How can you learn to talk in an Australian accent if you have an American accent?

Question

How can you learn to talk in an Australian accent if you have an American accent?

Answer 1

just do it mate! lol idk i just say it

Answer 2

yer i thin with any place if ur around the ppl for long enough than it will rub off lol i dnt no why u would wanna sound like an aussie americans sound hott lol good luck with that

Answer 3

Live in Australia for years. It'll rub off

Answer 4

it will be hard because you have an american accent,if you know english accent it would be easier,but practice alot,make australians friends.

Answer 5

practice!

Answer 6

if you go to australia you will pick it up or just listen to australian people talk and just practice it. Its really easy once you get the hand of it to talk with different accents its also fun to trick people!!

Answer 7

haha

oh please dont.

Answer 8

If you're around an australian person, or in an australian area long enough, you'll eventually begin to pick up on it.

i've moved from kentucky, to michigan and lost my southern accent within two years.

Answer 9

yea it just takes practice

Answer 10

Practice.  

Answer 11

drink lots of Foster's. you'll be having an australian accent soon enough...

Answer 12

It just takes a lot of practice, but you should pay attention to the way they say certain sounds.  Like how they say Australia is different than how we say it, but you should also learn their phrases.  Watch the crocodile hunter on animal planet!

Answer 13

Very few Australians actually sound like Steve Irwin, the majority sound like the majority of the America (not the red neck accent but the European import accent gone old), very plain and not much of an accent, i would say we dont have accents but everyone one had an accent. But knowing Americans they will stuff even this simple task up :P

Answer 14

with great difficulty - I find Americans have great trouble with my accent

Shorten your vowel sounds, run your words together a bit more, don't accentuate your rs (we have non-rhotic rs), relax and make it more nasal. Also, don't copy the simpsons - their accents are terrible!!!

Oh and real Aussies don't drink Fosters!!! It's all about the VB or a nice Boags

Moty - close but you have some things incorrect:

Some people call it tea but a lot still call it Dinner

"words that end in the ah or oh sounds end in rrr. So no is norrr and naw is nawrrr" - That is completely incorrect. No is pretty close to the way you say it

Movies are movies, not shows. Shows are theatre shows or something

Toilet is not toit, it is dunny or toot or "the office" or the crapper or so many other terms - dunny is probably the most common of these.

Ocean is pond - not really.  You have to understand that sometimes we put on a stronger accent and use strange terms just to "take the pi$$" out of Americans - a national sport

French fries are chips.

Chips are chips too. I think Brits call em crisps but we don't

Aborigines are Aboriginals - either one really

d**n and h**l are not swear words - of course they're not hehe.

Answer 15

First, it's not just an accent, but a way of speaking. It IS English, but it's a whole different language than we speak in America.

Second, words that end in R turn to uh, as in dinner is dinnuh, oh, but they don't say dinner or dinnuh, they say tea!

Third, words that end in the ah or oh sounds end in rrr. So no is norrr and naw is nawrrr.

Fourth, we go back to the second--they have nicknames for EVERYTHING!

Dinner is tea.

Tea is a cuppa.

Mom is mum.

Bubblegum is called chewy.

A cookie is a biscuit or a bikkie.

Sweats are trackies.

Sneakers or runners.

Movies are shows.

Sweatshirts and hoodies are called jumpers.

They like the word heaps heaps. They also say massive heaps.

Breakfast is brekkie.

Friend is mate.

Toilet is toit.

Ocean is pond.

French fries are chips.

Chips are crisps.

Aboriginies are Aboriginals.

d**n and h**l are not swear words.

When making a comparison, they don't finish their sentences, as in: "Whoa, nice shirt, mate, it's cool as!"

Finally, get an Aussie friend and buy some Aussie made films--made for America DVDs, or they'll skip all over the place.

Or yes, move to Oz and stay a while.

Answer 16

Australian immersion......live there for a while.  My cousin married an Australian and has been there for 30 years.  Although people in Australia say she speaks with a Canadian accent, we think she speaks with an Australian accent.  I think she's deluding herself.  She no longer speaks "North American"!