How long do you have to live in Australia before you get an australian accent?

Question

im american (michigan) and i am going to go to college in Australia.

Answer 1

You have to grow up here.  Accents are cultivated in growing years.  Adults that move to other countries may drop vowels and lose some of their native accent over time, but it always be with them.

You will sound like a yank when you get here and when you leave.

Answer 2

im fron u.k and was there for a year. The ozzys still thought i had a welsh accent but when i came home every1 thought i ha ozzy accent"

Answer 3

Better get started then.

Repeat after mye.....I want a Pye and source.

First you must learn "Strine" language.

Then you can goto a B&S ball in the Outback and root a bushpig in the back of your ute!

(Yanks have no idea, thankfully. ROTFLMBO)

Answer 4

That is determined by how long you are willing to work to DEVELOP an Australian accent.

I attended college in an area where the accents were VERY different, but never lost my native sound to something else.

So it's really just about deciding if you want to work towards it and asking for some help to develop it.

Answer 5

You are a American so you will never have the full blown Australian accent. But you will develop a hybrid accent of the consist of you native accent and that of Australia. The longer you live here the more prominent you Australian accent will be but you will never have the complete Australian accent. You need to be born here and live here during your upbringing to get that.

Answer 6

Probably within a few months you will sound Australian to your friends back in the US. You will sound American to most Australians for at least a few years, and probably for the rest of your life.

Answer 7

you won't get one.

but if you do come down we'll be able to teach you how to put one on properly.

I have a American friend that moved here when he was 11. he still sounds like a yankee.