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  • @intrograted792
    @intrograted792 Рік тому +860

    It's so rare to hear a non-Aussie pull off our accent for even snippets at a time. So to nail it so consistently for so long... well, colour me impressed (and oddly flattered)! Nice one, mate

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +91

      Wow. Thank you. So glad to hear the that.

    • @tomasbyrom3954
      @tomasbyrom3954 Рік тому +32

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages It was amazing! I am an English as a second language in Australia, and aside from one or 2 words, I would have guessed you were Aussie. Well done!

    • @jirskyrjenkins1959
      @jirskyrjenkins1959 Рік тому +30

      As a native Aussie I agree, it's a pretty consistently good one. I knew he was English so I kept listening out for slips.

    • @drats6433
      @drats6433 Рік тому +29

      Wait, he's not occa? That's actually wild af! I've never ever ever heard aussie accents getting nailed. Here the accent and tonality matches the approximate age. That's craaaazy

    • @greasy_beefcake
      @greasy_beefcake Рік тому +49

      Holy moly. I'm Australian and didn't realise he wasn't Aussie 😂. Thought he was excellent at doing English accents though lol.

  • @james2155
    @james2155 Рік тому +801

    The Australian modern accent is so different to even how we spoke 60 years ago. If you watch old street interviews you’ll see

    • @SirTatManTat
      @SirTatManTat Рік тому +71

      I'm a huge fan of the old aussie accent. It has a little more dignity to it, tho maybe that's coz I always hear it in old interviews with celebs and prime ministers etc.

    • @mlassz009
      @mlassz009 Рік тому +42

      I remember as a young kid in the 80's hearing Aussie slang like ' Pigs Arse ' and ' Blow me down '....haven't heard those words for about 30yrs

    • @AD_AP_T
      @AD_AP_T Рік тому +76

      Don't rely overly on those old recordings - accents have absolutely evolved, but some of the difference is down to biases in the technology itself, and people knowing that and deliberately trying to speak to be understood. Dunno if you're old enough to know what a "phone voice" is...? Most people's "phone voice" at least used to sound utterly plummy, 'cause we knew that was what was needed for someone else to clearly understand. Same with radio accents - whether in Australia, the UK, the US, or anywhere else, noone really spoke with those old radio presenter accents.

    • @dumb_as_rocks
      @dumb_as_rocks Рік тому +25

      pigs arse ya haven’t heard someone say that since the 80s

    • @xosferens
      @xosferens Рік тому +6

      I remember noticing when I was young that very elderly working class Australians (people who grew up in the 19th century) sometimes had surprisingly cultivated accents and not the “broad” accent you might expect. I suspect they might now be perceived as speaking “posh”.

  • @davidhynd4435
    @davidhynd4435 Рік тому +307

    An Aussie here. I would absolutely believe you to be a fellow Australian. It's quite rare to hear a non-Australian mimic the accent so perfectly. Americans do an almost-believable, late 1800s Cockney Londoner when trying to do our accent. Subscribed.

    • @tomchamberlain4329
      @tomchamberlain4329 11 місяців тому +3

      To be fair they also do that when they try to sound English

  • @biosparkles9442
    @biosparkles9442 Рік тому +104

    I am extremely impressed at how well you pulled off an Aussie accent honestly, I have literally never heard a non-Aussie do it so well

    • @dylanbaron__
      @dylanbaron__ Рік тому +4

      As a kiwi who’s lived here in Queensland for 7 years, I was shocked to go to his channel and find out he wasn’t actually Australian hahaha

    • @westaussie965
      @westaussie965 9 місяців тому

      Kate Winslet😉

  • @HannahWalters
    @HannahWalters Рік тому +12

    Dave, O M G.
    I am an Australian and have legitimately never ever EVER heard someone who fooled me with an Australian accent like this video has.
    A lot of linguistic youtubers have perfect pronunciations of the way we say words, but as soon as it comes to sustaining the accent, it always goes out the window and is never passable. UNTIL I SAW THIS!
    As a FURTHER testament, I sent your french video to my french relatives and they didnt believe me when I said you weren't french either.
    Sir, you are a truly an accent and language master. This is absolutely flawless.

  • @nigelwylie01
    @nigelwylie01 Рік тому +283

    Your range and consistency with accents without becoming extreme with them is a thing to behold. Thank you Dave. I wonder how long this video took you to record!

    • @angusdunn474
      @angusdunn474 Рік тому

      The late Mark McManus of Taggart strayed out on Skippy. Someone asked him how they kept Skippy so small. Skippy sometimes falls out of a tree. But kangaroos don’t climb trees. Skippy does …

    • @kenbaker347
      @kenbaker347 Місяць тому

      @@angusdunn474 Actually mate, some Kangaroos (in north Queensland and New Guinea) do climb trees.

  • @ThePwnageHobo
    @ThePwnageHobo Рік тому +98

    It's not just class differences, there's definitely a some more regionality to it. I was in Melbourne a few weeks ago, and there's definitely a vowel shift in their short e. They pronounce it "Malbn" to my ear, rather than my regional South Aussie "Melbn". And you can pick a Queenslander out of a lineup any day of the week, because they always wear their toggs when they go to the pewl to cewl off after schewl.

    • @Secretlyanothername
      @Secretlyanothername Рік тому +6

      Queenslanders drag their vowels. Although with migration from the south it is already changing.

    • @LuQuade
      @LuQuade Рік тому +2

      Yea. I've got that Melbourne accent. Like Ned Kally vs Ned Kelly. Allan vs Ellen.

    • @crimsoncobber
      @crimsoncobber Рік тому +8

      I feel the ‘Victorian’ accent is really distinctive to my Qld ear, there is a shift from ‘e’ to ‘a’ (like someone described above, e.g. Kelly to Kally) that really stands out, often on tv and radio. There also used to be an ad for Bendigo Bank on when we were kids that we’d always imitate when it came on: instead of “so nice to have someone speak to us face to face” they’d say “…fice to fice”.
      Edit to add - I grew up in country Qld and very used to hearing broad Australian up here so I don’t think it is solely attributable to class distinction.

    • @Secretlyanothername
      @Secretlyanothername Рік тому +7

      @@crimsoncobber broad Aussie definitely isn't a class thing, and relates more to rural and northern speech. It's distinct from ocker/bogan.

    • @smokeandmirrors85
      @smokeandmirrors85 Рік тому +3

      I’m from Malban an I love the AY UF AL (AFL)

  • @johnganderson
    @johnganderson Рік тому +104

    Amazing. As an Australian, I have often listened to people demonstrating their ability to mimic accents and have been impressed until they attempt an Australian accent. At that point, I normally lose faith in their ability for all the previous accents. Not with this guy. This was the first time I had seen one of his videos and, at first, I thought he was Australian. I spent the rest of the video waiting for him to slip up but anything I might have questioned I would not have spotted if I was talking to him over the fence.
    As an older Australian, I feel I can draw upon some older slang - "That was a ripper, Davo!"

    • @capncoolio
      @capncoolio Рік тому +2

      Literally thought old mate was Australian until he said "fellow Americans" at the end, holy shit

  • @persiandrum9871
    @persiandrum9871 7 місяців тому +7

    Dave, your Australian accent is uncanny, flawless even. Neither 'ocker', nor 'drongo-uncouth', nor overly nasal, nor overly refined either. Just about the best all-round imitation I've heard, and quite frankly even better than a lot of Australian actors who themselves overdo the ocker-drawl oftentimes. Well done sir!

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  7 місяців тому +5

      Wow - I’m honoured.

    • @MannyRockingham
      @MannyRockingham 5 місяців тому +2

      I totally agree, I have lived in Australia for many years and I've never heard a so balanced accent like this before. You're a champ that's for sure 🎉

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  5 місяців тому +1

      @@MannyRockingham Wow. Thank you.

  • @sundaytripz8507
    @sundaytripz8507 Рік тому +25

    Your mimic of our accent is by and far the best I've ever heard, insanely impressive.

  • @RichardDCook
    @RichardDCook Рік тому +169

    It's not just the time difference with South Australia, but also who the immigrants were. SA wasn't a penal colony, but rather dominated by the mining industry. Thousands of Cornish miners were brought in. Has anyone done a study on the Cornish influence on South Australian English? (I'm descended from a Cornish mining family; our branch came to West Virginia, another branch went to South Australia.)

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +35

      That would be fascinating. A topic for a research trip.

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian Рік тому +27

      South Australia is interesting in many ways. It also had strong German migration in the 1950s, mainly dairy farmers who established Rudolf Steiner style organic farming. That's why you see towns like Hahndorf and Germantown in the cycling tour down under that's in SA. Actually this created something weird; German settlers in Barossa Valley in South Australia kept using German as it was in the 1950s and never changed. Thus you take a current German person and they meet a Barossa Valley German migrant: they barely understand each other.

    • @RichardDCook
      @RichardDCook Рік тому +7

      That's like the German spoken in various parts of the USA like Pennsylvania and Texas. @@musicalneptunian

    • @jaspereq
      @jaspereq Рік тому +27

      @@musicalneptunian do you mean the 1850s? in our german class we did an assignment on the lutherans that came out to SA in the 1840-50s. i'm sure there would have been more recent immigrants as well but the towns that you mentioned are old german lutheran towns.

    • @aussieausdeutschland4245
      @aussieausdeutschland4245 Рік тому +4

      Add to that the major influx of German immigrants like my own family that settled there in 1836

  • @k-majik
    @k-majik Рік тому +35

    Your accent was so consistent and convincing we would call you Davo without a second thought :P

  • @geoschwa
    @geoschwa Рік тому +37

    Incredible Dave. Spot on with the accent.
    One thing to add - in Melbourne we have dropped “el” for “al”, so “Halp”, “Malbn” and “Halicopter”. It’s an easy way to tell the difference between a Melburnian and the rest of the east coast

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +7

      Thank you. I’ll have to listen out for that.

    • @meikala2114
      @meikala2114 Рік тому +4

      but they don't know this in Malbn, in Hobart it is obvious, think it's only in the name of the city though

    • @carokat1111
      @carokat1111 Рік тому +2

      @@meikala2114 What's obvious in Hobart? I come from there and i don't know what you are suggesting.

    • @portialipton
      @portialipton Рік тому +3

      This is true. I'm from Northern Victoria and there is no difference between the first vowel sound in Alice or Ellis. The way the 'e' Melbourne is pronounced is less like an 'a' and more like a very short version of the 'ei' sound in veil. @@DaveHuxtableLanguages

    • @Ash_18037
      @Ash_18037 Рік тому +1

      Sorry, no one else in Australia pronounces Melbourne "Meel-borne" though. It's rather pretentious local thing and driven by class snobbery (certain suburbs etc) in my experience. The fact is (listen when you travel next time) in normal unaffected speech for 99.9% of Australians the word Malbourne and Melbourne are pronounced identically. Gerard Whately the sport commentator is a good example of this funny "Meelbourne" pronunciation. Of course 100% agree that for locals it is always Melbun never Melborn (American style).

  • @plasmatic7081
    @plasmatic7081 Рік тому +136

    As someone from Perth, I think there is a subtle but distinct variation between west and east in Australian accents - I can tell fairly quickly when someone is from the eastern states (think of "pool" in WA vs "poo-wel" over east). I think the accent in WA, not counting regional areas, is generally a lot milder of an Australian accent than over east, and a lot closer to a British accent. Maybe this is due to the higher percentage of immigrants from England in WA?

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +39

      That’s fascinating. I think often, local people can hear subtle distinctions that others don’t notice.

    • @meikala2114
      @meikala2114 Рік тому +2

      Brits maintain their local accents in WA. THhey degenerate into some odd Generic expat English elsewhere,

    • @dhyt9789
      @dhyt9789 Рік тому +18

      Totally agree. I grew up in Perth and then when I moved to the eastern states (Brisbane and Sydney) got asked sometimes if I was from the UK😅

    • @BenKossenberg
      @BenKossenberg Рік тому +5

      Yes, from Perth here, definitely more mild here for sure. Got mistaken for British as well!!

    • @04kilik40
      @04kilik40 Рік тому +24

      I'm from Adelaide. I always hated how foreigners (mainly Americans) would try to imitate the Aussie accent. I always thought, "we sound nothing like like that." Then I stayed in Sydney for some time, and those attempts at an Aussie accent made so much more sense.
      I also find it pretty easy to spot a Victorian, but they're the ones I've had the greatest exposure to.

  • @D4N1CU5
    @D4N1CU5 Рік тому +87

    Just a minor correction, the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788. It left the UK in May 1787 but took 250 odd days to get to Australia which is possibly where the confusion arose.

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian Рік тому +4

      Split Enz: 6 months in a leaky boat. 🎶🎵🎶🎼

    • @mrewan6221
      @mrewan6221 Рік тому +3

      I saw that too, and thought he wa a year early; but the new accent would have started almost straight away on the ships, not waiting for landfall. Most of the sailing happened in 1787, so … he's quite correct.

    • @D4N1CU5
      @D4N1CU5 Рік тому +4

      @@mrewan6221No. he says “Of the 1,373 people who landed in Sydney cove in 1787 as part of the first fleet...”
      The First Fleet arrived in Sydney cove on 25 January 1788. That’s why Australia Day is on that date and why Australia’s bicentenary was in 1988. Guessing he had 1787 in his head from the previous slide and just misspoke. Not a huge deal.
      He also said that people have only been speaking English in Australia since 1787, benefit of the doubt, he may have meant explorers, shipwreck survivors or others operating near Australia then but the first permanent, English speaking settlement was founded in 1788

    • @mrewan6221
      @mrewan6221 Рік тому

      @@D4N1CU5 If he said "… landed in Sydney Cove in 1787 …" then yes, he got it wrong. (I'm prepared to believe what you wrote; don't wan't to have to search through.) I don't think he _was_ talking about transient Europeans.
      Other things to consider (and I'm doing this from memory, so could be wrong):
      • Didn't the First Fleet arrive in Botany Bay a little earlier? I'm thinking about 19th Jan 1788. (Still not 1787, though.)
      • When was Sydney Cove named that? I think it might just have been part of Port Jackson at the time …. and who named Port Jackson? Was it Cook, or later?
      • Wasn't Dampier long before both Cook and the First Fleet? I think that was the first English-speaking exploration. Jansz was about 1606.
      • Australia Day is on the 26th, and the reason for that date is quite flimsy. There was probably some sort of proclamation. Other dates have a claim just as good. (And that's keeping the matter simply about European settlement, and ignoring the elephant in the room.) I've long referred to it as New South Wales Day, and it has very little relationship to the other (now) states or the Commonwealth.

    • @carlao2536
      @carlao2536 Рік тому +2

      ​@@D4N1CU5Australia Day is 26th Jan. But yeah, you're correct re 1788.

  • @alexmyironlung
    @alexmyironlung Рік тому +42

    There are some interesting distinct accents across the country. I’m from NSW and in western Sydney they have a very unique accent due to lots of cultural mixing. The more you head out west, it’s far ?thicker as an accent. Also, some indigenous Australians have a different way of speaking and some novel slang.

    • @Secretlyanothername
      @Secretlyanothername Рік тому +6

      Even Aboriginal English varies a lot. Koori language is different from how it's spoken up north, for example.

    • @L3V3L
      @L3V3L Рік тому +9

      People almost never talk about the Sydney accent when discussing Australian accents but it's extremely apparent when you hear someone from there. Anecdotally to me it seems to come from Mediterranean accents like Italian and Greek

    • @dbenedict3555
      @dbenedict3555 Рік тому +6

      Agree! Western Sydney has its own accent. Mostly influenced by Arabic and Greek.

    • @Secretlyanothername
      @Secretlyanothername Рік тому +1

      @@dbenedict3555 people confuse Western Sydney and broad Australian accents. Broad Aussie is a lot more Irish and Scots.

    • @DonRoyalX
      @DonRoyalX Рік тому

      @@dbenedict3555and Lebo

  • @garycpriestley
    @garycpriestley Рік тому +21

    SOooooo looking forward to this episode. As a North-Queenslander I always loved the uniqueness of the "Aussie" accent AND it's origins in UK (and later US) cultural influences. This breakdown is awesome so thanks for that. As other Aussie viewers have and will comment though, I used to tell tourists that one of the main differences were country and city (perhaps what you describe as broad and cultured) - those raised in the outback or far north have such a lovely 'twang' and use 'ay?" regularly in conversation to end sentences. I've lost that having moved from the country and now have been living in the city for 30 years but travelling home to family the twang returns. Love this episode - thanks so much

  • @jenniferclark469
    @jenniferclark469 Рік тому +21

    This is the first video of yours I've seen, and it took me until 3:50 to suspect that I wasn't listening to a native Australian speaker. As an Australian myself, I'm amazed at how brilliant your Australian accent is. Well done!

    • @samsam21amb
      @samsam21amb Рік тому

      Me too! It took me even longer before I started doubting myself weather he was Aussie or not…😮

    • @Cbr_auh
      @Cbr_auh Рік тому +1

      Yep! I thiiink the only slip was
      Rough·edges was spoken as rough·ed·ges? Maybe?

    • @Hakucho64
      @Hakucho64 Рік тому

      Yeah I thought it was brave of an Aussie to attempt a Brummy accent!

    • @LucindaEm
      @LucindaEm Рік тому +1

      It’s really very good, but ‘edg-is’ was a subtle giveaway. There were a few other places where I felt the accent was a little exaggerated but could have just been a regional difference.

    • @Abby_Liu
      @Abby_Liu Рік тому

      I thought it was the 'that' , its a bit more forward/clearer/wider than how we would say it. Me at least.

  • @DaT1aGEnDerANdRosExUaL
    @DaT1aGEnDerANdRosExUaL Рік тому +20

    We definitely do have regional differences in Australia, although they are not as distinguished as much compared to the US and UK. But we do have some regional/geographic differences, especially in the way we pronounce certain vowels and diphthongs.
    For example, in most of the country people pronounce the name for "Melbourne" as [ˈmɛɫbn̩] yet we pronounce it as [ˈmæ͡ʊˡbøn] or [ˈmæ͡ʊˡbən] here in Southern Victoria and parts of Tasmania. (as a result of the /ɛ/ moving down to [æ] before glides, /ɪ̝/ moves down to [ɛ], ergo getting /mɪ̝ɫk/ → [mɛ͡ʊˡk])
    Another difference would be in the long a vowel, we truly have 3 different ways of pronouncing it. In Western Australia and South Australia (typically Adelaide) it is pronounced identical to the stereotypical Southern British [ɑː], in Queensland and New South Wales it is pronounced as [ɐː] and everywhere else it is pronounced as [aː].
    As you can see, we do have some regional distinctions in the Australian accents.

  • @kristinahebdon686
    @kristinahebdon686 Рік тому +26

    6th generation South Australian of free settlers from the UK here…. I can definitely tell the differences in pronunciation from work colleagues who are from Victoria- branch, school, pool, dance, graph etc - when I first went to Sydney for a holiday at 18 locals thought I was from New Zealand!

    • @jayartz8562
      @jayartz8562 Рік тому +4

      I'm Victorian but lived in Adelaide when I was little, some pronunciation has stuck so people look at me funny with dance, castle etc..

    • @kristinahebdon686
      @kristinahebdon686 Рік тому

      @@BB-xx3dvI think The Downers have their own special upper class Adelaide accent all to themselves! 😅

    • @lisaedwards6823
      @lisaedwards6823 5 місяців тому

      So true, from a 5th gen Sth Aussie.

  • @bensondavido4525
    @bensondavido4525 Рік тому +10

    Dave I absolutely love your channel. Very informative and fun with a smattering of funny

  • @timmartindale75
    @timmartindale75 Рік тому +45

    I'm Aussie, and I reckon your accent is close to perfect. Can I say the two place I thought it slipped? (and I might be wrong, I'm from Melbourne and I realise this will vary across the country). The opening "g'day" could have slightly more of the "y" sound. The other thing is the word "edges", which I would say with more of a schwa as the second E and less of an "i". But you sound more Aussie than I do, because, living in Europe I lost the tendency to call 12 months a "yiya" and pronounce it more RP now.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +10

      Hi. That's good to hear and thanks for pointing out where there's room for improvement. Others have mentioned g'day, so maybe I wasn't totally in the groove yet. Sad to hear you've lost your yiya.

    • @portialipton
      @portialipton Рік тому

      I flatted with a Welsh person in London and it took a while to work out that a yerr was a year!@@DaveHuxtableLanguages

    • @biosparkles9442
      @biosparkles9442 Рік тому +1

      I thought the pronunciation of the word "ports" was also just a little bit off, also seemed to get the bath/dance stuff a bit confused

    • @mishamelbourne1649
      @mishamelbourne1649 Рік тому

      Also the way he pronounced “schwa” :)

    • @benmarch-prior9901
      @benmarch-prior9901 Рік тому +2

      omg, yiya, i'm never going to not hiya that evə again

  • @gregwilliamson3001
    @gregwilliamson3001 Рік тому +17

    I’m glad you included the “tip” for Americans about the “Aussie” nick name. You nailed it with the “Mike Jagger” analogy. 😉👍🏻

    • @Myrtlecrack
      @Myrtlecrack 7 місяців тому

      Who would mistake Mick for Mike though? They are spelled differently.

  • @budsa
    @budsa Рік тому +7

    Holy moley, im a bit shocked you're not one of us. I had you picked as someone who grew up in NZ, and spent most of your life in AUS.
    The tempo you speak is absolutely spot on, just missing the flippant expletives.
    Outstanding.

  • @ZoDoneRightNow
    @ZoDoneRightNow Рік тому +8

    Something that I loved is that you didn’t say that we *don’t* have regional variations, just that we have larger sociocultural variations than regional variations. Many youtubers have said that we don’t have regional variations at all which is simply not true. I can tell very quickly whether or not someone is from the eastern states as opposed to western australia or south australia but it would probably be a lot harder for people out of australia to tell these differences. Even within the eastern states there is more variation. It seems like your general australian accent is closer to a sydney accent, a melbourne accent differs in a few places but most noticeably is that they tend to replace the e in melbourne and similar with something closer to the trap vowel or something like this: /'mælbən/

  • @neilwaldock6272
    @neilwaldock6272 Рік тому +94

    Your Australian accent is extremely good, not overdone like most people would do. The pacing of your sentences reminds me of the guy who does the finance report on the ABC news. I wouldn't say that the Australian and NZ accents are very similar, for Aussies and Kiwis they're like chalk and cheese.
    And Australia is pronounced Stray-ya, lol, afterall we speak Strine!

    • @liam3104
      @liam3104 Рік тому +7

      depends on the New Zealander. i play games with some guys from New Zealand and their accent is pretty different from what you would expect from say an older generation kiwi. you can tell the difference if you listen but it doesnt jump out at me instantly like i would expect.

    • @neilwaldock6272
      @neilwaldock6272 Рік тому +2

      @saxongreen78 Yes, that's him. I like his wit.

    • @rep1600
      @rep1600 Рік тому

      @@liam3104 in a weird coincidence, my name is also liam, and i also have a kiwi friend with a much different accent... they sound more english than anything, with no hints of any kiwi pronunciation

    • @rmar127
      @rmar127 Рік тому

      The common joke amongst Aussies is that New Zealander’s say fush and chups. Whilst this is relatively true for most JAFA’s, when i was working in the South Island, i noticed they had eliminated the vowels all together. They were pronouncing it as fsh and chps, with no discernible vowel sounds whatsoever.

    • @barnowl.
      @barnowl. Рік тому

      @saxongreen78 Actually his surname is pronounced C - ow (as in oh )- u (as in up).

  • @bernmahan1162
    @bernmahan1162 Рік тому +11

    Excellent. For more up to date cultural references I would recommend listening to bogan street talk (eg the show Housos) and the Melbourne tones of "Kath and Kim" (especially in the snobby voices of characters Trude and Prue). Love your videos mate!

  • @byza101
    @byza101 Рік тому +4

    I lived in London for a few years and the only English accent that I recognised Australian in, was the East London accent…. Found a book when I was there “The Lonely Planet Guide to Australian”… It reckoned the Aussie accent had already started to form with the first generation of kids… Great vid old mate, cheers

  • @ImMattFromAus
    @ImMattFromAus Рік тому +1

    I think the most subtly impressive part of the whole video is how you nailed the phrase 'have to do' at 11:10 - that is so so good.

  • @jacobpaint
    @jacobpaint Рік тому +30

    Interesting video, you could probably make a much longer video about our accent and still not cover many of the nuances. One influence you didn’t touch on was the teaching of English in schools that prevented the Aussie accent from becoming more widespread earlier. Early recordings of Australians typically had a much stronger Queens English influence and I think it was largely when they allowed Australian pronunciation to be taught in schools that it really flourished. I’d guess that private schools of the time might have kept teaching proper English which has influenced the more refined sounding Aussie accent.
    Apart from the Indigenous accent most accents here feel like they could be plotted on a scale where the broad, ocker accent found more frequently in the country, is most Australian and the more refined, city accent is “less Australian” (in a sense). There are many variations based on culture but the main accent that I would suggest is “class” based, is the bogan accent. Check out the most Australian man interviewed for a classic bogan and you can see the reaction of the tv presenters talking to him via video link.
    Neel Kolhatkar’s old youtube accent videos are quite eye opening in his nuanced examples of the many variations of accent by culture, age and gender. Or watch old Aussie tv shows like Wog’s out of work or Acropolis Now for great examples of greek Australian accents - maybe avoid Mark Mitchel’s ‘Con The Fruiterer’ skits from the Comedy Company. Nick Kyrgios has a subtle greek influence being half Greek… Melbourne has the largest population of Greeks outside Athens so Aussies with Greek heritage have influenced the Melbournian accent more specifically. Im from Brisbane and Queenslanders tend more towards a Steve Irwin broad accent although rarely so extreme.
    For the most part, “Class” is much harder to define in australia. While some accents might sound higher or lower class I don’t think it’s quite so clear. I personally shift my accent depending on who Im talking to and I expect many people do so you might pick one persons accent as being more refined then hear them in another context and they sound much more broad. Cultural cringe used to be spoken of much more, especially when an Aussie was over seas and people thought they were turning up their accent to sound more Aussie.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +6

      Thanks so much for your very informative comment.

    • @thickquinkly1560
      @thickquinkly1560 Рік тому +1

      Yes, no longer heard, but Con the Fruiterer’s accent was exactly the accent of railway announcements and milk bars (and fruit and veg shops) in late 60s to late 70s Australia, but out of currency by the time the Comedy Company came out. Those southern European migrants who ‘took over’ all those small businesses during this time, or worked in the ‘ordinary’ jobs other Aussies were happy to step out of, and didn’t let ‘Australian as a Second Language’ get in the way of getting on, made Straya an even better and more interesting place than it already was.
      I moved from the country to Newtown in Sydney to go to Uni in 1973. Was gobsmacked to see that so many of the shop signs in King St Newtown were in Greek (seemed like 75%).
      As a typical student of the day, I worked in a pub as a Bar Useful picking up glasses. A fellow Bar Useful was a retired Greek bloke who was one of the wave of migrants who came to Oz in the 50s. He’d owned a milk bar, worked hard to make a good living, raised his family and set them on their roads to life, sold the milk bar (to a family of more recently arrived Greeks) and retired. He took up Bar Usefulling because he wanted to keep active and it gave him a way to maintain contact with all the people in the area who had frequented his milk bar (probably for real hamburgers and cigarettes mainly, 60s!), many of whom who were also the regulars at the local pub. Now he had been in Oz for more than 25 years by then, using English daily, but Con the Fruiterer was an exemplar of diction and purity of speech in comparison. I was always having to ask him to repeat himself, or guess at what he was saying. His grammar was fine, but getting his tongue around the sound of words of Aussie English was like a, um, er, foreign language to him. His English pronunciation was so exaggerated in an Aussie way, that it sounded neither English nor Australian.
      Since coming to Oz, he had never been back to Greece, so now retired, he went back home for a visit. He was telling me about his trip, including how he had spoken no English during this time and of how the Greek language had idiomatically changed over the years (with its equivalents of ‘hey man’ ‘far out’ , 'dig it', ‘cool’ etc, that were then the vogue in the English speaking world, and that he was considered old-fashioned in how he spoke Greek). He finished with an anecdote about the journey back to Oz. His flight back involved a stop-over in Rome. He said that he was in the queue at Rome airport when, among the hubbub he detected an Aussie accent, and he said he was so excited at hearing it, he rushed over, and in what would have been full impenetrable Con the Fruiterer Plus, excitedly greeted these total strangers with “Ah Australian accent, bee-you-deful, I love it,” and telling them how wonderful it was to hear the native tones of his adopted country again. It turned out they were (mainly) a group of Aussies born to Italian migrants who were coming home from their own exploration of their roots, and after being initially startled by this mad Greek, worked out what was going on and nobody ended up being arrested for assault.
      Love our melting pot.

    • @aleanbh3808
      @aleanbh3808 Рік тому

      @@thickquinkly1560loved him

  • @LoraineKiely
    @LoraineKiely Рік тому +6

    I find often if you can’t tell the location from the accent itself (though there are definitely regional differences, and after living in the UK for a few years, I can usually pick where other Aussies are from when I hear them), then you can pick where someone is from by the words they use, potato cakes or scallops, bathers or swimmers, etc.

    • @fionaottley4976
      @fionaottley4976 Рік тому

      potato scallops, togs. Guess where I am from, lol

    • @portialipton
      @portialipton Рік тому

      No Idea! I say potato cakes and togs, so there must be a bit of a Venn diagram happening with usage! @@fionaottley4976

    • @aussie405
      @aussie405 Рік тому

      Verges, polony, blood noses.

    • @drdeesnutts48
      @drdeesnutts48 Рік тому

      @@fionaottley4976 I'd say probably Qld. probably north of Rocky

  • @BsktImp
    @BsktImp Рік тому +10

    Aussie soaps were popular in UK when I was young, and it was tangentially amusing to hear the schism in accents between the characters who were 'working class', of the 'monied/professional classes' who spoke with something closer to RP (although very much still Antipodean) and those in between - think "Queen" Bea Smith vs Vera Benett vs Erica Davidson in _Prisoner: Cell Block H._

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +5

      You were clearly an even bigger fan than I was. Yes, cell block H was
      A good one.

  • @normandiebryant6989
    @normandiebryant6989 Рік тому +96

    There definitely are geographical differences in Australian accents. I never noticed it as a teenager but, when I travelled the world in the 80s for months and met other Australian tourists, I realised how different our accents were and I could unfailingly tell people from Sydney, Melbourne (my home town) and Adelaide, in particular. All the polyglots such as yourself nearly always use Sydney accents as examples, even when you say there are no geographical differences.

    • @ardentspy
      @ardentspy Рік тому +25

      Yeah it's strange that this is a blind spot for him when he's usually so accurate. I live in Brisbane and I can readily tell locals from Sydneysiders and of course you can tell which side of Sydney a person is from.

    • @MrDanmjack
      @MrDanmjack Рік тому +14

      It’s ok guys he lumped all londoners as cockney too. Having lived here for 40 years there are at least 4 distinct accents in london between those who speak English as a first language. I can even tell the difference between the smaller suburban towns (at least in the west where I’m from). You guys gets to hear the subtleties on a daily basis. But to the rest of us you all sound nearly the same.

    • @normandiebryant6989
      @normandiebryant6989 Рік тому +26

      @@MrDanmjack Maybe we all sound the same because nearly all Australians on TV or in movies are from Sydney 🙂

    • @jackvos8047
      @jackvos8047 Рік тому +14

      ​@@normandiebryant6989more like all the most successful went to NIDA .... in Sydney.

    • @Cenitopius
      @Cenitopius Рік тому +23

      eeeeeh
      He does say it's *more* homogenous, but he also points out regional differences in Aussie English, for example the trap/bath split. Not sure he attempts to convince anyone that the entire country has exactly one accent

  • @Yotopioto
    @Yotopioto Рік тому +6

    Hi Dave, Australian here. You surely got the last vowel in “hamster” right at 2:02, but I’m afraid the first vowel didn’t sound Australian to me due to the lack of BAD/LAD split, in which stressed /æ/ becomes lengthened before voiced stops and nasals in certain words. Before nasals, this vowel is often raised, but this varies by speaker. I would’ve said [hɛ̃ːmstɐ]
    Thanks for shining a light on Australian English!

  • @pquodling
    @pquodling Рік тому +7

    As an aussie who lived and worked in the USA (Southern New Hampshire and Boston) for several years, it would amuse me that Murricans thought that we talked "strange". I once had someone in MA, apologize that she couldn't understand me "I can't understand your New Jersey accent" - I found fairly quickly, that I could pick out NY, Boston, Maine Philly and several other accents fairly quickly.

    • @MaleOrderBride
      @MaleOrderBride 4 місяці тому

      Yes! I have noticed similarities between the Aussie accent and Americans accents from New Jersey or Queens. We both pronounce words like "Here" with a dipthong said: "Hee-ya" into two syllables.

  • @AJS86
    @AJS86 Рік тому +2

    You are one of the very few to get Melbourne right. Very impressed.
    You need to do a video on our distinct Aussie dialect of slang now.

  • @pquodling
    @pquodling Рік тому +2

    I went to UNi at JCU in Townsville in the mid 70s - we found that you could pick accents and colloquialisms - it was possible to identify by their speech people from Cairns, Tully, Mt Isa, etc. Most interesting were the twin towns of Ayr and Home Hill about 5 kms apart separated by the Burdekin river - you could pick whether someone was from north or south or the river in their speech.

  • @elreyabeja4539
    @elreyabeja4539 Рік тому +3

    There are very subtle but noticeable differences in Aus accents from different regions and states. South Aussie for one is easy to pick straight away. eg They tend to say "gehl" in place of "girl", and they give more weight to vowels in words like "shower" whereas in NSW they are more likely to say "shour".

  • @GillKing1
    @GillKing1 Рік тому +5

    Well done, Dave. I concur with other comments about our regional differences and the change over time. One thing you haven’t picked up is the difference across space and time in how ‘a’ is pronounced. The geographic difference is very clear in Newcastle (NSW, long a) and Castlemaine (Victoria, short a). A change I have noticed over the last few decades is in how ‘dance’ is pronounced, with ‘dahnce’ now being the norm; even my younger sisters have changed their pronunciation - but I haven’t, perhaps because the change happened when I had already ‘permanently’ established my pronunciation.

    • @froggy0162
      @froggy0162 Рік тому

      Those of us who grew up in Castlemaine Victoria can always spot interlopers as they use a long a 😂

  • @Cbr_auh
    @Cbr_auh Рік тому +3

    Love this one!
    I lived on the NSW/QLD border and used to enjoy picking if people were from north or south.
    There also seemed to be a coastal/inland distinction too, where the surfy ones seem to block the nasal passage, and the inland had a drawl.
    Melbourne has a unique accent, just a notch deeper.
    And yes skip, I pressed the button.

    • @keza3250
      @keza3250 Рік тому

      That's what I noticed too growing up in far north Queensland,
      In far north Queensland we spoke with a completely different accent from southern Queensland
      There is a difference between north an south Queensland
      Same in NSW and when I move back to my families ancestral district on the NSW table lands there was a clear difference between regional NSW an the coastal English speaker's
      Spoken with a drawl sounds like hillbilly English or even ebor English my friend couldn't even understand people from ebor back country ha ha

  • @paulhunt3307
    @paulhunt3307 11 місяців тому +1

    As a student of linguistics while at Uni, former English teacher and a lifelong mimic of all kinds of accents, I'm really impressed by your excellent videos, not least for the outstanding job you do with Australian and British/Irish accents. An interesting feature of Australian English which has emerged in the last 30 years or so is what could be called "New Cultivated". Spoken largely by Gen Z and younger speakers, especially in formal situations, it's characterised by flattened/lengthened "ee" "ay" and "oo" vowel sounds, more usually heard in the US, although it's altogether different from a US accent but that may well be the influence. Also an accent common among children and grandchildren of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern migrants, which "shushes" the "s" sound before a "t" or "tr". It's so pervasive that general speakers can often be heard to do it. There's a PhD in this I'm sure! Maybe one day... I have a few other theories and observations about our regional variations, which are not just lexical and phonic, but also in rare cases, syntactical. Happily subscribed and looking forward to more! Cheers mate! You're a dead set legend!

  • @andrewhurstcars
    @andrewhurstcars Рік тому +7

    Interesting Dave! Not forgetting their love of shortening words; ute, Brissy, Tassie, avo, arvo, brekky, truckie, Chrissie, defo, facey, maccas, servo, Straya, tinny, etc.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +5

      I love those - though the focus here was on pronunciation.

    • @FionaEm
      @FionaEm Рік тому +2

      No-one says Facey 😂 and 'straya is often said sarcastically 😊

    • @secretagentpaul9078
      @secretagentpaul9078 Рік тому +1

      What is facey meant to be?

    • @andrewhurstcars
      @andrewhurstcars Рік тому

      @@secretagentpaul9078 the social media platform, apparently

    • @drdeesnutts48
      @drdeesnutts48 Рік тому

      @@secretagentpaul9078I'm guessing he means Facebook.
      Fun fact though the term Selfie actually came from Melbourne, it's a classic Aussie shortening that caught on globally.

  • @orfeocookie
    @orfeocookie Рік тому +1

    I came across this video somewhat randomly and so didn't know anything about you. I'm Australian. Eventually realising during the video that you're NOT Australian blew my mind, because your accent is so thoroughly convincing.

  • @PiousMoltar
    @PiousMoltar Рік тому +14

    What a flawless Australian accent. All your accents are flawless. But this is probably my favourite just because it's probably my favourite accent in general. Although I also love that you do my native East Anglian accent proud, you even did a bit in this video haha. And what an amazingly well put together video. Very informative and interesting. Top stuff.

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar Рік тому

      I don't like cockney... but you do it well.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +2

      Wow. Thank you. And thanks for all your comments - you were on a roll.

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar Рік тому

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages Haha yeah. Well, I was drunk. For better or worse.

  • @TheMickeyMoose18
    @TheMickeyMoose18 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely incredible. Informative the whole way through! As an Adelaidean it’s interesting to see the historical perspectives on how pronunciation diverged from the east coast. These relatively subtle differences make nailing an Australian accent so difficult, and yet you would have me fooled. Thank you

  • @Expresso98
    @Expresso98 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for your interesting video, David. However, why do you cite 1787 as year in which "people have been speaking English in Australia"? The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay between 18th & 20th January 1788, moving to Sydney Cove on 26 January after Botany Bay had been found to be unsuitable for settlement. Am happy to be corrected if there is now other evidence of which I am unaware.
    That aside, I appreciate all the hard work & scholarship behind your video. Well done!

  • @auntie44m
    @auntie44m Рік тому +2

    Thank you for this wonderfully informative video. Raised in Tasmania I can now understand why my South Australian father pronounced castle and dance differently to my Tasmanian mother. My Scottish descended grandmother also pronounced pattern as pat-ren. Much to the amusement of us grandchildren.

  • @FionaEm
    @FionaEm Рік тому +61

    You did quite a good job of speaking in a general Aussie accent. Most Brits and Americans make us sound like Cockneys when they try to imitate us, which is just WRONG 😅 We do have some regional differences; you can often tell if someone's from Adelaide, for example, because they have an odd British inflection in some of their vowels & consonants. Also, it's important to remember that we're a multicultural nation. Immigrants, and some ppl born here of a non-English speaking background, have a huge range of accents.

    • @BillDavies-ej6ye
      @BillDavies-ej6ye Рік тому +2

      Brits definitely don't think Aussies sound like Cockneys. The nasal twang and upward inflexion at the end of sentences isn't a Bitish thing, although, with American influence, the latter is slowly becoming normalised by younger people.

    • @FionaEm
      @FionaEm Рік тому +12

      @@BillDavies-ej6ye We don't all do the upward inflection. It tends to be younger ppl, especially women. And you may not think we sound like Cockneys, but that's how you make us sound when you try to imitate us 😅

    • @KindredBrujah
      @KindredBrujah Рік тому

      Slowed down Cockney but every sentence rises in pitch at the end like it is a question?

    • @carokat1111
      @carokat1111 Рік тому +1

      @@KindredBrujah no, that's an exaggeration.

  • @Manonthemoon777
    @Manonthemoon777 Рік тому

    Your channel popped up out of nowhere and I am loving each of your videos. You’re smart, funny, and definitely very cute!

  • @jamesstuartantonycummins3704
    @jamesstuartantonycummins3704 Рік тому +5

    As an Aussie I'm just blown away. Had seen your other videos and always thought 'this guy does the best accents I've ever heard' but could never verify it. Now you've had a go at mine Dave, I can say it for sure. What is your method? Do you write out your scripts in IPA?
    Thank you for bringing some joy to my Thursday morning.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +6

      Wow, thank you! I'm so glad to have brought you some joy. No, I don't write them out in IPA. It's quite hard to describe my 'method' if I have one. I definitely think all accents have an articulatory setting - tighten this muscle, relax that one, hold the lips like that. If I think of an accent, I can click into it. The phonetics comes later, where I can imitate something and then instrospect about what my mouth is doing to produce it.

    • @ALittleSlowest
      @ALittleSlowest Рік тому

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages I appreciate that insight into your method. My (American Midwest) ear is not so discerning. I have to be given the articulation and the sound together before I can make any sense of the differences. You provide both which is so appreciated.

  • @sparklepea
    @sparklepea Рік тому

    This is the best explanation I’ve come across on UA-cam thanks for your work

  • @1234j
    @1234j Рік тому +3

    That was FUN 🎉😂. EXCELLENT. Cheers mate, thanks from Herefordshire.

  • @AussieEnglishPodcast
    @AussieEnglishPodcast 4 місяці тому

    Damn, Dave. You bloody nailed this... I also thought you were Aussie til I read the comments. Well done!

  • @Andrew-bz4yo
    @Andrew-bz4yo Рік тому +4

    great video! i didn't pick up on the fact that you might not be aussie until a few minutes in... a few mistakes tipped me off, but overall your accent is really consistent and convincing. if this wasnt a video on the australian accent, i wouldn't have questioned it. also a really interesting video on aussie accents overall. the bit about many of our Ls being dark Ls makes so much sense - whenever my linguistics professors try and get me to feel the difference between light/dark Ls i can never work it out!

  • @andycochrane4131
    @andycochrane4131 Рік тому +2

    The only perfect Aussie accent I’ve heard. That’s an amazing accomplishment!

  • @canterburyjhiguma8387
    @canterburyjhiguma8387 Рік тому +6

    I have noticed that a number of Asian ESL accents have incorporated the intrusive "r" into words even when there is no additional word after names such as "Chinar", "Asiar" and "Australiar".

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +2

      Yes I’ve heard that a lot in China.

    • @saliadee2564
      @saliadee2564 Рік тому

      That could could be related to hard attack as well. I think possibly they lengthen the last syllable slightly but still end with a glottal stop. It kind of tricks the non-rhotic ear into hearing a 'non-rhotic r', so to speak.

    • @MauriceMossisitnot
      @MauriceMossisitnot Рік тому

      They might be from Beijing. They use a thing called 'er hua' which adds 'er' to the end of certain words. Curiously, it is taught as a standard part of Mandarin classes for non native speakers as well.

  • @cessactdm
    @cessactdm Рік тому

    found this channel yesterday and I'm planning on binge watching a fuck ton of his videos. his passion for language is very obvious, just lovely to watch someone who is clearly passionate about something talk about that thing.

  • @mcmire
    @mcmire Рік тому +1

    Aw, I hoped you'd go into more detail about the GOAT vowel, especially with the R-bunching, because as an American I've always tried to mimic that sound but have never got it right. It was really interesting to hear about the other sounds though!

  • @Loupdelou-ly1ve
    @Loupdelou-ly1ve Рік тому +5

    I sometimes cringe when I hear my own accent in a recording - I've always wanted to sound a little more cultivated. But then I travel o/s and hear another Australian somewhere close by and my heart skips 🥰

  • @Carol_Thompson
    @Carol_Thompson Рік тому +2

    There are definitely regional accents here. I live 2 hours outside of Sydney and I can tell the difference between if you're one hour either side, east or west of where I am.

  • @toasty8432
    @toasty8432 Рік тому +4

    Wow, as an Aussie I don't know how to feel about not realising that you're not actually Australian and were putting on our accent so well. You fooled me! There were only a couple of times you sounded a little off and I just chalked it up to you being from SA or Tassie where they all sound a little weird.

  • @rno2304
    @rno2304 Рік тому

    I currently live in Australia and have been for the past 20 years. I only found out that this dude isn't from Oz by finding out in the comments and checking out his page. I am absolutely mindblown. Awesome work mate 👏

  • @Stringandsealingwax
    @Stringandsealingwax Рік тому +4

    Ever heard the *old* Essex accent? Not the modern one which is from Londoners that have moved out, but the really old Essex accent. It is pure Australian.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +4

      Not really though I grew up in Essex. I’ll have to check out the BBC accent archives.

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 Рік тому

      I have a similar story for West Sussex, though the only similar accent I know of is the high cracking voice people used to adopt, years ago, as an impression of 16th century or earlier English.

  • @DanBamber8
    @DanBamber8 Рік тому

    Finally! You've answered all of the questions I've been asking for many years.

  • @MakhalanyaneMotaung
    @MakhalanyaneMotaung Рік тому +7

    I almost forgot you weren’t Aussie for a second there 😂

  • @thetotaldepravity
    @thetotaldepravity Рік тому

    You are the best at this kind of thing I've seen. Well done. Your channel deserves more views. I like the way you do it, with the videos playing, but may I suggest you use some examples of people speaking, perhaps amusing ones, when people have very strong accents. That will make the experience even better and get a few laughs. I don't mean that people will mock the accents, only that very strong accents are amusing in general.

  • @HurryUpGrandma
    @HurryUpGrandma Рік тому +3

    Wow this is a fantastic Australian accent. One of the best I've ever heard, congratulations. Only a couple of weird sounds that stand out 😂

  • @pyrho1
    @pyrho1 Рік тому

    Love this channel. So underrated. Thanks

  • @lachlanjeffery00
    @lachlanjeffery00 Рік тому +5

    Legend has it that South Australia has the cultivated accent not due to it's later colonisation, but due to the fact that it was the only colony that didn't accept convict ships. Probably started by South Australians who try to look down on the interesting states.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +3

      I can’t imagine that ordinary people spoke that differently from convicts, especially given the very minor crimes that people were transported for.

    • @lachlanjeffery00
      @lachlanjeffery00 Рік тому +1

      I think the story goes that they deliberately spoke in a 'posher' manner to differentiate themselves due to their perception of being 'better.'

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian Рік тому

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages South Australians do something unique; they pluralize things a lot. For instance they will say the brand Holden as Holdens. NO idea why.

    • @secretagentpaul9078
      @secretagentpaul9078 Рік тому +3

      I never knew people from Adelaide looked down on the rest of us.
      The rest of us never even think about Adelaide.

    • @Chapps1941
      @Chapps1941 Рік тому

      ​@@musicalneptunianbecause Holden was originally South Australian. He had a big factory there before any GM involvement

  • @i_am_gods_child
    @i_am_gods_child Рік тому

    Oh, this video was so great. Thank you good sir! I have been fascinated by accents for past few years, and this video was particularly interesting for me because I currently live in the UK (but haven’t always so I don’t really have a specific accent), am studying (so hear a lot of different accents around university) and am going to Australia a little while next year!! Also, the format you used was clear, understandable, and engaging! Incredible how you can do all the different accent features so accurately! Will be coming back to this again I think! Subscribed! 🦘

  • @thecaveofthedead
    @thecaveofthedead Рік тому +3

    Pretty niche, but I wonder if you'll ever take a stab at South African English accents? Not only are they pretty unfamiliar to many people, but people confuse them with the variety of people who speak English as a second language here - particularly white Afrikaners. Our accent has some characteristics in common with Kiwi English, and we also have more distinct class differences than regional differences - although these exist too with the most pronounced difference being English speakers from Kwazulu-Natal province.
    Because of the unfamiliarity, our accent _and_ Afrikaners speaking English are pretty much never done really well in films. Leo made a good but failed attempt in Blood Diamond and Matt Damon did okay but not great in Invictus. Of course when it comes to speakers of other languages in SA speaking English there's huge variety. There's also a fairly large population of self-described Coloured people who speak English as their home language - with a dramatically different accent with radically different influences.

  • @dalelane1948
    @dalelane1948 Рік тому +2

    WA and SA both have distinct accents that are British leaning (to an Aussie ear) as do the NT and Far North Queensland (both very broad, both influenced by Aboriginal language, FNQ has Italian influence I reckon).

    • @sokjeong-ho7033
      @sokjeong-ho7033 Рік тому +1

      I agree with this. There's basically a three-way split between northern, south-western, and south-eastern.

  • @matthewsproule
    @matthewsproule Рік тому +3

    Western Tasmanians have a regional difference but it is rare as few people live there and new comers have come in. Most Tasmanians have a very similar pronunciation to other Aussies.

    • @ADVtheMISSIONARY
      @ADVtheMISSIONARY Рік тому

      It's all about the sound of the pronunciation, I have lived and worked all over Aus but everyone can pick I'm from the West Coast of Tas. went to High school in the Adelaide hills but the South Australian sound didn't rub off.

  • @charliemackenzie7336
    @charliemackenzie7336 Рік тому +2

    A few more notes, the pronunciation of double letters does vary by state:
    Queenslanders will often say pool pronounced poo-l on the lips, whereas New South Wales will say pool more like pull.
    South Australians will often pronounce their double L's as a W, so pull will sound like puw and well like wew

    • @masterpage69420
      @masterpage69420 Рік тому

      Personally in my experience, the "poo-l" thing has been way less of a regional thing and more of an age/generational thing. Across the country I've only heard old people say it that way. I'm in my 20s and only ever heard young people say it similarly to "pull". But that's just my experience

    • @olivia-ml3kv
      @olivia-ml3kv Рік тому

      @@masterpage69420I agree

  • @2011Matz
    @2011Matz Рік тому +3

    When you said "class" based at 1:35, you constricted the back of the nasal passage on the A sound. This requires more effort and energy than just saying "class" with open vocal sound on the A. So this proves that Australian is not lazy speach.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +3

      I would never imagine Australian, or any accent, to be ‘lazy speech’. That’s often a snobby way to put people down.

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian Рік тому

      As I said in an earlier comment I say the short 'a' in class, fasten etc 90% of the time. No idea how this metric compares to other Australian [Melbourne in my case] people.

  • @phoebexxlouise
    @phoebexxlouise Рік тому +1

    Charming video all around. Subscribed!

  • @JamesCook-4830
    @JamesCook-4830 Рік тому +5

    I struggle with the characterisation of the pronunciation difference in the dance vowel between South Australia and the Eastern states. The way you, and seemingly most linguists, characterise it, æ/a: the two are almost indistinguishable. To my ear, as a native Eastern Australian with several South Australian friends, the pronunciations are far more distinct. Eastern pronunciation of the dance vowel is far higher - closer to ɛ - while the southern pronunciation is far further back - more like ä.
    Moreover, no one in Australia pronounces dance with the short trap vowel æ - that would sound very "British" to an Australian ear.

    • @pauls8456
      @pauls8456 Рік тому +1

      I don’t rhyme France with Dance (frarnce vs Dan ce) I will ask around to see what others do here…

    • @liam3104
      @liam3104 Рік тому

      @@pauls8456 im from Sydney and everyone rhymes those 2 words

  • @margaretingleby679
    @margaretingleby679 Рік тому

    I pronounce forehead as forrid , I read that forrid is only used on a small islet near to the Thames outlet , maybe it originates from the term for the forward section of a ship .

  • @holden2gether
    @holden2gether Рік тому +13

    Thanks for that Dave, interesting to hear how the accent came about. It is interesting how accents and languages change. Our family moved from England out to New Zealand in the mid-seventies when the Kiwi accent was quite broad, (a local comedian had a character called "Lynn of Tawa", she epitomised this ua-cam.com/video/qT7mupw8QXY/v-deo.html) Ozzies used to give the Kiwi's a hard time about "F 'u' sh 'n Ch 'u' ps and how the end of a sentence had a raised tone or the word 'A', so it sounded like every sentence was finished with a question. But since then I've noticed a lot of the exagerated parts have diminished in the Kiwi accent but interestingly the "general accent" of Ozzies has adopted the raising of tones at the end of sentences.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +4

      Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, it’s sad how accents are becoming more alike.

  • @Rugras.
    @Rugras. Рік тому +1

    This is the first video i've seen of yours, and I was shocked to find out you are not actually Aussie. Your accent is spot on. Your normal accent is actually quite close to my Cultivated Aussie accent however, I have been mistaken for being a Pom sometimes.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +1

      Glad to hear that! Thanks for commenting. So cultivated Essex sounds similar to cultivated Aussie. Makes sense.

  • @An_Economist_Plays
    @An_Economist_Plays Рік тому +9

    Funny thing with me, born and raised in Texas, is that when I talk about Australian Rules Football, I drop into an Australian accent for the duration. It just happens. I don't force it, I'm not trying to do it, it just happens. Is that a thing, where an accent manifests itself spontaneously like that?

    • @ButzPunk
      @ButzPunk Рік тому +5

      Very much so! People's accents regularly change to fit the social context, often without them even noticing. Talking to someone with a broader accent? Your accent will broaden; talking to someone posh? You'll sound posher too. It makes a lot of sense that the context of "talking about Australian sport" would make your accent shift Australia-ward

    • @An_Economist_Plays
      @An_Economist_Plays Рік тому

      @@ButzPunk is there a name for that?

    • @ButzPunk
      @ButzPunk Рік тому +5

      @@An_Economist_Plays I'd categorise it as a kind of "code switching". A lot of the focus in research is on bilinguals switching between their two languages, but the concept covers switching between different registers or accents as well.

    • @An_Economist_Plays
      @An_Economist_Plays Рік тому +3

      @@ButzPunk read more on code-switching and, yep, that's me. Interesting it also includes mixing languages together like Spanglish or Hinglish, which I will do a lot of. The funniest example was when I was in Chile and infused Tex-Mex expressions into my Spanish, like "lonche" (lunch) and saying "porque why?" when just "porque" would have sufficed. 🙂Thanks for responding, I have learned to-day! 🙂

    • @geckowithcamo
      @geckowithcamo Рік тому +3

      Australian here. My sister and I both find ourselves going 'a little bit english' when in awkward work situations. Mostly within hospitality/customer service settings when a customer is angry. We don't mean to, it just happens...

  • @bennyc409
    @bennyc409 Рік тому +1

    Mate that was outstanding. T🎉hat was easily the best Aussie accent I've ever heard a non Aussie pull off. And super interesting to boot.

  • @BurningSkyy
    @BurningSkyy Рік тому +5

    Again, very interesting. English language is truly baffling..love the little history lesson too. I hope to become fluent in English one day
    P.S. I didn't know kangaroos do or don't make that noise..what do kangaroos say? Is duck accents next? What even was this? It was Huxtable™.

    • @Meevious
      @Meevious Рік тому +1

      Some do make that kind of sound... but they can just as well say "RHAAWHR!" or "Eeeehhhhhh!". Marsupials in general can typically make a wealth of different noises, ranging from clicks and whispers to blood curdling growls and screams.
      I find it quite touching that a wallaby (approximately 1 foot tall) caught in a fence will try to make "you don't want to mess with me!" growls when a person approaches, with the same tone of voice as a small boy trying to ward off bullies. Amazing how much all mammals have in common, despite what we often thing of as vast differences in size and shape.

  • @KayAteChef
    @KayAteChef Рік тому +2

    I loved the video now let me sledge you.
    7:34 Oops. Wrong dance.
    And I think Adelaide can also be explained by the sheer volume of krauts there, who would easily go from Tanz to Dance and keep the vowel sound.
    11:20 Oops no thumbnail.

  • @Meevious
    @Meevious Рік тому +6

    As an Australian, I have to tell you that there are many distinctive regional Australian dialects, along with many differences between groups with different cultural backgrounds and between people of different ages. You won't hear them all on Neighbours - frankly, some of them are generally deemed offensive to the ears! I could just as well say that England's accents divide neatly into the upper class accent, the middle class accent and the lower class accent. It's just not true.
    We have so many accents for a few reasons:
    1. The Aboriginal people already had a huge number of different languages, influencing the way that they'd learn English.
    2a. Convicts and colonists came from many different parts of the UK and often settled together, staying on the same piece of land for many generations, so my great grandparents and everyone around them, for instance, spoke much as though they were still in living in Tipperary, as their own great great great grandparents were, while other townships might have been settled from York, Bristol, Staffordshire etc., though the majority came from London.
    2b. Numerous new waves of refugees and other migrants have shown up since colonisation and their native languages have imparted something to their accents.
    3. Australia is very big and has a small population, so much of that population spent hundreds of years very rarely hearing people from the next town speak.
    4. Australia has many strange sounding animals and just like dogs and their owners tend to converge in personality and appearance, many Australians have grown closer to the animals around them in their accents, which often resemble those of cockatoos, kookaburras, Flap the Platypus or a lyrebird imitating a buzzsaw.
    5. Someof the accents developed to such an acute degree that nobody else could stand them and if they could, they probably couldn't understand them, reducing the danger of any sort of mixing.
    6. Australia, like most modern democracies, is a deeply fascist country, so it resists external influence, preventing homoginisation with immigrant accents in many areas.
    7. Young Australians are all contemptable traitors and watch enough Anime, Twitch and Netflix that they've forgotten the ancient ways.
    It certainly is the case that regional accents have been disappearing at what seems to be an exponential rate under the influence of radio, television and the internet, but it's still possible to hear them.
    Anyway, I don't agree with all of the contents, but it was a fun video and I applaud you for the accent that you used throughout; you could certainly pass as a native.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your amusing comment.

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian Рік тому

      An other part of Australian English is rhyming slang e.g Captain Cook = to have a look. This has declined over the last 20 years. If you want someone on TV who used to do it a bit Daryl Somers who hosted a show called hey hey it's Saturday.@@DaveHuxtableLanguages

  • @dweep9546
    @dweep9546 Рік тому +2

    I still don't believe these comments saying you're not Australian. Your accent is flawless

  • @choconinny
    @choconinny 7 місяців тому +3

    I came here to find out what my own accent is

  • @themetalorian2268
    @themetalorian2268 Рік тому +1

    I can not even tell where you're from, you're very good at your craft sir.

  • @BenBazinga
    @BenBazinga Рік тому +3

    Is your name not Bruce then?

    • @briggsquantum
      @briggsquantum Рік тому +1

      That's gonna cause a little confusion!

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 Рік тому

      ​@@briggsquantum Now I don't want to catch anybody not drinking!

  • @cajamanual6713
    @cajamanual6713 11 місяців тому +1

    Like a international student that wanna be part of this country and feel full integrated to the society this video is really useful to keep improving my Australian accent, thank you.

  • @guyh9992
    @guyh9992 Рік тому +3

    You are right. Unless Australians use words like Stobie Pole or potato cake/scallop most of us would have no idea where our fellow citizens came from.
    Those who say there are regional differences extrapolate from individuals they have met or confuse the broad, general and cultivated accents as representing regions.
    I used to work in the Defence Dept in Canberra with military and public servants from all over and had no idea whether the person at the next desk came from Goulburn, Wagga, Adelaide or Perth if they did not use words specific to their own region.

    • @AD_AP_T
      @AD_AP_T Рік тому

      It's subtle, but if you can't pick Adelaide from Wagga, either they were both trying to sound like proper cultivated APS types, or you weren't really listening. ;)

  • @RoundSomeStuff
    @RoundSomeStuff Рік тому +1

    The main regional difference in Australia which I have noticed is in 'castle' in isolation and in Newcastle'. It is a short hard 'a' in Victoria and in north Queensland but a long softer 'ar' as if English RP inbetween ie NSW and southern Queensland.

    • @liam3104
      @liam3104 Рік тому

      yes i have heard some Melbourne people say cassle for Castle

  • @dadawoodslife
    @dadawoodslife Рік тому +4

    Weirdly, as someone from the East Midlands ( "Nott'num") who had lived and worked in Aus for more than two decades, I can say, I have never heard any Australian who speaks the way that the actors on the TV shows you mentioned speak.
    Certainly, no one ever speaks with the strange accent that Australian news readers/presenters use.
    Perhaps because of the leveling of accent that you mentioned, Australians seem, on average, to be almost incapable of recognising and locating accents.
    There is a district west coast/ East coast difference. Eastern states tend to have a rising inflection on the end of every sentence, making it hard to tell if they are, are aren't, asking a question or stating a fact.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +1

      Ah, the famous ‘high rising terminal’. I didn’t realise that was an eastern thing.

    • @dadawoodslife
      @dadawoodslife Рік тому

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages it does seem to becoming a thing with the younger WA residents.

    • @FionaEm
      @FionaEm Рік тому +1

      I don't think our newsreaders put on affectations these days. They certainly did until the 1990s, before the famous 'cultural cringe' finally evaporated. As for detecting other accents, I''m definitely able to tell if someone is from the north of England, but Midlands accents simply aren't as well known outside the UK.

    • @Meevious
      @Meevious Рік тому

      Idk, maybe things have changed in the last 20 years, but in my generation, at least, it was specific to Sydney. Not found in the other eastern states, nor even in rural NSW... and even in Sydney, far from ubiquitous.@@DaveHuxtableLanguages​

    • @STOKEOZ1967
      @STOKEOZ1967 Рік тому

      ​@@FionaEmHi, I've had to adapt my North Staffordshire accent/dielect a little since I've been back in Australia for my three week holiday. Especially when ordering food or drink at the bar! I've picked up my old Sydney accent again, from staying with Australian relatives.😊🇬🇧🇦🇺

  • @lukevanni2987
    @lukevanni2987 Рік тому

    Wow, I thought you were a fellow Australian at first. Very good accent. I'd be interested to hear more about the 'cultivated', 'general' and 'broad' as I've noticed these differences here too.

  • @ardentspy
    @ardentspy Рік тому +2

    Although you sounded a bit like you have an "Australian" accent, I wouldn't confuse you for a local. That's because even men have a rising terminal inflection here (Brisbane) and your vowel in "gravy", "Australian" would need to be backer. You also cannot be from Sydney because all Sydneysiders, posh or not, nasalise all their vowels a little and even seem to co-nasalise alveolar stops. It's very distinctive, so much so that when I talk to an Australian, I can ask them when they moved up from Sydney when they do it.
    It's hard when you don't spend much time analysing sounds to explain why, but WA has a distinctive accent too. Maybe a bit flatter, so that the sounds that you noted are backer here are less back, and those that are fronted are less front, and the l vocalisation probably just missing.
    Also, had to mention, people here tend to use the schwa for milk if they darken the l and I think words such as hill, pill tend to have a less fronted vowel than you noted, which is an NSW thing.

  • @jaffers8593
    @jaffers8593 Рік тому

    Good stuff man! You should clip this sort of thing up into ‘Shorts’, you would get heaps of engagement from that!
    And thanks for NOT asking me to like or subscribe like a thirst king!

  • @saorsatk
    @saorsatk Рік тому +3

    Sorry Dave, the timing of this is pretty bad.
    Right now Australia needs to go to its room and think about what it just did.
    I watched the first five minutes and you've made a great video, but I can't bring myself to watch the rest.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Рік тому +2

      Indeed an unhappy coincidence.

    • @Meevious
      @Meevious Рік тому

      Supporting the genocide in Palestine? Fair cop. Sickens me too, tbh. Hard to find an accent that isn't culpable though. ;_;

    • @jastity8646
      @jastity8646 Рік тому +3

      @@MeeviousI believe he means our disastrous, embarrassing, cruel referendum.

    • @Meevious
      @Meevious Рік тому +3

      ​@@jastity8646 Oh, that seems like a fairly extreme view. Personally, I did vote "yes" on compassionate grounds, in hope that it would result in the quickest activation of plans to bring justice to Aboriginal people, but I can appreciate that it was a very poor approach and that this expectation, if it had passed, may have proven optimistic.
      In this light, I can't really condemn my fellow Australians for voting against adding ethnic segregation to the constitution; I think it's quite reasonable to view the result positively, given that the "yes" didn't actually promise any tangible benefit to struggling Aboriginal Australians or any tangible path toward an acceptable resolution to colonial injustice.
      If the country had voted against giving Aboriginals a hand up, that would be one thing, but it voted against what many saw as an empty and fundamentally unethical gesture. Nobody's voted against bettering the situation for Aboriginal people - the country voted against the specific question that was on the ballot paper, which asked to give an ethnic group special powers, based on self-identification.
      A "yes" result wouldn't have solved the injustice of colonisation - for that, the Commonwealth of Australia will need settlement (the non-colonial kind) with the Aboriginal tribes - "treaty" - which may come much sooner with a "no" vote, given that the opportunity for leaders to rest on their laurels has been removed.
      It's a pretty murky subject, so I can't really understand taking such a strong stance on the referendum results.

    • @liam3104
      @liam3104 Рік тому +1

      @@Meevious i voted yes and i agree with you.

  • @wtorules4743
    @wtorules4743 Рік тому

    Really enjoyable video. Fascinating detailed journey. Thanks.

  • @bethanyhunt2704
    @bethanyhunt2704 Рік тому +1

    That's one hell of an Aussie accent you've got there. Especially doing the general accent when most can only do the broad.

  • @avantgardener7493
    @avantgardener7493 Рік тому +1

    The way you say 'Australia' is spot on. Most people doing an Aussie impression pronounce it Ostralia but we don't say it like that. We say Uhstralia with a very lazy vowel sound.