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How does Australia's language sound?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The Australian language / accent is nothing like that portrayed by people pretending to be Australians on US television shows. It is not a "cockney" accent with the emphasis on the "oi" sound that it is propounded to be.

Where Americans emphasise the "r" in words such as "teacher" or "neighbour", in the Australian accent it is more of a "schwa" (an unstressed, neutral, toneless vowel sound) so it comes out as "teacha" (unstressed) or "neighba". The language includes many shortenings of typical English phrases for easy use in day to day life. The late Steve Irwin (a.k.a. Crocodile Dundee) is an example of one of Australia's regional dialects, but it was very over-played, and few Australians speak that way.

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14y ago

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