The 3 Australian Accents: General, Cultivated & Broad | Australian Pronunciation

I’m Australian. Why am I watching this

His hair is on the wrong end of his head.

Every Aussie gets the broad accent when they're at the "cut it out" stage of mad.

My first English teachers were Aussies and they taught us the "posh accent". I was really shocked when our headmaster displayed his skills in the Broad accent.

For all u guys saying his hair is on the wrong end, it's not, just down under

I find a lot of us speak all 3- Cultivated at work, General in public and Broad with our friends whilst drinking ;)

The Aussie accent has also changed quite a bit in the last 40 years. If you see footage from back in the 60's and 70's, the accent was very strong compared to now. Even in "Dogs In Space" the '86' film set in Melbourne, the accents are bizarrely strong. We seem to be toning down our accents for some reason.

I have twin girls in their 30s, one had pronunciation issues when very young, and had speech therapist help for two years. She ended up with a posh accent, it is a very mechanical, thought through word delivery. Everyone else in the household has a broad accent. .

I have a condition where I unconsciously adopt other people’s accents. I’m Australian, so I watch this to reset my voice. Thank you.

As an Australian, I can confirm while most Australians have a general accent pretty much everyone can also use a broad accent, which for me accidentally slips out every now and then

Was in Perth for a year and a half, and I super fell in love with the Aussie accent(s). One thing I noticed, the Aussie accent sounds lively, casual and friendly... one thing that has stuck to me til today and has had a profound influence on me and how I like to try and speak English myself ❤

as a teenage aussie living on the sunny coast i have to admit even sometime i get blown away by how cultured someone's accent is 😭 i will even say, "that is the most aussie accent i have ever heard."

As an American, I find the Australian accent sounds fun loving and a little tongue-in-cheek. I like it a lot. Thanks for explaining the cultured variant. I was always confused by Ms Fisher and Dr Blake in their respective TV shows. To me they sounded British (but not quite). This gives me a greater appreciation for the richness of Australian culture.

English is my second language (living in England for a third of my life) but I’m quite good at spotting accents! However, the posh Australian tricks me into thinking it’s a British accent some times! (Kate Blanchet is a great example). Cool vid! Thank u!

I’m Aussie my accent is a mix between general and broad. I grew up in a rural area but it wasn’t too far inland so I sustained a general accent too. My accent flips between the two depending on my emotions and who I’m talking to. If I’m in a casual setting I go bogan but if I’m in a professional setting my accent flips to general. It also flips when I’m angry I go full bogan when I’m angry.

I'm homeschooling our 15 year old son. This entire past term we spent history studying only Australia. He has produced a final document that is 60 pages long. One topic we covered was Australian accents. This was one of the videos I used to teach him our 3 main accents. Thanks heaps!

Everyone just thinks the Aussie accent is just G'daye Mayte! Crawykee!

Kylie Minogue once tried to explain how to get an Australian accent "Imagine that you're smiling and squinting towards the sun while talking". (Not an exact quote but something to that effect)

Love this kind of videos. As a Hispanic, I found quite interesting how English intonation (or accent) varies based on geography. I’ve always struggle to understand British accents, especially those from Ireland but with Aussie accent I can deal 99% of times. Don’t get me wrong, with the Broad I do need subtitles on :( hopefully I can mastered before visiting Australia. Much love from Puerto Rico to you all guys🇵🇷

This is a good leaping off point. Every part of Australia has these base accents, but there are definitely regional variations too that are hard to describe in writing. There is a definite Britishness to Perth and Adelaide accents. There is also regional variations on the way people say pool, school, dance, castle in different parts of Australia that can help you place a person’s background if not actual origin. There are also hyper local socioeconomic class based accents like the posh Balmain accent. There is also an equivalent accents for posh Melbournians (the actors from Kath and Kim do a great version of this with their other characters Prue and Trude). In general though accent difference is something more obvious to a local. I think our accent has been homogenised because our population isn’t that big and there is a lot of moving interstate for work. I’m from Canberra where a good chunk of the population is from interstate and I think it has the effect of averaging out our local accent. In addition to accent differences there are word usage differences like beer glass sizes (pot, schooner, midi etc.) and what you call a swim suit (cossie, bathers, togs, swimmers etc). But for the most part people will be able to cope with a different word usage.