American reacts to the 3 Australian Accents
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He might doing an amusing spin on this but he is really spot on with what he is demonstrating..it's not a joke.
Yes. Agreed.
accent can change depending on company and setting too
I think he did that to keep his students engaged in the lesson.. Teaching a dry subject like English isn't always easy to keep the students interested.
100 percent agree. Aussies like people who say serious stuff with humour.
You're dead-right nola. Also that narrator has exactly the true standard Oz accent. I like him. I thought he had a lovely neutral accent.
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He is being serious but done with humour the Australian way
Australian I mean..He has theIQ of a house plant!!!.
No joke Ryan, in general, private school kids may sound cultured, urban and suburban public school kids sound general, and kids in more regional & rural areas sound broad. You'd get it if you visited here.
Could you consider the cultured being called presenter?
It reminds me of Siri. Very clear annunciation.
But I agree with you 💯
Don't forget the lads that sound Greek/Italian
Well I have a broad accent and I live in the suburbs. Plus there is a difference in accents for each state.
@@Caleb_JayySRL I generally sit in a middle "general "zone" but then when I hit the local pub with the cricket team I slide into my natural outback farmer drawl/bogan hybrid.
The I head into work at a law firm and slip into an upper middle general\cultivated.
Having spent years in various realms of academia I can also easily slide into the most pretentious cultivated high Australia/Received Pronunciation.
None of them are fake, they are just different levels of speech for different environments.
I went to a private girls' school and I have a broad accent.
Curse words are an American concept, similar to British swear words. In Australia we're free to use whatever word we deem appropriate for the situation
Yeah, it's amusing to me that 'shit' is cursing for an American! Feels like a curious kind of ossified Puritanism to me, which is even more odd when you consider what dirty minds so many Americans have!
And we fuken love it mate 😊
Depends on context, obviously.
@@johnathanhughes4367 Not really.
Swearing constantly is a bogan thing
This is our regular reminder that yanks really don't get sarcasm or any sort of humour that isn't as blunt and obvious as possible.
Or that has a laugh track.
or visual
It's not a joke, just making it entertaining, but he is correct with the accents.
It's really funny, my wife is a preschool teacher (kinder for any Victorians) and she reads heaps of articles that in America, kids are taking on Aussie accents and phrases because bluey is so big - it's even got them using the word dunny 🤣🤣🤣
I've heard brits and Americans say "Crikey".
Hahaha really?! That's cool
Feels like sweet vengeance for those times I got called out in school for using american spelling.
Soon we will have them sticking the U back into 'colour' and using the metric system.
@@OniGanon Not sure about metrics. So many there believe it's satanic after Tucker Carlson ran a segment claiming it as such.
I think it's karma for all the Americanisms I find our younger generation saying. 😁
This is not a joke. These accents exist. And a few people have pointed out there are 2nd generation immigrant accents ('wog' this word can be considered offensive unless you actually call yourself this) as well.😂
In Australia 'Wog' literally stood for 'western oriental gentleman', originally used for Chinese before it was passed over to Italians, Greeks, etc.
@@Erizedd Honestly I don't think I've heard anyone where I live get upset at being called a wog. Hell, my mate and his family call themselves such, and they're pretty proud of it.
The term used to describe this accent is Ethno-Australian accent.
Accents can also differ slightly from State to State
@@Erizedd That's actually a bit of a myth. It's a lovely story, though! The problem is that acronyms weren't really common in English until the Second World War. The word actually has an long and unclear history.
There's a similar story about 'Pom' for the English - the claim is that it meant 'Prisoner of Mother England'. (That one's quite funny, because even if it somehow _had_ been an acronym, it wouldn't have included the O, so would have been PME. Though there is also 'Pommy', so you can see how these theories develop. Sometimes people claim 'Prisoner of _Old_ Mother England' to compensate, I think.)
The best current theory is that it actually came from 'pomegranate' - i.e. when the English came over in the 1800s, they weren't used to dealing with the sun and burnt red very quickly, earning them the nickname 'Pomegranates', which became 'Poms'. (I've seen it claimed that it was also rhyming slang for 'immigrant', but considering that pomegranate is never pronounced 'pommygrant', I don't know how that would have worked at all.)
Hey Ryan ... "Aussie" is pronounced "Ozzie" not "Ossie". In UK/Australian English the "ss" takes on a "zz" sound and this is why UK/Australian spelling of words will have an "s" where the USA spelling will have a "z".
While in the past a cultivated Australian accent may have been synonymous with wealth, it is actually more to do with education as back in the day only the rich could afford to be educated beyond Secondary school. In the past 40 years Tertiary education has become available to the masses rather than just the rich and so the accent that was once associated with the upper class is now associated with levels of education for the most part.
Spott ooon 👍
I agree. It depends on how you were trained to pronounce your sounds/words through your education.
BS
People get accents from their friends not their school. Many people go to posh schools but don't get the accent. University too. Some people are ethnic (not Anglo).
Over 40 years ago my mum got a scholarship. She didn't get a cultivated accent. She is from India, but she didn't have an Indian accent. She had a mixture of Indian and the General Australian accent.
One thing you can tell is a first generation immigrant from a second generation. Even my older cousins have a different accent to me and the ones my age and younger. The older ones were born in India. You can't tell where they are from, but it is different to Australian, English or Indian accents. It is similar to Malaysian or Indonesian, not the same though just a bit like them.
Look at Hawke and Fraser. Hawke was general-broad. Man was "educated" though!
Here is what Wikipedia has:
Hawke was educated at West Leederville State School, Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1952 with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees. He was also president of the university's guild during the same year.[21] The following year, Hawke won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend University College, Oxford, where he began a Bachelor of Arts course in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).[22] He soon found he was covering much the same ground as he had in his education at the University of Western Australia, and transferred to a Bachelor of Letters course. He wrote his thesis on wage-fixing in Australia and successfully presented it in January 1956.[23]
In 1956, Hawke accepted a scholarship to undertake doctoral studies in the area of arbitration law in the law department at the Australian National University in Canberra.[23][24] Soon after his arrival at ANU, Hawke became the students' representative on the University Council.[24] A year later, Hawke was recommended to the President of the ACTU to become a research officer, replacing Harold Souter who had become ACTU Secretary. The recommendation was made by Hawke's mentor at ANU, H. P. Brown, who for a number of years had assisted the ACTU in national wage cases. Hawke decided to abandon his doctoral studies and accept the offer, moving to Melbourne with his wife Hazel.
Bob Hawke went to Uni in 1952, yet where was his posh accent?
40 years ago was 1983. Bob Hawke was educated long before 1983. What happened to his accent if your theory is true?
He called a guy "silly old bugger" when I was a kid. How old were you then?
Ryan this is very accurate. This guy has portrayed the Aussie accents accurately with a good dose of Aussie humour. We can tell the difference even if you can’t. When I visited the US people thought I was English but here in Australia I would have a general accent.
That happened to me, too. The only person who noticed I was Australian was a Canadian living in the US 😂.
I went to a drive-in bottle shop in Rapid City South Dakota and was having a chat with the bloke there. He then went off and bought me back a six pack of Crown Lager, in case I was feeling homesick. I booked into a motel in Cody Wyoming and the owner, from NZ, told me I was in luck as the AFL Grand Final was on in an hour. A real small world!
Definitely not a joke. Just presented the way we do things in Australia, with a bit of a laugh
You can tell what Australian state people come from by accent to a certain extent.
Adelaide people can sound more English; Queenslanders are more on the broad side; NSW people say "carstle" while Victorians say "casstle".
Greek influence in some suburbs has people sometimes pronouncing "s" as "sh".
State differences are definitely a thing, but even the accents of Sydney suburbs can vary wildly. Get a group of people from the following suburbs and none of them will sound anything alike: Mount Druitt (very broad, even more so than most regional and outback areas), Hurstville (general), Mona Vale (very cultured), and many suburbs are one accent with a hint of another, for example Campbeltown is sort of between broad and general, Penrith is general but with a slight hint of cultured.
Us other states don't have accents, apparently.
@@grandmothergoosePenruff? Cultured? Okey dokes.
@@kangablue4502 Yeah, slight hint, depends a bit on which side of Penrith you're in though. There's also some general with a big fat dose of broad around there too. 🙃
@@grandmothergoose No, lots of well-spoken people live in Penrith. It's all in your imagination and you are confusing social status of suburbs with accents.
It is not a prank. He has very effectively taught the main variances in Aussie accents through "sh#t acting and specific examples. Teaching doesnt have to be boring and this guy will not be a boring teacher in the classroom. I taught English for 40 years. Students learn better when they are engaged and humour is one of the techniques that can be used effectively to engage the student.
He’s actually a language teacher and has some videos specifically for immigrants who don’t speak English but want/need to learn. So he teaches them Australian English meaning with an Australian accent and how we use words.
It’s not a joke. It’s fair dinkum. We do speak like this and more. 😅😂😅
It's a serious topic done with a sense of humour. Those Aussie accents are absolutely genuine.
Best way to learn is with humour. This guy does it well✌🏼
Ryan FYI We survived the bushfires here.👍 We received the notified to prepare for evacuation. We were only 3kms from one of bushfires burning here. The volunteer firefighters saved our house ...love the volunteer firefighters
It’s just an amusing channel on Aussie accents. It’s not a prank, there are varying degrees of Aussie accents, the content was genuine.
Australia is the victim, in some respects, of mass media. I once worked with a guy who was working towards his doctorate. His thesis consisted of the analysis of Australian dialects. Australia was well on it's way to having regionalised accents as recognisable as a person who in England would recognise someone from Cornwall, say, speaking differently from someone from Manchester. Whole vocabularies and pronunciations were springing up around the turn of the 20th century. But then Marconi [or Tesla] intervened with the advent of radio. People were no longer restricted in the general course of their daily lives in being exposed to only 'local' talk. Then movies in 1929 gained a voice. And the rest, as they say, is history. Even so, some words and pronunciations still persist on a local level. Travelling from one state to another to live and work for any length of time you will notice some differences but they are relatively minor now.
eastern staters definantly sound more kiwi than west Ausies but otherwise yeah he's right 3 dialects
@@TheTynell1 No they don't!!! South Australians are the only ones who sound like Kiwis! Nobody in Vic/NSW/Qld sound like Kiwis.... unless they're actual Kiwis!
@@TheTynell1 no Australians sound like Kiwis. C’mon?
@@tammymcleod4504 wtf yes they do and south ausies do not sound like kiwis are you even australian fl0g off you tw@
@@Sydneysider1310 yes they do
Nope. Out of everything you have heard about Australia this is seriously not a prank. It is 100% true blue, ridgey didge absolutely faithful truth. I can guarantee with 100% certainty that this is exactly what it is like here. What this guy fails to tell you though is that we have also additional Aussie accents that originate from other countries. So for example, you may hear the Aussie~Greek accent which you can hear in tv shows such as the Wog Boy.
Aww, you could have fit fair dinkum in there too somewhere? 😉😂
@@utha2665 haha, ahhh cannot believe I forgot that one! Shame on me.
And regional variants, such as the South Australian/Adelaide accent. My daughter is a linguist and moved to Adelaide when she married, so has often discussed the differences she's noticed. These often seem to be mire influenced by the British accent of the early settlers there, who were not convicts (different from Sydney and Melbourne). E.g. girl pronounced as gel, dahnce instead of dance.
@@lynneparsons3721 as an Adelaidean myself I did not realize we sound different.
We have a fourth accent and it's the Australian "Wog" accent!
See Spanian
And that is different in Melbourne and Sydney
Or superwog
There are a few TV shows that could demonstrate our wog accents and idioms. I love that being Australian is SO much more than the old & clichéd 'British ancestried bloke in a cork dangling hat'. I embrace "we are many"!
There are a few TV shows that could demonstrate our wog accents and idioms. I love that being Australian is SO much more than the old & clichéd 'British ancestried bloke in a cork dangling hat'. I embrace "we are many"!
Not a joke! The outfits and mannerism’s for each type of Australian English is a good representation of the ppl who would generally speak one of the three variants. To be honest most of us can alternate between all three as required. I found it funny that you thought the general and ocker Aussie’s sounded similar.
Please see link below to hear what an ocker sounds like when they are slightly fired up, hopefully you’ll hear the difference. 😂
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He telling you the truth about the accents
Ryan if we were any more laid back we'd be horizontal 😂
Ryan, it's not fake. These accents are real. He just did it in an entertaining way.
Cate Blanchett is still very Aussie despite her accent. Watch her acceptance speech at the Oscar’s. 🤣🤣
True!
What an awesome teacher. His students will learn with him 👍
No its not fake. It's accurate. You can tell the broad because the vowels are more exaggerated
If you want to hear a broad Aussie accent look up Aussie comedian Carl Barron.
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Surely there are at least 5. Big difference even between North Queensland, Southeast Queensland and Sydney. Then there's Melbourne. South Australia is different again. Then there are there's western Sydney "ethnic" accents, indigenous accents and so on. Cate Blanchett's accent is almost like an Australian version of RP - almost nobody actually speaks that way but we feel like we're supposed to.
You are absolutely spot on! Sooo many different dialects, there're definitely not just three!
You look at old 60's 70's ABC news broadcasts they are the cultured accent.
Why does everyone stop at SA, Qld, NSW and Vic? 🤔
I’d say the differences you’re suggesting are very subtle local dialects, but there are only e main accents. Within each, you’ll find variation amongst regions but not enough to be classified as a separate accent. Although I agree the ethnic or wog accent is distinct enough to be an accent.
@@David_Beamesthis was officially called the BBC accent. My grandfather was trained in BBC pronunciation- you couldn’t get a job in radio or tv unless you learned BBC pronunciation!
When I was growing up (50s) and then as a young adult (60s) we referred to the cultivated accent as “speaking with a plum in your mouth”. When TV first commenced in Oz I think just about everyone on tv spoke with a cultured accent especially those on the ABC which was the nationally owned channel. Thank goodness it changed over the years and now I believe the 3 accents can be heard. Cheers.
He is spot on , and there are different accents between states too. Thats Fair Dinkum, ridgy didge, true blue ocker accents. Dont forget Mel Gibsons early films had his aussie accent.
Not so much the accents which can be found in all 6 states, but the vocabulary, eg case, carton, slab, tube of beer etc depending which State you're in, same as cossie, bathers togs or even port / suitcase / trunk. I have found the vocab is much more different than the accent.
Hi This website might help. To reiterate, there are 3 main Aussie accents. Posh trying to emulate a British accent, general which the vast majority use and low class bogan / redneck which tends to be more nasal and harder to understand. I taught English in South Korea for 4 years & picked up an American accent. Not hard to do when all the other foreign teachers were from the US or Canada. I did an online quiz 4 times and got midwest twice and New York twice. Never did i get Western, Southern, north east, Boston or Minnesota, the other main 5 accents. My Korean co-teacher picked me up on how I pronounced 'idea' and told me I couldn't speak English. I was saying it with a New York accent. 2 syllables instead of 3: i-deer not i-dee-a. I thought about it and responded to my co-teacher: you're from Daegu right? How would you feel if I told you that you couldn't speak Korean because you don't have a Seoul accent? I am a native speaker based in Brisbane. She replied "I take your point." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English@TeIegram..me-Ryan_Was.-_
The video is serious but even when we are being serious, we dont take ourselves too seriously.
I think this is a significant cultural different and something Americans struggle to understand about us Aussies: humour isn't a separate entity; we don't have "comedians" who epitomise humour; for the average Aussie humour is simply a part of our every interaction, educational videos included; this is how our teachers teach and our students learn, by being relatable
Serious question Ryan, why are you so confused?
The video title promised three Australian accents and he’s explaining them to you by giving examples, even dressing and acting typical of someone who’d speak that way.
Because Americans generally don't get the Aussie sense of humour... though Ry should by now, you'd think!
@@tammymcleod4504 they really don’t and this only confirmed it even more.🤷♀️
To be honest, I was getting confused by Ryan’s confusion as it all just seemed so obvious and straight forward to me 😉
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Sydney Sider1310..Nailed it !!! He compares everything with America and seems gobsmacked if Aussies xo a lot of things better..goes on and on about our creepy crawlies..And comes from a country that has Grizzly Bears,mountain lions,coyotes,rattle snakes alligators in every lake,raccoons,burmese pythons ,rabies,and fruitloops can buy assault rifles!!!! AUSSIES SHOULD BE CONFUSED..HE SEEMS like a really petty envious guy.
In Ryan's defence, it's his personality to question a lot of things and tries to find out whether he's understanding what he's watching as it goes. I completely understand.
As an educated Aussie I can tell you this guy is spot on. He's a high school teacher - I think he's trying to reach his students who asked for something like this :)
He’s not joking, he’s an English teacher with a sense of humour. The vast majority of Aussies speak with the general accent, including myself.
The broad accent is rather lacking in education, both in social interactions and dress style, the most laid back and most likely to use lots of slang terms.
Anyone who has gone to a private school and private high school, often has the cultivated accent.
I love this! It's all true and presented with a typical Aussie sense of humour. ☮️
No joke, just delivered with a typical Aussie humour. X
I'm guessing anyone wanting to move to Australia, irrespective of their first language would want to learn Australian English. With 1 in 2 Australians having at least one parent born overseas, migration is a thing here. Also, people from other countries often learn American English in school and language classes..... they wouldn't want to be mistaken for Americans when they arrive!
is it really one in two? i doubt that.
True. It's not as if there's "English" and "Australian English". Every English-speaking country has its own variant.
Those from English speaking countries would want to learn the unique terminology of the place they are going to but not necessarily pick up the accent. Those from non-English speaking countries would learn the variant of their adopted country. In Australia, they would probably be taught the General accent with regard to pronunciation.
@@briancampbell179 Not only that, but to understand the accent too. I know quite a number of immigrants and they said they knew English really well but had a hard time understanding us.
@@utha2665 , very true. The number of times Americans complain that they can't understand the Australian accent and there are many regional American accents I have difficulty with.
I saw a video a couple of months ago highlighting some very obscure English language accents from around the world that were virtually incomprehensible. They may as well have been speaking Klingon.
@@briancampbell179 Gotta say, I sometimes have trouble understanding the Indian call centres who are speaking with a strongly American accent. The 2 combined just does something that messes with my ability to understand them. I think it's using the speed of Indian with the accent of American that does it to me, not sure, I just know I would MUCH rather they use an Indian accent in terms of being understandable! They want to pretend they're not Indian though, so learn the American accent
When I talk on the phone for business I use a cultivated accent but I normally use a general accent in my day to day life.
Me too! I keep my cultivated voice for official phone calls and for my students and colleagues. Friends and family have the honour of hearing my general accent (with a sprinkling of broad, where appropriate 😅).
@@graceaxisa4213 some people are put off by a cultivated accent. Like the guy said "Snobs".
You don’t have to be rich to pick up the cultivated accent, I think it’s most influenced by watching a lot of BBC shows and David Attenborough documentaries on the ABC when you’re a kid. Now that the internet has fragmented viewing habits much further, I don’t know where things will go. But as an older Ozzie, ‘Americans usually mistook my Cultivated Australian accent as an English one.
Yeah to be honest I usually only hear the “cultivated” accent in people with significant theater training (or much older Aussies who had British parents). But maybe I’m just not hanging around with enough wealthy people 😂
I’m mean the SA accent leans cultivated it’s why a ton of news anchors are from SA
This video is not a joke, it is pretty accurate. Also the characters interaction was on point too. Generally that is how people think and speak about the different groups associated with each described accent.
The cultivated Aussie accent was once considered the most appealing form of English .
No longer considered that?
Still my favourite
I think Hugh Jackman knocked that notion on the head. Or even...dare I say, Russell Crowe.
An Australian with the cultivated accent, I often get asked where it from, by Aussies 😂😂 in my family we call it the "my dad owns a Yacht" accent 😂. Thanks for all your great content, keep it up mate 😊😊
Likewise. Foreigners instantly and correctly pick me as Australian from my accent, but Aussies insist that I am foreign. Some pick southern England, some South Africa, some Boston, some _Germany_ ….
One time I went in to see a new dentist, who turned out to be a tall, thin man with dark skin and with facial features suggesting Pakistan or North-West India. But I could tell from his stance and the way that he reached out to shake hands that he had grown up in Australia, and he turned out to have a General Australian accent. We exchanged a few words of greeting and he asked me "Where are you from?" I answered that I am from right here in Kempsey. And he answered "No; where were you from _originally_ ?"
The dentist turned out to be from Narrabeen.
There are also Ethnic and Aboriginal accents. They should be recognised more.
Yeah mate.
Every Aussie can do all of these. To give some perspective, I’m from WA and I pronounce castle like car sel. My son is from Victoria and he pronounces it like kah sil…..if that translates 😅😅
from qld, we say "cass-el"
most of us, most of the time
sometimes it's "I'm a king and going going to live in the cass-el, but my home is my car sel"...
This is not a joke. I studied linguistics at university, and this video is consistent with what I learned about the 3 main Australian accents. Unlike in other countries, these differences are not regional. The cultivated accent is primarily to do with wealth, but the general/broad split is mainly urban/rural.
"it felt like a prank " well that's Australia for 'ya. It's real but fun
He is spot on, I speak with a general accent, most people overseas expect me to speak with a broad accent and are disappointed when I don't sound like that 😂😂😂
There are way more than three. That video should be renamed "two ways people from Melbourne speak and Queensland." A bogan from Adelaide sounds wildly different from a bogan from Sydney and even the gronks have regional accents. Then there's the country people, Aboriginal people, the Lebanese (and adjacent), the Greeks (and adjacent) and even within the groups they sound different from different places. The variation is nowhere near as much as a European country or even the USA, but it's definitely not just three barely distinguishable accents from Melbourne.
Yeah , what you said 😂
If you want to see Hugh in his "Australian movie" days, before he was big; checkout a movie called "Paperback Hero". It's hilarious but also Aussie as hell.
Also he's presenting these accents in an amusing way, but he's not wrong. He's doing a spot-on presentation, just with a humorous twist.
It possibly feels wrong because he’s ever so slightly not serious and swears. Thing is, he’s Australian and that’s how things are here. You hear the words he bleeped and *’d in polite company.
You thinking his video is a joke is an example of how laid back Aussies are. Everything serious is still a good time to have a laugh
No he's pretty spot on with the accents .ocker is the most used accent.
Not Fake. There is another video which goes into a more technical explanation the 3 accents. I prefer this one as it's hilarious.
This video is 100% correct...it is not a joke. The worst part is that you don't think its real 😮
All the states have the same three accents so it is difficult to tell which state someone is from 🤔Unless they use a word or two that is known to be used in a certain state... eg togs is normally used in Qld The big smoke is Sydney NSW and Sandgroper is W.A
I am an Autralian and I can confirm it is real. I would say that it is more of a spectrum than three distinct accents, and it is possible to get even broader than the accents he shows in the video, but that is kind of rare.
What non Australians need to know about ozzies, is we like to put a humorous spin on everything. Generally we're fun loving and we love to see people smile/laugh. Even when we're dead serious.
That said. The video isn't a prank. It's not a joke. There are actually 3 distinct ozzie accents and he sums them up perfectly in the video.
Also, I'm not pranking or joking. Just in case you thought I was pulling your leg. I'm not.
The Cultivated accent is for the Wealthy, the Artsy, Professionals and the Educated
The Broad accent is for the Lower Class, Lower Working Class and Regional speakers
the General accent is for the rest of us, General speakers can lean Cultivated or Broad depending on Background.
On a good day people think I’m English on a bad day they think I’m a New Zealander😂 We hear a lot of well spoken Australians especially on television. But we do in cities also.
The way he naturally speaks when talking about the video, is in general how we all speak, but, it also depends on what a parts of the country you live, or if you live in rural areas.
I'm originally from Brissie (Brisbane) so I have a general accent. In my early teens we moved to Far North Queensland where a lot of people have broad accents. Recently a couple of people have asked me where I'm from. When I was twelve we visited some relatives who live about an hours drive south of Perth. That was the first time I was pretty much surrounded by people with cultivated accents. Most of them were just average Aussies.
Exactly! The assumption is that Aussies with a more cultivated accent are rich, arrogant and 'superior'. Most of my colleagues speak in this way and they are hardworking, kind, friendly and approachable.
I speak in general to slightly broad ATM because I'm living out bush in a small country town.
Under normal circumstances I use mostly general and closer to cultivated. On the phone or at work I use cultivated accent 95% of the time, or even with people I don't know.
Yes the state's do have a slightly different way of speaking and use different word's sometimes.
When I’ve been overseas I’ve had people not believe I’m Australian because of my accent. It used to be cultivated, but I speak with a general accent now (and live in a suburb nicknamed Bogan Vale!) Years ago I met an Australian couple in Greece and they had very broad accents. They said I was lying about being an Aussie. They were from Melbourne, so I told them I was born in Wagga Wagga. They believed me after that 😂
Yes, I was brought up to speak with a cultivated accent and people used to ask me if I was English. As I've aged it's become general.
I have Autism, so I have that mix of cultivated and general. I've had the "are you British?"/"where's that accent from?"(asked by a fellow Australian)/"No no, do your REAL Australian accent!"(asked by many foreigners) all my life.
In saying that, I reckon every Australian has all 3 of these accents inside them, they merely have a favourite one to use for each situation in life; Visiting your Gran? Cultivated, but relaxed. Visiting your Nan? Broad, but no swears until she's had a glass of her cask Chablis. Job interview? General, but articulate. At home? a weird Tri-polar mix of all 3, highly dependent on our state of inebriation or mood.
Haha I love how you’ve described which situations we use each accent in! @@brokensuave
@@zombiemeg highly observant, we aspies
There's a great little book called 'Let's Speak 'Strine'. I loved it when I first moved here. I brought one back to Aus with me called 'Canajan Eh?'
He says he's an English Teacher, most likely he's actually an ESL teacher, that is English as a Second Language. So he's slowly explaining everything.
This is spot on and not only shows our accents but also our nature.
Cultivate means educated ,general is the general public and broad accent would be a less educated person. Many will put on a broad accent for Americans 😂
A broard accent doesn't necessarily mean they are less educated. There are some very educated people in the bush with very broard accents. 🇭🇲🤙🍻
I disagree. I've heard a broad accent from many well educated Australians. He gave Julia Gillard as an example. I think it depends on where you grew up and who you are around. I've moved around a bit and I usually pick up the local accent. I worked in England for a bit and when I came home people thought that I was English. 😉
You are correct, I didn't think it though enough. I have a broad accent I was gauging it on myself. Plus I live in the Outback 😁@@elizabethpilarski1076 🦘🦘🦘
You are correct. I was just gauging it on myself I have a broad accent and I live in the outback...😁🦘🦘🦘@@paulbirtles2807
It’s so funny watching you be perplexed Ryan. This video is funny to me being an Aussie but seeing you react to it was even more funny!
He’s actually serious Ryan 😂
Some ESL learners don't want an Aussie accent, as it is unique. My German friend went to Australia specifically to acquire an Aussie English accent, and she successfuly did so.
There is a Korean vlogger on UA-cam who taugh himself Aussie English using channels like the one you just reviewed because he liked the accent. His English now has a hint of Canadian now though as he studied there for a short time.
I've watched the Aussie English channel a few times, as well as being informative he utilises the Aussie sense of humour making lessons fun.
Every generation has a slayer. One man, one hero, who has the broad Aussie accent:
BOB KATTER, ON THE JOB EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT.
All other broad Aussie accents are imitators! Bob Katter! There can only be one!
Probably the main difference between the general and broad accent is the pace of delivery. The broad accent is normally slower than the rest. As my dad used to put it, 'it takes that bloke all day to say good morning.'
Cant tell if its a joke? While watching him site Wikipedia references to exactly what he was saying, even acted out the class of each accent 😂 how can you still not know if its a joke, he even had actors as a reference😂 you think hugh jackman was in on the joke too? 😂
Poor Ryan is a little slow on the uptake. Anyone who can pronounce Woolworths as "Woolsworth," and Freddo frogs as "Freedo frogs," is not the sharpest tool in the shed. 🙈
@@anthonyj7989 im teasing him about not being sure if it was a joke, i think it just went over your head a bit haha.. im an aussie, with a pic of australia as my photo, you missed a lot of hints here haha
@@Rick-da-scale in Ryan's defense though, americans cant talk and arent taught how to sound out the sounds a letter makes like all other english speaking countries, americans pronounce the letter itself instead of knowing how a letter sound's, instead of sounding out there letters, they literally pronounce the name of letters during a word... thats why they see fredo, and the cant pronounce an e sound, they literally say fr (say the letter name e) then they can pronounce a d sound but straight back to saying the letter o, instead of the sound an o makes which by fluke actually works for the o because aussie slang.. but listen to an american talk bow ive said that, they're going to sound like kindergarten children who havent finished learning to sound out letters yet hahaha.. youl never unhear it... imagine ryan sitting next to his teacher trying to say his vowels sounds like a kindy aussie kid does 😂 saying aeiou. And the teacher making him sound out each letter sound not say the name of each letter haha...
@@4kays160 Some things he does such as, happy arvo and eemoo, I think he does it on purpose because he's forever told in the comments that we don't say happy arvo, and it's eemYOU. Also even with your great explanation about different sounds of vowels, I still don't know how anyone can put an S in the middle of Woolworths. 🤣
@@Rick-da-scale I’m with you!😉
His pronunciation of words and reading ability is so very frustrating.
G’day up over from Downunder.
He's teaching a serious subject with humour, in order to get his points across and make them memorable. And English as a second language (ie learnt by those who have a different first language) is generally taught as UK English OR American English. So I guess he's just adding another option to the mix.
I speak with a general Educated Aussie accent but coming from Brisbane and depending on the suburb you’re in, you can hear cultivated-posh (or bung it on), general, broad and plain bogan! Lol
We Queenslanders do notice however some southerners, in particular those from Sydney and South Australian have a slightly different general accent.
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G'day Mate! If you get more familiar with the subtle differences in Aussie accents you may be able to notice that Julia Gillard (Former Prime Minister) certainly has an almost broad accent but distinctly an Adelaide accent... Cheers!
I saw a documentary once on outback Australia. They interviewed this guy whose accent was so broad they had to put up sub titles. I couldn’t understand him at all. My husband who has a pretty broad Aussie accent couldn’t understand a word he said either. It was like a whole other language 😂😂
No prank/joke here. I think this is really helpful and I promise there is a difference between the broad and general.
So this is all very true and good information, just done humourously
I went to Hawaii two consecutive years for a holiday, from Sydney. I consider I’d have a general accent. It was so strange/humorous, but on a tour the first trip a European woman who was on the same tour heard me speaking and said she could just listen to my accent all day. Then this year, just walking back to the Waikiki hotel and speaking with my wife a US guy that was walking in front of us turned around at one point and said “I love y’all accents, it’s so cool”. 😮 We’re just talking the way we talk! You don’t expect to get compliments based solely on your accent. 😂
I'm an ex-country Victorian now living in Brisbane Queensland. I often get asked whereabouts in New Zealand I come from. Queensland in general, has a very broad accent and also it's quite a slow speech pattern. South Australia has a very posh-sounding accent and is very upper-class British with round and precise vowels. Malcolm Fraser, who is a former Prime Minister was from the western district of country Victoria and had a very large and wealthy sheep-grazing property, which was not too far from the South Australian / Victorian border.
Nah, see, I reckon South Ausralians sound like Kiwis... have a good listen to them.
@@tammymcleod4504 South Australia’s full of poms and NZ have retained more pommy pronunciations in their words but the accents are different. That’s all.
The broad accent comes out with certain words in certain circumstances especially when talking to a mate or someone from overseas. I went to Europe for a month and the amount of English speaking people who said that they couldn’t understand me was amazing. I was just speaking normal but apparently I do Aussie up my speech sometimes, I never noticed and I’m a teacher. The kids understand me even the ones born OS because they are immersed in it 24/7.
It's for real! Not a prank, but presented in a fun way!
The Tasmanian accent comes in stereo 😂😂
maaattte .... maaatte lol in harmony as well
“Strine” is older.
“Let Stalk Strine” [Let’s talk Australian] books came out in the mid 60s - We sent them back to America so our family would (hopefully) understand us better, after we moved here in the 70s.
You should definitely check them out, Ryan!
Love your channel Ryan ! my hubby & I watch you all time love seeing an American love Australia your welcome here anytime 🇦🇺🦘 Australia would be honoured to have you ❤
No mate it is for real. every one of his vids is worth your time.
"Is this a joke?" Mate, I'm stymied: I (and most of those who've commented) have absolutely no idea why you would think that - especially as you've now watched quite a few Oz. vids? Is it because you think that all Ozzies talk broad Strine like Crocodile Dundee? Every Ozzie can slide into Broad Australian - and a lot of us do that as a joke. Also people from the US get so disapointed when they meet someone from Oz who doesn't speak like a Bogan; so we often slip into Broad Oz just for them! THAT'S a joke - but it makes them very happy!
Most languages have a more formal way of speaking for making speeches, in educational venues, interviews, job applications etc.Why would Strine be any different? This bloke is just illustrating the differences - and one of the main differences, no matter which variety of Strine one is speaking, is that we don't have "cuss" words. Those are just normal adjectives, nouns, adverbs, to Australians.☺The way a person speaks any language is an instant marker of their social status, education,upbringing,thus public speaking needs to be more neutral, standard, easily understood; neither posh nor broad.
So this guy was just showing the 3 main ways - which applies to many languages - that accents differ : "Educated", "Standard", & "Broad" . Whether the language is English, French, German etc. these categories apply. ... where's the joke in that?😔 Oh well, wherever it is, I just don't get it.😂
The examples for “broad” Australian accent weren’t “bogan” enough, that’s why they sounded so similar.
And Eric Bana, is closer to “Broad” than “General”, but still not what you’d call “Bogan”, haha.
Aussie slang can be confusing to some with the way words are cut short
being from Adelaide and travelling up the East Coast I was stunned by how differently people spoke, Queenslanders especially were so different, the word film especially stunned me, we say fillm they say fill-um, Tasmanians sound very English to me.
Love from the outback!❤😊
I live in the outback too! I hope your area is free from the bushfires. 👍👍👍🦘🦘🦘
NOT a prank. This is very informative. And real.
As a Melbournian kid I had a cultivated accent, but after moving to rural Vic I ended up with a more general. I think I only ended up adopting the more general accent after someone asked me if I was British, and now it's my go to.
I grew up in Sydney's Western Suburbs, went to the local Primary and High School and I have been asked often if I'm English ......... guess it just depends. Also I am in my mid '60's and that makes a difference.
I speak with the broad accent that even aussies comment haha doesnt make you less intellectual it just is the tone and speed of speech aka ocker