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Posted: July 2, 2009 06:20 pm  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129    | Thought I'd share before I made a movie on it. I'm going to make a guide to the Aussie accent. ____________________ SO I've noticed a few people on YouTube want to get a grip on the Australian accent, and they've been having trouble. It's one of the hardest ones to get because of a few reasons. 1. It's not commonly heard on TV or radio 2. There are no real rules. The ones I'm about to share are just the basics. 3. The Australian accent is varied itself. The full-on Steve Irwin accent - very uncommon. Most Australians have a more tame accent than that. But nevertheless, I do have a few pointers. I just want to say, I was born in Malaysia, and I know I don't look Australian, but I have lived here for almost 20 years now, so I'm pretty full bottle on the accent and the English language. One important thing to note is that most Australians with the Aussie accent don't have the full on Steve Irwin accent. We use a more tame version, like how I'm speaking now. What I'm going to teach you is the more extreme version, and yes, a few Australians do speak that way, but they are a minority. Probably the most important one is that you need to thicken your voice. Try not to speak purely. Add the harmonics into it, and make it a thick sound. The country was populated by convicts; England's low lives. It's meant to sound rough. The next thing. Watch the vowels. Now there are complex rules on this, so I'll just cover the basics. If you have the letter r on the end of a word, we don't pronounce that. For example the word Enter would sound like Enta. R always gets cut off. Another thing is, the letter a, or sometimes ai, when you make the sound in words like train, you have to break that sound up into aye-ee. Trah-een. Say 'aye' normally then stick your tongue up and make that ee sound. It's sort of like a groan. Of course, a little less exaggerated than that. Just make the end of the vowel sound a little more like ee. Give it that twang. The letter I is very similar. Slowed down, it's more like Ah-ee ('a' is aye-ee). Slice. Island. 'ou' like in Out, is another tricky one. Itcan be split into two components. an 'a' sound like in AS or AT, followed by the ooh sound. So out would A-oot. And the sound 'oh' is probably the trickiest part to explain. Words like moan, and open... when you are making that 'oh' sound, you've sort of got to squeeze a y sound into the end of it. This is really hard to explain, but just listen to me do it slowly. ... Moan is almost like Mowynn. And a couple of additional notes in case you're stuck. The word 'a' is pronounced uh, not aye. "A... dingo stole my baby." This goes for 'the' which is pronounced Tha, not Thee. And um, if in doubt, just remember that the Aussie accent is closer to the British accent than the American one, so if you're American trying to do Aussie, and you have to guess, better to guess by thinking with British pronunciation. And one last thing. The word you and your... sound the same in common speech. We just say ya. "Ye have to see this". "Fix ye parking." OK. All the best learning the accent. I'm told by some friends around the world that it's a pretty charming accent, but I know some people can't stand it. I'd love to know what you think about the accent. Please post below. Also, if you have trouble pronouncing please post a comment and I'll try and give you a tactic to pronounce it right. Thanks for watching. --------------------  | ||||
Posted: July 2, 2009 06:23 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | You need a life. -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||||
Posted: July 2, 2009 06:24 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Indivi2you Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 5361 Member No.: 43 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 623 | Or you can learn the easy indian accent and just go to 7-eleven  -------------------- The First, The Last, and the Only ~FLO Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. ~Michael Jordan      | ||||
Posted: July 2, 2009 07:22 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 |
lol They own the one near me too. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  | ||||
Posted: July 2, 2009 09:18 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Group: Banned Posts: 2 Member No.: 1405 Joined: October 26, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
What if your accent is 7 years American and 5 years English?  I disagree though. From my experience the American accent generally is achieved by having your mouth in a horizontal oval shape (smile-thing) for certain letters. So big emphasis on stuff like E's and so... Ayy aym ann aahmeyriken chaaeyzberrgerr with emphasis on the "er" being a "rrrrrr" and so on. And the British is like a vertical oval, but using the part of the throat where the root of the tongue is (that aussie does) instead of the sides of the mouth like the American accent... Oh, I soy, wood yoo lyke uh cuhp uf taay? etc. The Austrailian seems halfway between the two, with a nice combination of "oy" and "ay" sounds and the back of your tongue doing a lot of the work, gurrdaay mayyt, payynt uh laahgehrr? and so. Malaysia eh? What's it like?  --------------------   | ||||
Posted: July 2, 2009 11:07 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Big_Al_002 Group: Guardian Posts: 1102 Member No.: 1777 Joined: March 21, 2009 Total Events Attended: 25 |
+1 LOL -------------------- Guardian from 4/20/09 to 8/4/09, then quit. Back, Trial Guardian 6/12/11.  Proud To Have A Winddancir Original | ||||
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