of course she picks the sexy one she wants to be sexy antler and she wants Joel & Lia to look stupid
Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and i'm Christie
I'm in a Joel and Lia sandwich
so this video is going to try to be about um how your accent might change if
you travel Christie is a travel vlogger and Instagram sensation she's actually
guilty
and she's actually from where we were you born?
I'm from Surrey which is southwest London
yeah but I spent a lot of time in Australia and New Zealand especially
over the past couple of years and people seem to think I have a twang and I don't
know about that
so for Joel's linguistic ears is this is just beautiful
oh it's amazing
she's from Surrey but she sounds Australian
I'm afraid that the content may be limited just cuz
we're such good friends we don't know we're actually able to get a video out
but your accent can be influenced a lot I think depending on where you go yeah
definitely from personal experience from growing up
in the Midlands and then moving down to like a private boarding school in Surrey
it was just like, everyone you, no one was from the Midlands yes there was one
girl from like Leeds and even she changed you have to keep reminding me
that you're from the Midlands because I just think oh she's a Londoner but then you're
like no I say grass and bath yeah
you just lose it really quickly and it's
not even at the beginning it's like a conscious thing yeah then it's an
unconscious thing oh yeah you don't even realise yeah I feel like I if I go
somewhere new and I'm listening to someone who has a new accent and I quite
like it then I'll try and replicate it and it is a joke and I think that's how I
started with like the Aussie stuff I'm like no go like hello
and then was like that's so much fun and it stuck and that was it
but do you know what I think that's quite popular lots of people that I know
they've gone to Australia have had similar twangs so I think it's because
it's so similar British English yeah that it's you sort of don't notice it
whereas if you to move to America like I think you would change less as a Brit because
a little bit too far yeah more of a step okay but you might like go
Rr like yeah
you know start doing little bits
yeah but you can go full on Aussie
sometimes yeah
i've actually written some words down that I just feel like when we're chatting as
friends that I've noticed that sometimes you have the twang so I've written down
you want to read them out
I'd love to
for instance when you say the phrase oh yeah
No! you always say ah yee
You should have written it with an A H
Thats more of a Kiwi thing so they say
instead of like ah like E they would say I
So it's Ah Yih
and they say their I's as U's
so that's why everyone always says like fish and
chips at opposed to fish and chips
yeah that's crazy I mean
it's not quite like that
we've never tried to do a Kiwi accent or tutorial or anything
so this is really interesting
I remember when I studied linguistics that they
gave us this chart of New Zealand pronunciation of vowels how they all
shifted so like you said like the
that vowel is now pronounced this and this vowel
this so you can actually plot it on a graph so then you can just look at
it and go oh we'd say chips oh they'd say cheps yes
so I becomes U is that correct?
I becomes U
E becomes I
wow
I yeah I think there may be more I just can't remember
we've got a few Kiwis that watch
oh hi Kiwi's!
it sounds like when the name people give to fans
hey kiwis today we're talking about..
what about this word?
water
water water I think that one because it's one you say all the time
you do say water quite a lot in life
she guzzles the stuff
she guzzles the water
you just end up saying it that way yeah and I think the same with like party as
well I used to say always at home water and party
now it just feels like it's
more natural to be like water and party
so what do your family think and
they said anything um
they used to now I feel like they're kind of used to
it because my sister lives in Australia and so she's got the twang as well
my parents also used to
ohhh! such a shame
Joel is on fire today
it's cause we're with you
this is so funny
devastated
aussie accent
your poor parents i'm sorry
no no they come over to Australia often so they're used to listening to it
and at first they were like why do you sound like that
but now they're I think more accustomed to it
they just get used to it because I mean it would just piss everyone off if every
word I said in the house they were like excuse me
you'd be like stop making fun of me let me just do me
i'm just gonna live my true authentic self
I'm gonna let me accent drift wherever the world takes me
what about this word?
high-five
okay its not working
you said at the top of this video
me and Lia clocked each other friends
friends oh that's an E
friend
yeah friends
that does come out a lot with me yeah that Kiwi e to i
okay thanks yes just hanging out with my friends
you are! you're my best friends
so how long did you spend in New Zealand I was in New Zealand for a year and then
I was in Australia for a year as well and I go back to Australia for about six
weeks every year so and one of my very good friends Annie is Australian
she has a strong
Australian accent so it's like I never really escaped from it you know
they're everywhere! I have a lot of
Australian friends and so in fact even if I try to lose it it's just gonna keep coming back
yeah I went on a little girls holiday with Christy and Annie and I think I
texted Joel whilst I was in the car like yeah can't escape the Aussies
I had the best time so definitely go and check out the video on Christie's channel
Durdle Door we went to
say it in an Aussie accent
Durdle Door
and thats how she said it for the whole holiday
no we were going Durdle Door
in a gremlin accent!
So I find it harder personally, I don't
really change my accent that much I don't think
you've got a very strong posh English accent
oh thanks! he's flattered
no the only time it has changed is when I go
home and my parents say I've become Posher or I come back to London my
friends are like you sound really common mainly because we do the essex accent all the time
Yeah and you're so good!
these two are so good at accents!
stop! all the time yeah
So Joel and I do send each other voice whatsapp's all the time
in an essex accent yeah just something we have with each other that we find
really entertaining
literally we always referre to each other as babes but but in that
accent like I'd never just be like babes
it would be like baybes
yeah
yeah linking back to
linguistic things there's two sorts of people the people that don't change
your accents and the people that do
what it's a type of person!
yeah!
so there's a certain thing called overt prestige and
covert prestige so if you have overt prestige you want to change your accent
to fit in with the other person you want to be sort of seen as welcoming and
standard so that's kind of what you do whereas covert prestige
is when you want to retain that accent you have yeah and you're like this is my
identity I'm not changing my accent for you yeah I think I am more of that
covert prestige it's not like I go oh I don't wanna
sound like you but for example if an Essex person came up to me I'd probably
make myself even posher I don't know why it just happens
okay like I just try and make my accent
as different as possible so then when I see a posh person like when I go
see my friends in London I go a bit more Essex because I'm like I don't wanna be like you
I'd never want to be the same I would always rather be different yeah
but I as a way of survival wanted to be the same I remember my first day of
school I've cut myself and I said oh has anyone got a plaster?
and they were like what? whats a plaster?
they were like oh a plaster! I've never said it like that but yeah a plaster
I felt mortified
I was like oh my god I'm different I
shouldn't be here really yeah I was like sixteen but still I felt really like yeah I didn't belong there
weirdly even though I do tend to start speaking like the people who
I'm speaking to wherever they may be from whether they're really posh or they're from
Australia I I am normally quite proud if I do sound different to them and like I think
opposite feelings to you yeah like if they like question something that I've
just said oh my god why'd you say it like that I feel a sense of pride about it
like yeah I'm British
Pride of Britain on our channel
see we are like we're two extremes
Lia's one end i'm on the other end in you're somewhere in the middle
okay that's why your friends
we're going on a holiday to
North of Abu Dhabi!
i'm going to insert gif of us on a day out in London Leicester Square
and the prize was if you tweeted it or Instagrammed this picture you could win a
a holiday! that is actually a good little plug for the video that were
making on my channel because it was the day that we were filming yeah things to do in London
to get you into the Christmas spirit
this was one of them
one of the prizes was to win a holiday in north of Abu Dhabi and we
just got so excited by this that we just could not stop saying north of Abu Dhabi girls
I think it's also because
like you can win it win a trip to Abu Dhabi and then because they saw how
excited we got they're were like it's north, north of Abu Dhabi
It's not actually Abu Dhabi it's north of Abu Dhabi
so guys we have made an amazing video
I got these from the kids section of Jumbo
which is like the Cypriot version of Toys R Us
so in Cyprus I was like I've gotta get these for the collabs
So guys this is a bit of a erm
Im gonna leave that in so they can see you bullying me
good one!
guys we hope you have enjoyed this video we've also done a really fun video
over on Christy's channel
sure we have we filmed it over a couple of days and it's best
best things to do in London to get you into the Christmas spirit so if you're gonna
be in London throughout December you want to get all Christmassy and get in
the Christmas spirit and definitely check out the video that I made with my best friends
friends
and don't forget to go subscribe to Christy she's got an amazing channel
absolutely brilliant she's just one of our favourite people ever we're thrilled that we've
been able to do this collab yeah
all right guys over and out see you
next time
Bye!
you