Another problem is that people assume there's only one Aussie accent, when (as far as I'm concerned) there are at least five or six most notable Aussie accents. The differences are very slight, but Aussies can pick up on them, and I think because our accents are so complex we have a good ear for accents in general.
My brother, sister and I all have slightly different accents due to what we've done in our adult lives. We all started with a slightly English accent due to our father but I'm the only one who kept it, also affected by my living in England for a while. Our sister stayed city living and dropped back to a general Aussie accent. Our brother's accent is the strongest because he moved to the outback for years and the English inflection was treated with suspicion out there.
@@kristyl933 I don't know about that. I live in Melbourne and there are many different dialects here. I have an old Kensington dialect, which is very similar to northern English dialects (such as Manchester, Sheffield, even some southern Scottish ones), and the accent is unlike any I have ever heard around Australia. Whenever I go travelling people ask me if I'm Scottish or English, and I have to say I'm an Aussie hahaha. We also have very different slang words, such as Madra, Black Mariah, Tuppence, and many more. I've never heard these elsewhere in Australia.
@@aimeen843 Yes me neither. I'm not sure where you're from in Melbourne, but have you heard any of the slang I listed? They seem to be extremely rare words these days
Its good to see an American learning about Australian culture and just enjoying learning about our way of life. I give big props to ya Ryan 👏 you're a top bloke in my book champ
I’m from Perth, Western Australia. When I visited the states I got asked if I was British, Bostonian and Southern. I never got asked if I was Australian though haha. I love accents. I found that really video really interesting. Thanks Ryan. Happy arvo mate. Have a good one.
40 years ago I was in Central Australia 🇦🇺. A man spoke with a Irish accent yet never travelled out of Australia 🇦🇺 His father was from Ireland 🇮🇪 and his mother was Aboriginal. Being so isolated his accent had developed.
@@robertmurray8763 Yes, I sounded like the. Queen when I went to school, rather odd since I was going to a school in a remote part of Australia but my mother was perfectly bilingual and her accent was unfortunately posh. I adopted her accent from being isolated. Yet people have assumed I'm lying about coming from where I do. It's strange indeed!
I was born in Australia but I started kindergarten with a Scottish accent. I learned pretty quick from school how to do an Aussie accent. I sometimes get caught out on a few words so I just avoid them in my vocabulary.
@@tinfoilhomer909 I find inverted snobbery really funny. It's as bad as garden-variety snobbery. My mother would correct my accent if I was adopting phrases or word that were grammatically incorrect. She told me: "you will thank me in the future". She was right because I can move in any circles and changing down is dead easy. I can talk with farmers and country people, and ordinary working people, or the toffs. Unfortunately doors can close if you don't express yourself well. So maintaining the Aussie accent and bad grammar can be a block. I just like to communicate clearly. Australians tend to mumble and don't speak clearly and that makes it very hard for others. I once found myself actually translating to a Canadian English speaking hotel receptionist what an Australian was trying to say ....in English! She had to get him to repeat himself twice after the initial request. She was incredibly grateful that I stepped in and clearly said what he wanted (are there any rooms available and if so how much?). This is kind of funny and not so great if you think about it! Plus the nasal accent can be grating. 'NIIIAAW' instead of 'now'. OMG it's horrible sounding. On grammar: Learned 'pretty quick' = learned 'pretty quickly'. I don't personally mind but others do and it can undermine your message. These days I help students with their English and they say they never have any difficulty understanding what I'm saying unlike with other Australians. It's just the way it is. Inverted snobbery is not so great IMO.
Years ago when in Europe I ran into an Australian couple who had fairly broad Aussie accents (not as strong as Steve Irwin but still pretty ocker). They said I was lying about being Australian because of my accent (which is a general Aussie accent with a touch of Cate Blanchett). They told everyone there that I was lying! They were from Melbourne, so I told them (truthfully) that I was born in Wagga Wagga and that it doesn’t get much more Aussie than that! 😂
Wagga is Aboriginal for “piss”. When the word is repeated it denotes ‘a lot of’. The term “piss” in the Australian vernacular means beer. So Wagga Wagga translates as “The place of many beers.”
I'm from Junee living in Wagga and there's a shit tonne of us with the broad accent here. If anything, the broad accent is getting stronger here. Most of the children have good broad accents
In Lion, Dev Patel actually had an Accent coach for around 3 to 4 months, Its pretty pretty close. Dev actually went to the producers and BEGGED to be cast, but they had to put him through audition, but he still got it.
If she thinks the broad accent isn't really a thing anymore she hadn't visited Queensland in a very long time. Must of been produced in Victoria or New South Wales
Depends where in Qld you're talking about. I was raised in northern Brisbane suburbs and have a general accent. When I moved to Sydney, no one guessed I was from QLD. The broad accent is more regional Qld, far north Queensland. They have a slower drawl.
lol, you pretty much nailed some weird combination of cockney and the British Royal Received Pronunciation accent. Not easy to do I would imagine lol, so well done on that :)
I’m from, what was, a very conservative part of Queensland. I’m now 50. I was horrified when I first “heard” my accent. I was in LAX, getting my luggage, because I had a lay over and was on my way to NYC. The fact I was in the USA to complete my Shakespearean actor training made me terrified. I thought I sounded so stupid and I have what was then considered the “cultivated” accent - like Cate Blanchett. The course I was on was very prestigious and I didn’t have to audition for it. An American director had seen me performing and invited me. After hearing my accent, I thought he was stark, raving mad. It really knocked my confidence as I thought I sounded like a “slack-jawed yocal”. Thankfully I had a week in NYC before the course started. It really got to me, especially when I learned my vocal coach was the Head of Voice at Juilliard. I just thought, “Why the Hell did they bring me here?” Still got the gig after training.
Good on ya for realizing your own accent and doing your best to work thru it. The Juilliard dude would’ve helped. I’m from rural WA and as an entertainer, teacher and now health care worker I have been fighting to keep the accent intelligible all my life.
@@sherrylovegood Same. I was living in the States for about 3 months. Was in San Fran to catch a Qantas flight back home. And all of a sudden the Australian accent actually hurt my ears lol Fortunately an Australian accent in the US opens far more doors than it closes
I love our Aussie accent I was born in Liverpool Uk And had a scouse accent (which I also love) School changed that No one can tell I’ve ever been English I feel like an Aussie!!
I'm going to start saying 'happy arvo' to my friends and family... you never know, it might catch on and Ryan will have contributed a new addition to the Australian lingo.
When I hear people trying to impersonate the Aussie accent, I tell them to imagine themselves as a two-stroke motorbike or lawn mower trying to speak English.
As a dutchie i find the ozzy accent the easiest and most comfortable of all accents. Actually makes speaking english a lot easier because the pronunciations feel more natural (should probably also mention two of my best mates during childhood were australian and i basically learned how to speak english by hanging out with them and i guess i kinda took over their accents)
In Las Vegas in 2013 for a trade show, some Yanks I met took me to an Aussie restaurant (Sands Casino). We were waiting in a room with about twenty customers waiting for a vacated table. I got a bit bored so, put my bush hat on, went around to each of the customers and said in a broad Outback accent, G'day, my name's Keith from the Outback Down Under, welcome to this restaurant! People were looking at me with open mouths probably thinking who is this guy? Lots of laughs, cured the boredom, and the Yanks I was with loved it. Spur of the moment thing for me. At the time I was living in remote village in outback Western Australia about 4 hours north of Kalgoorlie Gold Fields. At the time, I was living on a WA cattle station of about 500,000 acres.
I love how all of the content you put on your channel is fun and interesting; how you sound genuinely curious and intuitive about each subject or topic; makes for an interesting viewing. But I especially love it when you put anything, about Australia 🇦🇺 on. You also come across as an awesome bloke. Great work mate. 👍💖🥳
Two great examples of non Australians speaking in an Australian accent are Robin Wright and Kate Winslet, Robin plays and Australian in a movie called Adoration and Kate plays an Australian in The Dressmaker, if you had never heard them speak before, watching those two films, you'd swear they were Australian women, they're both great talents!
I am fully Australian and just listening to them all trying an Aussie accent is hilarious. I never knew it was that hard for others to do the accent but I wouldn’t know because for me it comes naturally. I loved watching this though. Please keep doing these videos.
Kate Winslett played an Aussie called Tilley in the movie called The Dressmaker. She got our Accent right. Here is a clip of her in that movie, also staring Liam Hemmswoth ruclips.net/video/IjXLVgyOQJs/видео.html
I totally agree, she nailed it. I think it's easier for Brits to pronounce our accent than Americans. We drop the "R" sound whereas I think the Americans drop the "O" sound.
I remember having lunch with a linguist. He was saying that there was a ranking to accents. Towards the bottom of the lists are accents like the general US one. Towards to top is the Australian. The average person finds it easier to do accents equal or lower on the scale. This is why the Aussie accent is so hard for so many.
Dont forget Australia was flooded with American culture in 1956 when we got television. This enables us to replicate various American regional accents.
The American accent came from England. At the time America was first settled the accent in southern England was rhotic (pronounced all /r/ sounds). It was the south-eastern English accent that later diverged from American English to become non-rhotic.
I would never lose my accent, I've witnessed a few Aussie's that have been to America for a couple weeks, come back home sounding like an American.. 🤦♂️
Australian English sounds Southern to an American because the south of the US was colonized mostly by English and Scottish people. The rest of the US was colonised by mostly German people or by people from within German majority states in the US. That means the closest American accent to Australian is the southern accent.
My son has autism and when he was younger he couldn't talk but when he finally did he had a slight American accent from watching American educational DVDs. Like the alphabet and stuff it blew my mind 😂
Yep, I'm with you there. Lived in Vic for 40+ years, originally from FNQ. Talk like a Melbournite, but, 5 minutes conversation with anyone with a strong FNQ accent, back I go to that! And ending every sentence with "AY!" Weird! 🤣
Same here. It’s pretty funny how versatile I can be depending upon where I am & who I’m with. There’s one word I haven’t been able to just let go & do. “Ya” instead of you. It just doesn’t sit well. I find myself saying “see you!” instead of “see ya!” The looks I get sometimes 😅😂
I agree completely and I actually find it quite advantageous being able to be able to relate and understand to different people on different levels..That has also served me well being Scottish born but Aussie raised where I also find my more Glaswegian side coming out when I'm around other Scots and of course acting as the interpreter to my Aussie mates who don't understand a single word my fellow Scots are saying 😂
Did a bus tour of Hawaii (Big Island) and the coach driver (originally from Texas) swore that he thought I was from Virginia. As you said, Ryan maybe we do sound like southern Americans. I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Our other coach driver on Oahu picked the Aussie accent straight away. He was Samoan.
On the other hand we're pretty good at mimicking other people's accents. My Brother met a Pretty English Tourist and Followed Her Home from Australia to England. They got Married the following year. Apparently He has a British Accent none of us have ever heard. Because whenever he thinks or speaks about Australia he subconsciously switches back.
cheers! Ryan, much better.thanks for letting us hear what there talking about before you give your opinion. way better. keep up the good work love your videos. congrats on new bub. hope all is going well. ange from oz
loving the aussie content, it's really heart warming to see people from other cultures experiencing Australia. you should check out Tasting History's ANZAC biscuit episode, it really shows aussie mateship, and how, despite being enemies, the Turks and Aussies respected each other from across the trenches
Liev Schrieber pretty much nailed it ( pretty much ) because his wife ( Naiomi Watts ) is Australian . I imagine him imitating her accent around the house all the time . That's what I'd do . When I hear an American accent , I hear a very strong Irish influence . Now it might just be me but they seem fairly similar in quite a few ways . In particular , the "R" sound is very pronounced in both .
Liev Schreiber did a very good accent because he was married to Naomi Watts, an Aussie. If you want to find out about the history of English in America there’s a great BBC documentary that explains how the language changed once it hit America. The Adventure Of English - Episode 5 English in America - BBC Documentary m.ruclips.net/video/oBqlVl0K9tw/видео.html
I tried to buy a lighter at a servo in New York and the bloke handed me a lotto ticket. Probably took about 2 solid minutes for him to finally understand what I wanted 😂
Hey Ryan, don't forget we started as a Penal colony. The English spoken then by the majority, convicts, would have been pretty guttural and uncultured. Good on them.
I like the fact that you send yourself up when you're doing the Aussie accent - which you acknowledge you're not good at. One of the things you would need to do is get rid of the automatic "oo" pronunciations that you have for words like "new", "due", "dew" and "emu"... all of them have a "you" pronunciation in Aus and NZ English - similar to a number of UK English accents. So "eem-you" for emu, "n'you" for new, "d'you" (often sounding more like "dj'you" or "j''you") for due or dew. Basically "dew" and "due" sound closer to "Jew" than to "do". Drop terminal Rs - people in the USA pronounce Rs way more aggressively than Aussies and New Zealanders. In Aus the R may lengthen the vowel - "car" becomes "cah" (in New Zealand it's just "ka") or may not - "bugger" becomes "bugga".
The Australian accent was first noted in 1820s school children. Children were developing an accent through schooling which was different to their parents. Australia at that time was an amalgam of British accents and the children were speaking with all these accents mushed together. There has been a computer generated accent made from all British accents and it is almost identical to the Australian accent.
I'm an Aussie, lived in SA my entire life and don't swear Because of my accent when I say sittin' (sitting) it sounds like I say sh**tin' I also don't say all letters of words In the sentence "I need an editor to edit it" It sounds like "I need an ed-did-der d ed-did di" But the dashed bit is fast (I wrote it like that to try to have it make more sense)
One of the best things about an Aussie accent in the USA is that it can instantly get the local Police to chill out. Cop walks up to your car in a traffic stop, one hand hovering over his weapon. "Giday officer, howzitgon' What can I do for ya?" They relax instantly. Unless you are drunk, or have been a total FWit it will usually end with them recommending you drive differently & send you on your way.
If you’ve never taken much notice of international journalists, have q listen to them more closely. They travel so much and hear so many accents, that it affects their own without them realising it. Over time, you start to hear English with about six or seven different accents creeping into their speech.
I can't explain why but I literally love your channel :D You are so nice. I've been binge watching you on my tv account since I found you. I only found you last week from watching your reaction to John Farnham singing Help. I'm Australian by the way. See you again this arvo for more binge watching x
The Australian accent often gets generalised as being one thing. Something I think a lot of foreigners don’t realise is that we actually do have regional accents here, they are just harder for foreign ears to distinguish. Subtler. I was born on the west coast of Australia and now live in metropolitan Melbourne in the southeast, and I sound completely different to those around me. I have more of a purr-y tone compared to my peers. Someone once described my accent as “stoned surfer”.
Hahaha alot of ppl think my sons a stoner ,he's very layed back ,and we're Melbournians It's definitely because of his accent I'd say,yet we're not from W.A
When my dad was in Hospital the nurse was from Asia, maybe China or Singapore and she spoke with a N.Z. accent which shocked me. My Uncle and Aunty who were from N.Z. didn't notice.
I was born in Perth, WA but am from Anglo-Burmese/British colonial heritage so my grandparents/mum spoke with an RP British accent. I moved to Melbourne and have also lived in rural Sydney and California so my accent can go from Cate Blanchett to NorCal to British and Aussie ocker as I grew up with lots of Aboriginal friends in WA and lived/worked on farms in NSW. I am pretty quiet/introverted and Americans could never ever hear me as they speak so loudly in comparison. Even after 10 years Americans can still hear a NorCal accent when I speak actually but I can't tell at all lol.
When Meryl Streep acted as Lindy Chamberlain in the Aussie film Evil Angels - she said the Aussie accent was the most difficult accent she had to master.
Your rolled R's come directly from Yorkshire in england. I have a Yorkie friend in Cairns and everybody mistakes him for an american on first meeting. I had a 2nd generation dutch flatmate who always said color because her dad said it that way.
When I try to do an American accent, the first thing I think of is holding my nose half closed to get the squeak sound. The tongue raises in the center to the roof of the mouth. In Oz, the tongue is relaxed, and not used like a muscle.
I’m not sure if visitors would notice but us Aussies notice the difference in accents between someone who lives in North Queensland and someone that lives in Tasmania!
You're right 👍🏻 I'm British and from the south west , I spent time in the States for work and 9 times out of 10 they thought I was Irish or Australian !! When I told them I was British the reply was usually " really " 😂
LOL at 10:37 you have a strange version of Forrest Gump happening there. I like that you keep trying though. If you like learning about Great Austalian moments then on Netflix is the "Untold" series "The Race of the Century" is about how Australia won the America's cup back in 1983. I think you would enjoy it very much.
😄😄😄 Haha I love it when you try and do the Aussie accent!! Lol 🤣 I suppose it is hard to do! We are a nutty bunch! None of those actors got it right! Lol
I grew up in Mildura which is a country town in North West Vic Australia It is interesting that, although there is no such thing as a Mildura accent, I met a man once in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, where I have lived for the past 40 years, who told me that he was from rural Victoria. I asked him if he was from Mildura as he just sounded like he was from Mildura! He was amazed
The way I describe the Aussie accent is that it's "slack-jawed UK english", so your idea about it sounding like "deep south of the UK" is pretty accurate, in my unlearned opinion.
No Ryan, that was really terrible when you tried it. I have to speak with the first one, an upper class accent because my Mother would accept nothing less. Her Grandmother was titled in England and she adored her. I like the accent you have. Thank you.
I got asked by a nurse when I went in for my 2nd covid shot if I was English. My reply was no, I'm Aussie born and bred, so are my parents. She reckon she could hear a slight english accent. I found that very interesting because the only other time I was asked that was when I went to the USA back in 1998.
Happy Arvo Man, you sound like a pome!🇬🇧🤺🇦🇺 The English look down on us because of our accent - and we don't care, because we've got better weather!🤣🇬🇧🤺🇦🇺
The funniest moment of the Simpsons episode when they came to Australia was Marj and Lisa walking past a building that had AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE and underneath that a sign saying cart your arse on in.😂
There is a really subtle joke in that episode when Bart gets the letter from Australia. The stamp was issued to celebrate 20 years of electricity in Australia
Our kids really pick up the American accent these days from Tv and the internet as it’s mostly American, you can really notice it already in culture here 🐨🇦🇺😱
Yes I’m constantly ‘correcting’ my child: tomato sauce not ketchup, foot path not side walk, fairy floss not Cotten candy, nappy not diaper, 100’s & 1000’s not sprinkles 😂😂
As an Aussie I’ve only ever heard 2 Americans that could do a convincing Aussie accent, Robin Williams and Robert Downey jr. Fun fact, when most yanks attempt an Aussie accent they end up doing a north London accent, badly.
North American accents, for the most part, were more influenced by Irishmen and Southwestern Englishmen which is why most American and Canadian accents are rhotic (the "r" sound is kept at the end of words). For Australian and New Zealanders, the accents were more so influenced by Southeastern Englishmen (in particular the Cockney accent).
I'm back! 👍😎 The "rising inflection" has made inroads into the UK amongst younger people. Which can be really annoying to us oldies. As it makes every statement sound like a question? Often blamed on the popularity of the Australian TV soap "Neighbours" in the UK.
I don't have a rising inflection (unless maybe I'm asking an actual question lol) The rising inflection in more of a Melbourne thing I've noticed. It's definitely not as widespread in Australia as people think. I have noticed some younger Americans do the rising inflection as well.
Cultivated still exists, though it is probably the least common of the original 3, which almost everyone still refers to who talks about the Australian accent. It really depends on your upbringing, social class, location, friends, schooling (especially schooling) etc. Australia is less likely than most places to have regional accents, it's more about social groups / classes. I can slide between all 3, to fit in, depending on who I'm talking to, but my natural state is cultivated, I'm best at that accent.
No one I know here in Oz greets with ''good arvo'' on it's own, unless it's to say ''I hope you're having a good arvo''. ''G'day'' is still the standard greeting for any time, morning, afternoon or night time. Also, indigenous accents played a key role in forming many European Australian sounds in words, eg: 'culla' (ca-la) for 'colour' (color) [note: no hard 'r' sond at the end] and 'fulla' (fa-la) for 'fellow', 'unda' for 'under'. In these three words, the 'u' and the 'a' in the Oz word are pronounced the same as in the words 'up' or 'upside'
Steve Irwin had a quite broad accent; most of us aren't quite that strident. That said, Russell Crowe has a point about not moving our lips much. We seem to move our lips & jaw less than Americans and Brits, which I think influences our accent. As for uptalking, some ppl use it more than others. Young women seem to use it more than us middle-agers. Maybe we don't seek others' approval as much 😎
Another problem is that people assume there's only one Aussie accent, when (as far as I'm concerned) there are at least five or six most notable Aussie accents. The differences are very slight, but Aussies can pick up on them, and I think because our accents are so complex we have a good ear for accents in general.
My brother, sister and I all have slightly different accents due to what we've done in our adult lives. We all started with a slightly English accent due to our father but I'm the only one who kept it, also affected by my living in England for a while. Our sister stayed city living and dropped back to a general Aussie accent. Our brother's accent is the strongest because he moved to the outback for years and the English inflection was treated with suspicion out there.
Can always pick people from Melbourne as they pronounce "per-" words as "prah-". "Prahformance", "Prahaps". Drives me slightly batty 😁
@@kristyl933 I don't know about that. I live in Melbourne and there are many different dialects here. I have an old Kensington dialect, which is very similar to northern English dialects (such as Manchester, Sheffield, even some southern Scottish ones), and the accent is unlike any I have ever heard around Australia. Whenever I go travelling people ask me if I'm Scottish or English, and I have to say I'm an Aussie hahaha. We also have very different slang words, such as Madra, Black Mariah, Tuppence, and many more. I've never heard these elsewhere in Australia.
I live in Melbourne and have never heard prahaps or prahformance!
@@aimeen843 Yes me neither. I'm not sure where you're from in Melbourne, but have you heard any of the slang I listed? They seem to be extremely rare words these days
It's a good arvo when you get to watch Ryan. Thanks Ryan I look forward to your reactions as you always make me smile 😍
Your first effort was genuinely funny. I like how it flowed from German (Henning Wehn) into some Attenborough mixed with Christopher Walken
Sounded like 1950's Australian 😂
I also heard some Attenborough in there 😂
Its good to see an American learning about Australian culture and just enjoying learning about our way of life.
I give big props to ya Ryan 👏 you're a top bloke in my book champ
I’m from Perth, Western Australia. When I visited the states I got asked if I was British, Bostonian and Southern. I never got asked if I was Australian though haha. I love accents. I found that really video really interesting. Thanks Ryan. Happy arvo mate. Have a good one.
From NSW, when I visited the USA I was asked if I was British, South African, or New Zealander. 😁
@@kristyl933 oh yeh? one time in the states, someone thought I was Russian
Yes as an Aussie I got asked if I was from South Africa 😳
Like they don’t know us
Im from Queensland most people i have met from perth think im from England
Same
40 years ago I was in Central Australia 🇦🇺. A man spoke with a Irish accent yet never travelled out of Australia 🇦🇺 His father was from Ireland 🇮🇪 and his mother was Aboriginal. Being so isolated his accent had developed.
Check out the jewish accent in fundy groups! Even occurs in
Australia, the New York version is widely known.
People that lived in Elizabeth Northern Adelaide (named after the Queens) 30 years ago had a very English sounding accent.
@@robertmurray8763 Yes, I sounded like the. Queen when I went to school, rather odd since I was going to a school in a remote part of Australia but my mother was perfectly bilingual and her accent was unfortunately posh. I adopted her accent from being isolated. Yet people have assumed I'm lying about coming from where I do. It's strange indeed!
I was born in Australia but I started kindergarten with a Scottish accent. I learned pretty quick from school how to do an Aussie accent. I sometimes get caught out on a few words so I just avoid them in my vocabulary.
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I find inverted snobbery really funny.
It's as bad as garden-variety snobbery.
My mother would correct my accent if I was adopting phrases or word that were grammatically incorrect.
She told me: "you will thank me in the future".
She was right because I can move in any circles and changing down is dead easy. I can talk with farmers and country people, and ordinary working people, or the toffs.
Unfortunately doors can close if you don't express yourself well. So maintaining the Aussie accent and bad grammar can be a block. I just like to communicate clearly.
Australians tend to mumble and don't speak clearly and that makes it very hard for others. I once found myself actually translating to a Canadian English speaking hotel receptionist what an Australian was trying to say ....in English!
She had to get him to repeat himself twice after the initial request. She was incredibly grateful that I stepped in and clearly said what he wanted (are there any rooms available and if so how much?). This is kind of funny and not so great if you think about it!
Plus the nasal accent can be grating. 'NIIIAAW' instead of 'now'. OMG it's horrible sounding.
On grammar:
Learned 'pretty quick' = learned 'pretty quickly'. I don't personally mind but others do and it can undermine your message.
These days I help students with their English and they say they never have any difficulty understanding what I'm saying unlike with other Australians.
It's just the way it is. Inverted snobbery is not so great IMO.
Years ago when in Europe I ran into an Australian couple who had fairly broad Aussie accents (not as strong as Steve Irwin but still pretty ocker). They said I was lying about being Australian because of my accent (which is a general Aussie accent with a touch of Cate Blanchett). They told everyone there that I was lying! They were from Melbourne, so I told them (truthfully) that I was born in Wagga Wagga and that it doesn’t get much more Aussie than that! 😂
what about Tangambalanga mate? Waggas just a tourist name anyways lol
Wagga is Aboriginal for “piss”. When the word is repeated it denotes ‘a lot of’. The term “piss” in the Australian vernacular means beer. So Wagga Wagga translates as “The place of many beers.”
The accents change from one side of Melbourne to the other 😂 I would be willing to bet that couple came from the west.
I'm from Junee living in Wagga and there's a shit tonne of us with the broad accent here. If anything, the broad accent is getting stronger here. Most of the children have good broad accents
@@richardwadd9769Wagga is "crow" Wagga Wagga is many crows
In Lion, Dev Patel actually had an Accent coach for around 3 to 4 months, Its pretty pretty close. Dev actually went to the producers and BEGGED to be cast, but they had to put him through audition, but he still got it.
He was really good. I didn’t even think about his accent in that film, which is always a good sign.
Dev did a great job with his accent, way better than others
H dev was great. He’s got an Australian girlfriend which must help too.
If she thinks the broad accent isn't really a thing anymore she hadn't visited Queensland in a very long time. Must of been produced in Victoria or New South Wales
Yes, it's still very much alive up there. Practically dead in Victoria though
As a QLD’er…. Agreed 😂🤣
Depends where in Qld you're talking about. I was raised in northern Brisbane suburbs and have a general accent. When I moved to Sydney, no one guessed I was from QLD. The broad accent is more regional Qld, far north Queensland. They have a slower drawl.
Yeah, Rural QLD you hear tons of the broad accent.
I'm born and raised in northern suburbs of Brisbane 😅😅
lol, you pretty much nailed some weird combination of cockney and the British Royal Received Pronunciation accent. Not easy to do I would imagine lol, so well done on that :)
Spot on.
00:40 NOT AUSTRALIAN ACCENT!
No resemblance to an Australian accent though.
He says "how good was that?" as we all cringe.
What I love about the Aussie accent is that every state has a different dialect which follows down the the ethnic accents. It’s fantastic
I’m from, what was, a very conservative part of Queensland. I’m now 50. I was horrified when I first “heard” my accent. I was in LAX, getting my luggage, because I had a lay over and was on my way to NYC.
The fact I was in the USA to complete my Shakespearean actor training made me terrified. I thought I sounded so stupid and I have what was then considered the “cultivated” accent - like Cate Blanchett.
The course I was on was very prestigious and I didn’t have to audition for it. An American director had seen me performing and invited me.
After hearing my accent, I thought he was stark, raving mad. It really knocked my confidence as I thought I sounded like a “slack-jawed yocal”. Thankfully I had a week in NYC before the course started. It really got to me, especially when I learned my vocal coach was the Head of Voice at Juilliard. I just thought, “Why the Hell did they bring me here?”
Still got the gig after training.
Good on ya for realizing your own accent and doing your best to work thru it. The Juilliard dude would’ve helped. I’m from rural WA and as an entertainer, teacher and now health care worker I have been fighting to keep the accent intelligible all my life.
@@Badassery666 He was incredible. Got me working in my chest resonator properly. We don’t hit our consonants and our vowel sounds are so flat!
@@sherrylovegood Same. I was living in the States for about 3 months. Was in San Fran to catch a Qantas flight back home. And all of a sudden the Australian accent actually hurt my ears lol Fortunately an Australian accent in the US opens far more doors than it closes
I have always LOVED my Aussie accent 🇭🇲 I reckon our accent is the best in the world ❤
lmao
I love our Aussie accent
I was born in Liverpool Uk
And had a scouse accent (which I also love)
School changed that
No one can tell I’ve ever been English
I feel like an Aussie!!
Glad you have recovered from the Agro Outtakes. Didn’t think you would come back 😄
I'm going to start saying 'happy arvo' to my friends and family... you never know, it might catch on and Ryan will have contributed a new addition to the Australian lingo.
‘Appy arvo mate’
@@adamhofman4933 Now you've gone Cockney...
When I hear people trying to impersonate the Aussie accent, I tell them to imagine themselves as a two-stroke motorbike or lawn mower trying to speak English.
Nah that's too hard.
Just don't move your top lip.
As a dutchie i find the ozzy accent the easiest and most comfortable of all accents. Actually makes speaking english a lot easier because the pronunciations feel more natural (should probably also mention two of my best mates during childhood were australian and i basically learned how to speak english by hanging out with them and i guess i kinda took over their accents)
In Las Vegas in 2013 for a trade show, some Yanks I met took me to an Aussie restaurant (Sands Casino). We were waiting in a room with about twenty customers waiting for a vacated table. I got a bit bored so, put my bush hat on, went around to each of the customers and said in a broad Outback accent, G'day, my name's Keith from the Outback Down Under, welcome to this restaurant! People were looking at me with open mouths probably thinking who is this guy? Lots of laughs, cured the boredom, and the Yanks I was with loved it. Spur of the moment thing for me. At the time I was living in remote village in outback Western Australia about 4 hours north of Kalgoorlie Gold Fields. At the time, I was living on a WA cattle station of about 500,000 acres.
Priceless. Well done.
I love watching Americans give the Aussie accent a go 😀 happy arvo is a great catch phrase Ryan! 💥
Thanks Ryan you always make me smile. You don’t need to sound Australian your American accent is quite lovely to listen to.
I love how all of the content you put on your channel is fun and interesting; how you sound genuinely curious and intuitive about each subject or topic; makes for an interesting viewing. But I especially love it when you put anything, about Australia 🇦🇺 on. You also come across as an awesome bloke. Great work mate. 👍💖🥳
Two great examples of non Australians speaking in an Australian accent are Robin Wright and Kate Winslet, Robin plays and Australian in a movie called Adoration and Kate plays an Australian in The Dressmaker, if you had never heard them speak before, watching those two films, you'd swear they were Australian women, they're both great talents!
I am fully Australian and just listening to them all trying an Aussie accent is hilarious. I never knew it was that hard for others to do the accent but I wouldn’t know because for me it comes naturally. I loved watching this though. Please keep doing these videos.
Kate Winslett played an Aussie called Tilley in the movie called The Dressmaker. She got our Accent right. Here is a clip of her in that movie, also staring Liam Hemmswoth ruclips.net/video/IjXLVgyOQJs/видео.html
yeah she was spot on in that movie loved it... but she did Holy Smoke in 1999 where she originally nailed it
That was a truly GREAT movie. Should have been a blockbuster. And Liam!!! Why is Chris always described as 'The Hot One'!? 😆
@@linmonash1244 loved Liam in this movie.
I totally agree, she nailed it. I think it's easier for Brits to pronounce our accent than Americans. We drop the "R" sound whereas I think the Americans drop the "O" sound.
@@24JJ821 I haven't noticed that, but now you've said it I will have to look out for that difference. Thanks for the heads up.
@7:25 That is a very good impression of an Englishman trying to do an Aussie accent.
I remember having lunch with a linguist. He was saying that there was a ranking to accents. Towards the bottom of the lists are accents like the general US one. Towards to top is the Australian. The average person finds it easier to do accents equal or lower on the scale. This is why the Aussie accent is so hard for so many.
Dont forget Australia was flooded with American culture in 1956 when we got television. This enables us to replicate various American regional accents.
It's funny hearing you try it. I hear British, South African, and kiwi, but rarely Aussie lol (pronounced ozzie, like the singer).
YES!!!
Arvo is mostly used as a “time “ as in “1’ll be there this arvo”
The American accent came from England. At the time America was first settled the accent in southern England was rhotic (pronounced all /r/ sounds). It was the south-eastern English accent that later diverged from American English to become non-rhotic.
I would never lose my accent, I've witnessed a few Aussie's that have been to America for a couple weeks, come back home sounding like an American.. 🤦♂️
Australian English sounds Southern to an American because the south of the US was colonized mostly by English and Scottish people. The rest of the US was colonised by mostly German people or by people from within German majority states in the US. That means the closest American accent to Australian is the southern accent.
My son has autism and when he was younger he couldn't talk but when he finally did he had a slight American accent from watching American educational DVDs. Like the alphabet and stuff it blew my mind 😂
When I was in the USA, a lot of people asked if I was English. No mate - I'm an Aussie!!
It totally depends on what company I'm around lol, I'm pretty bogan but can do snooty Australian too if need be 😁
Yep, I'm with you there. Lived in Vic for 40+ years, originally from FNQ. Talk like a Melbournite, but, 5 minutes conversation with anyone with a strong FNQ accent, back I go to that! And ending every sentence with "AY!" Weird! 🤣
Same here. It’s pretty funny how versatile I can be depending upon where I am & who I’m with. There’s one word I haven’t been able to just let go & do. “Ya” instead of you. It just doesn’t sit well. I find myself saying “see you!” instead of “see ya!” The looks I get sometimes 😅😂
I agree completely and I actually find it quite advantageous being able to be able to relate and understand to different people on different levels..That has also served me well being Scottish born but Aussie raised where I also find my more Glaswegian side coming out when I'm around other Scots and of course acting as the interpreter to my Aussie mates who don't understand a single word my fellow Scots are saying 😂
I am an Australian and i do prefer the American accent, i love the way americans talk.
Feckin hell I don't
Kiss ass! lol
I'm just laughing at all the comments 'chastising' Ryan about saying 'happy arvo'🤣 They clearly dont 'get it'🤣 Keep it up Ryan & HAPPY ARVO😄
Did a bus tour of Hawaii (Big Island) and the coach driver (originally from Texas) swore that he thought I was from Virginia. As you said, Ryan maybe we do sound like southern Americans. I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Our other coach driver on Oahu picked the Aussie accent straight away. He was Samoan.
On the other hand we're pretty good at mimicking other people's accents. My Brother met a Pretty English Tourist and Followed Her Home from Australia to England. They got Married the following year. Apparently He has a British Accent none of us have ever heard. Because whenever he thinks or speaks about Australia he subconsciously switches back.
I absolutely love that my accent is so hard to learn. I find it hilarious when people try to do it, many entertainment.
And it sounds like shit
One good tip that I do as an Australian is to not pronounce most vowels, like do it as sorta crukudile but fast lol
cheers! Ryan, much better.thanks for letting us hear what there talking about before you give your opinion. way better. keep up the good work love your videos. congrats on new bub. hope all is going well. ange from oz
loving the aussie content, it's really heart warming to see people from other cultures experiencing Australia. you should check out Tasting History's ANZAC biscuit episode, it really shows aussie mateship, and how, despite being enemies, the Turks and Aussies respected each other from across the trenches
Liev Schrieber pretty much nailed it ( pretty much ) because his wife ( Naiomi Watts ) is Australian . I imagine him imitating her accent around the house all the time . That's what I'd do .
When I hear an American accent , I hear a very strong Irish influence . Now it might just be me but they seem fairly similar in quite a few ways . In particular , the "R" sound is very pronounced in both .
Liev Schreiber did a very good accent because he was married to Naomi Watts, an Aussie.
If you want to find out about the history of English in America there’s a great BBC documentary that explains how the language changed once it hit America.
The Adventure Of English - Episode 5 English in America - BBC Documentary
m.ruclips.net/video/oBqlVl0K9tw/видео.html
And Naomi is an English born Aussie so she would probably would fall into the more Cultivated Australian accent category.
This arvo me Oldboy and I just pissed ourselves laughing mate , good attempt aye 🤣🇦🇺
I tried to buy a lighter at a servo in New York and the bloke handed me a lotto ticket. Probably took about 2 solid minutes for him to finally understand what I wanted 😂
I had a similar issue, asking for water and being brought butter. 😁
That's so hilarious, mate! Lol!
Btw I always thought the American accent sounds like it sprung for from the Irish, sometimes I have confused people for one or the other.
Hey Ryan, don't forget we started as a Penal colony. The English spoken then by the majority, convicts, would have been pretty guttural and uncultured. Good on them.
So why is our accent similar to New Zealand speech?They were never a penal colony.
I like the fact that you send yourself up when you're doing the Aussie accent - which you acknowledge you're not good at.
One of the things you would need to do is get rid of the automatic "oo" pronunciations that you have for words like "new", "due", "dew" and "emu"... all of them have a "you" pronunciation in Aus and NZ English - similar to a number of UK English accents. So "eem-you" for emu, "n'you" for new, "d'you" (often sounding more like "dj'you" or "j''you") for due or dew. Basically "dew" and "due" sound closer to "Jew" than to "do".
Drop terminal Rs - people in the USA pronounce Rs way more aggressively than Aussies and New Zealanders. In Aus the R may lengthen the vowel - "car" becomes "cah" (in New Zealand it's just "ka") or may not - "bugger" becomes "bugga".
The Australian accent was first noted in 1820s school children. Children were developing an accent through schooling which was different to their parents. Australia at that time was an amalgam of British accents and the children were speaking with all these accents mushed together. There has been a computer generated accent made from all British accents and it is almost identical to the Australian accent.
Ha ha ha, good on you for having a go…… I’d leave it to us Aussies. We’ve been butchering English since birth lol
I'm an Aussie, lived in SA my entire life and don't swear
Because of my accent when I say sittin' (sitting) it sounds like I say sh**tin'
I also don't say all letters of words
In the sentence
"I need an editor to edit it"
It sounds like
"I need an ed-did-der d ed-did di"
But the dashed bit is fast (I wrote it like that to try to have it make more sense)
My mum was welsh/English and I still say thing like her with an English accent, 60 years on
One of the best things about an Aussie accent in the USA is that it can instantly get the local Police to chill out. Cop walks up to your car in a traffic stop, one hand hovering over his weapon. "Giday officer, howzitgon' What can I do for ya?" They relax instantly. Unless you are drunk, or have been a total FWit it will usually end with them recommending you drive differently & send you on your way.
That's exactly how my younger brother talks. He's a bit more bogan than I. Lol!
If you’ve never taken much notice of international journalists, have q listen to them more closely. They travel so much and hear so many accents, that it affects their own without them realising it. Over time, you start to hear English with about six or seven different accents creeping into their speech.
We usually say good arvo, happy arvo is growing on me though 😊
ive never heard that in 60 years , have a good arvo mate or hope your enjoying your arvo , those i have
I kinda like it, it's a quirky Ryan thing.
Hey Ryan always great to see your videos and your hilarious reactions Hope your baby boy is doing well 💙 👍
🤣🤣 "how good was that?" It was a great effort. Here's a 🌟
Keep at it Ryan! You'll be sounding like an Aussie soon enough 👏👏👊
I can't explain why but I literally love your channel :D You are so nice. I've been binge watching you on my tv account since I found you. I only found you last week from watching your reaction to John Farnham singing Help. I'm Australian by the way. See you again this arvo for more binge watching x
Don't worry about it Ryan, you picked up that the man talking about the beach had a New Zealand inflection! Well done! 👍😊👋
The Australian accent often gets generalised as being one thing. Something I think a lot of foreigners don’t realise is that we actually do have regional accents here, they are just harder for foreign ears to distinguish. Subtler. I was born on the west coast of Australia and now live in metropolitan Melbourne in the southeast, and I sound completely different to those around me. I have more of a purr-y tone compared to my peers. Someone once described my accent as “stoned surfer”.
You're not far from me.
Hahaha alot of ppl think my sons a stoner ,he's very layed back ,and we're Melbournians
It's definitely because of his accent I'd say,yet we're not from W.A
One last thing; best, most hilarious, imitation of the Aussie accent was done by Robin Williams... just classic!
God I miss him...
When my dad was in Hospital the nurse was from Asia, maybe China or Singapore and she spoke with a N.Z. accent which shocked me. My Uncle and Aunty who were from N.Z. didn't notice.
Did Liev do a good job? I'd say he was about 85-90% there. It was slightly off but I was still very impressed.
ppl in south Australia have a pretty strong English accent and i noticed this after moving there from the east coast
I was born in Perth, WA but am from Anglo-Burmese/British colonial heritage so my grandparents/mum spoke with an RP British accent. I moved to Melbourne and have also lived in rural Sydney and California so my accent can go from Cate Blanchett to NorCal to British and Aussie ocker as I grew up with lots of Aboriginal friends in WA and lived/worked on farms in NSW. I am pretty quiet/introverted and Americans could never ever hear me as they speak so loudly in comparison. Even after 10 years Americans can still hear a NorCal accent when I speak actually but I can't tell at all lol.
Lolz at you trying to do the Aussie accent. You got a couple of words correct.
I love the Happy Arvo. He does try . I love this channel
When Meryl Streep acted as Lindy Chamberlain in the Aussie film Evil Angels - she said the Aussie accent was the most difficult accent she had to master.
Your rolled R's come directly from Yorkshire in england. I have a Yorkie friend in Cairns and everybody mistakes him for an american on first meeting. I had a 2nd generation dutch flatmate who always said color because her dad said it that way.
When I try to do an American accent, the first thing I think of is holding my nose half closed to get the squeak sound. The tongue raises in the center to the roof of the mouth. In Oz, the tongue is relaxed, and not used like a muscle.
We love your "Happy Arvo" it is unique to you, so you are starting a fad! 😋😆
Your attempt at an aussie accent at nearly 8 minutes had me rofl seriously you cracked me up 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah it was horrendous just like all yanks
Barnsy and Farnsy , when something is wrong with my Baby, check it out
I’m not sure if visitors would notice but us Aussies notice the difference in accents between someone who lives in North Queensland and someone that lives in Tasmania!
You're right 👍🏻 I'm British and from the south west , I spent time in the States for work and 9 times out of 10 they thought I was Irish or Australian !! When I told them I was British the reply was usually " really " 😂
Haha lol yeah nah 'happy arvo' probs would be more like 'alright you have a good arvo mate' for most Aussies but love your enthusiasm 😄
I mean this in the nicest way possible. You have the shortest aussie accent, it’s hilarious
Shittest not shortest
LOL at 10:37 you have a strange version of Forrest Gump happening there. I like that you keep trying though. If you like learning about Great Austalian moments then on Netflix is the "Untold" series "The Race of the Century" is about how Australia won the America's cup back in 1983. I think you would enjoy it very much.
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Haha I love it when you try and do the Aussie accent!! Lol 🤣
I suppose it is hard to do!
We are a nutty bunch!
None of those actors got it right! Lol
I grew up in Mildura which is a country town in North West Vic Australia
It is interesting that, although there is no such thing as a Mildura accent, I met a man once in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, where I have lived for the past 40 years, who told me that he was from rural Victoria.
I asked him if he was from Mildura as he just sounded like he was from Mildura!
He was amazed
The way I describe the Aussie accent is that it's "slack-jawed UK english", so your idea about it sounding like "deep south of the UK" is pretty accurate, in my unlearned opinion.
No Ryan, that was really terrible when you tried it. I have to speak with the first one, an upper class accent because my Mother would accept nothing less. Her Grandmother was titled in England and she adored her. I like the accent you have. Thank you.
They both seemed to be talking about city folk. Country towns certainly in Northern Australia have a much stronger accent.
Ha ha right at the end- you decided to add deep south to your Australian accent. Kinda sounded like me trying to impersonate Dr Phil
I got asked by a nurse when I went in for my 2nd covid shot if I was English. My reply was no, I'm Aussie born and bred, so are my parents. She reckon she could hear a slight english accent. I found that very interesting because the only other time I was asked that was when I went to the USA back in 1998.
Happy Arvo Man, you sound like a pome!🇬🇧🤺🇦🇺 The English look down on us because of our accent - and we don't care, because we've got better weather!🤣🇬🇧🤺🇦🇺
The funniest moment of the Simpsons episode when they came to Australia was Marj and Lisa walking past a building that had AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE and underneath that a sign saying cart your arse on in.😂
There is a really subtle joke in that episode when Bart gets the letter from Australia. The stamp was issued to celebrate 20 years of electricity in Australia
Happy Arvo Ryan. Love your videos
If I was overseas and feeling homesick I would want to hear Steve Irwin speaking. What an accent! Love it.
Our kids really pick up the American accent these days from Tv and the internet as it’s mostly American, you can really notice it already in culture here 🐨🇦🇺😱
Yes I’m constantly ‘correcting’ my child: tomato sauce not ketchup, foot path not side walk, fairy floss not Cotten candy, nappy not diaper, 100’s & 1000’s not sprinkles 😂😂
American Cultural Hegemony
As an Aussie I’ve only ever heard 2 Americans that could do a convincing Aussie accent, Robin Williams and Robert Downey jr. Fun fact, when most yanks attempt an Aussie accent they end up doing a north London accent, badly.
LOL, those crocks in the outback scare the hell out of me.
North American accents, for the most part, were more influenced by Irishmen and Southwestern Englishmen which is why most American and Canadian accents are rhotic (the "r" sound is kept at the end of words). For Australian and New Zealanders, the accents were more so influenced by Southeastern Englishmen (in particular the Cockney accent).
The US has a few non-rhotic accents: Boston, some New York accents, Savannah, Charleston. Probably others, but those are the ones that spring to mind.
I'm back! 👍😎 The "rising inflection" has made inroads into the UK amongst younger people. Which can be really annoying to us oldies. As it makes every statement sound like a question? Often blamed on the popularity of the Australian TV soap "Neighbours" in the UK.
I don't have a rising inflection (unless maybe I'm asking an actual question lol) The rising inflection in more of a Melbourne thing I've noticed. It's definitely not as widespread in Australia as people think. I have noticed some younger Americans do the rising inflection as well.
Cultivated still exists, though it is probably the least common of the original 3, which almost everyone still refers to who talks about the Australian accent. It really depends on your upbringing, social class, location, friends, schooling (especially schooling) etc.
Australia is less likely than most places to have regional accents, it's more about social groups / classes.
I can slide between all 3, to fit in, depending on who I'm talking to, but my natural state is cultivated, I'm best at that accent.
I'm Aboriginal Australian natural speaker, but like yourself, I can play whatever game is on offer. Time and place man. Time and place.
When I lived in Missouri I was told frequently that I sounded exactly like Harrison Ford in "Raiders of the Lost Ark'.
I love your analysis, truly.
No one I know here in Oz greets with ''good arvo'' on it's own, unless it's to say ''I hope you're having a good arvo''. ''G'day'' is still the standard greeting for any time, morning, afternoon or night time.
Also, indigenous accents played a key role in forming many European Australian sounds in words, eg: 'culla' (ca-la) for 'colour' (color) [note: no hard 'r' sond at the end] and 'fulla' (fa-la) for 'fellow', 'unda' for 'under'. In these three words, the 'u' and the 'a' in the Oz word are pronounced the same as in the words 'up' or 'upside'
Steve Irwin had a quite broad accent; most of us aren't quite that strident. That said, Russell Crowe has a point about not moving our lips much. We seem to move our lips & jaw less than Americans and Brits, which I think influences our accent. As for uptalking, some ppl use it more than others. Young women seem to use it more than us middle-agers. Maybe we don't seek others' approval as much 😎