you sound Australian. it sounds as like you are conscious of pronunciation, so some may think your 'putting on' a British accent. No offence but a lot of my nerdy friends sound like you.
There are different Australian accents. this guy just has a particular type. I am Australian and i find that less and less Australians talk in the strong "strine" accent that is portrayed as the typical Aussie accent to the world. Yeah some still do speak like that but most Aussies think of them as "Bogans"
It's whats formally called the "city" accent. Australia like America has different accents from different parts of the country. "city' Accents generally have a touch of "New Yorker" in them just like yours does.
I'm from Aus so I can pick up the Australian accent from you, but I too get the same thing when I'm travelling, people always think I'm from England or the US.
I have no idea how (being Aussie-born with Aus parents), but I had a very strong American accent growing up, as if I was from Texas. I barely watched tv so that wasn't the influence and knew no-one close who had an accent either... It didn't fade away until about Grade 6. Sometimes certain words slip out as American and get teased about it.
You do what a lot of young Australians do: you pronounce Australian as "Oss-Trellion" whereas more dinky di Australians would say "'Strayan". Also, I agree with Kerrazy10, you say 'ask' with an English accent. I'm 23 and live in Canberra, I was once asked by an older couple if I was American. I was pretty crushed. I hope our accent isn't fading away.
You have a mixture of three accents. You say "asking" and "ask" as if you were English. You say "Australian" as if you were American and the rest you sound Aussie.
@Kerrazy10 .. Probably comes from Adelaide .. or second guess Perth..
Regional accents are starting to develop in Australia.. now that telephone enquires are being answered by people all around the country, it suprising to hear the differences developing.
Definitely not Perth. Perth and Melbourne accents are much the same as each other. Both are quite clear, and they don't sound anything like this dude's weird, mixed up, accent.
Australians don't often say "Ostralia", we say "A'stralia". -"A" like the U in "up".
I think you sound Ozzie but like you are from a big city like Sidney or Melbourne. All big cities, London, Dublin, Edinburgh (even New York though that is never the one you hear in the movies) have a more cosmopolitan accent that is less distinct. It'd be different if you were from Alice Springs.
When you say 'ask' and a few bits of other words it does sound like you are from the UK. I have lived in W.A all my life so I know Aussie accents! lol
just because you live in Australia dosnt mean you can hide the obvious Sth African undertones in your accent :p what is your heratage and how long have you been in au?
i even can't make different between them .. !!! , i can speak English .. but ppl used to tell me that i have an american accent .. it seems we have the same problem ..
in fact i just wanted to know how do Australian ppl speak .. and i saw your video .. so, umm
I get this all the time. One time when I was working, some guy asked if I was from Ireland. I said "no" and he said "Yes you are, I know the accent."
Was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
I've also gotten - South African, American, Canadian, Scottish, Asian, and German.
WHAAA??!
I understand your pain. But don't worry. All my nerdy friends speak with different accents. Namely, all American accents despite being from Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Weird.
Mate who cares but your Australian thats good im on too! Well its hard to say but got a really Aussie accent so if i hear you like you dont have an accent obviously your a pure Australian and is anyone says where are from tell them to fuck up im Australian dont ask me again.
I watch a ton of British TV, and I can tell you, you don't sound like any British person that I have heard. You def have the Aussie "twang" to your voice.
I hear mainly a well-spoken Australian accent, you do not emphasize the long 'A' sound, I notice you pronounce 'Ask' as 'Arsk' rather than a 'tyical aussie..'Ahhhsk' definitely some English-like elements-perhaps you attended a private school? But mainly Australian-amazing how varied the Ozzie accent can be really-not just one accent, regional differences.
Sounds Aussie. Don't understand how people mix the accents up because there is a humongous difference between Pommy, Aussie, African and New Zealand accents. Are you from Adelaide because ive heard they speak more posh because it was colonised by rich or well respected poms.
For someone who is not familiar with autralia it sounds british. anyway why Autralians are so picki with the accents. Do you really think that the president of the UN for example, is not an educated person just because he does not have a british accent.
I get the same thing in reverse. I get asked if I am from Australia, but I am from England. Your Australian accent is very mild, so it would be easy for someone to confuse it with an English accent. I have quite a strong London accent, which is quite similar in a lot of ways to some of the stronger Australian accents. Americans are usually the ones who confuse the two, they can't hear the difference. There isn't really a huge difference anyway.
When you say 'australian', your accent sounds american! That's the first thing I noticed. At first I thought maybe you had used a vocoder or something over your voice to merge three accents into one - aussie, a touch of american, a dash of english.... You do have a strange Australian accent. [ps, I'm from Brisbane, I have an aussie accent too, but we sound totally different]
@brennanpde There are lots of different accents in Australia, just as there are lots of different American and English accents. Some Australian accents sound very similar to cockney, some sound almost like British Received Pronunciation, and some sound like a mixture of London, RP and Standard American English.
I think you sound more American, I head you say "Austreelian" and your proper pronounciationn of the last letter of the last word of your sentences like when you say the words "accenT, a loT, thinK", ... so I'm not too sure! You did say YouChoob right though! haha
you said "arsking" there is no r in it mate, you cant pronounce the words like an Assie, im born and raised from the bush mate, id think you were a pom... You sound like Liz Hurley's old boyfriend whatever his bloody name is, the one that knocked the back out of that hooker mate... Not a bad thing, just a little gay, some chicks might take to it...
i think its not "everyone" that says this its just mainly americans.... btw im from england and i can tell ur austrailian but their are some accents in england that are similar so i can understand how some people might get confused but to me u sound 100% austrailian ;)
You sound very austrailian to me but I have a lovely accent just like the queen. There are not that many British who can speak without a silly accent. I really wish people would try harder.
@MarcusMiddleton like the queen? lol omg i feel sorry for u lol its because of the way the queen talks that we are constantly ripped on lol her accent is terrible its like england in the 1800s... very boring and snobby imo ;)
@ExpressiveBeats How dare you disrespect our wonderful queen? If it were up to me I would have people like you locked in the tower of London for such treachery. She is the most beautiful sounding woman in the world and is Britain’s greatest export. I bet you are one of those common people who have a regional accent and wear silly clothes. Join the armed forces son, they will make a man out of you. Now then!!!
@MarcusMiddleton how dare i? all she does is sit on her ass and gets paid millions for nothing... i dont mind her sons and kate but i really dont like her at all and yes i disrespected the way she talks because its embarrassing and makes it look like we all talk like that which is what we are ripped on for.. and actually im just a normal person with normal clothes.. by "silly clothes" i dont know what u mean but if ur talking about what chavs wear then no i dont...
@MarcusMiddleton and armed forces? lol so u think guns will make a man out of me? no thanks id rather stick to things like boxing instead of murder but thats just my opinion i dont wanna be toy soldiers for the government and kill a bunch of ppl but of course i have respect for ppl who protect the country but again no thanks id rather stick to what im doing
Well, speaking as an Englishman I do not understand how you could be confused for an English-English accented person by any Anglophone. However, your pronounciation is unlike any other Australian I have ever spoken to or heard.
The differences from what i would expect of Australian are few, but they are the very sharp "t"s and long "a"s combined with clipped vowels. These are very South African traits, for example.
@montms He sounds very Australian to me. It's more of the city Australian accent he's got, it's mostly the country people that talk with the stereotypical accent.
Sounds Canadian/English to me lol but what would I know every know it all tourist thinks I am from England ...if I had to pick where in Aus you came from I would guess Sydney/Adelaide though def not Victorian.
@IIproductionsII lol because to me you sound like a Sydney private school boy, I have lived in country Vic (born in Vic) of my life but have also lived in most other states and a few places o/s, and you don't sound like any Victorian I know lol but you do sound alot like a few people I know from Sydney, like I said though most think I am English so my vote won't count lmao.
@kdeee69 Lol, I'm not the guy in the video. But yeah, I live in Melbourne and you get people talking like the guy in this video here, it sounds Australian to me, I talk that way too. Obviously people in the country talk very Australian in any part of Aus.
@IIproductionsII Yes it is different even from town to town, and then state to state. It is even funnier when you add in the different names for things in each area/state lol took me ages to work out what the hell a stobie poll was and it really did my head in, was it a scooner, midi, pot, glass and I still don't get peanut paste. I actually feel sorry for anyone that lands on our shores with no idea of those sorts of differences, won't stop me telling them about killer drop bears though lol
@kdeee69 Yeah, I can't really notice any difference from state to state. Stobie Poll as in the electrical powerline things? peanut paste is the same as Peanut Butter, it's just some Queenslanders decided to change it to peanut paste, as there was some dairy farm that made butter next to them, and they didn't want people getting confused as not many people knew of peanut butter back then. But if you go to the city, hardly anyone says Australian only words, and most internationals stay in the city
@IIproductionsII Yes Stobie polls (SA) are power polls, peanut paste I only hear in WA lol and still haven't worked out how to order a beer. The biggest difference I notice is travelling through QLD the speech gets slower as you drive up the state and the addition of yeah aye old mate to every sentence gets more common lol its pretty cool to hear the change. The scary thing is that when I am in London I have had my cousin picked as the Australian and not me lol private school edumucation ;O)
I love how all the comments say aussies keep getting asked if they have an english accent. i'm australian got asked (from lots of australians in another state) if i was from canada. hmm...
Also, when you say "Australian" to me it sounds like you're saying "Ostrelian". There's something about the vowel sounds I can't put my finger on, other than that all the consonants are crystal clear like you're from Victoria or NSW. Hope this helped.
I'm South Australian and other Aussies reckon we sound a bit like poms because we don't pronounce the letter "L" at the end of a word and we use an English sounding "A" in words like "plant" and "chance" but on the east coast you pronounce these words using a more American sounding "A". You on the other hand actually sound like you're from the east coast of Australia, but for some reason you're pronouncing the "A" like a South African would.
Well there should have been a standard accent for the people learning English and received pronunciation is perfect to start with. Your accent is purely British i'd say coz i've witnessed it among educated British people.
Secondly, I appreciate the users who point out that I have a 'cultivated' accent or use 'received pronunciation'. Since my earliest years I have had a talent for writing and speaking, and so I suppose that it was through this that I developed my pronunciation. I just fear that if I take pride in my education and literary skills I will be criticized as being 'elitist'.
@fredler01 As someone with a similar accent , who's been asked if I'm English many times over (even by Aussies), my best advice is to just say "no" and say you're from Melbourne if they give you shit lol.
You'll also notice that a lot of people in the media / writing / speaking positions share the "cultured" accent.
Have you personally noticed a propensity to pick up a Pommie accent when you hang around someone with a heavy accent though? I sometimes don't even notice I'm doing it.
Okay, first off there have been a few users who think that I have lived overseas for some time and so my accent has changed a bit. Well I can say that I grew up in Australia my entire life, and didn't step foot outside the country until March 2011, more than a year after this video was posted.
Wow! In the two years since I uploaded this video, I never imagined that I would receive such an overwhelming response! I am so grateful for all of the comments, and could not possib
You do not have a broad Australian accent. And because most people in the world associate the broad Australian accent to represent all Australians they get confused when they hear an Australian accent that isn't broad. It would be like if the only Media coming out of America featured southern American accents like you will hear in Mississippi. If people then heard a Californian accent they would say, Your not American where are you from?
bahahhahahahhaa ! People think you have a British accent ?
Im Australian , and you sound just like a normal Aussie to me .
Mostly people from Western Australia have a more 'posh' accent . You sound like you come from Sydney . I hate it when all the Americans think that the typical Aussie accent is a bogan one . NOT ALL AUSSIES ARE FROM MT. DRUITT
i'm aussie and idiots always ask me if i'm british. I guess people who don't live in either of those countries (America for example) maybe we sound the same but being around Australians every day i can tell.But some Aussies get Americans and Canadians confused but they sound very different. To non english. non aussie people. We sound very similar
Haha, its funny, cos I'm Australian, and over here I've been asked if I'm British, and most commonly also if I'm American, and I'm like WTF. I must switch between my accents o.O
Forgot to mention, I don't have a broad Aussie accent, but I am definitely an Aussie. Been living in the USA now for a couple of years and rarely does anyone realise I am Aussie, mostly I get asked if I'm English.
You sound Aussie to me, but just not the broader Aussie accent. You sound more like someone from the south, in particular South Australia... I have a number of friends who were born and raised in SA and some of them have a little different accent... ever so slight, almost like a Kiwi, but not as strong. You definitely don't sound like you are from Qld or the outback where I have spent a lot of years.
There are different accents out there in Australia. You have an in-between accent i.e. the old traditional broad Australian accent superimposed by received English when Australians were copying the English from London. You clearly sound like an Australian to me because I can tell the difference, but since you don't have the stereotypical very broad one, you and people from the South could be mistaken for British by people who don't know Australia.
Diplomatic accent. Meaning you have an Australian accent but it' very mild as you have spent long periods of times abroad in another country. In this case the UK. Not saying you are a diplomatic but that's what the accent is called.
@kreysen Yes, he's Australian for person who know Australia, but he doesn't have a strong Australia, the fair dinkum Australian accent that was not affected by received pronunciation when many people's parents were told to copy England, but his vowels are still clearly enough Australian in many cases.
It sounds to me that you have an Australian accent, but it has several inflections which sound as if you might be from southern England, especially in the sense of "received pronunciation" (ie. cultivated English speech sounds typical of BBC presenters or perhaps persons educated in Oxbridge universities). Your accent is not a broad Aussie one.
you say Australia the way Americans say Australia - you pronounce every letter properly. i would say you have an australian accent but you pronounce words like an amercian....
You defiantly have a Australian accent, it's just that you have a more I don't know, inner city accent I guess you would call it, rather than an outback thick true blue Aussie accent. Because there is defiantly more than one type of Australian accent the same as there are different American and English accents
I'm not an English native speaker and I've been living in Sydney for almost one year... I'd dare to say that there are 2 different Australian accents that I can perceive: A) The one young, urban/suburban people have which sounds sometimes like British but more musical and without the explosive T (which is similar to yours). B) The one older, and sometimes country people have "the typical" Aussie accent, more difficult to understand for me and the -ay pronounced like -ie... i.e. day like "die"
im English and you sound Australian but compared to Americans and others we English Australians and a few other nationalities use the same A E I O U sounds ect so they class everything as English i assume.
you dont sound like a british guy, british people have very nice accents as opposed to ..... u know. i can understand you well, some pp in australia have very bad accents which is very hard to listen to, especially those live in countryside
Australian accent
Ryanwolson12 1 day ago
Australian accent
Ryanwolson12 1 day ago
I prefer British accents...
Wamm92 1 day ago
australian. you didnt emphasize please, so your not bitish
Coreena9999 2 days ago
You have a gay accent!!!!
reddogcollar 2 days ago
Australian accent, definately. 0:13 The way you pronounce ask [arsek] kindof almost sounds South African [soot effrika]
TheLastOutpost 2 days ago
To me you don't even sound like a native English speaker. More like some person from western continental Europe.
1poiuztrewq2 3 days ago
you sound Australian. it sounds as like you are conscious of pronunciation, so some may think your 'putting on' a British accent. No offence but a lot of my nerdy friends sound like you.
omnicronvegas 4 days ago
You are South African , but have been living in Adelaide for most of your life. Hence mainly South Australian, with a touch of South African.
guts067 5 days ago
That is not the English flag. Englands flag is the cross of St.George
DeloraineRules 6 days ago
YOU SOUND LIKE A FAG(not the Britsh kind but the American kind)
nowdid 1 week ago
There are different Australian accents. this guy just has a particular type. I am Australian and i find that less and less Australians talk in the strong "strine" accent that is portrayed as the typical Aussie accent to the world. Yeah some still do speak like that but most Aussies think of them as "Bogans"
AdstarAPAD 1 week ago
It's sounds like your supressing you natural accent & adopting a more british way of pronounciation.
JoeCoolVII 1 week ago
You're South African... the give away is the /a/... in asking / talking. Nice try tho... lol ;)
ximplixity 1 week ago
It's whats formally called the "city" accent. Australia like America has different accents from different parts of the country. "city' Accents generally have a touch of "New Yorker" in them just like yours does.
4x4Tinny 1 week ago
I'm from Aus so I can pick up the Australian accent from you, but I too get the same thing when I'm travelling, people always think I'm from England or the US.
senorwobbles 1 week ago
I have no idea how (being Aussie-born with Aus parents), but I had a very strong American accent growing up, as if I was from Texas. I barely watched tv so that wasn't the influence and knew no-one close who had an accent either... It didn't fade away until about Grade 6. Sometimes certain words slip out as American and get teased about it.
*shrug* Forever a mystery.
Unlimited517 1 week ago
You do what a lot of young Australians do: you pronounce Australian as "Oss-Trellion" whereas more dinky di Australians would say "'Strayan". Also, I agree with Kerrazy10, you say 'ask' with an English accent. I'm 23 and live in Canberra, I was once asked by an older couple if I was American. I was pretty crushed. I hope our accent isn't fading away.
dmao22 1 week ago
@Kerrazy10 yah i totally agree
agent101glitterg1 1 week ago
LOL, I have the same problem
TMTGAU 1 week ago
@diayag shut up you have no clue
SuperJesse60 1 week ago
You have a mixture of three accents. You say "asking" and "ask" as if you were English. You say "Australian" as if you were American and the rest you sound Aussie.
Kerrazy10 1 week ago 14
@Kerrazy10 .. Probably comes from Adelaide .. or second guess Perth..
Regional accents are starting to develop in Australia.. now that telephone enquires are being answered by people all around the country, it suprising to hear the differences developing.
wannerb1 5 days ago
@wannerb1 Are you talking about him or me coming from Perth or Adelaide?
Kerrazy10 4 days ago
@wannerb1
Definitely not Perth. Perth and Melbourne accents are much the same as each other. Both are quite clear, and they don't sound anything like this dude's weird, mixed up, accent.
Australians don't often say "Ostralia", we say "A'stralia". -"A" like the U in "up".
jublywubly 1 day ago
I think you sound Ozzie but like you are from a big city like Sidney or Melbourne. All big cities, London, Dublin, Edinburgh (even New York though that is never the one you hear in the movies) have a more cosmopolitan accent that is less distinct. It'd be different if you were from Alice Springs.
diayag 1 week ago
lolz sounz like Ukranian
MoonshineNL 1 week ago
his a pom lol
MyBLOODMYPEOPLE 1 week ago
sorry but you sound like a pom ....
0202johnny 1 week ago
you sound like an asian aussie
MrPwnstar007 2 weeks ago
When you say 'ask' and a few bits of other words it does sound like you are from the UK. I have lived in W.A all my life so I know Aussie accents! lol
cwilbr 2 weeks ago
you sound a bit american...
DIBASAUR 2 weeks ago
You don't sound English in the slightest bit. Idiots.
TheReven1 2 weeks ago
you dont sound like an aussie, you sound like a tool.
cmndo 2 weeks ago 13
You sound American slightly.
MrsRhythmNation 2 weeks ago
south australian? i find we have the least abrasive accent in the country.
ravenwyld 2 weeks ago
just because you live in Australia dosnt mean you can hide the obvious Sth African undertones in your accent :p what is your heratage and how long have you been in au?
gbubble79 2 weeks ago
i even can't make different between them .. !!! , i can speak English .. but ppl used to tell me that i have an american accent .. it seems we have the same problem ..
in fact i just wanted to know how do Australian ppl speak .. and i saw your video .. so, umm
i've got no idea .. !!
noshah26 2 weeks ago
Pfft, how in any way is that English? Obviously Australian. :)
xXJastaXx 2 weeks ago
Definitely Aussie but private school?
caperfudge 2 weeks ago
u sound more british but u have a little australian accent as well!:D
parishtak 2 weeks ago
I get this all the time. One time when I was working, some guy asked if I was from Ireland. I said "no" and he said "Yes you are, I know the accent."
Was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
I've also gotten - South African, American, Canadian, Scottish, Asian, and German.
WHAAA??!
I understand your pain. But don't worry. All my nerdy friends speak with different accents. Namely, all American accents despite being from Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Weird.
AussieBaka 2 weeks ago
It first sounds so posh and British but it is definitly Oz when you say 'Australia' :))
Oiseauxdepassage 2 weeks ago
Mate who cares but your Australian thats good im on too! Well its hard to say but got a really Aussie accent so if i hear you like you dont have an accent obviously your a pure Australian and is anyone says where are from tell them to fuck up im Australian dont ask me again.
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I think your accent is partly south african and partly american... australians do not say.. 'arstrellian' or 'orsk me'
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symphonieG 3 weeks ago
I watch a ton of British TV, and I can tell you, you don't sound like any British person that I have heard. You def have the Aussie "twang" to your voice.
DelorienAz 3 weeks ago
I hear mainly a well-spoken Australian accent, you do not emphasize the long 'A' sound, I notice you pronounce 'Ask' as 'Arsk' rather than a 'tyical aussie..'Ahhhsk' definitely some English-like elements-perhaps you attended a private school? But mainly Australian-amazing how varied the Ozzie accent can be really-not just one accent, regional differences.
GalaxyHorse 3 weeks ago
Sounds Aussie. Don't understand how people mix the accents up because there is a humongous difference between Pommy, Aussie, African and New Zealand accents. Are you from Adelaide because ive heard they speak more posh because it was colonised by rich or well respected poms.
artilleryboy1 3 weeks ago
you sound like you have a slight Scottish with a touch of South African, your not from Adelaide are you?
mrmatkilgore 3 weeks ago
You sound like some urban sissy, I can detect a slight accent but it seems to be diluted. Your high pitched voice doesn't help.
ausaskar 3 weeks ago
You are an Ausssie who has dropped the ocker " giddie waddya know?" bush bogan accent to be understood whilsy living abroad.
taariqtaariq 3 weeks ago
Sounds white southern African to me, like a mix of Kenya, Rhodesia and South Africa posh.
pretjim2011 3 weeks ago
For someone who is not familiar with autralia it sounds british. anyway why Autralians are so picki with the accents. Do you really think that the president of the UN for example, is not an educated person just because he does not have a british accent.
eulalio55 3 weeks ago
You sound Australian, but I think that perhaps you're not from one of the Eastern states.
Chic1110 3 weeks ago
if you ask me honestly, you actually barely have an accent at all it sounds more american with a tiny lilt
xxxlillyxixix 4 weeks ago
a wierd mix of Aussie and South African if you ask me... you don't sound like you're from Melbourne or Sydney that's for sure
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I get the same thing in reverse. I get asked if I am from Australia, but I am from England. Your Australian accent is very mild, so it would be easy for someone to confuse it with an English accent. I have quite a strong London accent, which is quite similar in a lot of ways to some of the stronger Australian accents. Americans are usually the ones who confuse the two, they can't hear the difference. There isn't really a huge difference anyway.
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Scootertuner1000 4 weeks ago
When you say 'australian', your accent sounds american! That's the first thing I noticed. At first I thought maybe you had used a vocoder or something over your voice to merge three accents into one - aussie, a touch of american, a dash of english.... You do have a strange Australian accent. [ps, I'm from Brisbane, I have an aussie accent too, but we sound totally different]
brennanpde 1 month ago
@brennanpde There are lots of different accents in Australia, just as there are lots of different American and English accents. Some Australian accents sound very similar to cockney, some sound almost like British Received Pronunciation, and some sound like a mixture of London, RP and Standard American English.
Scootertuner1000 4 weeks ago
Yes you are an aussie
Cocoachocko 1 month ago
aussie =).
AnnabelleIeong 1 month ago
you have the faggot aussie accent
0s0e0a0n0100 1 month ago
Bit of half and half.
MisterSandman009 1 month ago
I think you sound more American, I head you say "Austreelian" and your proper pronounciationn of the last letter of the last word of your sentences like when you say the words "accenT, a loT, thinK", ... so I'm not too sure! You did say YouChoob right though! haha
patellaman 1 month ago
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samf0135 1 month ago
You're from Adelaide or Perth
RyanLye1975 1 month ago
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RyanLye1975 1 month ago
half like me even though i don't actually have any english relatives. It is wierd! I even have people thing i am part german:S
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you said "arsking" there is no r in it mate, you cant pronounce the words like an Assie, im born and raised from the bush mate, id think you were a pom... You sound like Liz Hurley's old boyfriend whatever his bloody name is, the one that knocked the back out of that hooker mate... Not a bad thing, just a little gay, some chicks might take to it...
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robandjack 1 month ago
Recognizably Australian, although sometimes it does sound English.
Gunderson002 1 month ago
Your accent is clearly Australian. The only other accent I might hesitate to distinguish from it is New Zealand, but you don't have the vowel sounds.
No way it could be any English accent.
KaitainCPS 1 month ago
Australian accent is a FAR away better than british sick gayest speech .lol
But this is on my view
kraycek12 1 month ago
That's Australian
PhoaPasMCFC 1 month ago
i think its not "everyone" that says this its just mainly americans.... btw im from england and i can tell ur austrailian but their are some accents in england that are similar so i can understand how some people might get confused but to me u sound 100% austrailian ;)
ExpressiveBeats 1 month ago
OMG im from england but 2 years ago i went to LA in the US and everyone was like
american guys:so whats it like in autralia is it hot at the moment.
me: how would i no lol
american guys: ur australian right?
what we sound nothing alike!!!!!
Ryuzacci 1 month ago
You sound very austrailian to me but I have a lovely accent just like the queen. There are not that many British who can speak without a silly accent. I really wish people would try harder.
MarcusMiddleton 1 month ago
@MarcusMiddleton like the queen? lol omg i feel sorry for u lol its because of the way the queen talks that we are constantly ripped on lol her accent is terrible its like england in the 1800s... very boring and snobby imo ;)
ExpressiveBeats 1 month ago
@ExpressiveBeats How dare you disrespect our wonderful queen? If it were up to me I would have people like you locked in the tower of London for such treachery. She is the most beautiful sounding woman in the world and is Britain’s greatest export. I bet you are one of those common people who have a regional accent and wear silly clothes. Join the armed forces son, they will make a man out of you. Now then!!!
MarcusMiddleton 1 month ago
@MarcusMiddleton how dare i? all she does is sit on her ass and gets paid millions for nothing... i dont mind her sons and kate but i really dont like her at all and yes i disrespected the way she talks because its embarrassing and makes it look like we all talk like that which is what we are ripped on for.. and actually im just a normal person with normal clothes.. by "silly clothes" i dont know what u mean but if ur talking about what chavs wear then no i dont...
ExpressiveBeats 1 month ago
@MarcusMiddleton and armed forces? lol so u think guns will make a man out of me? no thanks id rather stick to things like boxing instead of murder but thats just my opinion i dont wanna be toy soldiers for the government and kill a bunch of ppl but of course i have respect for ppl who protect the country but again no thanks id rather stick to what im doing
ExpressiveBeats 1 month ago
Well, speaking as an Englishman I do not understand how you could be confused for an English-English accented person by any Anglophone. However, your pronounciation is unlike any other Australian I have ever spoken to or heard.
The differences from what i would expect of Australian are few, but they are the very sharp "t"s and long "a"s combined with clipped vowels. These are very South African traits, for example.
montms 1 month ago
@montms He sounds very Australian to me. It's more of the city Australian accent he's got, it's mostly the country people that talk with the stereotypical accent.
IIproductionsII 1 month ago
Sounds Canadian/English to me lol but what would I know every know it all tourist thinks I am from England ...if I had to pick where in Aus you came from I would guess Sydney/Adelaide though def not Victorian.
kdeee69 1 month ago
@kdeee69 Hey, why not Victorian? Just curious lol, I'm from Victoria.
IIproductionsII 1 month ago
@IIproductionsII lol because to me you sound like a Sydney private school boy, I have lived in country Vic (born in Vic) of my life but have also lived in most other states and a few places o/s, and you don't sound like any Victorian I know lol but you do sound alot like a few people I know from Sydney, like I said though most think I am English so my vote won't count lmao.
kdeee69 1 month ago
@kdeee69 Lol, I'm not the guy in the video. But yeah, I live in Melbourne and you get people talking like the guy in this video here, it sounds Australian to me, I talk that way too. Obviously people in the country talk very Australian in any part of Aus.
IIproductionsII 1 month ago 5
@IIproductionsII Yes it is different even from town to town, and then state to state. It is even funnier when you add in the different names for things in each area/state lol took me ages to work out what the hell a stobie poll was and it really did my head in, was it a scooner, midi, pot, glass and I still don't get peanut paste. I actually feel sorry for anyone that lands on our shores with no idea of those sorts of differences, won't stop me telling them about killer drop bears though lol
kdeee69 1 month ago
@kdeee69 Yeah, I can't really notice any difference from state to state. Stobie Poll as in the electrical powerline things? peanut paste is the same as Peanut Butter, it's just some Queenslanders decided to change it to peanut paste, as there was some dairy farm that made butter next to them, and they didn't want people getting confused as not many people knew of peanut butter back then. But if you go to the city, hardly anyone says Australian only words, and most internationals stay in the city
IIproductionsII 1 month ago
@IIproductionsII Yes Stobie polls (SA) are power polls, peanut paste I only hear in WA lol and still haven't worked out how to order a beer. The biggest difference I notice is travelling through QLD the speech gets slower as you drive up the state and the addition of yeah aye old mate to every sentence gets more common lol its pretty cool to hear the change. The scary thing is that when I am in London I have had my cousin picked as the Australian and not me lol private school edumucation ;O)
kdeee69 1 month ago
Sound Australian until you say "arsk"
amberdaila 1 month ago
I love how all the comments say aussies keep getting asked if they have an english accent. i'm australian got asked (from lots of australians in another state) if i was from canada. hmm...
TheBMHuntard 1 month ago
australian for sure .. hate i when people say i got a british accent or just be like your from england right?
FijiDreamz 1 month ago
Also, when you say "Australian" to me it sounds like you're saying "Ostrelian". There's something about the vowel sounds I can't put my finger on, other than that all the consonants are crystal clear like you're from Victoria or NSW. Hope this helped.
83uoykcuf 1 month ago
I'm South Australian and other Aussies reckon we sound a bit like poms because we don't pronounce the letter "L" at the end of a word and we use an English sounding "A" in words like "plant" and "chance" but on the east coast you pronounce these words using a more American sounding "A". You on the other hand actually sound like you're from the east coast of Australia, but for some reason you're pronouncing the "A" like a South African would.
83uoykcuf 1 month ago
i get that to i picked the accent up from my nanna and other perentals from england
but ay i was born here im australian your australian
MrBennyboi1990 1 month ago
You're definitely an Aussie bro! I went to Hawaii once and they asked me if I was British.. I was like umm no I'm Australian..
pcarf1 1 month ago
Well there should have been a standard accent for the people learning English and received pronunciation is perfect to start with. Your accent is purely British i'd say coz i've witnessed it among educated British people.
mikeyedson 1 month ago
@mikeyedson No, it's Australian. The twang is dead on, with only a small English inflection.
TheBobblefighter 1 month ago
Australian for sure
UnofficiallyRachel 1 month ago
sounds like a south australian accent which does sound a bit pommy
55butts 1 month ago
you have a gay Australian accent.
BackInAGiffy 1 month ago
You have a NSW's accent. It's more refined and not the slang you get from us Qld'ers
Pugwash81 1 month ago
Posh Australian. :)
kborage 1 month ago 13
Australian..... You don't sound at all English to me.
balmainguy 1 month ago
New Zealand accent, definatel (very similar to australian accent obviously/0
georgiep8 1 month ago
He's definatly british.
Dalant117 1 month ago
I'm British and this guy is definately Australian. No doubt about it.
TheWaypalm 1 month ago
Secondly, I appreciate the users who point out that I have a 'cultivated' accent or use 'received pronunciation'. Since my earliest years I have had a talent for writing and speaking, and so I suppose that it was through this that I developed my pronunciation. I just fear that if I take pride in my education and literary skills I will be criticized as being 'elitist'.
fredler01 1 month ago
@fredler01 As someone with a similar accent , who's been asked if I'm English many times over (even by Aussies), my best advice is to just say "no" and say you're from Melbourne if they give you shit lol.
You'll also notice that a lot of people in the media / writing / speaking positions share the "cultured" accent.
Have you personally noticed a propensity to pick up a Pommie accent when you hang around someone with a heavy accent though? I sometimes don't even notice I'm doing it.
WirlWind494 3 weeks ago
Okay, first off there have been a few users who think that I have lived overseas for some time and so my accent has changed a bit. Well I can say that I grew up in Australia my entire life, and didn't step foot outside the country until March 2011, more than a year after this video was posted.
fredler01 1 month ago
thanks again to each and every single person who has taken the time to comment!
fredler01 1 month ago
ly reply to all of them, but I'll pick a few that really stand out to me to give an answer to :)
fredler01 1 month ago
Wow! In the two years since I uploaded this video, I never imagined that I would receive such an overwhelming response! I am so grateful for all of the comments, and could not possib
fredler01 1 month ago
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@fredler01 You talk about an English accent, and you put up a British flag. Why?
samf0135 1 month ago
You do not have a broad Australian accent. And because most people in the world associate the broad Australian accent to represent all Australians they get confused when they hear an Australian accent that isn't broad. It would be like if the only Media coming out of America featured southern American accents like you will hear in Mississippi. If people then heard a Californian accent they would say, Your not American where are you from?
AdstarAPAD 1 month ago
bahahhahahahhaa ! People think you have a British accent ?
Im Australian , and you sound just like a normal Aussie to me .
Mostly people from Western Australia have a more 'posh' accent . You sound like you come from Sydney . I hate it when all the Americans think that the typical Aussie accent is a bogan one . NOT ALL AUSSIES ARE FROM MT. DRUITT
OliviaGraceChapman99 1 month ago
@OliviaGraceChapman99 lol People from WA have an accent that almost sounds like they are from New Zealand.
AdstarAPAD 1 month ago
@OliviaGraceChapman99 i think maybe Queensland and i agree you know they're Australian when you cant hear an accent.
kiloman3 1 month ago
i'm aussie and idiots always ask me if i'm british. I guess people who don't live in either of those countries (America for example) maybe we sound the same but being around Australians every day i can tell.But some Aussies get Americans and Canadians confused but they sound very different. To non english. non aussie people. We sound very similar
GibbsGibberstein 1 month ago
why do u have a British flag up? if people think u have a English accent, put an English flag up!
kristenkirsch 1 month ago
Its definitly australian, just not the steryotipical occa australian accent
6AliceCullen6 1 month ago 17
it sounds american with australien mixed
MissAsena1 1 month ago
You don't sound aussie at all, i suggest you go out bush and live there for a few years if you want to get a proper aussie accent.
fjeopgjde 1 month ago
Haha, its funny, cos I'm Australian, and over here I've been asked if I'm British, and most commonly also if I'm American, and I'm like WTF. I must switch between my accents o.O
Antsandy96 1 month ago
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. ???
goddog47 1 month ago
definitely Aussie (if you're American and you disagree with me piss off, you actually don't know what an Australian accent is).
DJjadie98 1 month ago
some sort of american-aussie accent
Munteanu1993 1 month ago
you sound like a yank trying to do an australian accent. you've been there too long, mate.
mrswicket 1 month ago
Closer to English than Australian.
AustraliaYouBeauty 1 month ago
@AustraliaYouBeauty that doesn't sound anything like an english accent
darthpirakadude 1 month ago
@darthpirakadude Whatever you reckon.
AustraliaYouBeauty 1 month ago
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INDEPEDENCE FOR ENGLAND.
INDEPEDENCE FOR AUSTRALIA.
AUSTRALIAN REMOVE THIS ASS BRITISH CROWN, AND CHANGE FLAG
unfukkkmee 1 month ago
you sound irish
MrSkycity007 1 month ago
English
JusstLikeMee 1 month ago
Forgot to mention, I don't have a broad Aussie accent, but I am definitely an Aussie. Been living in the USA now for a couple of years and rarely does anyone realise I am Aussie, mostly I get asked if I'm English.
CCquarterhorses 1 month ago
You sound Aussie to me, but just not the broader Aussie accent. You sound more like someone from the south, in particular South Australia... I have a number of friends who were born and raised in SA and some of them have a little different accent... ever so slight, almost like a Kiwi, but not as strong. You definitely don't sound like you are from Qld or the outback where I have spent a lot of years.
CCquarterhorses 1 month ago
You sound Australian with an American twang!
spirit4belief 1 month ago
South African, so you can definitely fuck off you racist cunt
swirls999 2 months ago
I could never tell the two apart! I've heard so many different types of Australian accents i can't tell anymore!!!
CuteBlueCherri 2 months ago
Your pronunciation of the word 'ask' is 100% South African dude!
bgmusic2010 2 months ago
There are different accents out there in Australia. You have an in-between accent i.e. the old traditional broad Australian accent superimposed by received English when Australians were copying the English from London. You clearly sound like an Australian to me because I can tell the difference, but since you don't have the stereotypical very broad one, you and people from the South could be mistaken for British by people who don't know Australia.
QUINTUSMAXIMUS 2 months ago
Aussie...
sammythomson1 2 months ago
Diplomatic accent. Meaning you have an Australian accent but it' very mild as you have spent long periods of times abroad in another country. In this case the UK. Not saying you are a diplomatic but that's what the accent is called.
16MattC 2 months ago
Aussie.
Wtfamisupposedtosay 2 months ago
im english and i think you sound abit of a mix but i can definally hear an australian twang :D
axfbyjgbn 2 months ago
you sound american X10
PYRO480793 2 months ago
aussie accent, but a little bit of british too....
BUT! AUSTRALIAN
kreysen 2 months ago
@kreysen Yes, he's Australian for person who know Australia, but he doesn't have a strong Australia, the fair dinkum Australian accent that was not affected by received pronunciation when many people's parents were told to copy England, but his vowels are still clearly enough Australian in many cases.
QUINTUSMAXIMUS 2 months ago
It sounds to me that you have an Australian accent, but it has several inflections which sound as if you might be from southern England, especially in the sense of "received pronunciation" (ie. cultivated English speech sounds typical of BBC presenters or perhaps persons educated in Oxbridge universities). Your accent is not a broad Aussie one.
checkingit1 2 months ago
you say Australia the way Americans say Australia - you pronounce every letter properly. i would say you have an australian accent but you pronounce words like an amercian....
DakotaClare13 2 months ago
You don't sound either to me... maybe new zealand lol
Im British
geraldbean1 2 months ago
i live in england, but i live where all the 'chavs' live, so you sound australian to me :-)
heyitsalexx4 2 months ago
English
01ccoulson 2 months ago
You defiantly have a Australian accent, it's just that you have a more I don't know, inner city accent I guess you would call it, rather than an outback thick true blue Aussie accent. Because there is defiantly more than one type of Australian accent the same as there are different American and English accents
Mitchydawalnut 2 months ago
its a good die to die......or .....its a good day today
Jaringan2 2 months ago
I don't get it either, mate. I'm English, lived in London all my life. I could tell you were Australian the moment you said YouTube.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 months ago
educated australian. what a getto accent. hey yo mate what u bein up to dawg
BULLSfan566 2 months ago
Its an educated Australian accent.
TheJimmyNewc 2 months ago
I'm not an English native speaker and I've been living in Sydney for almost one year... I'd dare to say that there are 2 different Australian accents that I can perceive: A) The one young, urban/suburban people have which sounds sometimes like British but more musical and without the explosive T (which is similar to yours). B) The one older, and sometimes country people have "the typical" Aussie accent, more difficult to understand for me and the -ay pronounced like -ie... i.e. day like "die"
Moyetito 2 months ago
I'm American and I heard an Australian accent from the first three words!
AlyKay96 2 months ago
im English and you sound Australian but compared to Americans and others we English Australians and a few other nationalities use the same A E I O U sounds ect so they class everything as English i assume.
georgestrat1 2 months ago
the way you say australian sounds a bit american but just a little inch. the rest is all aussie. ps I'm a pom living in oz ;)
liverpoolmatt87 2 months ago
english
Coffeebouy2 2 months ago
English with an aussie twang on some words like when you said about at 00:20
TeHSnitchuation 2 months ago
AUSTRALIAN!
SuperAsha1234 2 months ago
you dont sound like a british guy, british people have very nice accents as opposed to ..... u know. i can understand you well, some pp in australia have very bad accents which is very hard to listen to, especially those live in countryside
differentperson1000 2 months ago
you sound like an american guy who doesnt prounounce the r between consonants.
Liberaisnumber1 2 months ago
british
kreccg 2 months ago
South African!
MrPlantoon 3 months ago