My brother, sister and I all have slightly different accents due to what we've done in our adult lives. We all started with a slightly English accent due to our father but I'm the only one who kept it, also affected by my living in England for a while. Our sister stayed city living and dropped back to a general Aussie accent. Our brother's accent is the strongest because he moved to the outback for years and the English inflection was treated with suspicion out there.

Can always pick people from Melbourne as they pronounce "per-" words as "prah-". "Prahformance", "Prahaps". Drives me slightly batty 😁

​@@kristyl933 I don't know about that. I live in Melbourne and there are many different dialects here. I have an old Kensington dialect, which is very similar to northern English dialects (such as Manchester, Sheffield, even some southern Scottish ones), and the accent is unlike any I have ever heard around Australia. Whenever I go travelling people ask me if I'm Scottish or English, and I have to say I'm an Aussie hahaha. We also have very different slang words, such as Madra, Black Mariah, Tuppence, and many more. I've never heard these elsewhere in Australia.

I live in Melbourne and have never heard prahaps or prahformance!

@@aimeen843 Yes me neither. I'm not sure where you're from in Melbourne, but have you heard any of the slang I listed? They seem to be extremely rare words these days

Check out the jewish accent in fundy groups! Even occurs in Australia, the New York version is widely known.

People that lived in Elizabeth Northern Adelaide (named after the Queens) 30 years ago had a very English sounding accent.

@@robertmurray8763 Yes, I sounded like the. Queen when I went to school, rather odd since I was going to a school in a remote part of Australia but my mother was perfectly bilingual and her accent was unfortunately posh. I adopted her accent from being isolated. Yet people have assumed I'm lying about coming from where I do. It's strange indeed!

I was born in Australia but I started kindergarten with a Scottish accent. I learned pretty quick from school how to do an Aussie accent. I sometimes get caught out on a few words so I just avoid them in my vocabulary.

@@tinfoilhomer909 I find inverted snobbery really funny. It's as bad as garden-variety snobbery. My mother would correct my accent if I was adopting phrases or word that were grammatically incorrect. She told me: "you will thank me in the future". She was right because I can move in any circles and changing down is dead easy. I can talk with farmers and country people, and ordinary working people, or the toffs. Unfortunately doors can close if you don't express yourself well. So maintaining the Aussie accent and bad grammar can be a block. I just like to communicate clearly. Australians tend to mumble and don't speak clearly and that makes it very hard for others. I once found myself actually translating to a Canadian English speaking hotel receptionist what an Australian was trying to say ....in English! She had to get him to repeat himself twice after the initial request. She was incredibly grateful that I stepped in and clearly said what he wanted (are there any rooms available and if so how much?). This is kind of funny and not so great if you think about it! Plus the nasal accent can be grating. 'NIIIAAW' instead of 'now'. OMG it's horrible sounding. On grammar: Learned 'pretty quick' = learned 'pretty quickly'. I don't personally mind but others do and it can undermine your message. These days I help students with their English and they say they never have any difficulty understanding what I'm saying unlike with other Australians. It's just the way it is. Inverted snobbery is not so great IMO.

what about Tangambalanga mate? Waggas just a tourist name anyways lol

Wagga is Aboriginal for “piss”. When the word is repeated it denotes ‘a lot of’. The term “piss” in the Australian vernacular means beer. So Wagga Wagga translates as “The place of many beers.”

The accents change from one side of Melbourne to the other 😂 I would be willing to bet that couple came from the west.

I'm from Junee living in Wagga and there's a shit tonne of us with the broad accent here. If anything, the broad accent is getting stronger here. Most of the children have good broad accents

​@@richardwadd9769Wagga is "crow" Wagga Wagga is many crows

Priceless. Well done.

Sounded like 1950's Australian 😂

I also heard some Attenborough in there 😂

Yes, it's still very much alive up there. Practically dead in Victoria though

As a QLD’er…. Agreed 😂🤣

Depends where in Qld you're talking about. I was raised in northern Brisbane suburbs and have a general accent. When I moved to Sydney, no one guessed I was from QLD. The broad accent is more regional Qld, far north Queensland. They have a slower drawl.

Yeah, Rural QLD you hear tons of the broad accent.

I'm born and raised in northern suburbs of Brisbane 😅😅

He was really good. I didn’t even think about his accent in that film, which is always a good sign.

Dev did a great job with his accent, way better than others

H dev was great. He’s got an Australian girlfriend which must help too.

From NSW, when I visited the USA I was asked if I was British, South African, or New Zealander. 😁

@@kristyl933 oh yeh? one time in the states, someone thought I was Russian

Yes as an Aussie I got asked if I was from South Africa 😳 Like they don’t know us

Im from Queensland most people i have met from perth think im from England

Same

Spot on.

00:40 NOT AUSTRALIAN ACCENT!

No resemblance to an Australian accent though.

He says "how good was that?" as we all cringe.

Good on ya for realizing your own accent and doing your best to work thru it. The Juilliard dude would’ve helped. I’m from rural WA and as an entertainer, teacher and now health care worker I have been fighting to keep the accent intelligible all my life.

@@Badassery666 He was incredible. Got me working in my chest resonator properly. We don’t hit our consonants and our vowel sounds are so flat!

@@sherrylovegood Same. I was living in the States for about 3 months. Was in San Fran to catch a Qantas flight back home. And all of a sudden the Australian accent actually hurt my ears lol Fortunately an Australian accent in the US opens far more doors than it closes

‘Appy arvo mate’

@@adamhofman4933 Now you've gone Cockney...

lmao

Nah that's too hard. Just don't move your top lip.

Feckin hell I don't

yeah she was spot on in that movie loved it... but she did Holy Smoke in 1999 where she originally nailed it

That was a truly GREAT movie. Should have been a blockbuster. And Liam!!! Why is Chris always described as 'The Hot One'!? 😆

@@linmonash1244 loved Liam in this movie.

I totally agree, she nailed it. I think it's easier for Brits to pronounce our accent than Americans. We drop the "R" sound whereas I think the Americans drop the "O" sound.

@@24JJ821 I haven't noticed that, but now you've said it I will have to look out for that difference. Thanks for the heads up.

YES!!!

I had a similar issue, asking for water and being brought butter. 😁

And it sounds like shit

Yep, I'm with you there. Lived in Vic for 40+ years, originally from FNQ. Talk like a Melbournite, but, 5 minutes conversation with anyone with a strong FNQ accent, back I go to that! And ending every sentence with "AY!" Weird! 🤣

Same here. It’s pretty funny how versatile I can be depending upon where I am & who I’m with. There’s one word I haven’t been able to just let go & do. “Ya” instead of you. It just doesn’t sit well. I find myself saying “see you!” instead of “see ya!” The looks I get sometimes 😅😂

I agree completely and I actually find it quite advantageous being able to be able to relate and understand to different people on different levels..That has also served me well being Scottish born but Aussie raised where I also find my more Glaswegian side coming out when I'm around other Scots and of course acting as the interpreter to my Aussie mates who don't understand a single word my fellow Scots are saying 😂

And Naomi is an English born Aussie so she would probably would fall into the more Cultivated Australian accent category.

There is a really subtle joke in that episode when Bart gets the letter from Australia. The stamp was issued to celebrate 20 years of electricity in Australia

So why is our accent similar to New Zealand speech?They were never a penal colony.

ive never heard that in 60 years , have a good arvo mate or hope your enjoying your arvo , those i have

I kinda like it, it's a quirky Ryan thing.

Yeah it was horrendous just like all yanks

Yes I’m constantly ‘correcting’ my child: tomato sauce not ketchup, foot path not side walk, fairy floss not Cotten candy, nappy not diaper, 100’s & 1000’s not sprinkles 😂😂

American Cultural Hegemony

Shittest not shortest