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Do people from Australia and New Zealand have different accents? |
Travel Info Do people from Australia and New Zealand have different accents? Travel Tips Yes...some people who speak with more "refined" accents are harder to pick up, even for us locals, but there are distinct words like aussies say " good" kinda like "goud", fish is "feesh", six as "sex", chips as "cheeps" and words like dance and chance..hhmmm hard to say, its shorter vowels...in New Zealand we say those words like the British I guess saying more "charnce" and "darnce". NOT everyone in New Zealand says "sux" "fush" "chups" its again less "dramatic" as that...although I admit when I lived in England and heard the kiwi accent I could hear things like "wund" for wind etc....ie its the "i" that is dramatic vowel, but we in general have shorter vowels than english accent. I got hasseled all the time for ben, glen, pen, and yes when they thought I was saying bin, glin pin and yis!!! I think the aussie accent might be similar in that respect. You have to be in each country for a week or so to pick up on the differences...usually you can tell an aussie accent within a sentence....I personally find it "harsher" and more nasaly and its mocked here like our "kayway uccunt us hussled over in oz".... Others YES rolf harris rachel hunter have different acents yes very. I have freinds from both Yes, we Australians do have a different accent to the New Zealanders. Often people from other countries can't tell but Aussies and Kiwis always know. Example: Aussies say - fish and chips Kiwis say - fush and chups A Kiwi would probably dispute that but that's the way it sounds to us. YES Yes... they're similar but not exactly the same. To most Americans they sound almost the same but they're somewhat different. But if you're from Australia you can tell if someone's from New Zealand and vice versa. Yes definately. Just listen to people from the different countries. It's like the difference from the north to the south here. |
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