this is where accent attempts end up sounding slightly kiwi. Australian's would say 'hat' whereas the vowel sound with a Kiwi accent would be 'het' . We say 'cat' they say 'ket'. :) You do a great job though! Kate Winslet did a good job in the movie Holy Smokes too.
@@Ali-qy5ic I appreciate your kind words, kanga. Please tell Ali thanks as well, and wish him luck with his chimps on the Barbie doll house, or whatever that saying is.
@@AccentHelp No worries, mate!
@@liam3284I’ve never said it in my life and have never heard anyone say it either. No one in Australia says ‘shrimp’ 😂
Very clear explanation, thank you Jim!!!
Glad I could help! I was afraid it was still too muddy, but I hoped, if nothing else, that if I talked around it enough, I might share the info that's most useful to you.
You did a really great job with this thanks I'm fascinated by accents and thankyou for pointing out that there are more than three Australian accents
Your demonstration of the Australian accents was spot on.
Excellent video and very useful (and explicable) to this Aussie with a cultivated accent (level of education is the other divider, alongside wealth/socio economic status). Thank you! I was born in Oxford (UK) to Aussie parents, and left when I was 4yr. Until I was about 14yr, whenever I read out-loud I would automatically switch to an RP/UK accent. It was very odd because I hadn't learnt to read when I left the UK. I had to teach myself to maintain my usual accent...Don't know if you've heard of that kind of phenomenon...
I haven't heard of that specifically before. Humans are interesting creatures...
I enjoyed learning about the differences between Standard British (and Estuary) and the Cultivated Australian accent!
The goal of Cultivated Australian was/is to sound as much like RP as possible. It makes sense they're so similar.
Why did they want to sound more English
i've recently found out i have a posh aussie accent. ive had alot of people mistaken me for english and brought this up with a friend and my boss the other day. i thought it was so amusing and weird but both told me i have a slight english accent. one of them said i sound like a 'rich, private school girl'. i feel fancy as f haha
You didn't explain how ockers say the A in same for example
Fascinating show, so correct with those Aussie diphthongs. RP was taught in private schools in Australia - AusTRAYLIA being the acceptable common pronounciation (with my emphasis). However comically the broad accent comes out more like Straya. HM The Queen, back in the 1960's was taught by Sir Robert Menzies to pronounce Australia properly, after she was caught out calling it ORStralia. The giant mixing bowl of Australia's population and accents now often sees newsreaders pronouncing it as AusTRAALia.
Maybe you can also compare RP to what is called the "transatlantic accent"?
I’m a Yank who recently discovered the old Australian tv series “Kath & Kim”. I’m trying to get a handle on the accents and dialect of “Trude” and “ Prue”. I cannot understand a damned thing they say 😂
Where can I study more about the diacritics?
I'll be finishing up my IPA materials this fall, so I'll be diving into clarifying some that I find incredibly helpful in examining speech for accents for actors, but that's a little ways off... Any specific ones you'd like clarification on? I could do a post...
@@AccentHelp I'd like to learn at least the most important/frequent ones to describe the main American accents.
@@wagnerjunior6524 I think it's actually going to be more about what diacritics are most helpful for describing accents in general. I'll work on that and make another video.
@@AccentHelp Thanks a lot! I appreciate it!
@@wagnerjunior6524 In planning it, I'm realizing I'll need to cover them in a few videos. I'll get the first one done this week and follow up with the others.
Would you be able to do New Zealand accent? 😃
I can. I have. And I have to be very much tuned in to pull it off, making the distinctions that keep it from slipping toward Aussie!
Can you do one on the "Pilbara Accent" North West of Australia, It is influenced by the Indigenous people ie even white, malaysion aussie etc have this same Pilbara Accent when living there or raised there.. I personal have this accent and alot ofnew zealanders will ask if Im from new zealand and alot of latinos will ask if im latino, dont even have a passport, never been to their countrys... so would be quite interesting
I don't know of this accent... Would you be willing to do a recording for me to hear it? Thanks for bringing it up!
You did ok but the way you say "Australian" isn't the general way we say it. My husband and I are working class and we say Osstrayleeun, not Ostrayan (that's the thick broad "bogan" accent). We pronounce Australian fully
I tried to speak with British accent (RP) and it turned out to be Aussie accent :(
Funny how so many Australians in the comments declare themselves to have a cultivated accent.
I have no idea what these concepts ("estuary", "RP") refer to, but I noticed the subtle difference between the three. TBH 'cultivated' and the next in line are still similar enough to me to be splitting hairs (Aus-born & 30 years young), but 'broad' hit a nerve.
You missed one thing though, and that's the humorous, hard to dissect dialect we call "Strine". To be truly proficient in Aus accents you need to be at least able to imitate it, but you'll asphyxiate before you get it done.
I don't know whether there was a point to this comment but I'm posting it anyway.
not bad you're closer than most american actors
I think he is doing a good job 😊
What accent do I have?
Probably the best Australian accent I've ever heard from an American.
That’s a pretty mean beard. With a grasp of the Aussie accent I can see Ned Kelly here.
I am a 71-year-old student with a postgraduate education. I agree with all of this.
Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush are typical examples of a modern Cultivated Australian Accent. There was also 'old' Cultivated Accent very similar to historical RP. It is almost extinct and not spoken by anybody under 70.
There are more than three accents in Au. Three Accent : Cultivated Australian, General Australian, broad Australian( in outback). The biggest difference: DipHthong. Intonation: RP=More fluctuating, Au: More bends. Diphongs: 1. Price /aɪ/: RP-no round. AU= round. ; 2. /oʊ/ & /əʊ/ no big distinction; 3. /aʊ/ -->/æʊ/, 4. /ei/ & /oi/ no big difference in CA. Summary: C.A has more common with RP. There's no big difference between RP and CA with sounds, but Intonation and placement.
why do Australians use all 5 vowels to say the word "no"?
Very clever. Solid grasp on Australian accents, especially not an Australian yourself
I feel the Cultivated Australian is a fake, put on accent now - similar to the transatlantic accent. You only hear university professors or thespians using it now, and most certainly didn't grow up with it. No one under 40 spoke like that, even at the most elite private schools.
broad pronounced in broad would sound more like br-awwd like in awning
Interesting, and very true. And without searching your profile I've no idea of your true country of origin. Maybe american ? . Not sure
Yup. Originally from a small farming town in Iowa, then affected by 10 years in Chicago, 20 in Houston, and many years of voice, speech, and acting...
As someone with a "cultivated" Australian accent and family members with RP due to English heritage. I'm impressed with how detailed this short video was.
My general observation would be Australian accents in general, are lazy compared to RP.
This would make sense as my grandmother can't stand people with "bogan" or broad accents as she believes the individuals were not brought up "properly".
I don't buy into the "lazy" default explanation. (I prefer the word "efficient" at least - why work harder than you need to in communicating to the people you talk to, unless there's a problem and you're unclear. --the wider the circle of people you talk to, the more likely to have to alter your speech to be understood by a wider range of folks.)
@@AccentHelp many Australians are hard to understand.
Especially bogans.
That’s called snobbery
very interesting
Also there's the Adelaide accent, which is different again. Basically the major cities have different accents, while the rest share a working class accent
Genius 🤯
Nice beard.
I've only been growing it until I got a compliment. Now I can finally shave.
More like, "up themself", "normal" and "bogan"
Estuary is awful.
Thanks for that most edifying insight, Professor Higgins. It's a tough job, but somebody has to shake a fist at clouds, or they'll never stop changing.
Fail video because he is trying to say too much (in the nine minutes) he drops into other accents while speaking which only he is "aware" of, because viewers don't know the differences or they would not be watching "to discover" what the different sounds are.
Make videos for three minutes only.
Why do aussie actors in hollywood lose their accents quicker to some degree than british who never seem to lose theirs
Like who?
I play D&D with my friends your accent break downs help me invent my own for my world! If you haven’t seen “The Expanse” I recommend it there is an invented accent they invented for the belters you might find interesting.