How to do an Australian accent with VCA Senior Lecturer Leith McPherson

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • Leith McPherson, Senior Lecturer (Voice and Movement) at the Victorian College of the Arts, shows you how to do a convincing Australian accent.
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  • @caesumcrimson6381
    @caesumcrimson6381 7 лет назад +70

    This woman is like a juke box of accents. Seamlessly goes into so many different voices. What a mastery over her mouth! Haha

  • @niamhcrosbie369
    @niamhcrosbie369 5 лет назад +43

    Absolutely correct. Class in Australia is more determined by education than income. I have a "high" accent despite my parents bring low middle class.

    • @jenhaley
      @jenhaley 3 года назад

      My mother (and extendend family) speaks Castilian Spanish in an area where Puerto Rican Spanish is the norm.

  • @justagrrl1981
    @justagrrl1981 5 лет назад +30

    Kate Winslet's Aussie accent is spot on, in this movie mentioned and Holy Smoke

    • @gerryhouska2859
      @gerryhouska2859 2 года назад

      Kate is a much better actress than most.

  • @sanshaj
    @sanshaj 3 года назад +4

    Jude Law in contagion was supposed to be Australian?

  • @fractalign
    @fractalign 5 лет назад +51

    There is one Australian accent that knows no region, it’s the uni student accent. It’s a middle class accent with its own verbal cues. As many university students may be more educated than people who have not been to university, thier grasp of correct pronounciation is sometimes more advanced. An example of the Uni student accent post graduate, can be found in careers as diverse as human rights lawyers, art gallery directors, social workers and members of the Australian Greens.

    • @joelmangan9923
      @joelmangan9923 5 лет назад +5

      I believe this is what has been traditionally known as the 'cultivated Australian accent'. Think Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett et al.
      Very interesting points you've made and I think you're really onto something.

    • @redfoxonstilts
      @redfoxonstilts 3 года назад +4

      Grasp of correct pronunciation? Who decided which pronunciation is correct and which isn't? Saying natives are pronouncing words incorrectly is the same as saying some people walk in the wrong way. It's nonsense. People walk and talk in a way that is natural to them. There's no wrong way of doing it if you're a native.

    • @BuzzLightyear9999
      @BuzzLightyear9999 3 года назад +2

      I don’t agree. There are nowhere near as many native Australian accents present amongst Australian university students [or faculty] as there used to be with Australian universities now relying so heavily on foreign students in order to make revenue. The “university” accent is now every bit as diverse as in any other part of the nation since it incorporates such a large number of different ethnicities amongst its student and staff populations…
      (What you say may well have been true in the 70s and 80s, but those days are looooooong past…)

    • @westaussie965
      @westaussie965 Год назад

      So it’s shit?

  • @abilea4081
    @abilea4081 4 года назад +5

    Very true, since Aussie accents are found everywhere and are less divided by cities or states unlike most countries, they're less based around income or region and change a lot depending on educational background. I used to have a more bogan accent by it's changed sicne going to catholic school and university

  • @omaronnyoutube
    @omaronnyoutube 4 года назад +7

    Speaking of the Australian accent varieties, I remembered being corrected when I pronounced the word "water" when I was in Perth. I grew up in Sydney and when I was in Perth, I ordered water. I pronounced water as "war-dah" as any other Sydneysider would do, but the Perth waitress that took my order corrected me and she said "war-tah".

    • @westaussie965
      @westaussie965 2 года назад +1

      I have never heard that any Australian would pronounce water like you are from southern US state😂

    • @Furmily
      @Furmily Год назад

      WT? "war-ter" is how you say it in Sydney.

    • @omaronnyoutube
      @omaronnyoutube Год назад +1

      @@Furmily Actually, the pronunciation is "war-dah". That's how many young Sydneysiders pronounce the word "water". Australians, especially the Broad and General Australian speakers, don't exactly pronounce "water" as "war-ter" like the RP speakers would.

  • @martinkuliza
    @martinkuliza 4 месяца назад

    1.44 its just scary how she goes from Aussie to Scottish LOL Like .. Exorcist Scary :P
    it's like Mr Bumble from Oliver twist has possessed her then it's Dolores from the Cranberries then it's paul hogan
    I don't know who she is anymore

  • @isis-daisy3384
    @isis-daisy3384 3 года назад +2

    After being away from Melbourne a few years, it's so lovely to hear this accent 💜 missing home

  • @MmeButtlicious
    @MmeButtlicious 5 лет назад +19

    I'm so sorry but I've seen Contagion, and as a born and bred Australian I can confirm that Jude Law's accent was 100% shithouse

    • @Furmily
      @Furmily Год назад

      Especially "Chicago" - that was terrible!

  • @ElisaTayler
    @ElisaTayler 2 года назад +1

    Best example is Kath and Kim.

  • @nickfatsis9607
    @nickfatsis9607 4 года назад +3

    Have a listen to Robin Wright in the movie "Adore" for an American, she does an almost perfect Australian accent.

    • @Jen.V843
      @Jen.V843 3 года назад

      I just watched the trailer for this and she is spot on!

    • @nickfatsis9607
      @nickfatsis9607 3 года назад +1

      @@Jen.V843 Robin is amazing, I actually forgot that she’s American when I was watching it!

  • @johnford3327
    @johnford3327 7 лет назад +9

    bloody brilliant i think i got it mate

  • @geoffw6007
    @geoffw6007 4 года назад +3

    if you want to do an Aussie accent, try pronouncing melbin or melben for Melbourne

    • @bernadettelanders7306
      @bernadettelanders7306 2 года назад

      I’m from Melbourne, born and bred and listened to how I pronounced it. Melbn. I couldn’t hear a vowel between the b&n.

    • @Myrtle-ez3zd
      @Myrtle-ez3zd 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@bernadettelanders7306you do have a vowel there, it's the Schwa mentioned in the video. If you're not so aware of what a Schwa sounds like or where/how it occurs, then I can see how you would think you don't have a vowel there, but trust me (as a fellow Melbournian with a background in linguistics), you do have a vowel. It's nigh on impossible to pronounce Melbourne as one syllable.

  • @TweedSuit
    @TweedSuit 5 лет назад +1

    7 Flamin' Galahs thumbed down

  • @Platypus333
    @Platypus333 Месяц назад

    Yeah Nah

  • @lisajay9512
    @lisajay9512 Год назад

    Wow! She’s great. Sign me up for lessons. 😂😂

  • @jonyjony12345
    @jonyjony12345 5 лет назад +2

    This is soo cool !

  • @frankfiocco8004
    @frankfiocco8004 2 года назад

    Call everyone "maate" and drink beer that is just above freezing and drive on the left.

  • @misskarinaleigh
    @misskarinaleigh 6 лет назад +6

    I had no idea there were different tongue positions with different accents!

  • @jakejakejakejakejakejake
    @jakejakejakejakejakejake 7 лет назад +1

    That was so fascinating!!!

  • @ropecharmer
    @ropecharmer 6 лет назад +9

    Deliver me from people who start almost every sentence with the word 'so'.
    >:-(

  • @gennywayneegoy3527
    @gennywayneegoy3527 3 года назад

    I'm here because of jake

  • @tappyoklahoma
    @tappyoklahoma 3 года назад

    overcomplicating it quite a bit ---- cant you just just spell out an accent pronounciation?

    • @Myrtle-ez3zd
      @Myrtle-ez3zd 10 месяцев назад

      You can using the international phonetic alphabet. But you can't do it using this alphabet, unless the person I am explaining to also has my accent. This is because consonants don't change much between accents, but vowels do massively, so different people would pronounce the vowel in my attempted"spelled pronounciation" (transcription) differently.

  • @timhutch6980
    @timhutch6980 6 лет назад +3

    Not sure someone with such a un-Australian accent should be advising on this subject. Key thing is that Australians don’t often use all the syllables. Clearly never been to the bush, as that bush accent sounds like it is from wales.

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian 4 года назад +2

      Only Bob Katter knows the secret of the bush Oz accent. Bob's on the job, all day and all night.

    • @themanagement69
      @themanagement69 4 года назад +11

      You don’t to sound like a bogan to have an Aussie accent

    • @shaungordon9737
      @shaungordon9737 4 года назад +7

      What do you mean un-Australian? Many people talk like that. It's pretty common in Melbourne

    • @timhutch6980
      @timhutch6980 3 года назад

      @Zeta Hamilton-Durkin thanks Zeta - if you are Australian and have been to the bush it is not difficult to mimic the accent. As a person with two degrees, I can assure you that you are over emphasising the importance of formal education. I suspect Leith has English parents and or has never left the city. If you are advising on accents, I would suggest it would be a good idea to get within a bulls roar of it.

  • @DenverFairbanks
    @DenverFairbanks Год назад

    Australian Accent sounds like a Weird British Accent. The North American Accent Sounds Much Nicer to the world so what's the purpose of having an Australian Accent 🤔😅😂🤣👏

    • @MT-eo6tq
      @MT-eo6tq 11 месяцев назад

      What a r£tarded comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣