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Yogi2005 Posted 21 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
British v. Australian
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00 Can anyone tell me how to distinguish British and Australian accent? 02 br
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00 I don't have many opportunieties to hear Australian accent but whenever I hear it sounds to me like one of British accents. 02 br
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00 What is typical for Australian accent? Is there any easy way to tell the difference? 02 br
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00 Can anyone tell me how to distinguish British and Australian accent? 02 br
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00 I don't have many opportunieties to hear Australian accent but whenever I hear it sounds to me like one of British accents. 02 br
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00 What is typical for Australian accent? Is there any easy way to tell the difference? 02 br
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0 Im not sure how to tell u this but all i can say is Australian sounds more hmmm how should i say : little bit funny! Their pronunciation is more hmmm Ah! you can go this address to listen how Australians speak 05 0 00 and more bout their accent!
- 0 Im not sure how to tell u this but all i can say is Australian sounds more hmmm how should i say : little bit funny!
- Their pronunciation is more hmmm Ah!
- you can go this address to listen how Australians speak 05 0 00 and more bout their accent!
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0 Im not sure how to tell u this but all i can say is Australian sounds more hmmm how should i say : little bit funny! Their pronunciation is more hmmm Ah! you can go this address to listen how Australians speak 05 0 00 and more bout their accent! :p 0230href http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/generallingo.htm
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There is no single English accent. The difference between a northern English Accent (or dialect), such as "Geordie" and the "Cockney" accent is far, far greater than the difference between the Australian and the South East English accent.
The Australian accent does not sound exactly like cockney, no it sounds a bit posher, exactly like the Essex accent, innit.
It is a bit like
The Australian accent does not sound exactly like cockney, no it sounds a bit posher, exactly like the Essex accent, innit.
It is a bit like
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i used to live in australia for a while (and will soon again 
). two things were particularly obvious to me in the way they prono
). two things were particularly obvious to me in the way they prono00
0 The two accents are a bit different, but it's easy to mix them up. It seems that Australians get their accents from the brits when they used Australia as an island for a debters prison. British sounds a bit more civilized and clipped. Sometimes it's easier to understand as well. Australians have a stronger accent but what you want to watch for is when they have vowels at the end of their senten
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One thing I've heard (all?) British people do is say a long "O" like "eh-O", as in words like "no" spoken "neh-O." Australians always say long "O" with an "ah" or "ae" sound in front of the "O."
words like "no" sound like "nah-O", "nah-y-O" or "nah-O-yih."
*I'm a Canadian, so I cannot say from personal experience, but this is what I've heard from talking to other Australians abo
words like "no" sound like "nah-O", "nah-y-O" or "nah-O-yih."
*I'm a Canadian, so I cannot say from personal experience, but this is what I've heard from talking to other Australians abo
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Australian accents differ significantly from region to region, much like they do in England. People from Queensland often have the very strong nasal stereotypically Australian accent that you see depicted in media. People from New South Wales, Victoria, Canberra and possibly also Tasmania often have a slightly less strong variant. They also typically pronounce many vowels much shorter than an Eng
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Having lived in Australia for 35 years, and having learned British English there (the Austalian accent proved to be too difficult), I can only stick to my initial view, which was: Speak British English through slightly clenched teeth, and you get an approximation of how the accent should sound. As for fine examples of Australian Common Speech, listen to Australian Parliament on ABC (Australian
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You can always tell if a short i sounds like "ee". For instance the word "bin" would sound like "bean". Also, Aussies use the back of their throat to say vowel sounds...like o would sound like it has a y after it. A long I sounds like "oii" (but more subtle). Also, a lot of Aussies pronounce their Ts like the Americans do, unlike the British, who either pronounce them clearly or not at all.
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Sorry to say, but the bit about Spanish is all mixed up and inaccurate. To start off, Catalan is not Spanish, it is a language on its own, altogether different to Spanish, tough within the same family of languages (latin ones) and therefore related to each other and with many similarities, both in grammar and in lexicon, just like with Italian or with French (by the way Catalan is, in fact, pretty
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Sorry, but there is no comparison between Mexican Castilian and Spanish Castilian (I should say American Castilian/ European or Iberic Castilian), they both sound completely different and we use different synonyms to make a wider distinction, Catalan is an entirely different language along with the rest of the languages from Spain (euskera, galician...etc).
The comparison between British
The comparison between British
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