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great then let's cut the BSE get real
yeah nothing's going on around here it's
completely innocent cause these have a
pretty distinct accent and it's one that
Hollywood finds hard to imitate imitate
well that is thank our games I'm stupid
I'll see trongo but every now and then
we get something like this life is
change the dance was like dying lost in
this pool of sharks
he's Liev Schreiber's own accent for
comparison to be an actor I gets to do
anything in show business the first
thing you have to be willing to do is
make a complete ass of yourself not that
you did Liev so what makes that Aussie
accent so hard to do properly it is
really challenging because it's similar
to a lot of different accents it has
components of a lot of different accents
and I think that's where people get
derail Lisa McPherson is a dialect coach
and the head of voice at the Victorian
College of the Arts I was finding quite
pleasing when I listened to accent tapes
where one person is demonstrated
demonstrating 17 different accents and
you go well impressive impressive
impressive and they get to the
Australian and you go nah I've not met
one American person that can do nosey
accent very slightly this one included
to understand the intricacies of the
Aussie accent we have to take a look at
how it was born the Australian accent
started more than 200 years ago in
January 1788 when the first European
settlement landed Aboriginal Australians
were already here at the time of course
but English was a foreign language to
them the first colonies of Australia
mainly came from the southeastern
England Ireland Scotland and Wales it
was the children of these colonists who
would have created the Australian accent
these children had their parents accents
but also would have been influenced by
the other children around them by the
1830s these different sounds caused a
new and distinct accent to emerge even
as late as the mid 1900s you can still
hear that British influence but over
time those traits decreased as people
embrace the astre
over a million live in Sydney another
million and Melbourne so perhaps the
year the nicest thing of all is this
recent innovation by the commercial
banking company of Sydney that's a
little card that brings you instant cash
we've been wandering up and down little
Collins Street now for about five
minutes and whilst a lot of people
noticed I was carrying a gun what was
amazing was very few of them seemed
concern oh your concern let your script
as you're useless unless you're scripted
you're usually sorry I mr. Keating
anyway this constant change has involved
the accent into what we know today as
Australian English so why is it so hard
for others to get right I think it's
because of that familiarity so your
brain will always these are walking for
patterns it's always looking for things
that it already knows take for example
Robert Kazinsky he is a British actor
playing an Australian character in
Pacific Rim you two are a goddamn
disgrace you're gonna get us all killed
here's the finger early I want to come
back from this mission and it ends up
sort of sounding what what kind of oh we
acquired a cockney sort of thing that
people do and you think that's what your
brain is hearing your brain is hearing
that pattern and then grouping it all
together compared to something like this
you don't care about me I don't even
know me there are therapies we know are
effective right now like forsythia and
they don't even appear on the CDC
website
imagine the pain they must be in not
knowing where I am now before you get
all defensive in the comments no there
is no one Australian accent
there are three general groupings of the
accent cultivated broad and general
without spoiling it ends with
possibility and ease this bike from the
bookshop in bwak Queensland but nowadays
those definitions aren't really adequate
as we've shifted towards a more general
accent a better way to group the accent
would be standard Australian Aboriginal
English and ethno-cultural Australian
English sometimes we take those things
for granted
Helen picked a good spot near the water
and spent the morning surfing and
relaxing in the Sun that last one
reflects the fact that everyone has an
idiot your own accent is shaped by the
history of where you've lived and who've
grown up with so we all sound a bit
different from each other but there are
plenty of common traits and you learn
over time in Australian to talk without
moving your top lip because if you open
your mouth the fly's going maybe because
he's a New Zealander but that's not
quite right the back of the mouth at
least should be really open so you can
feel like you're almost sitting on the
edge of your seat looking down a little
bit like you're feeling like you're
looking over the edge of something and
that's going to lift your tongue up at
the back and give you that warm kind of
bright quality that that really
distinguishes this accent if you don't
know a lot of Australian sort of talking
like that you don't hear that kind of
dull what we call a D nasal sound
Australia's are much more likely to have
a level of nose ality Sharia where we
all go up at the end of every sentence
because we're all too insecure to
actually make a statement so when people
are actually making a statement but
they're actually going up in tubes as
they're talking to you and you know you
may notice that quite a lot but again it
doesn't happen everywhere it's not a
distinguishing characteristic but it is
a trait which American speakers for
example would have to learn and finally
what's that last one again the
hesitations down which is a really
really good way of figuring out how
someone's mouth works in a different
accent or language ah that's it
so to note that's where the Australian
tongue rests is hugely helpful for like
if I'm late for school so if I'm doing
like a Scottish accent I'm like that's
their hesitation sound which is really
high and forward in and takes a lot of
effort for us but that's where their
tongue rests so for them them to just
drop back to ah gives you a sense of the
whole landscape that you're working with
and there are plenty of other common
traits like our lack of enunciation and
our things on your flow but who knows
with technology connecting us to other
cultures and ways of speaking maybe in a
hundred years will sound totally
different so it's interesting to see
that maybe we might have more of an
American influence coming in and less of
a British influence but where that takes
us oh hi there thanks for watching
before this video ends it's important to
mention that learning any accent is a
difficult task and sometimes actors
aren't given enough time to learn an
accent before a busy production period
so while they might have been able to do
the accent offset they weren't able to
do it on set maybe or maybe they were
really just bad
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