I'm an Aussie in my mid 50s and I change my accent and vocabulary according to who I'm with or what I am doing. When I was a receptionist/secretary, I had the professional/posh voice.... when I'm with mates, I swear a lot and use a lot of aussie slang....when I'm out in public I just use a normal voice with not much swearing, a bit of slang but also not the professional voice...... I think a lot of Aussies do this :D

Statistically more Aussies travel the world, including to the U.S., than Americans do- by far! I’ve been to the U.S. about 15 times and lived there. While that isn’t the norm, there are Aussie tourists everywhere in the States and Europe and Asia. Most Americans have not been outside their own border.

@MichaelRogers-et8dq

2 ай бұрын

Australian full-time employees have laws providing 20 days PAID vacation each year. Australia is also much closer to the centre of World Population than the U.S.A. is.

@triarb5790

2 ай бұрын

Not just 20 to 25 days paid annual leave but also extra paid leave, called long service leave, after 7 years service so you see lots of older Australians taking advantage of that. And yep wayyy more going to the US than vice versa. So many Americans don't even own a passport. Very few Australians don't.

okay, lmfao..... if you want to distinguish the Aussie and Kiwi accents? Listen to how they pronounce 'fish and chips' and then 'six'....... thats how aussies know kiwis and kiwis know aussies..... it's a fun game to be cheeky to our beautiful cousins :D and take the piss out of them lmao :D

About twice as many Australians visit the USA each year as US citizens visit Australia. Approximately 1.2m visits to US versus around 600k visits to Australia. You probably don't notice as you have around 12-15 times the population of Australia.

Im Aussie and have been to the States twice. Each time, I nearly need a translator for my english.. The US is as such stuck in a bubble.. You guys need to get out.. 🤣

You should give a listen to Brianne Worth - Australian Reacts to Aussie Slang. This is how we talk. 😉

@noone6559

2 ай бұрын

Brianne cracks me up...... Good channel to check out.

I've been to the US a couple of times now from Aus. So far, I've managed to get to New York, Las Vegas, Anaheim (Disney Land), Los Angeles, Bloomington Minnesota, and Hawaii.

Australians speak with a drunk English accent ...even most slang words are the same as English slang and we both use swear words and take the piss in everyday conversation...both Aussies and Brits love banter which Americans dont understand

@loadabollocks

2 ай бұрын

Yes, and people's idea of our slang words is exaggerated, and I think a lot of Aussies put it on for tourists. For example, I don't know anyone that uses 'mate' or 'cobber' or any of that cliche stuff. I've never used it myself. Malcolm Fraser got a mention - he was schooled at Oxford so there'd be a huge influence there.

@triarb5790

2 ай бұрын

​@@loadabollocks Don't forget Bob Hawke, the everyman's man was a Rhodes scholar and went to Oxford too! He was very adept at switching his bogan on and off at the drop of a hat.

I’m from Melbourne. Worked in suburbs of Philly for almost three months.

2022 saw 112,580 Americans resident in Australia. 2019 saw 98,969 Australians resident in the U.S.A 29.9% of people living in Australia were not born there. 14% of people living in the U.S.A. were not born there. Over 53% Australians have a current passport 46 percent of Americans have a current passport versus 30 percent in 2008.

There are differences, mainly in the vowels, with NZ and Oz (sometimes referred to as Strine) accents. Same way I can hear the difference between US and Canadian. It's mostly in the vowels. You get used to accents from abroad by watching foreign films or television shows. I watch more foreign films than American or British. There are so many accents in the US and I don't know enough to be able to pick out many of them. I mean Bronx, v Alabama, or Boston, sure, but there are so many I couldn't put an area to. In the UK we have hundreds!

Hey guys, I've got a blended Aussie accent. When I was around the 3 or 4yo I had speech lessons, as I couldn't talk properly. I had a lisp & I slurred my words. I also suffer from dyslexia. So I learnt to annunciate words, like a cultivated person. That combined with my middle-class upbringing, so I've got a general accent. Finally being of Aboriginal decent (First nations or black or indigenous), I have a indigenous leaning on certain words & phrases. If/when you come to Straya, we will have to meet up & I can take you guys & your families, out & about.

There are some of us that can and do use them all depending on the people we are with, I'm a country boy that has been to some of the best private schools in Australia, that has also been to University and still lives in the bush you will find quite a few us here but won't know it.

Younger Aussies nowadays talk in some weird, quasi British/Australian accent which comes from the back of their throat. The 'broad accent' is the true Aussie accent that I grew up with. The way the ANZACS at Gallipoli would've spoken.

the accents are generally indicators of location and wealth if they have a Cultivated accent, there is a pretty solid chance that they are from Sydney or Melbourne, and is more intense with the upper class and is so prominent in those cities compared to the rest of the country to where people will assume someone is from there if they hear a cultivated accent and thus many from Western Australia avoid people with said accent General is more common in the rest of the nation with no real indicator of wealth, but you can pick up subtle differences in the general accent that can clue you in as to where the person is from the Broad accent is more prominent in Queensland and Western Australia, especially in rural communities where is almost the standard accent for those areas but is still very common to hear amongst people in the suburbs for those states which is not surprising as large parts of Queensland can be likened to Louisiana or Florida and Western Australia is like Texas and the deserts that make up the Nevada and Arizona area there are smaller accents that have formed over time that the video doesnt cover such as the South Australia accent (they are often known as the state with the weird people and they are proud of that, so its not surprising) and the almost Irish cross General Australian accent thats very prominent in Western Australia even with those that have zero Irish ancestry that tips off to the other states that a person might be from Western Australia. once you get to that level though, its like differentiating a New York and Jersey accent, it takes time to learn it as its not super obvious

@carokat1111

2 ай бұрын

I have a cultivated accent. I grew up in Sydney and my mother was a snob. The moment I made any sound as a child that resembled Steve Irwin, she was on to me to fix my speech!

@LeishaAussiechick73

2 ай бұрын

I have a cultivated accent and I am from Western Australia I think it's also influenced by your heritage as my grandparents are from the UK that is why I notice my accent is cultivated and leans towards British enunciation

@distortedsoul27

2 ай бұрын

You can tell when it's a person from SA with words like "chance." The 'a' is lowered and emphasised; while in Victoria, it's emphasised higher. SA didn't get the influx of Irish that the rest did. It was English, Welsh, Scottish, and later German and Italian. It's very much Cockney-like.

@petrolhead0289

2 ай бұрын

@@distortedsoul27 Yeah, the English influence is very clear thanks to pie floaters being a thing in SA lmao

I backpacked North America for 9 months. The reactions, you don't sound Australian, You talk too fast, and often not even understanding me at all. I have a general accent, did go to a boy's college and worked as a Park Ranger / public relations in our capitol city. In New Orleans, I brought a shirt from a touristy shop, they said, Y'all come back and see us now! I said okay. I did want something else. Next day I went in and they said, you came back, I said you told me too lol. Oh we just say that! I said see ya later as I was leaving and I was asked if I was coming back haha. We just say that to everyone!

Subbed and liked nice work

Just listened to your song First Day. As usual, it is really good man. I see so much talent and potential. If you were signed by a big company or just had access to a really high quality production team and equipment, this could be a banger in the mainstream and be really big, and Boh’s and O’s as well. Love your voice. It is really good. And glad to see you reacting to more Aussie stuff. ❤

I've been to the States twice California and Arizona in 2019

Most Americans think Aussies are English...the US is useless on accents!!

Hugh Jackman and Eric Banna weren't really good examples of the general accent as they sound more broad to me. Chris Hemsworth and maybe Simon Baker or Nicole Kidman would've been better examples.

Your wrong many aussies have traveled the world ive been to the USA 3 times and i met americans who have never been out of their state

@reindeer7752

2 ай бұрын

I've lived in 6 states and traveled to all 50. Everyone in my neighborhood and my friends have lived in at least 3 states. I've also been to about 50 countries, including Australia and New Zealand.

@nengxeros7013

2 ай бұрын

Well maybe I should rephrase that to Red necks but if you moved to 6 states to live it says something how bad your state was I’ve lived 30years same house and by move if your happy

@reindeer7752

2 ай бұрын

@nengxeros7013 - If you've lived in the same place for 30 yrs. that means you're barely more than a child. Didn't you ever go away to university? Americans leave mommy and daddy to go to college or job training. They get job opportunities in other states. They marry someone from another state. There are many reasons for moving that have nothing to do with being unhappy where they were born. Australia doesn't have the extreme choices of environment we have in the USA. Its possible to love more than one state.

@nengxeros7013

2 ай бұрын

You are missing my point I built my own home 30 years ago no need to leave Australia is multi cultural most just don’t get up and leave we have a thing called family unless you are a young person who wants to explore the world that’s different I’ve done my fare share of travelling

@nengxeros7013

2 ай бұрын

Plus over here we go to university and then come home no one goes away to university only extreme cases

The swimmer after Hugh jackman is gay..you probably thought he sounds different . Australian gay men sound English .

@terencemccarthy8615

2 ай бұрын

Rubbish….this Australian gay man doesn’t sound English…and neither do my gay mates…..

In Australia we are used to hearing American accents constantly through entertainment (tv/ movies) - wondering if you’ve ever even seen any Australian tv shows or movies let alone have them as your major entertainment contributor?!

@reindeer7752

2 ай бұрын

We have a few Australian tv shows and movies but you don't produce nearly as much content as the USA. We also have actors who have relocated to the USA for that reason.

There are many Australian accents, influenced by where you grew up, where you've been, the people you've been around. Stop trying to define everything.

Am a big fan of the Boston accent, also love the Southern American drawl. Eventhough we're far away, we do like travelling in general, The most common Aussie accent for me is the general accent, however the more outback or bogan suburb you go to, you have to listen twice - broad accent. The turns of phrases are quite funny, hilariously good fun.

@distortedsoul27

2 ай бұрын

The New England accent gets hysterically picked on, particularly when it comes to words that have a sexual tone. It's quite funny to listen to, lol.

about 500,000 Australians visit the US every year. Could not find a figure of how many US people visit Australia. Suspect it is lower. We in the past have gotten a lot of tourists from China, Malaysia, Singapore and India. I have been to the US five times. Most Australians go overseas a lot. Places like Vietnam and Bali are close. The US has high medical costs and this impacts on travel insurance. So not so many older people. A lot of Australians have either been born overseas or are first or second generation migrants. They will have family in Italy, Greece, India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. So a lot of tourists also catch up in those places.

@reindeer7752

2 ай бұрын

I have that figure for you. In the year before the covid pandemic 811,000 Americans visited Australia. That's quiite a bit more than the reverse. Older Americans are not going to make that gruelling plane trip. I'm glad I decided to make it when I was in my 50s. I stayed in Hawaii for 3 days on the way out (and concluded visiting all 50 states). On the return, I visited New Zealand. I still had to fly all the way across the USA to get to the east. I probably saw more of Australia than a lot of Australians have. Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Alice Springs, Uluru, Melbourne (and the Ocean Road) and Hobart. I didn't just stay in those cities. I took day trips from them. It was great fun.

@loadabollocks

2 ай бұрын

That's wrong - can't imagine where you were looking. Prior to Covid, it was up to 1,319,000 per annum.

@loadabollocks

2 ай бұрын

Here's a link. 500,000 is way short.

Omy..guys ,please find some better videos about Australia ,that guy showing the states ,just have no clue!