@Intelligence Injection Nah she's not, she's actually American but she's so good at imitating accents that she could fool people into thinking she's from just about anywhere, haha
@Intelligence Injection Isn't it funny how the ones who are the most arrogant and cock-sure about something are usually the ones who turn out to be wrong? Interesting how that works. Anyway, perhaps you should take your own advice. She's definitely not Australian. Have a look at this video here, at about 4:45: th-cam.com/video/8VbnwoTVZ-4/w-d-xo.htmlm45s Or the Wikipedia article about her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Walker She's American, but she has an extraordinary ability to pick up and imitate all kinds of accents from around the world.
@Intelligence Injection Dude. You literally said "pls shut up if you don't know what you're talking about" to someone who knows better than you. The fact that you would even attempt to turn this back onto me shows how fragile **your** ego is, it has nothing to do with me. Her exposure to Australian accents is from studying abroad in the University of Wollongong (an Australian university) for a while, which she's mentioned in other videos - not because of whatever bogus reason you've just made up on the spot (yes, I'm calling you out for lying). Also, it's not 2001 where Wikipedia could plausibily be considered an unreliable source. Seriously, try editing an article without proper sources and **see how quickly** it gets reverted back. You don't even need wikipedia anyway, she has plenty of her own videos (like this one th-cam.com/video/irrrOrr2beQ/w-d-xo.html) where she just flat out says she's not Australian within the first 10 seconds of the video. Anyway, when you make an arrogant claim and you're presented with evidence that disproves your claim, you man up and acknowledge that you were wrong and move on like a decent human being. That's ultimately what it comes down to, and it should be really, *really* easy to do. Rest assured that if I was in your position, I would've done it 2 days ago.
@@timmy3441 hahaha I LOVE the verification FACTS.. you're awesome! keep it up.. the internet needs more people like you out there. Btw, I think you might be trying to explain the Dunning-Kruger effect to 'Intelligence Injection'. Here's the Wiki to it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
your incredible, full stop.I"m aussie (aussie aussie!) and i can tell you thats the best aussie accent i've ever heard from a non australian. Just amazing. Very natural. I'm aussie and i'm telling you i would totally believe you too....
LOL.....you have no idea how many Kiwis are amongst you!!.......But she is pretty awesome. It is the same for NZ accent ( no one can do it... we can even spot an aussie trying to copy it pretty quickly) . She can nail Nu Zullund eccent too.....its flawless
yer, she lived in australia and new zealand for a long time so shes not really a foreigner..if shed never lived here as she has, an american would NEVER be able to do an australian accent
I am Australian, I've been doing your American accent tutorials and started watching this out of interest. You are absolutely outstanding at what you do. ❤❤❤❤
As an Aussie, where I live we would say battery as bat'ri when we are talking about the electrical charging thing but bateri if you are talking about someone hitting someone.
The two syllable laziness is true- I had never thought about it before. I am an English tutor and try to articulate a little clearer thus people are often mistaking me for being British or Canadian.
"So then we've got the really long word, 'Tasmania.' *operatic voice* WAYYYYY TOO LONG. So we're gonna call it... *drumroll* TAZZY! :D :D :D :D" This made me laugh so hard. You are amazing!
Amy this video helped me so much with my end of hear acting exam today, thanks a bunch, seriously wouldn't have passed without you. Vibes to you and all you do :) your energy is fab! Love you
You're right about some sounds being truncated and others being lengthened. I just watched your 'O' Sound video and while you didn't address this directly, I could hear it when you spoke. The words "no" and "so" can have very different sounds in different parts of Australia. I'm from Perth and I have even heard people who are related say these words differently. The most extreme is when I've heard people say, "ny-oo-wuh", turning a single syllable "no" into three syllables. A very nasal "ny-oo" is more common.
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!! I`m Argentinian, I`m studying the differences between English accents for college and I couldn´t figure them out until I watched your videos! Aaaand you make it fun! thanks a lot!!!!!
Hooray!!!! Finally a Video on You Tube that teaches our Aussie accent correctly! Thanks Amy. I have been looking for a good Aussie accent video to show my friends overseas but most of them are terrible. But this one actually gets our accent right. Thanks.
This is the most perfect Australian accent from a non-Australian I have ever heard. Absolutely flawless! Hilarious too! Have you ever tried doing the New Zealand accent? None of us Australians can even do it.
This is the most interactive video I have come across for Aus accent! loved it! I was so much into it and responding to it as if listening live! thank you Amy!
With the pronunciation of 'Melbourne'. The People who live there say a flatter 'e' so that it almost become "Mal-bin'. That's how you can tell a true Victorian...love the channel and the tips.
It's not just shortening everything, it's also about making everything sound more casual. Nicknames for everyone and everything, but they're not always shorter and this practice would be considered more "Ocker". E.g. Robert would be called "Robbo", John might be "Johnno" but Tom might also be "Tommo". A truck driver is a "Truckie". McDonalds is referred to as Maccas here.
Battry? Libry? Aussie? Ozie? Aussie Aussie Aussie Oy Oy Oy Sydney Melbourne Canbra ( Canberra) Tasmania ( Tassie ). Thank you Amy Walker. I love this channel. Learning dialect and accent is fun.
Please make more Australian accent videos! They are my favorite and I want to be able to speak fluently like this without going too into a british accent or just breaking it all together. God, that O is gonna be the death of me, though.
Hi Amy! I am Aimee in DC, studied French, lived long time in Scotland, married to Jamaican! Can you offer up some Scottish and some Jamaican for me....I am in awe of your amazing way with words...I bow to a master!!!!
Fantastic stuff Amy! As you know, we have some bizarre pronunciations in Australia - I met some befuddled English migrants coming to visit a city in Victoria called Moe and they had only ever seen the name written... Rather than any truncation, the name is extended to Mow-Ee! (Mow as in cutting grass)!
haha so true that we squash 3 syllable words into 2! When I was a kid I thought 'batt(e)ry' (spoken in 2 syllables) and 'bat-ter-y' (spoken in 3 syllables) were two different words, until I found out they were the same word - battery- in two different accents. This vid just reminded me of that! :) and btw your aussie accent is fantastic!! Cheers
this is so helpful, I'm having to teach my theatre class how to do an Australian accent for some assignment. everyone is the class had to choose a different accent to teach, and I've been looking for a good video like this.
Any tips on how to do the "oh" sound?? I have a hard time with words like "no" or "so" ....you do it so well, I thought Australian was your natural accent, until I read the comments!! lol. Is this your profession?? I can see you being an amazing coach to actors and actresses!! Thanks for sharing!!
hey great videos amy...I m italian and I lived in australia for a while....the first days was terrible for me understand!....now I learned and I got no problems...and it's very intresting know the accents! and compare them!! I just suscribed to your channel you r very nice!! :-)
Another good tip for people wanting to attempt this accent is that we kind of like to pronounce words like Australia with a smaller 'i' sound at the end, almost like a 'y', so Australia becomes Australiya.
Our tendency to shorten everything is funny because so many of our Aboriginal place names are more than two syllables. Just a sampling: Wollongong, Woolloomoloo, Woolloongabba, Wangaratta, Indooroopilly, Coonabarabran, Wagga Wagga. One called Dandenong (3 syllables) is widely shortened to Dandy but not sure if many of these places have shortened versions. See wiki for comprehensive list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin
Definitely true for the cities but I still tend to say library and battery rather than shortening them I don't think I'd know many people with this sort of accent but it is believable
Our annunciation is that way because of the SS' in auSSie. We don't see it like auzzie. ...and most don't give a shit what bothers you guys. But I like the Australian accent
Maaaaaaaattttttttte, and oi oi oi. Nice to see an aussie accent vid. One suggestion, I notice the word good is a little off, relax your tongue more, as in don't pull your tongue back quite so far, and drop it down at the back a little like you're yawning (i said it to myself and that's how I do it), less "chewing gum" if that makes sense, other than that, you are true blue missy.
also fun thing that people in specifically melbourne do they actually pronounce it malb'n instead of melb'n and do this with a lot of el/al words... well sort of its kind of merged together. We don't even realise we're doing it! lmao
Isn’t the Aussie prenoinceiation of Melbourne the same as it is for English English would say mellburn to pronounce it which is what every Aussie I’ve ever met had said never heard any body call it mellbn
I'd say we mostly pronounce it Melb'n or Melbən (the unstressed vowel schwa). There's another one in Brisbane and Darwin. Not all Aussies sound the same.
Very impressive but the second syllable in Sydney is short, also no one adds a rising inflection to it (although that usually is our want). Also "kewl" is only said that way by country bogans/Queenslanders these days.
This is amazing! I have NEVER heard a non-Australian nail our accent before. Wow!
@Intelligence Injection Nah she's not, she's actually American but she's so good at imitating accents that she could fool people into thinking she's from just about anywhere, haha
@Intelligence Injection Isn't it funny how the ones who are the most arrogant and cock-sure about something are usually the ones who turn out to be wrong? Interesting how that works. Anyway, perhaps you should take your own advice.
She's definitely not Australian. Have a look at this video here, at about 4:45: th-cam.com/video/8VbnwoTVZ-4/w-d-xo.htmlm45s
Or the Wikipedia article about her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Walker
She's American, but she has an extraordinary ability to pick up and imitate all kinds of accents from around the world.
@Intelligence Injection (This is the part where you admit that you're wrong and *gasp* maybe even apologise for the completely unwarranted arrogance)
@Intelligence Injection Dude. You literally said "pls shut up if you don't know what you're talking about" to someone who knows better than you. The fact that you would even attempt to turn this back onto me shows how fragile **your** ego is, it has nothing to do with me.
Her exposure to Australian accents is from studying abroad in the University of Wollongong (an Australian university) for a while, which she's mentioned in other videos - not because of whatever bogus reason you've just made up on the spot (yes, I'm calling you out for lying).
Also, it's not 2001 where Wikipedia could plausibily be considered an unreliable source. Seriously, try editing an article without proper sources and **see how quickly** it gets reverted back. You don't even need wikipedia anyway, she has plenty of her own videos (like this one th-cam.com/video/irrrOrr2beQ/w-d-xo.html) where she just flat out says she's not Australian within the first 10 seconds of the video.
Anyway, when you make an arrogant claim and you're presented with evidence that disproves your claim, you man up and acknowledge that you were wrong and move on like a decent human being. That's ultimately what it comes down to, and it should be really, *really* easy to do. Rest assured that if I was in your position, I would've done it 2 days ago.
@@timmy3441 hahaha I LOVE the verification FACTS.. you're awesome! keep it up.. the internet needs more people like you out there. Btw, I think you might be trying to explain the Dunning-Kruger effect to 'Intelligence Injection'. Here's the Wiki to it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I'm an Ozzie and I've never heard a non Aussie do the Australian accent so well! You're amazing!
your incredible, full stop.I"m aussie (aussie aussie!) and i can tell you thats the best aussie accent i've ever heard from a non australian. Just amazing. Very natural. I'm aussie and i'm telling you i would totally believe you too....
I'm australian and this is perfect literally no one can do an Aussie accent!!!
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LOL.....you have no idea how many Kiwis are amongst you!!.......But she is pretty awesome. It is the same for NZ accent ( no one can do it... we can even spot an aussie trying to copy it pretty quickly) . She can nail Nu Zullund eccent too.....its flawless
yer, she lived in australia and new zealand for a long time so shes not really a foreigner..if shed never lived here as she has, an american would NEVER be able to do an australian accent
Why am I here learning my own accent
Lmao same
Hahahahaha guilty myself
perfect. if you used that accent in Australia, no one would know you were American
I am Australian, I've been doing your American accent tutorials and started watching this out of interest. You are absolutely outstanding at what you do. ❤❤❤❤
I'm Aussie and I thought you were too until I realised you were doing an accent!! NAILED IT!
As an Aussie, where I live we would say battery as bat'ri when we are talking about the electrical charging thing but bateri if you are talking about someone hitting someone.
I like it how you relate your accents back to environments and climates in which they're spoken - it's so true!
I actually forgot half way through the video for a moment that you weren't Australian, and I'm Australian myself! Seriously, really impressive.
her strayan is flawless mate!
couldn't believe she was a yank!!
The two syllable laziness is true- I had never thought about it before. I am an English tutor and try to articulate a little clearer thus people are often mistaking me for being British or Canadian.
"So then we've got the really long word, 'Tasmania.'
*operatic voice* WAYYYYY TOO LONG.
So we're gonna call it...
*drumroll*
TAZZY! :D :D :D :D"
This made me laugh so hard. You are amazing!
I'm from Tasmania and say spell it like this Tassie
Wow, I'm stunned. Your accent is 100% authentic and I was born and raised in Aus.
Amy this video helped me so much with my end of hear acting exam today, thanks a bunch, seriously wouldn't have passed without you. Vibes to you and all you do :) your energy is fab! Love you
Love it! Great timing for me! Really helps hearing this type of stuff at this pace compared to people talking on a show. Easier to pick things up.
You're right about some sounds being truncated and others being lengthened. I just watched your 'O' Sound video and while you didn't address this directly, I could hear it when you spoke. The words "no" and "so" can have very different sounds in different parts of Australia. I'm from Perth and I have even heard people who are related say these words differently. The most extreme is when I've heard people say, "ny-oo-wuh", turning a single syllable "no" into three syllables. A very nasal "ny-oo" is more common.
Hi Amy, your accent is spot on. How long have you spent in Australia?
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!! I`m Argentinian, I`m studying the differences between English accents for college and I couldn´t figure them out until I watched your videos! Aaaand you make it fun! thanks a lot!!!!!
Hooray!!!! Finally a Video on You Tube that teaches our Aussie accent correctly! Thanks Amy.
I have been looking for a good Aussie accent video to show my friends overseas but most of them are terrible.
But this one actually gets our accent right.
Thanks.
This is the most perfect Australian accent from a non-Australian I have ever heard. Absolutely flawless! Hilarious too!
Have you ever tried doing the New Zealand accent? None of us Australians can even do it.
This video are brilliant. I love practicing on accents and voices and this is really helpful. Thanks, Amy. :D
This is the most interactive video I have come across for Aus accent! loved it! I was so much into it and responding to it as if listening live! thank you Amy!
With the pronunciation of 'Melbourne'. The People who live there say a flatter 'e' so that it almost become "Mal-bin'. That's how you can tell a true Victorian...love the channel and the tips.
It's not just shortening everything, it's also about making everything sound more casual. Nicknames for everyone and everything, but they're not always shorter and this practice would be considered more "Ocker". E.g. Robert would be called "Robbo", John might be "Johnno" but Tom might also be "Tommo". A truck driver is a "Truckie". McDonalds is referred to as Maccas here.
She sounds pretty damn authentic!!
The 'Library' and 'Battery' thing is also done in the UK.
Battry? Libry? Aussie? Ozie? Aussie Aussie Aussie Oy Oy Oy
Sydney Melbourne Canbra ( Canberra) Tasmania ( Tassie ). Thank you Amy Walker. I love this channel. Learning dialect and accent is fun.
Such a cute smile. And love the way you say "good".
Please make more Australian accent videos! They are my favorite and I want to be able to speak fluently like this without going too into a british accent or just breaking it all together. God, that O is gonna be the death of me, though.
"that O is gonna be the death of me, though." ROFL!! Exactly!
Ever since I became a fan of the show Wentworth I'm determined to develop an Aussie accent.
SAME
I really hope you know just how amazing you are! I never hear anyone get our accent right, and you are spot on xx
I need more of your video.
thanks for making me feel good about learning Australian accent
Aussie Aussie Aussie! That is a welsh thing originally coined by Max Boyce in the miners workman's clubs.
I thought you were actually Australian and then I found out youre from the states
I showed this video to my Aussie husband and he thought you were "true blue" ... you have a gift :)
Hi Amy! I am Aimee in DC, studied French, lived long time in Scotland, married to Jamaican! Can you offer up some Scottish and some Jamaican for me....I am in awe of your amazing way with words...I bow to a master!!!!
Fantastic stuff Amy!
As you know, we have some bizarre pronunciations in Australia -
I met some befuddled English migrants coming to visit a city in Victoria called Moe and they had only ever seen the name written... Rather than any truncation, the name is extended to Mow-Ee! (Mow as in cutting grass)!
haha so true that we squash 3 syllable words into 2! When I was a kid I thought 'batt(e)ry' (spoken in 2 syllables) and 'bat-ter-y' (spoken in 3 syllables) were two different words, until I found out they were the same word - battery- in two different accents. This vid just reminded me of that! :) and btw your aussie accent is fantastic!! Cheers
baroquepearls they do that in Baltimore
I really need this, I just got here in Aus and still trying to learn their accents. thank you so much for this! :)
Amy Walker as Julia Gillard! :D
this freaks me out! you are on point!
this is so helpful, I'm having to teach my theatre class how to do an Australian accent for some assignment. everyone is the class had to choose a different accent to teach, and I've been looking for a good video like this.
it was so useful tnx very much
Any tips on how to do the "oh" sound?? I have a hard time with words like "no" or "so" ....you do it so well, I thought Australian was your natural accent, until I read the comments!! lol.
Is this your profession?? I can see you being an amazing coach to actors and actresses!! Thanks for sharing!!
My 90 yr old 7th gen Australian grandparents still say Can-berra :P
Any video on Canadian and South African accent?
i actually thought you're aussie until i saw your other videos. great job! flawless!
Awesome
That's right we australians are sooooo lazy, we're always making things easier like shortening words, :) Love ur vids Amy
Hi Amy,
Thanks for your video!!! Amy could you please also teach us about other small words for example like - loike...
bravo,, nailed it..... gorgous smile to
Please do some more Aussie accent videos.
Your explanation is very beautiful. Thanks.
cool video thanks
Very helpful! Since I'm goin to OZ! Lol
No Brisbane?
hey great videos amy...I m italian and I lived in australia for a while....the first days was terrible for me understand!....now I learned and I got no problems...and it's very intresting know the accents! and compare them!! I just suscribed to your channel you r very nice!! :-)
I never comment on any video, but is is so awesome!
I'm Australian ur accent so fluent
Another good tip for people wanting to attempt this accent is that we kind of like to pronounce words like Australia with a smaller 'i' sound at the end, almost like a 'y', so Australia becomes Australiya.
;-D
Our tendency to shorten everything is funny because so many of our Aboriginal place names are more than two syllables. Just a sampling: Wollongong, Woolloomoloo, Woolloongabba, Wangaratta, Indooroopilly, Coonabarabran, Wagga Wagga. One called Dandenong (3 syllables) is widely shortened to Dandy but not sure if many of these places have shortened versions. See wiki for comprehensive list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin
we call wollongong 'the gong' generally. or locals just call it the city. we're lazy people.
You live near melbourne
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Veeeeery good Amy. The Aussie accent is almost impossible to do; we hear some shockers.
It's so funny how accurate this video is.
How can I learn in Japanese accent? Are there any people that you recommend that I watch or see?
Definitely true for the cities but I still tend to say library and battery rather than shortening them
I don't think I'd know many people with this sort of accent but it is believable
You got skills
God bless you
I am so glad you know how to say Aussie, it drives me nuts the way Americans usually say it :D
Our annunciation is that way because of the SS' in auSSie. We don't see it like auzzie. ...and most don't give a shit what bothers you guys. But I like the Australian accent
We will KNOW how to say it but still won't say it that way.
Miguel Flores You should say it how we say it because that is the proper way of saying it! If you like the Aussie accent then say it properly
I don't mind the way they say Australia but if youre going to use the colloquial at least pronounce it right
Thanks for your help! :)
Maaaaaaaattttttttte, and oi oi oi. Nice to see an aussie accent vid.
One suggestion, I notice the word good is a little off, relax your tongue more, as in don't pull your tongue back quite so far, and drop it down at the back a little like you're yawning (i said it to myself and that's how I do it), less "chewing gum" if that makes sense, other than that, you are true blue missy.
Wow thanks this was rlly helpful!
This is really funny watching :) I'm Australian and I never knew foreign people thought we said 'o' and 'i' haha
you are a good teacher
omg lol. we had this video as material to learn Australian english in school.///Sweden
you're heaps fun. thanks! you just made me happy.
This video has perfect timing!
YAY!
also fun thing that people in specifically melbourne do they actually pronounce it malb'n instead of melb'n and do this with a lot of el/al words... well sort of its kind of merged together. We don't even realise we're doing it! lmao
Really REALLY good Aussie accent. I'm Australian and you sound like one of us!
Yes great job I’m Australian 💘
Great video. Ray (from Belgium)
thank you :3
this is so accurate
I'm in love
Thank you!! that's explain me a lot =)
I'm so impressed right now. #nailedit
I nearly though you were an Australian native when I heard your Australian accent
Isn’t the Aussie prenoinceiation of Melbourne the same as it is for English English would say mellburn to pronounce it which is what every Aussie I’ve ever met had said never heard any body call it mellbn
Although Aussies do tent to prronounce the e as an a as in malburn instead of melburn
I say Melbin
I'd say we mostly pronounce it Melb'n or Melbən (the unstressed vowel schwa). There's another one in Brisbane and Darwin. Not all Aussies sound the same.
Oh wow! You are very good at that accent. I'm from Melb'n, and I had to look you up to see you weren't .. you know … aussie.
this 2 syllable is so right I had no idea til I watched this
You nailed it, Amy. Onya
JD
Actually in Melbourne our vowels slide, so it’s more like “Malb’n.”
Very impressive but the second syllable in Sydney is short, also no one adds a rising inflection to it (although that usually is our want). Also "kewl" is only said that way by country bogans/Queenslanders these days.
Like Straya! Or ambo!
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We also say ‘baddaree’ instead of ‘bat-tree’ - saves us the trouble of annunciating our ‘T’s, when in doubt go the least resistance possible 😛
How do you say Australia using 2 syllables?
Brandon Smith 'Straya
stra-ya.
(stray-ya)
I'm amazed at how many things sound like Southern American accents. Things like battery.
+Laura Gambrell are you serious ? im Uruguayan / Australian , no way accents are similar
I like this woman. I keep watching these videos just to see her.
Can you say Brisbane?
+Frank Japson Brisb'n
+Mianna108 brizz-bn
Nah it's Briz-vegas
+Ebony Prince basically brisbin' thats how i say it anyway and i dont come from brisbane im in the middle of no where
I'm in Brisbane now. It's Brisb'n