I love how the kiwi is able to understand the Aussie. So accurate. They're like the only people that truly understand Aussie slang and don't need you to explain it to them.
The fact that I'm Australian and it was so easy to know what the dude said in an Australian accent is amazing since he had a pretty strong accent in my opinion 😊
Australians grow up surrounded with American accents on media and popular culture. So we can understand yanks and their slang quite easily but they arent surrounded by Aussie culture so have difficulty with ours. Even when strictly trying to speak non Aussie English to them I had difficulty when I was in the US., outside urban areas us Australians became curiosities for the way we spoke. I now know never to ask for milk with coffee. I tried that in Mcdonalds over there and I ended up being the entertainment for the whole restaurant. A. They dont do milk with coffee, its "haf and haf" apparently, which is a tiny little cream thing about the size of a tomato sauce sachet. B. They couldnt understand what "malk" was.
They laughed at you for asking for MILK?! Jesus, people are weird. The Maccas (That and drongo are the only slang words I know in Aussie) by my house use milk in their machines, and I'm in New York.
There are lots of accents here in the States too. Not everyone speaks with a "neutral" California-like American accent. The Northeastern accent (New York, NJ, Mass.) in particular is the strongest one. Take a listen to Fran Drescher and see. She sounds nothing like Katy Perry.
I love how the Americans in these types of vids never use slang. They always just use the most basic English - like they came straight outta just learned English from Duolingo
I sat next to an Australian couple once on a flight from Cancun. Thought they were speaking a different language for like a whole hour before I realized.
I knew Arizona was hot but until I checked your temperatures I was amazed. The consistency of the heat , over 45 degrees Celsius basically every day of summer is fukin shocking. Western Sydney has a 30 degree average in summer but it's been 49 degrees Celsius officially making it the hottest place anywhere for a day. Only because you guys where in winter. How do you live in such a stinking hot place? I don't care about it being dry heat because when it's 110 Fahrenheit everything you touch is hot. I live in a sub tropical climate and I love having 20 degrees our winter average. Similar to you guys I believe although it can be colder than Sydney and then the next week I see it can be warmer than Sydney. Similar average but you guys have Less stable weather.
Well western Sydney has been the hottest place on earth two years ago. 48.9 . Outback or Parramatta, when it's 40+ it's hard to tell the difference. Haha. I'm living on the mid north coast N.S..W and it's not as hot as western Sydney. I went to Bali for a week in January and it was fukin hot predictably. I didn't get sunburn suprisingly. Anyway I return to the western suburbs and I went to the foot of the blue mountain's to a lake Bents Basin. Anyway it was 45 bloody degrees that day. I got burnt and it was hotter than Bali. It's apparently worse than you think because you have the buildings and streets and Less tree's and Sydney is in a basin and the heat gets trapped. But Penrith was the hottest place anywhere for a day. Because the northern hemisphere was in winter. The south west of the U.S.A ie Arizona state and Nevada and southern California desert which includes the hottest place on earth regularly, death valley gets over 50 often. And Phoenix Arizona or Las Vegas are 45+ degrees Celsius for the whole summer. I'm talking every fukin day over 40 degrees and regularly high bloody 40's. Humidity is a bugger mate. I've heard people from Broken Hill and Dubbo for example complain big time about the humidity. Anyway I'm from Western Sydney and it's a hotter climate than Sydney that you see on the national news weather. We went on holidays for a week years ago in the 80's in January. Anyway our western Sydney house was closed up. Greystanes if you know. Well we had candles on the piano and all 6 were bent over from the heat. They actually melted enough to be the shape of a limp dick. That's hot!
I'm Aussie and I understood everything very clearly. I can also detect the difference between accents from all over the US. I can also detect the subtle difference between Canadian and Minnesotan accents. That's because we Australians were subjected to US movies and sitcoms through the years. I also had expats from Canada and US in my hockey team who made up almost half the team (a bit less these days). When I travelled around US & Canada I didn't have any issue understanding them but I had to speak slower than usual for them to understand me.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive I think that the vast majority of US movies and sitcoms are gibberish with no real substance to them. I don't find the mainstream movie and sitcom offerings all that entertaining; as you mentioned it's targeted at the lowest common denominator, possibly aimed at an IQ of 80. My preference is documentaries. I have watched a lot of documentaries over the past 40 years. Good documentaries show life as it is and is devoid of Hollywood's meddling. I have watched docos from all parts of the world, and especially a lot on isolated communities across the US & Canada. I didn't have any difficulty understanding what people were saying, for example I watched several Appalachian docos and didn't have any issue understanding the people who spoke their version of English. Some of the terms that were used were a mystery until I worked it out within the context, or was explained, or I looked it up (the magic of the Internet).
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive Don't over-estimate the 'abilities' of your fellow Americans. In my 70+ years I've travelled in, lived in and worked in MANY countries around the world where I have met, associated with and worked with MANY Americans from all over the USA and from various walks of life. I've never experienced any difficulty understanding any American I've ever met and have often astonished them by correctly identifying (at least areasonably closely) where in the USA they were from. Other than those I've met within Aus, Americans have RARELY identified my accent as Australian. Even within Aus I've usually been ASKED am I Australian. When outside Aus I've often been 'insulted' by being asked am I English.
@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive Californian surfer accent aint too hard to pick up imo. Southern hillbillies can definitely be hard though. I'm sure it's the same for many Americans that aren't from the deep south as well. Never heard of new york "italian" accents but It's probably an ethnoclect like the Greek-Australian or Lebo-Australian accents. Honestly, the guy in the video has a strong accent, but it's still relatively normal here in Australia. If you hear real deep wog talk in more rural Australia, it's pretty similar to a mixture between hillbilly and british accent which is pretty hard to understand.
Can you imagine how hard to understood our slang if they didn't slow down for the video? I absolutely pissed myself when he then separated the words out and the yank still didn't get it.
If you try to talk to someone from Baltimore or Philadelphia you would probably have a stroke trying to understand them lol it’s not even words half the time just a string of noises and they will fully expect you to understand
I'm born and raised in Georgia USA. Gotta show this to my Aussie friend. Especially when the Southern guy comes in and says "hey y'all" to the Aussie and the Kiwi.
Hahaha fuck I literally had this with a dude in Bali today, he was from L.A and we were both being tattooed, so I said "how ya travelling?" In regards to the pain and he said "yeah we're travelling, I'm from L.A" 😂
@bbqpringlesha it means like "how are you going?" Or it can mean how have you been, but usually it's said to check on the progress of your current task, like if you were painting a room for me I'd come in and say how ya travelling? To see how far along you are with it
Worked with an Australian and they hit me with “let’s hit up the servo to get a sausage roll for smoke-o tommorow arvo.” It’s like he’s trying to communicate with me, I know it…
Yeah fuck yeah mate. Fucken oath. Strange how we got our own kinda language in a way but fucken hell it’s just easier to speak like that. Goin for a piss up is a lot easier than saying let’s go and drink at your place
I'm in America right now from Australia. I'm in Florida and I've had a few Americans not understand me. I'm like wtf! We are both talking English what's wrong with ya! 😂😂😂
Travelled in Indonesia last year and taught a new friend there how to pronounce “how’s it goin’ mate”in Australian slang. Took him a while but in the end I was rolling on the ground when he started nailing it.….
Oh mate! me Moroccan when i was learning English at the American language center in Tangier, Morocco. I had a Kiwi who was teaching us English she didn't mention anything like this 😂
Haha my old roommate (Canadian) as am I, told me the first interaction he had on a student exchange in Australia was ‘how you goin?’ He was so confused if asking how he was or where he was going lolol
Not even google can translate our songs (cut n paste not edited): Well I'm fair dinkum, bloody oath I am I've loved the smell of gum leaves since I was in a pram Some places might be greener but I don't give a damn 'Cause I'm fair dinkum, bloody oath I am - wonderful Now I was in the doctors just the other day He told me take an asprin, the pain would go away So I pulled out my cheque book, 'cause sickness doesn't pay I said are you fair dinkum - what did the doctor say He said, ah-sore, I'm fair dinkum, bloody oath I am I've loved the smell of gum leaves since I was in a plam Some places might be gleener but I don't give a damn 'Cause I'm fair dinkum, ah-sore, bloody oath I am (I said "could you recomend a nice little chinese restaurant") Then I whistled down a taxi-cab and headed for the east A bad case of munchies, I was ready for a feast The driver said Indian, I said ah well, I'd rather not He said why don't you cummaround to my place, my curry's rather hot I said are you fair dinkum He said, oh I'm fair dinkum, bloody oath I am I love the smell of gum leaves since I was in a bram Some places might be greener but I don't give a damn 'Cause I'm fair dinkum, oh-oh-oh bloody oath I am Well I tipped the nice cabby so he wouldn't make a fuss I shot out like a bullet and I grabbed the Bondi bus I said take me to the waves mate, I'm dyin' for a dip He said nah, you be ver carful, and watch you don't slip Are you fair dinkum He said ah, by gum, I'm fair dinkum, bloody oath I arm Ive luvved the smell of gum leaves since I was in a brarm Some places might be greener but I don't give a darm 'Cause I'm fair dinkum, aye, bloody oath I am Well everybody's claimin' Australia as there own im no aborigine so i wont point the bone it shows good tase, mate, so i shouldnt moan if you've got a problem get Al Grasby on the phone yea were fair dinkum bloody oath we are we all love koalas and sing around the bar and con somebody's missus to drive the flamin' car yea were fair dinkum bloody oath we are give me a home were life is what you make were i can walk about, just for walkin' sake were i can tell our leaders to go jump in the lake but i'll never knock Australia you make no mistake yea im fair dinkum bloody oath i am i've loved the smell of gum leaves since i was in a pram some places might be greener but i dont give a dam coz im fair dinkum bloody oath i am yea im fair dinkum bloody oath i am i've loved the smell of gum leaves since i was in a pram some places might be greener but i dont give a dam coz iiiiim faaaiiir diiiiinkum bloooodyy oath i aaaaaaaam! - John Williamson [I'm Fair Dinkum]
Im from northern England this is funny as shit , I was on my jollies in Italy and some Americans asked if I was Australian 😂 I sound like Sean Bean for Christs sake. 😂
Yorkshire or Lancashire? I'm from western Sydney. You like Rugby league? I love it. Love watching the English super league. Love the supporters ooop north!!!!
As an aussie, I can confirm all of these are an exaggerated version of the truth XD the seatbelt one though, fr today I tried touching my book that was in the sun for a while I got a 3rd degree burn /hj
That's right, it is slightly exaggerated, however you do get blokes & woman that speak this way in many areas, not just outside the city. Its known as (Ock-a) sorry about spelling if wrong. It's a way of speaking, slang type, with usually a lot of swearing during that conversation too. 😅 Quite normal for us over ere. ✌️😎🇦🇺👍😅
The seatbelt thing is so real, one of my partner's friends has (no joke) a permanent brand on his chest from where he leaned into the seat buckle while he was putting it on.
Me as Indonesian visit bali,and Australian tourist pointing to workers and talking so fast . "Is he talk English ?" then,my friend explain to me if he talking about the concrete quality is bad if they're want to build a house
Really, C'mon. Lol 😅 Americans can't be that stupid (I'm not being a smartarse to Yanks, btw, love em, great people) but yeah, we have a semi-strong accent, mixed with slang, but that's like me as an Aussie trying to work out a Scottish accent! It's not easy, but it's definitely not that difficult to quickly catch on! To edit my comment tho - He is talking really fast, does make it harder. If I'm wrong, let me know & I'll rest my case. 😀 🇦🇺✌️💙 😎
Now, I'm loosing my mind..... Victorians, Tasmanians, New Zealanders.... all the same, can't take em anywhere. North Queensland is where living begins....
Interesting. The belt buckle reminded me of growing up in Western Sydney and accidentally or intentionally being burnt by the bludger of a rhing. So have a nice day all you Seppos out there (septic tank - Yank). When visiting Australia watch out for the magpies and the snakes and the sharks and the rips when at the beach and sun burn and I gotta mention that if visiting Sydney, the biggest and best City down under remember that especially in summer if you travel inland where the majority of the people live Google western Sydney for your weather forecast. Its always at least 5 degrees Celsius hotter than the CBD or beaches. Its actually been officially the hottest place on Earth for a day. Plus its a humid bastard place if in the low 30' s. If 40 or more its basically the desert . You'll experience amazing thunder storms and possibly bushfires or flooding. I'd visit at the end of winter. September. First month of spring. Here's the last year's temperatures. From first to 30th 21, 20, 19,22,24,23,28,23,18,20,20,23,26, 30, 32,33,34,34,34,34,26,24,20,20,24, 27,28,25,30,31
The odd thing is I can understand what he's saying, but I don't know the slang too well. I understand him because Texan accents to me sound similar, so it doesn't sound off to me. Although certain words common in Australia such as mate, oi, taking the piss, etc. is actually common slang here as well. side-note: that y'all was painful to hear, it did not sound very natural XD
Once I've seen a meme saying that australian accent is actually a british texan. What I'm familiar with is how british accent sound like and boy oh boy I do hear the resemblance between aussie and british, but not the texan one. But since there's another uniqueness going on with aussie accent that I can't pinpoint, a part of me do believe that the texan accent might play a role in it.
i geuss if one had to make a comparison its the drawl aussies drawl when they speak and so do texans and the accent is twangy so in that sence of the word calling it british texan is fitting.
I study English in American way my whole life and I also speak in American accent, I can relate this😂 i don’t understand much the Aussie accent he is speaking.it’s hard to understand Australian accent for me,so I can pretty relate to American guy😂
