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English Accents | American & Australian Pronunciation Differences
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In this lesson, I'll introduce you to Allan! He's an American 🇺🇸 and he happens to be my brother-in-law!! When we filmed this video, Allan had just arrived in Australia for the very first time... And was feeling confused about some of the Australian slang words he had been hearing!
In his FIRST EVER RUclips appearance, he helped me to demonstrate some of the pronunciation differences between the American & Australian English accents!
You'll probably learn some new words too!
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00:00 Introduction
02:58 Hot
03:15 Car
03:43 Bottle
04:35 Burger
04:55 Garage
05:31 Bought
05:45 Daughter
06:00 Aunt
06:21 Entrepreneur
06:52 Niche
07:34 Caramel
08:16 Mobile
09:38 Aluminium
10:21 Leisure
10:46 Turmeric
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I love how natural she is, no faking or overacting. Please don't change:)
Well that the 🚜 ⛪ ing 🚗 peppy revive. TQ cut
Hot: H•ot
Car: Ca
Bottle: bodd•le
Burger: ber•ga
Garage: gar•aj (we use car port: ca port- but whatevs)
Bought: boht
Daughter: daughta
Aunt: arnt
Entrepreneur: entroo•pern•er
Niche: neesh
Caramel: ca•ra•mel
Mobile: mo•bile (we usually say phone or cell)
Aluminum: A•loo•min•i•um
Leisure: lee•shur / lez• zure (we use both lol)
Youre welcome. I actually did the correct way we pronounce them, the lady in the vid has more british than Australian. As someone with a strong accent, this is how us thicker accented people pronounce em
It's interesting you Aussies call a garage a carport. In NZ a carport is just a roof with poles holding it up that you park your car under and a garage is fully enclosed. Also for a lot of us a garage can mean a petrol station (or garage station), I guess because in the old days most petrol stations had a garage (or a mechanic's workshop) joined onto them, which some still do in the more rural areas.
@@JayBowen I'm Australian and everything you just said describes how I understand things. I never call a petrol station a garage, but I have heard it referred to that many times, mostly by older folks.
@@missqueen20_ Haha yea I thought that too. I've studied Spanish and thought that 'verga' can sound like burger.
@@JayBowen Aussies use carport tat way too, we don't mean garage when we say carport, I'm not sure why this guy is saying that..
The lady does have a noticeable Aussie accent but you're right, her accent isn't particularly ocker. There are quite a few of us who speak more like her than Steve Irwin (classic ocker). What makes it more Aussie-fied is the dropping of the double t for a lazy d sound and we don't hang on to the r sound like it's a lifeline.
Fellow American here. I have pronounced niche as "neesh" for my whole life and now I feel odd because everyone else always says it like "nitch". Sorry patriots, but I have to side with the Aussies on this one.
Chris Baker Good onya Cobber, that’s the dinky dye way to call a spade a crowbar 😮🙃🧐😁
Welcome to our side friend
Another American neesher, I feel understood
I don't agree Niche is the proper pronunciation as it is a word derived from French
I'm an ESL speaker and I had heard a few Americans saying 'neesh', so I always thought it was the American way to pronounce it.
The Aluminum/Aluminium thing has an interesting backstory. The scientist who discovered aluminium was American and named it aluminum. The scientific community suggested that it be called aluminium instead to fit with the other "-ium" elements, which he agreed with. Then a salesman selling aluminium siding looked at the two words and preferred the "-um" version and marketed it as "aluminum siding" in America. Henceforth Americans called it aluminum.
Wow! That is interesting! Thanks so much for sharing with everyone :)
Actually the scientist to name it was British but wasn't able to successfully synthesize it, the first success was made by Danish scientist, Hans Christian Ørsted. The name was originally chosen to be aluminum (consistent with its oxide, alumina). The suffix '-ium' was later proposed by another British scientist to be changed to '-ium' because "aluminum" has a "less classical sound." Both '-um' and '-ium' were used in both the US and Britain until early-mid 20th century.
The other one is solder or soder as some Americans say.
@@ianmontgomery7534 - Aluminum and Aluminium are spelt differently. All people pronounce each word in the same way (ie: English or Australian people would never pronounce the written word Aluminum as "Aluminium").
What 'no no' wrote above is completely and utterly wrong. That is not how the words came about... at all. A British scientist coined the word 'Aluminum" however for some reason this only remained the norm in the USA, whilst everyone else calls it "Aluminium" now days.
Solder is a completely different situation. It is the ONLY word of that letter form that (many) Americans choose to randomly drop (or make silent) the "L". They can all say Folder, Older, Bolder and Colder but they cannot seem to say Solder properly. There is no logical reason for that anomaly, and Americans cannot even notice how silly it is.
@@johncoops6897 in Russia we don't have any problem with pronunciation of the word aluminum/aluminium. For we have only one word for that ALIUMINIY=АЛЮМИНИЙ. So, learn beautiful Russian language. I can teach to any English speaker in exchange for spoken English practice with me. 😊
I think that australian accent is very beautiful, sounds like UK accent but in the soft way, american accent is more comum
There is 3 different types of Australian accents. Broad - What everyone makes it out to be. Cultivated - More British sounding, found more in Western Australia. General - Mix of cultivated and broad, usually heard on the Eastern side of Australia
Eric Souzza S american accent is dull and generic imo
Kiwi accent is my favorite
Finally, somebody recognises that we in WA speak differently! But don't forget south Australia, they desend from the rich upper-class and speak more like old school RP. Think of the Australian accent mixed with how people talked in upper-class England in the 1800's
I'm South Australian, and our accent is pretty plain. It's still obviously Australian, but I have been mistaken for British once or twice (when talking to Americans). I noticed we pronounce words like dance differently to the eastern states. For example, they'd say dahnce, we'd say dairnce (without the r but as in air).
I've just realised that I've been learning a mix of different pronunciations. Haha! So weird! 😱🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺
It's my first time hearing the Australian accent .. I feel like it's very close to the British accent
Im English and lived in Australia for 11 years - We have found that the Australians pronounce a lot of stuff like the Americans - she sounds English to me not true Australian accent.
She has a very mild accent so she sounds more British. Whereas thicker accents sound less British.
@@oldrockchick1982 It really depends on where you live in Australia. As where I lived, the pronunciations where mostly British or just their own Australian slang
Compare episodes of Home and Away from 1988 with that of 2019 and you’ll notice there has been a huge change in how younger Australians speak. Very American, both the slang and general pronunciation.
Her accent is just the educated Australian accent. We have many accents here. See how she says “aw stray lian”, most Australians say it like “Ostraylyen”.
i love australian accsent
Why you loved it??
@@al-he2rz so that he could spell accent in his own way.
It seems that many French loan words like "entrepreneur" or "niche" have kept their original French pronunciation in Australian and British English.
I live in Australia and French words are very common, eg. Entrepreneur, ensuite, cliche. There is also Italian words such as; zucchini
In American English as well. English is very vast even regarding the various dialects within dialects. England alone has hundreds of dialects. America has several hundreds due to race and region.
Mihai
True. The Brits are closer to France. The Australians left Britain a couple of hundred years later than we did, so their pronunciation and vocabulary are closer to modern Received Pronunciation. Americans use an older pronunciation.
And a whole lot of water, thank God.
Barbara Latham actually an American politician thought it would be a good idea to have a language reform and changed a lot of word, both spelling and pronunciation, that is why America is different.
Thank you for sharing the English Accents between the American and Australian Accent.
You're welcome! I hope you enjoyed it and learned a few differences :)
No. English accents are accents from England.
Hi Emma, I'm a woman from Mexico , during the day I speak 3 languajes, Spanish, Frech-because I marriet a Frech guy, then english because my neighbour is from USA and I speak english with her, but sometimes is hard to keep my level of english with her, and I've just notice that I have learnt british english and sometimes my friend corrects me. I thougt i was wrong but in fact is the accents. Congrats I love your chanel !
I love hearing the different pronunciation of words between two english-speaking speaking countries..our cultures may be different but we are connected through our language
Hello Emma, your classes are incredible, I have increased my level of English thank you very much and have a beautiful week
That's so wonderful to hear! Thanks for your message!
l just found this channel and u are the best teacher of 2017
Aparecido FERREIRA VAIS I
Aparecido FERREIRA VAIS place some MMORPGS I've learned French, Spanish and some Japanese from playing and talking with fellow group members. MMO's are almost like a small version of the world.
Listening to your Australian and American conversation is very
interesting. It’s different to the pronunciation in New Zealand, where my
sister lives. Thank you!
Yes, the Australian accent is similar to the New Zealand accent but there's just a few differences 😉
mmmEnglish - Video on differences between Australian+NZ English accents would be interesting :)
Yes. Australian and New Zealand accent is similar but New Zealanders pronounces their vowels differently to Australians.
i have never once heard "Niche" said his way, and i've liven my entire life in California XD
In central Illinois, people go between the two spellings, I say it both ways.
Ditto
same from california
growing up in Oregon, everyone said it his way. In Idaho, I hear mostly her way but still a bit of both.
same im from california ❤️ beautiful state if i do say so myself
i'm a speech language pathologist and this is fascinating! looks like the difference in the double /t/ sounds is that americans tend to voice the sound (turning it into the /d/ phoneme). you can easily test this by putting a hand on your throat and alternating between /t/ and /d/. you'll feel vibrations from the /d/ but not from the /t/. in british english, you'll often hear a glottal stop (like bottle = "bah-ull") in place of a /t/ or /d/ in a medial position.
Hello Emma.
Chris here from IELTS Advantage. Great channel. Great to see so many English teachers doing their on thing on the RUclipss :)
Just wanted to thank you personally for this video as many of my students struggle with American and Australian pron.
This is going to come in really handy for IELTS listening practice.
Thanks again
Chris
Thanks for stopping by Chris! It's a pleasure to meet fellow English teachers 👋
I'm so glad to hear you enjoy my channel and I really appreciate you using my video with your students 😊
Pron is a ~very~ unfortunate abbreviation. Is that common jargon? @_@
@@Eunostos I read it as American & Australian PORN at first LOL I was like wait whattt...
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Is it true the European people wiped out many indigenous Australians?
Here in Brazil English teachers correct me when I say "hot". But now I know I was speaking Australian English...😁😁
Thanx Emma... more of these pretty cool vids, please!👏👏👏👏👏
Yes! You just didn't realise you are part-Australian!! 😂
@@mmmEnglish_Emma XD
The BEST video ever... this prove that English is not only A or B, and that I can pronounce something different even I am not native English LoL Love you both guys.. amazing!!!
Love this video, English speakers sharing culture! I love the Aussie accent! In fact, in the US we have plenty of accents, from Boston, NYC, Italian (NJ and Philadelphia), Southern Accents, like the country accents of Georgia, The Carolinas, to the Deep South like Alabama and Louisana, to the Texan accent, to West Coast California accent...and all kinds of cool vocabulary from these distinct regions around the country!
Very interesting. Thank you Emma and Allan! I found that my English this is mix consist from british australian and american words. Probably, it's because I watch and listen English speakers from different countrys. I enjoy your videos.
Me too!
You have a Russian accent, my friend.
Тоже порой думаю, что за .... с этими произношениями. )))
Мне кажется, русский ближе к американскому по произношению.
Даниил Скарин now you can surrender in several different languages
Great Work.
My english come from AUS because I lived in Brisvegas so I am very happy to liste again Aussie accent. In this part of the word Colombia you just can hear american accent. :( missing AUS.
Thanks allan for finely representing us!!
Hi, I’m 59yrs old and an Aussie living in California.
Aluminium was discovered by Hans Christian Oersted at 1825 in Denmark. Origin of name: from the Latin word "alumen" meaning "alum"
The ancient Greeks and Romans used alum in medicine as an astringent, and in dyeing processes. In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name "alumine" for the base in alum. In 1807, Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by IUPAC to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard. Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".
Aluminium is one of the elements which as alum or alumen, KAl(SO4)2, has an alchemical symbol (the symbol to the right alchemical symbol of alum (alumen) shows Scheele's symbol, alchemy is an ancient pursuit concerned with, for instance, the transformation of other metals into gold).
Aluminium was first isolated by Hans Christian Oersted in 1825 who reacted aluminium chloride (AlCl3) with potassium amalgam (an alloy of potassium and mercury). Heating the resulting aluminium amalgam under reduced pressure caused the mercury to boil away leaving an impure sample of aluminium metal.
i'm so excited to watched some videos. it's completely help me to improve my skills. Thanks a million. You're such a great teacher. :)
Great! I'm glad I could help Hassan 🙂
Great Lesson, Thanks Emma and Alan!
In the US a bison is a large bovine animal that roams the plains. Down under a bison is a large bowl that an Aussie washes his face in (basin).
I'm from the USA and here, I've seen people pronounce the word, mobile as mo-bill and mo-bile. I've also heard people say mobile phone, instead of cell phone, but we don't really use mobile as a noun. I've also heard people say both aunt and auntie and pronounce them the way you do. As far as the pat/ pet thing goes, we do use the word pat, but we use it to mean lightly tapping or stroking something. We then use pet as a noun and a verb to mean what pat means in your country.
Dear Emma,
Thank you very much for such a good lesson. Your pronunciation is so obvious and I think it's close to the British accent, which is my favorite accent despite the fact that I've learned the American English and studied in the US.
In my view, I think the most differences in English pronunciations depend on how vowels are pronounced in different countries, as well where to put the stress in the words.
Thank you very much for such a great video!
Great point, Ahmed! The vowel sounds are were most of the accent differences are! Thanks for your comment and for watching 😁
Emma can you make a video how to use are, is, and the ? these words so confusing me
They're coming Lucy!
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Hello Emma, I prefer Australian accent because it looks like British English thank you for your great video
Suzane Suzane hmmm yes it “looks” like it
*sounds
I used to work for ALCOA (aluminium company of America) in Perth Australia. In a monthly safety meeting with 100 or so people in it our boss told us that Aluminum was actually a typo in a glossy flier that door to door salesmen would use to sell cladding for houses in the early 1900s in the USA. This was one of the first domestic uses of a metal that had previously hard to produce.
Just looked up "pet" in OED UK English version and it does list the verb as used in the US. It may be uncommon in actual use, but it exists per the OED. It also lists the second US usage "Engage in sexually stimulating caressing and touching."
"Một Người Mỹ" is the true way to write Vietnamese
But isn't problem, thank for your lesson.
hehe... thanks for letting me know! I ALWAYS make mistakes in VIetnamese!!
I really surprised when I saw my mother language in your video clip, Emma. i really like it :)) . thank you very much. I am a big fan of you 😊
Well done Emma!...Vietnam always welcome you!!!!!
Hello, native English speaker (American) here. It’s really interesting to me that even though the US, Australia, and the UK all speak English, when you take into account the different pronunciations and using different words to refer to different things, and of course slang, it’s almost like we speak a different language!
And yet somehow we manage to understand each other 😅
I'm from America and I also pronounce bottle and water with a D. When I pronounce water with the T it just makes the ER sound extremely harsh and forced to me. Pronouncing water with a D sounds much softer to my ears. Australian and British English pronounce the T but not the ER (or very slightly) and it sounds very soft and not harsh to me! I really enjoyed this video! :)
Hi Emma, thank you so much for your videos! You have helped me more a lot with pronunciation because my native language is comorienne but I like to improve my english everyday!!! please make more video because evry day Im here to learn.you are the best I never find
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Thank you for such a fun lesson, it would be great if you make a random academic vocabulary lesson . 💖💖
Thanks for the suggestion!
Americans also say utensils for “forks and knives “whereas we day cutlery. They also use the word Napkins for both paper and cloth whereas we say “tissues” or “serviettes” for paper and tea towel or something similar for cloth.
Nice to hear so many different pronunciations in the same language! Nice video Emma!
Comparing the Eng. Accents is one of the most interesting thing for me!
I've never heard an Australian pronounce aluminium like that! Aah-lou-min-yum is how I say it😂 So neither ways haha with one less syllable
Actually it’s more said as “Ah- Lou- mini- yum” so we say the word “mini” in the word
loved it! learned lots of words i didnt know! thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
This girl is so good that makes him doubt with his own pronunciation, Good video you have a good connection!
You are a wanderfull teacher thank you so much for teacher us.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching 😃
hey emma you wrote vietnamese...wow!!!
Tilly I saw it, and i really suprised
stupid underdogs
Same I was questioning why Vietnamese was in the speech bubble haha
I'm Australian with an English father and I pronounce garage the same way as Allan. It's quite curious to see the differences. 😊
I now can say that Australian accent is similar to British which clears my misconception that Australian accent is similar to American. Thanks Emma & Alen
I like Australian accent. Even thought I'm learning American English but I love your videos Emma I've learned so much in this channel I love it.. thank you for everything
Awesome! I'm glad to know that my videos have helped you Dilcy :)
Australians add more vowels to words. It's really cute
My Australian doctor asked me to meet her in the "theater" for my sugery. And perscribed a lot of "capsules", or "cap su ells", as she pronounced it. She's fun to talk to.
On "daughter" your difference is more the dropped "r" again too, although because "r" makes a near diphthong out of whatever vowel it pairs with, your dropped "r" also makes your "e" in the "ter" part now a monophthong, so it can carry more vocal emphasis (with less sounds to wrangle), and maybe that extends to the increased Australian enunciation of the "t" too.
Very nice video,
In India we use both of them (Us & Australian ) .
We love to make Khichdi (indian recipe )
Dinesh pandey of course, English is spoken and understood all over the world but its pronunciation is very confusing...Lekin sala Hindi(Devnagri) mein jo likha jata hai wahi padha jata hai, koi Inhe bataye..
How about the NZ accent? I really like the kiwis accent but it is completely different from any other one I've heard before. It would be great to watch to a video about those differences. 😀
Good suggestion Caroline! 😁
Caroline Sales probably as i know New Zealand has been using Australia accent just because of neighborhood country just Canada use American accent maybe I don't 🤣
Actually, the Australian and New Zealand accents are noticably different in their vowe sounds. Sometimes Australian's get confused by NZ pronunciation and vice versa!
mmmEnglish thanks mam
Mine and a Australian's accents are completely different. 😊 But we pronounce words the same.
Hi mmmEmma I suggest your chanel all my friends.Your all lessons interesting for me.
I think your accent is cultivated,more than 1year I follow you, yesterday I found out there are different accents .
Hi Emma, tank u for a explanation, i'm brazillian learning english.
I just realized that my southern accent kinda sounds a bit Australian because I say a few words the same way y'all do 🤣
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yeah the southern accent actually holds onto the older pronunciations because we were more isolated from urban cities and kept more of the original accent
my favorite moment is when he pronounces "leisure", and the "caramel" part, when Emma says "sorry what..".....----so hilarious :D
😉
The funny thing about the word Mobile. Is that in most cases it is said the way he says it. But sometimes when talking about someone's physical ability to walk/move it is sometimes said the way you say it.
Hi Ellen...its soo warm and interesting listening you both..
And in this video of word/accent or tutorial i found the same mistakes my neighbors use to..mobile phone.cell phone.
Mobile phone...no
Cell phone...👍
British English as well Australian English are both influenced by the French language (vocabulary even in the American English it is the same thing but with an American touch , back to the pronunciation , it is indeed evident , I speak French and can see that ... Thank you Emma , we learn a lot of things :) ;)
Mohamed Deutscher English is influenced by many languages not just french
Mohamed Deutscher , There is no such thing as British English. We in Britain speak English. It is everybody else who needs to add their nationality, NOT us.
Australian english is pretty much just a bag full of words from many different languages, in fact there are many towns and cities that aren't even english words (they're good ol' fashion aboriginal words) 'STRAYA
Mohamed Deutscher English is probably more influenced by German than French.
English evolved out of many languages, the most recent influences being from Norman French from the 1066 invasion when French became the official language. But essentially long posh words are from Latin and the short simple ones are mainly Scandinavian.
Hi from Tassie Emma!! I closed my eyes and listen to your voice and diction..it is incredibly similar to Nicole Kidman..wow..you are a fantastic teacher..subscribed now!!
Haha! No one has ever said that I sound like Nicole Kidman.. Thanks 😜
"Mobile" gets a long "i" somewhat regularly (but not always) in technical discussions, such as the "the mobile phase is elluting the analyte faster than the in-situ standard." Or if someone is trying to emphasize the word's meaning, as in, "Ever since she got that titanium knee, Gramma is just so mobile" (with the long "i"). But, yes, for most uses, the second syllable almost gets no vowel, like "MO bl".
Mr Webster started US kids learning words syllable by syllable. That's a large part of the difference. Aus and UK retain the habit of stressing one syllable per word where US tend to alternate stressed and unstressed syllables.
I like how he says aunt as 'ant' lmao
Make more videos like that. I liked it
Great! I'm glad you liked it Ezequiel!
I'm not going to argue about which word is right or wrong, but the American spelling/pronunciation of "aluminum" actually pre-dates the more commonly used British "aluminium" just a bit. British chemist Humphrey Davey discovered the metal in the early 1800s. He briefly called it ALUMIUM (with no N at all), but that didn't last long. By the time he published his findings in 1808, he had changed the metal's name to ALUMINUM. It made sense as the ore from which the metal was extracted was known as ALUMINA and not ALUMINIA. Then some of Humphrey's peers in the scientific community reviewed and criticized his work and, while doing so, took it upon themselves to change the spelling of Humphrey's discovery. They were very forthright in saying that they thought ALUMINIUM had a more classical or "more Greek" sound than ALUMINUM so they were going to spell it that way from then on. And their new spelling caught on & replaced Humphrey's original name for the metal. The US and Canada are probably the only places that use that original (but short-lived in England) name that Humphrey Davey first coined.
The big issue of course is that America has dozens of major accent groups. New Englanders for example say "car" with no R sound on the end, not exactly like the Aussies, but similarly. And the guest was right to point out that many Americans do say Aunt in the same fashion as Brits and Aussies. I could go on forever, because every last word in the language is likely pronounced differently by SOME US local dialect somewhere.
Thank you so much, Emma! As always it's very clearly for comprehension. Is it your normal speed of speech?
It's a little slower and clearer than my natural pace, but it's close!
It's a little slower and clearer than my natural pace, but it's close!
Boris Kachur I think its way more slower for an Australian..
I️ hateeee when people say “Carmel” instead of “Caramel”😭
Ella Van Hal Ya I’m curious that how many people who are used to say Car.Mel can spell it correctly if they are asked to write it down. It’ll be interesting to know😜
Carmel sounds better
English is my second language and I grew up listening to people who speak English from all places and now my accent is a mixture of everything. In the words this video mentioned, I pronounce half of them American and half of them Australian and I have lost track of which is which.
That's pretty cool! As long as other people can understand what you are communicating, it doesn't matter what accent(s) you use 👌
Love learning about how English is used in both of your counties. My background I have American and Australia and I live in UK
Emma, I think American pronunciation and Australian pronunciation differences is similar. Even Australian people or American people live in North and south in the same country their pronunciation also differences and Vietnamese is the same. Anyway Thank so much for your video
That's true in AMerica and the UK (and Vietnam!) but in Australia, the accent is not very different
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I have lived in all states of Australia except Western Australia and Tasmania. There are differences if you listen closely, plus each state/territory can have a different name for the same thing eg, cocktail frankfurter/ cheerios/ little boys are the same thing.
Oh I’m happy tHat have Australian accent at least.. and I need to speak in Australian accent too..
I uselessly was trying on my pronunciation.. I was trying American accent and thought that is Australian accent 😅
Thanks and love from italy ! i simply adore you !
Very nice video. I'm born in Veneto, Italy and i really like to listen and speak english. Never been in Australia... i will do it.
I don't know,who can dislike like such a helpful vedio tutorial,but there's have somebody that's so hurtful for me.
sorry emma!
Don't worry Rashid, I know there are lots of students who really enjoy my lessons and love practicing English with me! Thanks for your kind message! 🌟
You are most wellcome our honorable teacher!!! I love your all lessons 👌💜
Ahh! So when I though I had a bad pronunciation, in reality I was just sometimes speaking Australian.
A lot of people will say either carmel or caramel, carmel is used mostly for talking about types of foods including caramel such as apples or popcorn. Other than that it is mostly said as caramel and that is how I say it as well - from California
I'm Australian and live in Australia and I pronounce garage the same way as the American guy, I rarely have ever heard it the way the Australian girl pronounces it. I do keep hearing people say the Australian accent sounds like a British accent, which is really interesting, because to me they sound really different because I only notice the differences that make them separate accents to begin with
Interesting! My Swedish accent is a wild mix of American and Australian and... Something else 😂😂
Such a unique accent haha! 😍
mmmEnglish Haha, thank you!
I guess that's what happen when you want to speak British but the Internet and all films/series out there are full of American English :)
I don't think I've ever heard a native Swede who speaks with a truly authentic American or British accent no matter how hard they try. There's always a touch of the melodic/pitchy Swedish accent present which gives it away. I actually love the sound of Swedish accented English and think it sounds great.
im american/californian but also hispanic and ppl say i have british accent and i’m like what?? idk cause i don’t hear it and i ask my parents they were confused 🤷♀️ oh well lucky me..?
don't forget American pronunciation can vary depending what part of the country you are in. as they say two people separated by a common language
An excellent point Russell!
Also when it comes to certain words in the US they are pronounced a couple different ways by different people. Such as caramel and niche or often. You will get different pronunciations from different Americans. It definitely makes things more complicated for anyone trying to learn English 😕
One key to understanding Australians is getting familiar with the use of diminutives and abbreviations. e.g. "I am a garbo and last Friday I pulled a sickie and was going down to the servo when I saw my mate Davo standing outside the bottlo, so we bought a slab of piss and and then went to Macca's ." Translation - "I am a garbage man and last Friday i called in sick and was going to the service station when I saw my friend Dave standing out side the bottle shop (US - liquor store UK - off licence), so we bought a carton of beer and then went to MacDonalds". Rule of thumb - say the first half of the word then put an "o" or an "ie" sound on the end.
Wait I'm American and im using a load of the Australian pronounciations
Haha I'm Australian and I watch way too much American youtube, I pronounce them the American way!
Because you are educated, intelligent, urban ( East Coast NE/New England/MidWest/West Coast: where intelligent life resides) and travelled .. Um .. outside of .. Um... "THE World". Yeah.
That is because this American has some oddities, but such oddities are a part of American English.
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In Australian, some words beginning with a D are said with a J. Duke/Juke. Some words beginning with a T are said with a CH. Tube/chube. And then there's the old favourite (notice the U in that word), tomAHto/tomAYto.
Actually, the word aluminum, as used by North Americans, is the original spelling and pronunciation of the word. When the element was first named, it was given the name aluminum- without the 'ium' at the end. However, at a later date a group of British scientists decided that there should be an 'ium' added to aluminum so it was more in line with other spellings on the elemental chart such as sodium, chromium, helium, etc. So North Americans have retained the original spelling as it entered the lexicon, and the British are the ones to have changed it at a later date, hence the reason why people in Australia spell and pronounce it the same way as the British.
Wow, my dialect is something among australian/british and american... I normally pronouce every word like british but I always pronouce the R like americans 😅 correct me if I wrote something wrong cause my english is not perfect especially when I write 😅
Dominik Klon There are places in the U.K. where they also pronounce the r. So you can pronounce r and still have a British accent.
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thank you Emma the lecture today was very benefit
He is from a southern state but has a neutral accent. Based on his pronunciation of some of his words.
Oh my God, I cann´t speak American English untill now, because I speak Australian English, great defference between Australian and American English. I am from South Pacific and I speak British and Austrlian English accents but almost two years in Latin America. Some of them speak American English and we cann´t understand each other. Thanks Emma.
thank you Emma&Allan very very nice videos .
Thanks for watching 😄
We also use Mobile for like a baby's mobile. It's also a city in Alabama.
Counter Tenor The city in Alabama is pronounced "Mo-beel" though, not as it is with mobile phone.
yeah i’m from bama and it’s a completely different pronunciation “mo-beel”
amelia williams yeah I'm from Alabama too, it's Mo-beel for the city and for a mobile phone it's mo-bul
One funny thing about "niche" I've found is that many Americans pronounce it both ways, depending on the meaning. A physical niche (a recess in a wall) would be pronounced /nich/, but the more symbolic definitions (involving habitat, or employment, etc.) are pronounced /neesh/. So the phrase "find your niche" would always use the latter pronunciation.
Most Caucasian Americans say "ant" for aunt, while most African Americans say "ah-nt" and "ahn-ty" the same as the UK
I'm very white, and say Aunt just like her.
Yup. I’m with my friend from Maine. It has nothing to do with race. Those of us from New England, black or white, say it the Aussie or UK way, which with this word I’m particular we are adamant about.
Tim Possible Im Australian and I always say Aunty
American accent is more easier :( but for Emma I am gonna switch to her language:(
Mate, we're just lazy. We don't move our mouths.
@@AntsAntsAndAnts lmao yeah
Nice video, so much fun learning them
Fascinating. I am an American as well. I found his pronunciation of many words to be very different from my own. He sounds like he is from the mis-western US. I am from N.Y. and now reside in the south. This has impacted my speech over the years. I am curious about the impact of regional differences on the Australian accent.
💖💖nice and thank you very mucd for such a good lesson
You're welcome 😁
thank you