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Rising inflection and putting ie on the end of everything is definitely Aussie, not really Kiwi. We do say ay (or eh) a lot. Copying Canadians, I guess, who say it much more. Sweet ez (or as) is recent, as is yeah nah.

It should be pointed out that, finishing a sentence with "eh" is not universally spoken within the New Zealand population. Neither is: "Sweet As". Use depends on where New Zealanders are on the socio-economic continuum and our race/culture backgrounds. A nephew, private school, university educated, went overseas and employed in a Colorado Ski resort on the equipment hire counter. At the completion of each transaction he would be thanked and responded with 'Sweet As". Often his KIWI responses brought about a quizzical demeanor from the customer. This puzzled the Nephew until he was told that his friendly: "Sweet As" was being heard by the American skiers as: "Sweet Ass" (arse in NZ English). After he was advised of his unintentional SNAFU, he stopped, replacing this with the more American, "have a nice day."

"Sweet As" came from the original: "Sweet As A Nut"

Your videos are informative and useful, but the background music is distracting. Can you make all these videos without background music/noise going on the whole time please? Many thanks

I don't uptalk

Yees and no questions.

we say "Aye" not "Eh"

At 6:15, you say "common example as well", with a totally different vowel in the word "well". How come ? In many other varieties of English, the E in "well" is the same as the E in "red", "pen", "ten", "seven", and all the examples you give.

Total BULLSHIT

#4: is "eh" just another form of "hey/huh/ok?"

I can't believe this channel isn't more popular! These videos are so professional!

Up talking is really a rising inflection

This video is great! Thank you 😊

"There is Chip and Dep in the Kitchen". Ie, not consistent...

Alabama accent and kiwi accent when mix sound good

You can say Kia Ora that is the official language of New Zealand which means Hello

Obrigada por todo esse conteúdo. Estou morando aqui há pouco tempo e precisava disso

heyy man thank you for this info this really helped me in class so thank you again and have a good day

thanks for the help !!!! i needed it (:

$2 is the biggest coin

Good video. But it got one thing wrong in not pointing out the exception when receiving your change. When drinking in pub etc, the barman or barmaid will put your change on the counter in front of you. That has been my experience for the 75 years I've lived in New Zealand.

I’m watching this because I just met a guy on online dating and he’s from New Zealand (on his profile). So when he called I don’t understand him and assumed that he’s from Africa (another scammer) lol😂

LOT and CLOTH vowels are the same in NZ, right? :)

I don't understand where they get this information from, this is mostly Australia not nz and if nz changed to this within the 11 years that I haven't been back that's crazy

R.T.M.C. who dares wins nz.

www.cia.gov/spy-kids/

Gisborne aka Turanga nui a kiwa is the capital city of Te Tarawhtiti region.

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I have noticed something else, you prononce the letter e the same way we do with the letter i in France

Ive been away 25 years and think this dress vowel has happened during this time. It was always the i vowel that lynn of tawa or karen hay noticably used [fush chups]. Am i wrong ?

Us kiwis are so efficient with our metaphors we drop the metaphor example entirely and only give the context.

See you nEExt time, dEEfEEnEEtly! ;))

This videos very usefully

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Thanks this really helped me in some way :)

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I’m a Dutch speaking Irishman. Yeah nah reminds me of how the Dutch often say “ja, nee”. Which means yes, no. I wonder if the Dutch introduced yeah nah to kiwi English….?.

This video says greetings and intro to NZ, why is it teaching goodnight or wave or handshake. Teach things that are purely NZ and not something everyone knows generally as a human being. I finally loved the part where you mentioned the Hongi and the Greetings in Te Reo Maori. That's what the whole video should be about! you only gave the last 2 minutes for this. First half of the video was common sense and a waste. Please be specific to the NZ greetings and culture.

Thanks for sharing this video. I am going to NZ this month, and i find i need to work on more on this vowel.

Sweet as, thank you! And very helpful. I thought Greymouth had the same pronunciation as Plymouth. I mostly know about Greymouth because of the TranzAlpine train journey to Christchurch. I'm going to do that next year (and lots of other things) when I visit Aotearoa.

New Zealand and South Africa are about the only two English-speaking countries that pronounce short, "I" like a short, "u."

Your content is amazing.

Sweet as! Chur!

Yeah nah is an analog of "да нет" in Russian. - Ты приболел? выглядишь уставшим. - Да нет, просто много работы в последнее время.

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I am kiwi but I live abroad for over 10 years and I've lived in many countries. I noticed my accent is dissapearing when talking but when I go back home, the accent just came back. It's strange.

why is this video needed ahah..

E vowel more like I sound I vowel more like E sound, isn't?

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