AmuTohru agree Amu! I find even the more cultured people in Australia start talking like bogans with a few ales under the belt.....let their guards down. Hahaha!!
Agreed. I get teased particularly at work for having my natural accent very much akin to Cate Blanchetts and often times get mistaken for my pronunciation for some as being British, American or Canadian for the emphasis I put on certain vowels depending on the word as I have a real love for expression through words and don't like them being butchered. However, that being said, if I drink or am surrounded in a relaxed environment by persons speaking with a broad accent, I find I can slip into more of a general accent but with a few words here and there staying from my normal accent which is just bizarre. Also found when I travelled to America I would subconsciously exaggerate my accent to be a lot stronger than it actually is which, though I love and have pride in my country, was a little embarrassing because I fully did not mean to but literally couldn't help it. Someone would start talking to me and suddenly any word ending in "ter" was "tah" instead and I'd use lazy, shorthand versions of things like "servo" and "maccas". My friend (also Australian) would do it too and than we'd get back to our hotel room and be speaking completely normally. Very strange.
+Miss Sass I completely agree with everything you say, except I sound more posh the more I drink! (I think it's an attempt to overcompensate for slurring, lol) However I do get mistaken for English quite frequently when sober as well... my late Mum had picked up quite the RP pronunciation when living in the UK in the late sixties and that's what I heard growing up. I definitely over-do the Strine when talking to my cousins in the US though!
Miss Sass that's funny. As a southerner from the U.S. i also subconsciously do the same thing. I try to turn my accent on or off based on who I'm around.
My first English teachers were Aussies and they taught us the "posh accent". I was really shocked when our headmaster displayed his skills in the Broad accent.
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Same. In English, I can do it & in my original language (Hungarian) I speak like the people speak to me (we have different ways of speaking based on regions), however, when I'm drunk, apperantely, I speak with a strong Russian accent, even though, I can't speak Russian properly, despite learning it for 4 years😪
The Aussie accent has also changed quite a bit in the last 40 years. If you see footage from back in the 60's and 70's, the accent was very strong compared to now. Even in "Dogs In Space" the '86' film set in Melbourne, the accents are bizarrely strong. We seem to be toning down our accents for some reason.
Probably a good bit to do with how much we see/hear from other countries... we have so much more foreign media with streaming and the internet, we're more familiar with American/British shows/movies than Australian.
Privately educated people were taught to speak like BBC newsreaders , or the aristocracy. The other flipside being the broad Aussie 'how ya goin' mate' style of speak.
I had a mate(yeah I know, hard to believe) and she kept rolling me I should meet Ellen and we'd really get in? So one day we meet and he speaks his name Alan....though that was Melbourne in the seventies. PS don't forget if you went to Queensland back then you had to use 'but' a lot. Nowadays people codeswitch, my older son lived in Kyneton and he speaks proper Strane, my pommie missus thinks he's pretending😂
I'm homeschooling our 15 year old son. This entire past term we spent history studying only Australia. He has produced a final document that is 60 pages long. One topic we covered was Australian accents. This was one of the videos I used to teach him our 3 main accents. Thanks heaps!
That’s so cool! Has he learnt abt the gold rush? Very interesting time (and also, the stolen generation. Something every young aussie had to learn abt in primary, if you haven’t watched it I recommend watching the movie ‘rabbit proof fence’ it’s all about the stolen generation)
As an American, I find the Australian accent sounds fun loving and a little tongue-in-cheek. I like it a lot. Thanks for explaining the cultured variant. I was always confused by Ms Fisher and Dr Blake in their respective TV shows. To me they sounded British (but not quite). This gives me a greater appreciation for the richness of Australian culture.
William Jackson, there was a huge shift in Australian accents after the wars, to the point where they're basically unrecognisable as Australian anymore
Thus Spake Vespasian : I find it interesting that you say that. I have observed that also in the USA. It seems that regional dialects and accents are becoming less noticeable here. And more people are speaking like midwest radio announcers rather than with a traditional regional accent. Also a number of expressions that I have always associated with either British or Australian are no longer uncommon here. For example, when I first heard the expression “no worries“, it was from an Australian movie. Now, my son and his friends use the expression all the time. It has been my personal observation that our common English language is becoming more globalized. I would love to see a serious scientific study on the matter.
William Jackson - I’m interested in language in the same way as you’ve described. I’m reminded of an old comedy line that will be a good way for you to sound Australian. Just quickly say out loud “Emma Chisett” - a girl’s name. Once you’ve done so, you’ll realise you’ve actually said “How much is it” in an Australian accent!
@@williamjackson7061 american regional accents are disappearing not only because of the internet and the media but also because per capita americans move more than any other nationality and they tend to also move very far distances. in the states it's not at all unusual to meet people who have clocked 5,000 miles throughout their lives in the process of changing residences.
As an Australian, I can confirm while most Australians have a general accent pretty much everyone can also use a broad accent, which for me accidentally slips out every now and then
If people get upset/angry, they slip into a "raw version" of their language in basically everywhere. I think it has to do with the fact that "lower class" versions and regional dialects often contain more slurs and coarse/rough words. Which are usually avoided at general and "posh" styles of a language. What I always think amazing, is that the English of White Americans differ so less from each other. Except for Southerners. People from the East Coast (accents like that of NY/NJ are dying out), to the West Coast all kinda sound very similar. A person from Milwaukee sounds just like a person from Las Vegas. While for example in the UK, you'll sometimes get a different accent if you just go from one village to another. The results of colonialism in America is exceptional anyway. At the whole Americas, they only speak three languages. With English in the North and Spanish and Portuguese in Central and South America. HUNDREDS of languages died out and today you'll get around at the "new world" by just learning/knowing those three languages. Here in Europe, you can have a different language every couple hundred miles. Going from Poland, through Russia (Oblast Kaliningrad), Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It's the same thing in some Asian regions. But I think that only in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe do you have so many different languages on such a small territory/languages per km²/square miles. Well, that's it with my half-novel...
Was in Perth for a year and a half, and I super fell in love with the Aussie accent(s). One thing I noticed, the Aussie accent sounds lively, casual and friendly... one thing that has stuck to me til today and has had a profound influence on me and how I like to try and speak English myself ❤
General = middle class. New money. The majority. Cultivated = old money/ father and mother likely both drove imported cars. Private school. Formidable in every way. Broad = working class. Proletariat. The people most effected by no tariffs on chinese imports. Melbourne: what school you went to. Sydney: what family you come from. Brisbane: What brand of beer you drink.
Pretty good. My dad has a real broad Aussie accent. My foreign friends can't understand a word his says. My mum's is cultivated as her mother an an English English teacher.
English is my second language (living in England for a third of my life) but I’m quite good at spotting accents! However, the posh Australian tricks me into thinking it’s a British accent some times! (Kate Blanchet is a great example). Cool vid! Thank u!
@@marinavidenovic4343 Plenty of people speak like that, like 80% of grammar school kids. Are you from the country? no one speaks like that in the country but I run into it fairly often in Melbourne.
as a teenage aussie living on the sunny coast i have to admit even sometime i get blown away by how cultured someone's accent is 😭 i will even say, "that is the most aussie accent i have ever heard."
Didn't know Kate Blanchet or Eric Bana is Australian ❤ the cultivated accent sounds English. I love the stronger accents but not so strong that I can't understand it. Especially if they speak fast with a lot of slang. I love the way they say no.... I've tried but I just can't figure it out 😂
I have twin girls in their 30s, one had pronunciation issues when very young, and had speech therapist help for two years. She ended up with a posh accent, it is a very mechanical, thought through word delivery. Everyone else in the household has a broad accent. .
So in other words, the "broad Australian" accent is the one we Americans have come to love and feel bummed out about when we meet Aussies and don't usually hear it. Why can't every Aussie sound like Paul Hogan or Steve Erwin? :-)
XxAkilaxX the general hatred for it here primarily comes about from the strong correlation between people having one and also being massive racist idiots.
oh my god you need to cover asian australian accent; I went to an all boy's catholic school taken over by 80% asians - somehow as a Chinese person I actually grew to a cultivated accent while my vietnamese friend ended up with a broad australian accent LOL
my friends who are part filipino have american accents but theyre born and raised australians LOL one of them even does american english rather australian english
@@sharkk4281 Something similar here. I have 2 friends with a American accent, a acquaintance who also has a American accent, and another friend who has a STRONG British accent. All of them were born and raised in Australia, went to Australian schools, watched Australian TV, and had Aussie friends. I feel so sorry for them cause they’re gonna be bombarded with ‘Where are you from?’ for the rest of their lives.
I’m Aussie my accent is a mix between general and broad. I grew up in a rural area but it wasn’t too far inland so I sustained a general accent too. My accent flips between the two depending on my emotions and who I’m talking to. If I’m in a casual setting I go bogan but if I’m in a professional setting my accent flips to general. It also flips when I’m angry I go full bogan when I’m angry.
AHHHHHH, its always changing like that depending on the atmosphere. I change my replies to customers at work depending on how they sound and move. I always thought it was like a blending in thing my brain subconciously does when I fell insecure or unsure. I honestly think its kind of cool :)
Yeah same, I grew up and have lived my whole life in a major city, but both my parents are from very rural country towns, (and all my extended family still lives out there). I also grew up in a majority Mediterranean immigrant area, with a lot of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants, so my accent got very influenced by them. It’s made my accent a weird mix of bogan/broad, general, and Mediterranean immigrant accents, which gets me asked a lot of questions from tourists or people from posher areas of the city as to where I’m from. Most of the time they do not believe I’ve lived here my whole life..
Kylie Minogue once tried to explain how to get an Australian accent "Imagine that you're smiling and squinting towards the sun while talking". (Not an exact quote but something to that effect)
Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush have highly trained 'theatre' accents. I'm a born and bred Adelaidean and apparently we always sound posh to people from the Eastern states :-)
Papus Magnus Yeah, we understand how society works. Maybe make your Adelaide specific essay clear, instead of concluding with how what the body of what you said relates to all cities. You ended up going on an unrelated tangent. What we were talking about is how people from Adelaide tend to be labelled with a 'posh' accent. I am from a very low socioeconomic area in Adelaide and still maintain a distinct accent - not because I'm from a higher social class, but because I'm just from Adelaide. I'm assuming that you are labelling our accents as region specific within Adelaide, but that is obviously true for everywhere. Adelaide on a whole retains a more crisp accent, and we don't all claim to be an 'Adelaide elite'.
Papus Magnus That's obvious though. What I was actually talking about was how other people observe our accent as 'posh'. Please refer to my first comment, and, calm down. The only person here pretending to be a linguist expert is you.
Papus Magnus I didn't realise they had a report option for 'discussion/disagreement'. Either way before I read that you reported me, sigh, I actually agree with you. However, you did come off with an arrogant and presumptuous tone, and assumed that we/I knew nothing of how society hierarchy works. Bare that in mind, and don't bother reporting people for a discussion unless they're being abusive. Report bullies, not people who challenge your motive or assumptions.
Sorry Papus Magnus, but I too come from a working class background of mixed heritage including Greek. I regularly get paid out by Eastern staters for my 'posh' way of talking. This video and my comment were meant for a bit of fun and your pompousness has definitely taken the fun out of it.
Love this kind of videos. As a Hispanic, I found quite interesting how English intonation (or accent) varies based on geography. I’ve always struggle to understand British accents, especially those from Ireland but with Aussie accent I can deal 99% of times. Don’t get me wrong, with the Broad I do need subtitles on :( hopefully I can mastered before visiting Australia. Much love from Puerto Rico to you all guys🇵🇷
Is just a matter of listening. When I moved from South America to Australia back in 2005, I could barely understand the Australian Board accent. Now is perfectly normal for me. Your hearing is like a muscle.
Hmm... Idk... Isn't the Broad accent mainly the one heard around the outback? I'm not Australian but I have played a game that takes place in Australia (that is surprisingly when looked up, very geographically and culturally correct)and in the Outbacks I often heard a very broad accent.... But idk... I'm just an American wishing I was Australian lol...
Chris H Unfortunately these types are cropping up in every country, the worst are English learners who seem to manage to squeeze the worst out of a "Seppo" accent.
OceanBlue Not true. Mel Gibson*, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, and Holly Vallance all came to international attention after playing Australian roles. * Yes I'm aware of Gibson's background, but he is at least Aussie-fied.
It depends on who you are talking with. For the most part I speak cultivated Australian accent. However I grew up in the country so I will speak in the accent that is the most related to the situation. With my family it is more general. Will use all 3 depending on who I'm talking to
As a German native it is so strange discovering how my personal English has evolved from so many different accents and dialects due to teachers from several countries and youtubers from the whole of the English diaspora.
That’s pretty interesting! I remember when I was little I had a teacher from Russia and for about 3 years I pronounced some words with a Russian accent till I finally stopped lol.
I was born in Germany, came to the UK as a child.. got called a Nazi, went to Oz, got called a Pom. Years later went back to the UK for work and was asked if I'd be going home for Christmas. Recently learnt Italian and in Italy was asked if I was German. Back to square one 😂
I grew up on a sheep station in the 'Outback' and have lived in England for 15 years. I naturally revert each of these accents depending on who I'm with and level of anger! I think the author has potentially missed a category though. First nations people and people from towns with mixed communities often speak with soft consonants and words rolled together. It's pleasant to listen to. I do love it when Aussie's need subtitles for other Aussies! Wouldn't life be boring if we all sounded the same :)
When I was an "all-Australian" man making everything Australian, buying Australian, dressing Australian, the newspaper's Australian and even the shopping bag's Australian, I was using the broad Australian accent, pretending to be a typical, swagman-type Australian from the bush.
Indigenous Australians definitely have their own distinctive accent. There is also a polynesian australian accent (fob) and a mediterranean/middle east australian accent (wog).
I learned a bit of Australian accent from MasterChef Australia, and I couldn’t speak British ever since 😂💔 My manager is Australian but she never sounds like them, but I love when she pronounce “a little bit of” this way: “a lil bytuv” 😆❤️
I remember watching it when I was 17-18 when I had mainly had exposure to American accents (and a bit of English)... and man. Half the time I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying on that show. Took me a good 25-30 hours of cumulative exposure to start being able to follow. The accent doesn't sound like a big deal to me now but back then it hardly sounded like English at all, as far as I was concerned.
This is a good leaping off point. Every part of Australia has these base accents, but there are definitely regional variations too that are hard to describe in writing. There is a definite Britishness to Perth and Adelaide accents. There is also regional variations on the way people say pool, school, dance, castle in different parts of Australia that can help you place a person’s background if not actual origin. There are also hyper local socioeconomic class based accents like the posh Balmain accent. There is also an equivalent accents for posh Melbournians (the actors from Kath and Kim do a great version of this with their other characters Prue and Trude). In general though accent difference is something more obvious to a local. I think our accent has been homogenised because our population isn’t that big and there is a lot of moving interstate for work. I’m from Canberra where a good chunk of the population is from interstate and I think it has the effect of averaging out our local accent. In addition to accent differences there are word usage differences like beer glass sizes (pot, schooner, midi etc.) and what you call a swim suit (cossie, bathers, togs, swimmers etc). But for the most part people will be able to cope with a different word usage.
I'm sorry, but any Australian accent, but especially when is broad, makes me laugh uncontrollably, especially when sentences are raised as if asking a question. But it's not a nasty laugh, it's full of charmed delight.
The indigenous accent varies a whole lot too. Aboriginal Australians in inner city Sydney....compared to Barkantji Mob in Wilcannia....where they pronounce V as a Semi B...an " il" like "ohl" etc..... Its so interesting.
It's not just lebs that speak like that. Italians, Serbs, Greeks, lebs they all have that particular accent I've noticed. Maybe because we're all children of migrants from a similar area of the world.
Technically, there are more than 3 Aussie accents. Queensland sounds different to other states (broader), South Australia sounds different to other states (more cultivated), even NSW and Victoria have differences too, with different pronunciations on certain words, and every state varies when it comes to city, urban and bush.
I'm from Victoria , and myself and my family members , well most have a broad accent , not as broad, as country , though, in some cases it's different to a digree just from suburb to suburb, and I lived in Qld many years ago , and most have what I call a typical Aus accent ,
Great! I'm a Yank, who has a very thick standard New York accent. Mind you, there are MANY different New York accents, and 100's of American ones, as well. I can speak Australian, with the "General" Australian accent. I speak a bit of the broader Strine, as well. I know all the Aussie slang. The broad accent is one one hears a lot in the outback, and other places we call "the sticks", of course. I could listen to ALL of them ALLLL DAY.
Alright, so this is the reason why Cate Blanchett's accent is very different than most Australian actors like Hemsworth brothers, Hugh Jackman, Joel Edgerton, Margot Robbie, or Jai Courtney. I didnt even believe at first when knowing that Blanchett is an Australian. But this video explains really well. Thank you. :)
Cate Blanchett is from one group of posh suburbs in Melbourne (Hawthorn, Kew, Camberwell and Canterbury) where they all speak like that and all go to private schools. 'Upper middle ' is the new name for those peeps but Cate would consider herself as down to earth and with the common touch. Margot Robbie is Sydney upper middle class but probably went to a government school and really could mix with anyone.
Cate Blanchett is Australian, that must mean trolling on the internet is Australian (Aussie people with a stick up their arses tend to troll). It's all about where you come from.
This was so super interesting! I realise that growing up (from primary school to middle of highschool) I spoke with with a super cultivated accent (due to family upbringing) I remember people saying I had a vague "english" accent which confused me. Then when my mum remarried we moved to the mornington peninsula (and trust me the OCCA is super strong there). So now my normal voice is very general (bordering broad), when im home its extremely BROAD, if im in a meeting or work call its super cultivated.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s we were encouraged to use a cultivated accent, at least in formal situations. It was certainly the “newsreader accent” of the time. I noticed this slipping away by the mid-90s. Although I can happily use and listen to the other accents in real life, TV news and radio broadcasts grate on my ears.
Mate I’m 15 and my family’s rural but we live in the city and most of the kids never heard an accent like mine before mind you. The accent was that thick my teacher barely understood
I spoke fluent Ngarrindjeri and Kuarna before I was placed in my family at the age of three. I always thought I only spoke English, until I completed a certificate in Aboriginal cultural education and contact tracing. I now know I speak/use a few dialects. I speak Oxford English, Aussie English, AbE and Ngarrindjeri English. It automatically translates in my head and I will sometimes go through 3 different terms for the most accurate translation. Literal translation’s can sometimes be hilarious or just downright wrong; pink lipstick comes to mind 😂.
Not just aboriginals, I've had people in Sydney tell me the way I talk to my boss (another more rural aussie) is basically unintelligible, but then I'll pick up the phone and my speech will be as clear as glass
I sent this to a friend in the US who finds everything about Australia fascinating. Thanks for uploading this vid. I subbed so I'll be sure to see you soon.👍👍
Now that Steve Irwin has passed away, Howard/Keating/Gillard/Hawke are all gone, and Paul Hogan has lived in the US for decades, you rarely hear the broad accent in the media anymore. However, one of the most popular celebrities who speaks with this accent, and it's arguably the strongest broad Australian accent you will ever hear, is Sophie Monk. It's so strong that to me it's unbearable listening to her talk. Ray Meagher (Alf Stewart on Home and Away) also speaks with a similar accent.
I think it would be helpful if all three could be demonstrated by reading the same sentence, or better yet, the same paragraph. Then go back to each reading to point out specific differences.
The first Aussie I ever met was a young woman that was one of our customers. I would ring her doorbell and hope she would be home so I could hear her talk. She definitely had the broad accent. She called her young son her”chappie”, and said words without the R sound. “ There “ was “Theh”, “hear” was “ heah”. I Love Australian and Scottish accents.
As a 60 yo Australian and speaker with a “general” Australian accent similar to yours, I’ve noticed over the last 20-30 years a distinct swing of the accent amongst young general accent speakers towards a “posher” tone with the A and E vowels, particularly among city dwellers. The funny thing is that unlike your examples of Rush and Blanchett, they just sound like they’re faking it! Lol. But that of course is just to my ear I’m sure. What I’m actually hearing is no doubt the natural evolution of an accent which from my extended perspective just sounds funny.
I think it's just that Rush and Blanchett are classically trained theatre actors, and have been trained to enunciate clearly enough to be heard in the very back theatre rows. To some people this may come across as 'posh' when they're really just speaking very, very clearly.
As someone who has never been to Australia and only met very few Aussies in person, I would say the stereotypical broad accent portrayed here is the one that I associate the most with Australia. Meaning, when I try to imagine what a typical Australian accent is like, the broad one is the first that comes to mind.
I finally realised why I sometimes don't notice immediately when some actors have Australian accents, because if they have a General Australian accent it's the accent I'm used to speaking and hearing (down in Melbourne), but more cultivated and more broad Australian accents, or fake accents by actors, stand out like a sore thumb
My accent takes a journey through all 3 depending on the environment. My Dad was raised middle class and spoke with a cultivated accent at all times. Everyone else I grew up around spoke with the other 2 accents. I grew up in the Northern Territory and you’ll find that a lot of non-aboriginal people speak with some level of aboriginal accent here too. Especially if you grew up playing a lot of sports. At the very least a few aboriginal words thrown in.
Great guy !!! I am impressed with his words "I am simply an English teacher". All the best. I am from Yangon, the Union of Myanmar. Tuesday 30 July 2019.
I am Australian, I grew up in Sydney and for the most part, I reckoned I would be boxed in the cultivated accent. However, I did my undergraduate at Imperial in London and for grad and post in the USA. I've been out of Australia for a little longer than 20 years and my accent has most certainly changed. A form of adaptation I supposed, speaking to Americans for the most part I have found myself flattening my accent so Americans and non-English speakers can understand me better. One funny thing however is that if I go home my accent reverts back to what it was. I don't do it intentionally, it just happens. I am not even aware of what I am doing until I get back to the USA and talk to my mates and they look at me with a weird look immediately followed by you went home didn't you. One more thing I've met people back home who switch their accents depending on what the situation demands too. My Dad is a good example he is a lawyer and for 90% of the time he speaks with a very cultivated accent but occasionally I have heard him speak like a total bogan ha ha.
I'm an Aussie that speaks with a general Aussie accent. I can do the broad accent too but only on requests or if the threatre production requires it. The broad accent is an offshoot of the old cockney accent common in East London and in Kent
Each capital city/ regional area has its own accent and dialect. The categories here are more the styles we speak and most people use all of them at different times, but it's where they are from that determines accent.
There's not really that much of a difference in accents between different states in Australia. Other than maybe South Australians saying "dance" as "dahnce" like the british
@SanctusPaulus1962 Mate I'm from SA and I know for a fact there is a big difference. It's why when someone from Queensland comes to SA it's extremely noticeable where they came from. And they will often receive some healthy banter for it lol
@SanctusPaulus1962 And SA in particular and especially middle to upper class are known for sounding pompous as we articulate and pronounce our words more than the rest of Australia.
This is gold ! I’m Aussie and it 100% depends on who you’re talking to and what situation you’re in for example at work I speak “posh” with my family it’d be “genera” and with my friends after a few at the local it’s pretty bogan hahahahahha brilliant ! X
I'm an American who spent a week in Sydney nearly 50 years ago. The general accent is very easy for an American to understand, and easy on our ear. The "broad" is one we enjoy and instantly recognize as quintessential Aussie accent (or Strine). The posh "cultivated" one makes me a bit uneasy, as if I were hobnobbing with the Bligh family.
I speak a cross between general and cultivated. Not wealthy, just grew up in Balmain in Sydney. My first accent was North West American. I acquired an Australian accent at school here, as it was just after Vietnam War. For a kid in a school full of fatherless children my friends helped me change the way I talk to stop the bullying.
I did hear recently that the Aussie accent developed from a combination of the Irish, Scottish & British accent, particularly the Irish and Scottish. Makes sense, as that's where most of our ancestors came from! I travelled to the US a few years ago and was chatting with a man in New York who commented that he liked my Irish accent. I laughed and said, "oh no, not Irish .. I'm Australian". A few minutea later as we finished talking, he said "I really loved your Irish accent" 😂 ... Actually, I think you can hear a lot of Irish in the New York accent also, as they had many Irish settlers 😊 🇦🇺🇮🇪🇺🇲
There's also a theory that our fast disappearing accent has a lot to do with the Cockney one. Our rhyming slang does; by the bit of Cockney I've heard, there are a lot of similarities, particularly in pronunciation.
I grew up in regional SA, I received a decent education but still naturally developed a really broad Aussie accent. Moved to Adelaide for university and found that I stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the more cultivated urban accents. Doesn't take people long to figure out that I'm not from around here hahaha
@@jimmyoakeslift4374 funny that. I was going to write something similar. When I joined the Army I was often asked if I was from England. I’m a product of the Adelaide Hills too. I think SA has a much more rounded dialect than the eastern staters. I always found most of them spoke much more nasally than I did. I know a lot of it had to do with my mother always correcting us with our enunciation too. Maybe they grew up with it part of their education. But we were never allowed to speak broad Aussie.
I like the Australian accent, because it does sound fun-loving and caring to me. So, I like it. And, I like the Australian folks I have ever met. I live in Mississippi, USA...and I agree that the Australian Accent seems a little more American than the British accent...but it still is closer to the British accent than it is to the American accent. So, sometimes, I cannot actually tell the difference between an Australian accent and a British accent. I am sure that Australian and British folks can definitely tell the difference--but Americans sometimes have a hard time telling the difference. But, it does seem that Australians are a bit more "country" and "laid back" and "down home" than British folks--and I mean no disrespect to my British friends who seem really smart and elegant. I do recognize one thing: that Austalians apparently use the word "mate" alot! Good day, mates! From a friend in USA.
English is not my mother language but I really like board Aussie accent though it’s usually harder for me to catch, to me it sounds more “native” which I find fascinating. I think we should all be proud of our own native accent regardless where we live.
I tend speak with a general accent, but with hints of English, italian, Māori and indigenous (4 people/cultures I’ve grown up in). I think also you slight regional variants as well with pronunciation of certain words.
Hi Pete! I was inspired to look up videos on TH-cam about different Australian accents after recently watching an Australian reality TV show called “Instant Hotel”. One of the women (Babe Scott) spoke with a specific Australian accent that I recognized as also most prevalent among women on the reality TV show “The Real Housewives of Melbourne”. As prime examples, anyone familiar with cast members Gina Liano and Chyka Keebaugh may know what I’m referring to. There is a part of their accent in the way these ladies’ Australian accent pronounce the letter T, especially when at the end of a word. Words like “sport” or “cat” or “smart” or “taught” or “fight”, etc. Instead of words pronounced with the familiar, sharp “t” sound, it sounds more like a soft “tch”; it’s the same sound one would hear at the end of the word “ostrich”. Their words come across as “sportch”, “catch”, “smartch”, “taughtch” or “fightch”. (It’s hard to represent sounds when typing on a keyboard!!). I was intrigued, because it’s not something I find with other Australians’ accents. In “The Real Housewives of Melbourne” the ladies have boasted about their lives in the wealthy city of Toorak, so I wondered if this “tch” is common by upperclass women in that area. At the start of your video you said, “...we’re not going to cover every variant in today’s video”, and maybe I should check all your videos. But, I’m wondering if you know what I am referring to. As I said, I’m fascinated. Thanks for the cool video!!!
i know this is a 2 year old comment but i'm from melbourne and i think i know what you mean, i think the characters Trude and Prue from the show Kath and Kim might be examples of a send up of this accent you're describing :)
As an American, I can tell you that when I think of an Australian accent, I think of the Steve Irwin accent. Steve Irwin, more than anyone else from the country, helped define this perception of the country as this joyful, happy people with a funny accent and super-dangerous scary animals. and I know I'm not alone in that feeling.
It's definitely not the most common though. The bulk of Australia live in urban areas. I think nearly half the population live in either Melbourne or Sydney and don't speak like that at all. There are bogan accents in places like the west and north of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane etc but they defs sound different to Steve Irwin.
Love to hear these different accents.. Remember when I had been in Australia for a week, and met a miner from the outback... I could hardly understand a word, not only the accent, but the way he cut words and the speed he talked with. I noticed you seemed to pronounce things very well and not speak so fast. :)
My uncle was in America's south on a road trip through America. He was in a gas station in kuntcky when a man said to him "that's an interesting accent, where are you from?" He replied with "Australia" and the guy said "What state is that in?" Just a funny story since were talking about Australian accents and America's south. 😂
I met an Australian in the Bus from Berlin to Rostock (Germany). I couldn’t tell what accent it was but some phrases where hard to understand to be honest. I think I will come your channel more often I think. 👍🏻
LOL - it was probably my mate Johnny Rainbow - he likes to travel to Berlin etc to impress all the girlies with his Aussie accent & whip cracking skills - mind you, even I find it hard to understand him & I'm an Aussie LOL
I had a teacher from Perth, whose pronunciation was, to me, more British-like because it was non-rhotic. And what was extraordinary for me, was the difference in pronunciation among Minouge sisters: Kylie had a strong "R" everywhere, whereas Danni spoke in a non-rhotic way. I guess that Nicole Kidman doesn't pronunce final "r", as well.
Totally spot on mate! I have dual nationality by birth- Australian and German and was raised bilingual- . My family is from Sydney, but we moved to Canberra, upper middle class. I live overseas now. But when I go to Australia, depending on where I am and whom I hang out with, my accent goes from general to broad... and actually its the same game with the german language and the dialects...:)
Aussie English sort of。crosswalks for American and Canadian. Zebra crossing for British, pedestrian crossing for Australian. Same as sidewalk, pavement and footpath, etc.
I think the confusing thing is that there are regional differences as well too, so you get situations where people in the northwestern US sound like people in southwestern Canada, both of which sound different from people in the southern US or eastern Canada (both in accent and in vocabulary). And British English has too many variations to count.
I'm Ozzie I'm between broad, cultivated, general... Depends what I'm saying and my emotions/temper... More on the cultivated side (my mum was from England) she didn't have much of an Accent.. Most people to me sound the same as me between the 2... But you made the cultivated one sound a bit more British I think, especially compared to the examples you had. . But legit this was gold.
For all u guys saying his hair is on the wrong end, it's not, just down under
down unda
Deon undah
Oh gosh 😂😂😂
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😂😂 nooooo
I find a lot of us speak all 3- Cultivated at work, General in public and Broad with our friends whilst drinking ;)
AmuTohru agree Amu! I find even the more cultured people in Australia start talking like bogans with a few ales under the belt.....let their guards down. Hahaha!!
Agreed. I get teased particularly at work for having my natural accent very much akin to Cate Blanchetts and often times get mistaken for my pronunciation for some as being British, American or Canadian for the emphasis I put on certain vowels depending on the word as I have a real love for expression through words and don't like them being butchered. However, that being said, if I drink or am surrounded in a relaxed environment by persons speaking with a broad accent, I find I can slip into more of a general accent but with a few words here and there staying from my normal accent which is just bizarre. Also found when I travelled to America I would subconsciously exaggerate my accent to be a lot stronger than it actually is which, though I love and have pride in my country, was a little embarrassing because I fully did not mean to but literally couldn't help it. Someone would start talking to me and suddenly any word ending in "ter" was "tah" instead and I'd use lazy, shorthand versions of things like "servo" and "maccas". My friend (also Australian) would do it too and than we'd get back to our hotel room and be speaking completely normally. Very strange.
+Miss Sass I completely agree with everything you say, except I sound more posh the more I drink! (I think it's an attempt to overcompensate for slurring, lol) However I do get mistaken for English quite frequently when sober as well... my late Mum had picked up quite the RP pronunciation when living in the UK in the late sixties and that's what I heard growing up. I definitely over-do the Strine when talking to my cousins in the US though!
+Team Nattie you're judging whether someone is Australian by an online handle and despite their country of birth?
Miss Sass that's funny. As a southerner from the U.S. i also subconsciously do the same thing. I try to turn my accent on or off based on who I'm around.
My first English teachers were Aussies and they taught us the "posh accent". I was really shocked when our headmaster displayed his skills in the Broad accent.
Oh yeah huh.
How did dat go mate?
Naur wayyy!!😂
I’m Australian. Why am I watching this
Same haha
Because it's funny! And, in my case at least, Hugh Jackman
I came here from "Squirrels and Electricity"
I just wanted to educate my American friends who thought they knew the difference between an Australian accent and a New Zealand accent.
Trying to get 6969 subscribers with no videos because being a ozzy and watching this stereotypical carp and imagiing people who believeing all australians sound like this
I have a condition where I unconsciously adopt other people’s accents. I’m Australian, so I watch this to reset my voice. Thank you.
You are lucky. That is a talent.
Hey same tho! But for me, all I have to do is repeat them and then boom! It sounds very freakin thick XD
Same. In English, I can do it & in my original language (Hungarian) I speak like the people speak to me (we have different ways of speaking based on regions), however, when I'm drunk, apperantely, I speak with a strong Russian accent, even though, I can't speak Russian properly, despite learning it for 4 years😪
I do this as well! Depends where I am and who I'm with. I think a lot of Aussies do this.
Same habit
The Aussie accent has also changed quite a bit in the last 40 years. If you see footage from back in the 60's and 70's, the accent was very strong compared to now. Even in "Dogs In Space" the '86' film set in Melbourne, the accents are bizarrely strong. We seem to be toning down our accents for some reason.
Probably a good bit to do with how much we see/hear from other countries... we have so much more foreign media with streaming and the internet, we're more familiar with American/British shows/movies than Australian.
Amazing movie and soundtrack! Great work calling it out!
“Ballaraaaaaat”
Privately educated people were taught to speak like BBC newsreaders , or the aristocracy. The other flipside being the broad Aussie 'how ya goin' mate' style of speak.
I had a mate(yeah I know, hard to believe) and she kept rolling me I should meet Ellen and we'd really get in? So one day we meet and he speaks his name Alan....though that was Melbourne in the seventies. PS don't forget if you went to Queensland back then you had to use 'but' a lot.
Nowadays people codeswitch, my older son lived in Kyneton and he speaks proper Strane, my pommie missus thinks he's pretending😂
Telling me...not rolling, predictive text
His hair is on the wrong end of his head.
it's in the Southern Hemisphere, it's the most Australian way :)))
lol
Bugger me mate watcha lookin at is balls for? WTF?
LMA O
same photo brother
Every Aussie gets the broad accent when they're at the "cut it out" stage of mad.
I can confirm this is correct 😂
I get a more ‘stereotypical British’ accent lol
OMG legit
@@dandefish Ha me too! Only just realised that lol
Lmao thinking of it now I think you're right
I'm homeschooling our 15 year old son. This entire past term we spent history studying only Australia. He has produced a final document that is 60 pages long. One topic we covered was Australian accents. This was one of the videos I used to teach him our 3 main accents. Thanks heaps!
That’s so cool! Has he learnt abt the gold rush? Very interesting time (and also, the stolen generation. Something every young aussie had to learn abt in primary, if you haven’t watched it I recommend watching the movie ‘rabbit proof fence’ it’s all about the stolen generation)
Why are you homeschooling him? That’s unaustralian.
As an American, I find the Australian accent sounds fun loving and a little tongue-in-cheek. I like it a lot. Thanks for explaining the cultured variant. I was always confused by Ms Fisher and Dr Blake in their respective TV shows. To me they sounded British (but not quite). This gives me a greater appreciation for the richness of Australian culture.
William Jackson, there was a huge shift in Australian accents after the wars, to the point where they're basically unrecognisable as Australian anymore
Thus Spake Vespasian : I find it interesting that you say that. I have observed that also in the USA. It seems that regional dialects and accents are becoming less noticeable here. And more people are speaking like midwest radio announcers rather than with a traditional regional accent. Also a number of expressions that I have always associated with either British or Australian are no longer uncommon here. For example, when I first heard the expression “no worries“, it was from an Australian movie. Now, my son and his friends use the expression all the time. It has been my personal observation that our common English language is becoming more globalized. I would love to see a serious scientific study on the matter.
William Jackson - I’m interested in language in the same way as you’ve described. I’m reminded of an old comedy line that will be a good way for you to sound Australian. Just quickly say out loud “Emma Chisett” - a girl’s name. Once you’ve done so, you’ll realise you’ve actually said “How much is it” in an Australian accent!
@@williamjackson7061 american regional accents are disappearing not only because of the internet and the media but also because per capita americans move more than any other nationality and they tend to also move very far distances. in the states it's not at all unusual to meet people who have clocked 5,000 miles throughout their lives in the process of changing residences.
MACABRE L.A. Good point. It is likely a major contributing factor.
As an Australian, I can confirm while most Australians have a general accent pretty much everyone can also use a broad accent, which for me accidentally slips out every now and then
Usually whilst road raging 😂😂
Yeah we subconsciously suppress it until we’re angry, distracted, concentrating or just generally tired or something.
You missed the Dandenong hogan shaza centrelink accent
If people get upset/angry, they slip into a "raw version" of their language in basically everywhere.
I think it has to do with the fact that "lower class" versions and regional dialects often contain more slurs and coarse/rough words. Which are usually avoided at general and "posh" styles of a language.
What I always think amazing, is that the English of White Americans differ so less from each other. Except for Southerners.
People from the East Coast (accents like that of NY/NJ are dying out), to the West Coast all kinda sound very similar. A person from Milwaukee sounds just like a person from Las Vegas.
While for example in the UK, you'll sometimes get a different accent if you just go from one village to another.
The results of colonialism in America is exceptional anyway. At the whole Americas, they only speak three languages. With English in the North and Spanish and Portuguese in Central and South America.
HUNDREDS of languages died out and today you'll get around at the "new world" by just learning/knowing those three languages.
Here in Europe, you can have a different language every couple hundred miles. Going from Poland, through Russia (Oblast Kaliningrad), Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
It's the same thing in some Asian regions. But I think that only in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe do you have so many different languages on such a small territory/languages per km²/square miles.
Well, that's it with my half-novel...
@@andy2906if you have that accent you’ve inhaled petrol once in your life
Was in Perth for a year and a half, and I super fell in love with the Aussie accent(s). One thing I noticed, the Aussie accent sounds lively, casual and friendly... one thing that has stuck to me til today and has had a profound influence on me and how I like to try and speak English myself ❤
It's cause we are lively casual and friendly people 😉
Yay! Glad you enjoyed your time in Perth 😊
General = middle class. New money. The majority.
Cultivated = old money/ father and mother likely both drove imported cars. Private school. Formidable in every way.
Broad = working class. Proletariat. The people most effected by no tariffs on chinese imports.
Melbourne: what school you went to.
Sydney: what family you come from.
Brisbane: What brand of beer you drink.
Perth weres the gear bruh
Brisbane there is only one local beer. "What school did you go to?" gets asked a lot.
Formidable..
There are know working class in Australia just spoilt suburban kids who put on a broad accent when drunk, ARSEHOLES...
Pretty good. My dad has a real broad Aussie accent. My foreign friends can't understand a word his says. My mum's is cultivated as her mother an an English English teacher.
English is my second language (living in England for a third of my life) but I’m quite good at spotting accents! However, the posh Australian tricks me into thinking it’s a British accent some times! (Kate Blanchet is a great example). Cool vid! Thank u!
me too, i wonder why it's easier for second speakers to identify accents
@@marinavidenovic4343 Plenty of people speak like that, like 80% of grammar school kids. Are you from the country? no one speaks like that in the country but I run into it fairly often in Melbourne.
@@marinavidenovic4343 yeah its rich people where the accent comes more from the old british ruling class
@@marinavidenovic4343 I just think of it as as the Toorak accent. Malcolm Fraser is probably the best example here(which figures as he's from Toorak).
@@marinavidenovic4343 I agree?
as a teenage aussie living on the sunny coast i have to admit even sometime i get blown away by how cultured someone's accent is 😭 i will even say, "that is the most aussie accent i have ever heard."
Didn't know Kate Blanchet or Eric Bana is Australian ❤ the cultivated accent sounds English. I love the stronger accents but not so strong that I can't understand it. Especially if they speak fast with a lot of slang. I love the way they say no.... I've tried but I just can't figure it out 😂
Yepppp
Everyone just thinks the Aussie accent is just
*G'daye Mayte! Crawykee!*
Most people are disappointed if an Aussie speaks and the accent isn’t all
*G’daye Mayte! Crawykee!*
PowdaToastFace Killah exactly and it’s like “oh you can speak more then 3 words? You are clearly not Australian!”
YOU'RE TELLING ME IT'S NOT??! 🤣
Oi nah mate
@@ruthrichardson9717 yeah nah
Never understood a word Steve Irwin said growing up, but loved every minute of his TV appearances in the 90's
Hehehe well, his intention was the best language
hhhhh same
fun fact: Crickey was derived from the word jesus christ lol
He IS actually speaking English !! 🙄
I have twin girls in their 30s, one had pronunciation issues when very young, and had speech therapist help for two years. She ended up with a posh accent, it is a very mechanical, thought through word delivery. Everyone else in the household has a broad accent. .
So in other words, the "broad Australian" accent is the one we Americans have come to love and feel bummed out about when we meet Aussies and don't usually hear it. Why can't every Aussie sound like Paul Hogan or Steve Erwin? :-)
Are you sure you're not mistaking sheep shaggers for Ozzies...?
Al Sayid Hahahaha no ewwww
Because we confine those who have the Broad accents into specific areas for their and our safety.
I loovveee the "broad Austalian" accent! Lol. It just sounds so cool to me.
XxAkilaxX the general hatred for it here primarily comes about from the strong correlation between people having one and also being massive racist idiots.
oh my god you need to cover asian australian accent; I went to an all boy's catholic school taken over by 80% asians - somehow as a Chinese person I actually grew to a cultivated accent while my vietnamese friend ended up with a broad australian accent LOL
sto pet the Vietnamese have that rough quality about then
sto pet that’s very interesting!
my friends who are part filipino have american accents but theyre born and raised australians LOL one of them even does american english rather australian english
but other part filipino friend also has a mixed btw cultivated / general accent
@@sharkk4281
Something similar here. I have 2 friends with a American accent, a acquaintance who also has a American accent, and another friend who has a STRONG British accent. All of them were born and raised in Australia, went to Australian schools, watched Australian TV, and had Aussie friends. I feel so sorry for them cause they’re gonna be bombarded with ‘Where are you from?’ for the rest of their lives.
I’m Aussie my accent is a mix between general and broad. I grew up in a rural area but it wasn’t too far inland so I sustained a general accent too.
My accent flips between the two depending on my emotions and who I’m talking to. If I’m in a casual setting I go bogan but if I’m in a professional setting my accent flips to general. It also flips when I’m angry I go full bogan when I’m angry.
Yeah, same, or all of our brains are just wired to be like that
AHHHHHH, its always changing like that depending on the atmosphere. I change my replies to customers at work depending on how they sound and move. I always thought it was like a blending in thing my brain subconciously does when I fell insecure or unsure. I honestly think its kind of cool :)
Yeah same, I grew up and have lived my whole life in a major city, but both my parents are from very rural country towns, (and all my extended family still lives out there).
I also grew up in a majority Mediterranean immigrant area, with a lot of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants, so my accent got very influenced by them.
It’s made my accent a weird mix of bogan/broad, general, and Mediterranean immigrant accents, which gets me asked a lot of questions from tourists or people from posher areas of the city as to where I’m from. Most of the time they do not believe I’ve lived here my whole life..
Kylie Minogue once tried to explain how to get an Australian accent "Imagine that you're smiling and squinting towards the sun while talking". (Not an exact quote but something to that effect)
brilliant
Good evening 🌆 my precious beautiful 🤍🍷
That’s hilarious
And she hardly sounds Australian herself anymore… weird hybrid Aussie British. I actually really like it.
Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush have highly trained 'theatre' accents. I'm a born and bred Adelaidean and apparently we always sound posh to people from the Eastern states :-)
Apparently so, when I lived in Melbourne I was actually mistaken for a Brit a few times! haha
Papus Magnus Yeah, we understand how society works. Maybe make your Adelaide specific essay clear, instead of concluding with how what the body of what you said relates to all cities. You ended up going on an unrelated tangent. What we were talking about is how people from Adelaide tend to be labelled with a 'posh' accent. I am from a very low socioeconomic area in Adelaide and still maintain a distinct accent - not because I'm from a higher social class, but because I'm just from Adelaide. I'm assuming that you are labelling our accents as region specific within Adelaide, but that is obviously true for everywhere. Adelaide on a whole retains a more crisp accent, and we don't all claim to be an 'Adelaide elite'.
Papus Magnus That's obvious though. What I was actually talking about was how other people observe our accent as 'posh'. Please refer to my first comment, and, calm down. The only person here pretending to be a linguist expert is you.
Papus Magnus I didn't realise they had a report option for 'discussion/disagreement'. Either way before I read that you reported me, sigh, I actually agree with you. However, you did come off with an arrogant and presumptuous tone, and assumed that we/I knew nothing of how society hierarchy works. Bare that in mind, and don't bother reporting people for a discussion unless they're being abusive. Report bullies, not people who challenge your motive or assumptions.
Sorry Papus Magnus, but I too come from a working class background of mixed heritage including Greek. I regularly get paid out by Eastern staters for my 'posh' way of talking. This video and my comment were meant for a bit of fun and your pompousness has definitely taken the fun out of it.
Love this kind of videos. As a Hispanic, I found quite interesting how English intonation (or accent) varies based on geography. I’ve always struggle to understand British accents, especially those from Ireland but with Aussie accent I can deal 99% of times. Don’t get me wrong, with the Broad I do need subtitles on :( hopefully I can mastered before visiting Australia. Much love from Puerto Rico to you all guys🇵🇷
Weeeeppppaaaaa! Come here to the states 😢
Is just a matter of listening. When I moved from South America to Australia back in 2005, I could barely understand the Australian Board accent. Now is perfectly normal for me. Your hearing is like a muscle.
What about the honey badger? Often he sounds a bit “outbacky” 🤔
Nick Cummins - the batchelor 😂
He don't care.
Daniel Ricciardo?
Hony badga
Hmm... Idk... Isn't the Broad accent mainly the one heard around the outback? I'm not Australian but I have played a game that takes place in Australia (that is surprisingly when looked up, very geographically and culturally correct)and in the Outbacks I often heard a very broad accent.... But idk... I'm just an American wishing I was Australian lol...
What about the "I copy Americans but am actually Aussie".
I hate hearing Aussies sound like yanks. Also, saying zee instead of zed. I blame Sesame st. Lol
Chris H Unfortunately these types are cropping up in every country, the worst are English learners who seem to manage to squeeze the worst out of a "Seppo" accent.
Is this a thing? Why would an Australian want to copy our accent...I'm so confused
tigergirl305 Because the USA is culturally dominant over Australia.
OceanBlue Not true. Mel Gibson*, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, and Holly Vallance all came to international attention after playing Australian roles.
* Yes I'm aware of Gibson's background, but he is at least Aussie-fied.
You are a teacher. It's easy to understand you. You speak clearly. What you do is great!
Hi
The Australian accent sounds like a hybrid of British, Scottish, and Texan.
It depends on who you are talking with.
For the most part I speak cultivated Australian accent.
However I grew up in the country so I will speak in the accent that is the most related to the situation.
With my family it is more general. Will use all 3 depending on who I'm talking to
A hybrid of Hiberno english, British English, Scottish English, and American Midland. Hah!
I always say Australian accents are alllllmost about to sound Texan
@@rejeanlevell1391 I fitted right in when I was in Austin.
@@billking8843 I’m in Austin too !
As a German native it is so strange discovering how my personal English has evolved from so many different accents and dialects due to teachers from several countries and youtubers from the whole of the English diaspora.
Same
That’s pretty interesting! I remember when I was little I had a teacher from Russia and for about 3 years I pronounced some words with a Russian accent till I finally stopped lol.
I was born in Germany, came to the UK as a child..
got called a Nazi, went to Oz, got called a Pom.
Years later went back to the UK for work and was asked if I'd be going home for Christmas.
Recently learnt Italian and in Italy was asked if I was German. Back to square one 😂
I grew up on a sheep station in the 'Outback' and have lived in England for 15 years. I naturally revert each of these accents depending on who I'm with and level of anger! I think the author has potentially missed a category though. First nations people and people from towns with mixed communities often speak with soft consonants and words rolled together. It's pleasant to listen to. I do love it when Aussie's need subtitles for other Aussies! Wouldn't life be boring if we all sounded the same :)
When I was an "all-Australian" man making everything Australian, buying Australian, dressing Australian, the newspaper's Australian and even the shopping bag's Australian, I was using the broad Australian accent, pretending to be a typical, swagman-type Australian from the bush.
Indigenous Australians definitely have their own distinctive accent. There is also a polynesian australian accent (fob) and a mediterranean/middle east australian accent (wog).
I learned a bit of Australian accent from MasterChef Australia, and I couldn’t speak British ever since 😂💔
My manager is Australian but she never sounds like them, but I love when she pronounce “a little bit of” this way: “a lil bytuv” 😆❤️
Has she hit you with a "How you gahn?" (How you going?) yet?
@@ZeNuske22 Or "scarnon" (what's going on)
H2O: Just add water was definitely broad
I remember watching it when I was 17-18 when I had mainly had exposure to American accents (and a bit of English)... and man. Half the time I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying on that show. Took me a good 25-30 hours of cumulative exposure to start being able to follow. The accent doesn't sound like a big deal to me now but back then it hardly sounded like English at all, as far as I was concerned.
@@delevator8755 dang when I watched I understood it more that american accent
EHHMMAAAA HELLPPPP
LOLL yeah as an american, that was my exposure to constantly australian accents (other than steve irwin)
@@geronimo1010 “sooo Coool”
This is a good leaping off point. Every part of Australia has these base accents, but there are definitely regional variations too that are hard to describe in writing. There is a definite Britishness to Perth and Adelaide accents. There is also regional variations on the way people say pool, school, dance, castle in different parts of Australia that can help you place a person’s background if not actual origin.
There are also hyper local socioeconomic class based accents like the posh Balmain accent. There is also an equivalent accents for posh Melbournians (the actors from Kath and Kim do a great version of this with their other characters Prue and Trude).
In general though accent difference is something more obvious to a local. I think our accent has been homogenised because our population isn’t that big and there is a lot of moving interstate for work. I’m from Canberra where a good chunk of the population is from interstate and I think it has the effect of averaging out our local accent.
In addition to accent differences there are word usage differences like beer glass sizes (pot, schooner, midi etc.) and what you call a swim suit (cossie, bathers, togs, swimmers etc). But for the most part people will be able to cope with a different word usage.
The Tasmanian accent is different again. Tasmania was relatively isolated until after WW2. The accent is more English than the others.
My heart still hurts for Steve Irwin.
agreed. loved that man, dare i say.... authentic! he was unashamedly himself.
Oh my god yes me too 😢
TRUE AUSSIE!! miss the fella. 😢
I'm sorry, but any Australian accent, but especially when is broad, makes me laugh uncontrollably, especially when sentences are raised as if asking a question. But it's not a nasty laugh, it's full of charmed delight.
what's broad mean? what's the difference between Broad and bogan?
@@midnighttrain7844 being nice or nasty.
@@midnighttrain7844 Just different words for the same thing.
@@midnighttrain7844 yeah ive never heard it descibed as broad before - its just bogan
@@midnighttrain7844 always known it as broad or ocker, but bogan came in later
Loved that you mention the indigenous ‘accent’, it’s nice to be included.
The indigenous accent varies a whole lot too. Aboriginal Australians in inner city Sydney....compared to Barkantji Mob in Wilcannia....where they pronounce V as a Semi B...an " il" like "ohl" etc.....
Its so interesting.
I love how you bought the personality to each accent.
number 4: western sydney leb accent "cuz wallah i'll shank ya"
ahahah oh god, i hear that phrase/accent over here in Perth! Solid gold!
Abos up where I am would knock on ya window and ask for a durrie
It's not just lebs that speak like that. Italians, Serbs, Greeks, lebs they all have that particular accent I've noticed.
Maybe because we're all children of migrants from a similar area of the world.
lmaoo fr
@@Steph-sk3xb it’s pretty much a western Sydney accent now. Even the Australian English descent kids have it now haha
Technically, there are more than 3 Aussie accents. Queensland sounds different to other states (broader), South Australia sounds different to other states (more cultivated), even NSW and Victoria have differences too, with different pronunciations on certain words, and every state varies when it comes to city, urban and bush.
I'm from Victoria , and myself and my family members , well most have a broad accent , not as broad, as country , though, in some cases it's different to a digree just from suburb to suburb, and I lived in Qld many years ago , and most have what I call a typical Aus accent ,
As a Canadian the general Australian just sounds like a mixture between North American and British English.
Ryuji I agree. Except the accent from Perth. It sounds like a Newfie (with the deep Newfie accent) who spent a lot of time in the south
That’s super interesting as I’m dual Canadian/English and so many people think my accent is Australian! X
Aussies sound like people from east london known as cockney's.
I agree
as a british person, i agree
I’m here just to hear the accent
It’s mesmerizing
Great! I'm a Yank, who has a very thick standard New York accent.
Mind you, there are MANY different New York accents, and 100's of American ones, as well.
I can speak Australian, with the "General" Australian accent.
I speak a bit of the broader Strine, as well.
I know all the Aussie slang.
The broad accent is one one hears a lot in the outback, and other places we call "the sticks", of course.
I could listen to ALL of them ALLLL DAY.
Alright, so this is the reason why Cate Blanchett's accent is very different than most Australian actors like Hemsworth brothers, Hugh Jackman, Joel Edgerton, Margot Robbie, or Jai Courtney. I didnt even believe at first when knowing that Blanchett is an Australian. But this video explains really well. Thank you. :)
Hollywood demands that for most mainstream roles use a neutral or American accent. Australian accents are consider a character role.
Cate Blanchett is from one group of posh suburbs in Melbourne (Hawthorn, Kew, Camberwell and Canterbury) where they all speak like that and all go to private schools. 'Upper middle ' is the new name for those peeps but Cate would consider herself as down to earth and with the common touch. Margot Robbie is Sydney upper middle class but probably went to a government school and really could mix with anyone.
Oops, Margot grew up in Queensland, then moved to Melbourne. In Queensland, that accent would be upper middle.
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Cate Blanchett is Australian, that must mean trolling on the internet is Australian (Aussie people with a stick up their arses tend to troll). It's all about where you come from.
I loved all of them. Australian accents so beautiful 😍😍😍
Yeah mate
Yes we are
Indeed
fuckin oath mate
This was so super interesting! I realise that growing up (from primary school to middle of highschool) I spoke with with a super cultivated accent (due to family upbringing) I remember people saying I had a vague "english" accent which confused me.
Then when my mum remarried we moved to the mornington peninsula (and trust me the OCCA is super strong there). So now my normal voice is very general (bordering broad), when im home its extremely BROAD, if im in a meeting or work call its super cultivated.
Don’t worry I’ll name them
City
Bogan
Country
Aboriginal
India/Australian
Chinese/Australian
And British/Australian
J JackerP 789 don’t forget Americans Failing Horrendously
thankyou for making a divide between country and bogan. you mate, know your shit
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Australian accents sound so nice to me but i saldy have a got a american accent... wanna change it jajajajaja
@@elifdemircan1061 nothing wrong with that.
you didnt seem to even tap into the deep feral aussie styles
Mono gram adikt you have no idea what real ozzy feel is
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yeah nah there are other entire rabbit holes to go down with re to broad Australian accents.
charming
The Big Lez show will forever and always be my favourite example of the bogan accent lmao (plus NZ)
Growing up in the 70s and 80s we were encouraged to use a cultivated accent, at least in formal situations. It was certainly the “newsreader accent” of the time. I noticed this slipping away by the mid-90s. Although I can happily use and listen to the other accents in real life, TV news and radio broadcasts grate on my ears.
I love Cate Blanchett xD I could listen to her talking the whole day 😅
Cultivated = remnants from the old English colonies
Broad = the Australian accent we developed here
General = degeneration by exposure to American TV
Prime Yeetimus Argh that’s crazy true!
General makes no sense, it does not sound at all like American. All Australian accents are derived from British English.
Exactly!
@@a.a677 no cultivated is turning in
Mate I’m 15 and my family’s rural but we live in the city and most of the kids never heard an accent like mine before mind you. The accent was that thick my teacher barely understood
I spoke fluent Ngarrindjeri and Kuarna before I was placed in my family at the age of three. I always thought I only spoke English, until I completed a certificate in Aboriginal cultural education and contact tracing. I now know I speak/use a few dialects. I speak Oxford English, Aussie English, AbE and Ngarrindjeri English. It automatically translates in my head and I will sometimes go through 3 different terms for the most accurate translation. Literal translation’s can sometimes be hilarious or just downright wrong; pink lipstick comes to mind 😂.
My Nan speaks the Aboriginal version of the board accent at home. Then with the cultivated accent on the phone
On the phone I meant to say then even when she goes onto the aboriginal missions to meet mob her broad accent comes out and intensifies
Blackfella English is another dialect that should be added to this list.
The Purple Helicopter my mum does too
Not just aboriginals, I've had people in Sydney tell me the way I talk to my boss (another more rural aussie) is basically unintelligible, but then I'll pick up the phone and my speech will be as clear as glass
They even did a complete Bible in Aboriginal Kriol (Like a pidgin English)
aboriginalbibles.org.au/Kriol/Conc/root.htm
Is it English?
I'm Australian, mixed between Broad/General, but to me most of them sounded the exact same.
Good Old, Victoria
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Queenslander here and I apparently have a mixture of general and cultivated 😂
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I sent this to a friend in the US who finds everything about Australia fascinating.
Thanks for uploading this vid.
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Now that Steve Irwin has passed away, Howard/Keating/Gillard/Hawke are all gone, and Paul Hogan has lived in the US for decades, you rarely hear the broad accent in the media anymore. However, one of the most popular celebrities who speaks with this accent, and it's arguably the strongest broad Australian accent you will ever hear, is Sophie Monk. It's so strong that to me it's unbearable listening to her talk. Ray Meagher (Alf Stewart on Home and Away) also speaks with a similar accent.
Well, there's always controversal TH-camr, *Bearing* ...
or you could just get an american to try to do and australian accent and there you have the most broad of all aussie accents
El Dae. You're not wrong. You could count the Americans who can do a convincing Aussie accent with one hand (and not use all the fingers).
@CheesyTV ... Sophie Monk is not broad, it is pure bogan and she is proud of the fact .... Ray Meagher though is quintessential broad
El Dae no it wouldn’t it probably sound like a cringy to year old swering and yelling
I think it would be helpful if all three could be demonstrated by reading the same sentence, or better yet, the same paragraph. Then go back to each reading to point out specific differences.
The first Aussie I ever met was a young woman that was one of our customers. I would ring her doorbell and hope she would be home so I could hear her talk. She definitely had the broad accent. She called her young son her”chappie”, and said words without the R sound.
“ There “ was “Theh”, “hear” was “ heah”. I Love Australian and Scottish accents.
As a 60 yo Australian and speaker with a “general” Australian accent similar to yours, I’ve noticed over the last 20-30 years a distinct swing of the accent amongst young general accent speakers towards a “posher” tone with the A and E vowels, particularly among city dwellers. The funny thing is that unlike your examples of Rush and Blanchett, they just sound like they’re faking it! Lol. But that of course is just to my ear I’m sure. What I’m actually hearing is no doubt the natural evolution of an accent which from my extended perspective just sounds funny.
I think it's just that Rush and Blanchett are classically trained theatre actors, and have been trained to enunciate clearly enough to be heard in the very back theatre rows. To some people this may come across as 'posh' when they're really just speaking very, very clearly.
As someone who has never been to Australia and only met very few Aussies in person, I would say the stereotypical broad accent portrayed here is the one that I associate the most with Australia. Meaning, when I try to imagine what a typical Australian accent is like, the broad one is the first that comes to mind.
Spot on mate
Funny video. Thanks for explaining.
I finally realised why I sometimes don't notice immediately when some actors have Australian accents, because if they have a General Australian accent it's the accent I'm used to speaking and hearing (down in Melbourne), but more cultivated and more broad Australian accents, or fake accents by actors, stand out like a sore thumb
My accent takes a journey through all 3 depending on the environment. My Dad was raised middle class and spoke with a cultivated accent at all times. Everyone else I grew up around spoke with the other 2 accents.
I grew up in the Northern Territory and you’ll find that a lot of non-aboriginal people speak with some level of aboriginal accent here too. Especially if you grew up playing a lot of sports. At the very least a few aboriginal words thrown in.
The way Steve Irwin spoke was amazing. I grew up watching him and I loved his accent.
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You need to distinguish between Victorian, Adelaide and Queensland accents as well.
I'm from WA and I can distinguish Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne
Hey, what about Territorian, Western Australian, & Tasmanian accents?
I am in NSW. When I go to Queensland, I couldn’t understand anything.
@Scout The dog That is so true! haha
And Sydney West
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I am Australian, I grew up in Sydney and for the most part, I reckoned I would be boxed in the cultivated accent. However, I did my undergraduate at Imperial in London and for grad and post in the USA. I've been out of Australia for a little longer than 20 years and my accent has most certainly changed. A form of adaptation I supposed, speaking to Americans for the most part I have found myself flattening my accent so Americans and non-English speakers can understand me better. One funny thing however is that if I go home my accent reverts back to what it was. I don't do it intentionally, it just happens. I am not even aware of what I am doing until I get back to the USA and talk to my mates and they look at me with a weird look immediately followed by you went home didn't you. One more thing I've met people back home who switch their accents depending on what the situation demands too. My Dad is a good example he is a lawyer and for 90% of the time he speaks with a very cultivated accent but occasionally I have heard him speak like a total bogan ha ha.
I'm an Aussie that speaks with a general Aussie accent. I can do the broad accent too but only on requests or if the threatre production requires it.
The broad accent is an offshoot of the old cockney accent common in East London and in Kent
Old Cockney definately but also mixed with Irish. Even now there are some words which sound very similar coming from Aussies and East Londoners.
me, a non-native English speaker: yes... they're all different... yes... not at all the same
Every time I hear Steve Irwin's voice it's like a knife through my heart. Good god do I miss that man.
I caught the feels hearing Steve’s voice 😓💙
Each capital city/ regional area has its own accent and dialect. The categories here are more the styles we speak and most people use all of them at different times, but it's where they are from that determines accent.
Interesting hearing the 3 base accents broken up. If you haven't already I would love to see you cover state accents
There's not really that much of a difference in accents between different states in Australia. Other than maybe South Australians saying "dance" as "dahnce" like the british
@SanctusPaulus1962 Mate I'm from SA and I know for a fact there is a big difference. It's why when someone from Queensland comes to SA it's extremely noticeable where they came from. And they will often receive some healthy banter for it lol
@SanctusPaulus1962 And SA in particular and especially middle to upper class are known for sounding pompous as we articulate and pronounce our words more than the rest of Australia.
You forgot #4: Scotch College.
It's a step up from cultivated.
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That's raiiight. Especially if they are from Braiiiighton and spend their weekends yachting.
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This is gold ! I’m Aussie and it 100% depends on who you’re talking to and what situation you’re in for example at work I speak “posh” with my family it’d be “genera” and with my friends after a few at the local it’s pretty bogan hahahahahha brilliant ! X
I'm an American who spent a week in Sydney nearly 50 years ago. The general accent is very easy for an American to understand, and easy on our ear. The "broad" is one we enjoy and instantly recognize as quintessential Aussie accent (or Strine). The posh "cultivated" one makes me a bit uneasy, as if I were hobnobbing with the Bligh family.
I speak a cross between general and cultivated. Not wealthy, just grew up in Balmain in Sydney. My first accent was North West American. I acquired an Australian accent at school here, as it was just after Vietnam War. For a kid in a school full of fatherless children my friends helped me change the way I talk to stop the bullying.
It's a shame it happened this way.
Was the accent a contrived reason or an end in itself?
I did hear recently that the Aussie accent developed from a combination of the Irish, Scottish & British accent, particularly the Irish and Scottish. Makes sense, as that's where most of our ancestors came from!
I travelled to the US a few years ago and was chatting with a man in New York who commented that he liked my Irish accent. I laughed and said, "oh no, not Irish .. I'm Australian". A few minutea later as we finished talking, he said "I really loved your Irish accent" 😂 ... Actually, I think you can hear a lot of Irish in the New York accent also, as they had many Irish settlers 😊 🇦🇺🇮🇪🇺🇲
I would also say that we have been influenced by the indigenous accent as well😊
There's also a theory that our fast disappearing accent has a lot to do with the Cockney one. Our rhyming slang does; by the bit of Cockney I've heard, there are a lot of similarities, particularly in pronunciation.
I grew up in regional SA, I received a decent education but still naturally developed a really broad Aussie accent. Moved to Adelaide for university and found that I stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the more cultivated urban accents. Doesn't take people long to figure out that I'm not from around here hahaha
Bladez I did the opposite, moved from the adelaide hills to rural sa, everyone thought I was English 😂
@@jimmyoakeslift4374 funny that. I was going to write something similar. When I joined the Army I was often asked if I was from England. I’m a product of the Adelaide Hills too. I think SA has a much more rounded dialect than the eastern staters. I always found most of them spoke much more nasally than I did.
I know a lot of it had to do with my mother always correcting us with our enunciation too. Maybe they grew up with it part of their education. But we were never allowed to speak broad Aussie.
I like the Australian accent, because it does sound fun-loving and caring to me. So, I like it. And, I like the Australian folks I have ever met. I live in Mississippi, USA...and I agree that the Australian Accent seems a little more American than the British accent...but it still is closer to the British accent than it is to the American accent. So, sometimes, I cannot actually tell the difference between an Australian accent and a British accent. I am sure that Australian and British folks can definitely tell the difference--but Americans sometimes have a hard time telling the difference. But, it does seem that Australians are a bit more "country" and "laid back" and "down home" than British folks--and I mean no disrespect to my British friends who seem really smart and elegant. I do recognize one thing: that Austalians apparently use the word "mate" alot! Good day, mates! From a friend in USA.
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I am from China, I did not hear Australian English very frequently, so I m curious about this, thanks for this great content
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English is not my mother language but I really like board Aussie accent though it’s usually harder for me to catch, to me it sounds more “native” which I find fascinating. I think we should all be proud of our own native accent regardless where we live.
I tend speak with a general accent, but with hints of English, italian, Māori and indigenous (4 people/cultures I’ve grown up in). I think also you slight regional variants as well with pronunciation of certain words.
Hi Pete! I was inspired to look up videos on TH-cam about different Australian accents after recently watching an Australian reality TV show called “Instant Hotel”.
One of the women (Babe Scott) spoke with a specific Australian accent that I recognized as also most prevalent among women on the reality TV show “The Real Housewives of Melbourne”. As prime examples, anyone familiar with cast members Gina Liano and Chyka Keebaugh may know what I’m referring to. There is a part of their accent in the way these ladies’ Australian accent pronounce the letter T, especially when at the end of a word. Words like “sport” or “cat” or “smart” or “taught” or “fight”, etc.
Instead of words pronounced with the familiar, sharp “t” sound, it sounds more like a soft “tch”; it’s the same sound one would hear at the end of the word “ostrich”. Their words come across as “sportch”, “catch”, “smartch”, “taughtch” or “fightch”. (It’s hard to represent sounds when typing on a keyboard!!). I was intrigued, because it’s not something I find with other Australians’ accents. In “The Real Housewives of Melbourne” the ladies have boasted about their lives in the wealthy city of Toorak, so I wondered if this “tch” is common by upperclass women in that area.
At the start of your video you said, “...we’re not going to cover every variant in today’s video”, and maybe I should check all your videos. But, I’m wondering if you know what I am referring to. As I said, I’m fascinated. Thanks for the cool video!!!
i know this is a 2 year old comment but i'm from melbourne and i think i know what you mean, i think the characters Trude and Prue from the show Kath and Kim might be examples of a send up of this accent you're describing :)
@@manicwitchydreamgirl8946 Have you ever heard the word “disco” pronounced as “diskoshh”?
As an American, I can tell you that when I think of an Australian accent, I think of the Steve Irwin accent. Steve Irwin, more than anyone else from the country, helped define this perception of the country as this joyful, happy people with a funny accent and super-dangerous scary animals. and I know I'm not alone in that feeling.
It's definitely not the most common though. The bulk of Australia live in urban areas. I think nearly half the population live in either Melbourne or Sydney and don't speak like that at all. There are bogan accents in places like the west and north of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane etc but they defs sound different to Steve Irwin.
Skippy 40% live in Sydney and Melbourne - 10 million out of 25 million.
I can remember the days when Hoges used to be on TV sitting on a stool just telling yarns. It was so good that hear that voice again!
Love to hear these different accents.. Remember when I had been in Australia for a week, and met a miner from the outback... I could hardly understand a word, not only the accent, but the way he cut words and the speed he talked with. I noticed you seemed to pronounce things very well and not speak so fast. :)
Yep we have those equivalents in the US lol It's so funny.
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I’m southern American, and Northern US girls ask me all the time if I’m Australian Bc of my accent 🤨
Dizniga3- that's funny cause I'm a southerner also (North Carolina), I'm 56, and I've never had anyone ask me that. Which state are you from?
I would not do that
My uncle was in America's south on a road trip through America. He was in a gas station in kuntcky when a man said to him "that's an interesting accent, where are you from?"
He replied with "Australia" and the guy said "What state is that in?"
Just a funny story since were talking about Australian accents and America's south. 😂
Its weird because to me they sound nothing alike
I met an Australian in the Bus from Berlin to Rostock (Germany). I couldn’t tell what accent it was but some phrases where hard to understand to be honest.
I think I will come your channel more often I think.
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LOL - it was probably my mate Johnny Rainbow - he likes to travel to Berlin etc to impress all the girlies with his Aussie accent & whip cracking skills - mind you, even I find it hard to understand him & I'm an Aussie LOL
I'm broad:)
Even though I am not Australian I am Arab but when when I was young , my Australian aunt taught that accent
what's broad mean？ like bro？
I had a teacher from Perth, whose pronunciation was, to me, more British-like because it was non-rhotic. And what was extraordinary for me, was the difference in pronunciation among Minouge sisters: Kylie had a strong "R" everywhere, whereas Danni spoke in a non-rhotic way. I guess that Nicole Kidman doesn't pronunce final "r", as well.
Totally spot on mate! I have dual nationality by birth- Australian and German and was raised bilingual- . My family is from Sydney, but we moved to Canberra, upper middle class. I live overseas now. But when I go to Australia, depending on where I am and whom I hang out with, my accent goes from general to broad... and actually its the same game with the german language and the dialects...:)
My English learning endeavor is what I call ABC English, which stands for American, Australian, British and Canadian English.
Aussie English sort of。crosswalks for American and Canadian. Zebra crossing for British, pedestrian crossing for Australian. Same as sidewalk, pavement and footpath, etc.
I think the confusing thing is that there are regional differences as well too, so you get situations where people in the northwestern US sound like people in southwestern Canada, both of which sound different from people in the southern US or eastern Canada (both in accent and in vocabulary). And British English has too many variations to count.
I'm Ozzie I'm between broad, cultivated, general... Depends what I'm saying and my emotions/temper... More on the cultivated side (my mum was from England) she didn't have much of an Accent..
Most people to me sound the same as me between the 2...
But you made the cultivated one sound a bit more British I think, especially compared to the examples you had. .
But legit this was gold.
Wow I was not expecting my tears seeing Steve Irwin again. It’s been ages. I know his family have carried on his work. He was such an amazing guy 😭❤
is it just me or NON of those accents sound like the Australian accent i know.
I fell in love with the Australian accent watching McLeod's daughters, ngl
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