New Zealand Accent Tip | 21 Accents 

When she switched back to American I was like holy crap

Why am I watching this? 😂 I'm from New Zealand and already have one 😂

I come from New Zealand and if you used that accent in New Zealand I would swear you were a New Zealander. You would fool everyone!

Wow I am so impressed. I have never heard any non-Kiwis who could grasp the Kiwi accent that way. She obviously has a fantastic ear for sounds and the way she could switch between Aussie and Kiwi was equally impressive.

Good grief! I just found out that you are American lol. Your New Zealand accent is better than mine and I am a kiwi.

As a New Zealander can I just say how satisfying it was to hear that 'good' - you nailed it!

Thanks for being the first impersonator that did not say we say "fush and chups"

God knows how I ended up watching a 5minute long video on somebody impersonating my accent but FINALLY somebody got it right! haha Nice job!

Omg you totally nailed our accent lol. It's crazy how you just switch between accents. Amazing!

First American I have ever seen do a truly great NZ accent. Its extremely rare for anyone to be able to do a New Zealand accent and i think coming from the American tonality its even harder than say a Brit or Australian. well done. I'm from Auckland so i can tell this is not some cheap parlor trick accent this is a very well crafted precise accent you have built.

This has to be the best New Zealand accent I have heard from a non-New Zealander! Nice!!

So good . I am originally from the UK and have been living in New Zealand for 10 years, spending the last 6 as an actor. I have a kiwi speaking audition coming up today and this has really helped. It's hard work, but thanks again Amy for the valuable advice!

She does accents so well I have no idea which one she is!

Best impression of a New Zealand accent ever! So many people in the States tried to have a go at doing my accent but always ended up sounding like a mashup of Australian and South African...

I'm Australian so I've heard so many Kiwi accents and can always pick one, and you just do it perfectly. I've never heard anyone do the Australian or Kiwi accents so well. I'm absolutely amazed. You just sound so natural and then you suddenly speak in an American accent and it's crazy!

The fact you have the "I" sound down is amazing, not a lot of non kiwis can get that sound correct they tend to pronounce it like an Aussie which to us sound like an "E"

There are so many different sub-accents within NZ. There's a southland one, a Waikato one, an Auckland/Wellington one, and even a cricket one. The accent Amy shows us here is very much a "New Zealand Broadcaster" accent. It's so good it's quite surreal. The part that really gets me is at 3:57 when she says "ok?". The infliction and everything is absolutely perfect.

First video of yours i've seen, was entire convinced you were just speaking your own accent. Very good job!

Your smile is truly heart touching.

omg nailed it. This is the best I've seen a non local do. The accent though is kind of more a West Auckland though. Still, really impressive :)

She hit the mark on our coffee ordering process. New Zealanders certainly take time to stop and smell the roses :)

very accurate... I like the NZ accent.

Awesome! My husband is from New Zealand, and also lived in Australia, and thinks you're accents for those countries are spot on. He didn't believe me when I told him you were from here (the US). Keep up the great teachings!

Congruent with your note about the way Kiwis order in a coffee shop or whatever, I've noticed in my watching of American, New Zealander, Australian, and Canadian cooking shows (Masterchef, mainly) that Kiwis seem to be culturally the nicest people. We say that Canadians have a pathological cultural niceness, but I've not noticed much of a difference in the behavior of ordinary Canadians from the behavior of ordinary Americans on such shows, and even the Australians don't seem that vastly different, but the New Zealanders seem just utterly sweeter, friendlier, and nicer to each other than any of the other English-speaking contestants. Of course I know it's a TV show, and it's dangerous to generalize too much, and so forth, but within the culture of the show and the contest, there's quite a discernible difference.

Wow, the way you switch accents is incredible to hear. It sounds so natural... Like when someone affects an accent you can usually always tell it is put on but with you it is just so seamless, so awesome!

Damn..the way you just switch accents like that. Awesome!

What she says about New Zealand pleasantries is so true! I didn't realize it fully until she explained it. We had a guy from NZ working here in the Midwest with a bunch of us Americans, and every time you saw him or he needed to consult with you about something, it wasn't just a "Hey, I've a question for you" and etc. It was, "Hey, how's it going?" And he would come about to the point of consultation so gently and sweetly that it made you feel like you were his best friend.

Not many people can put on the Kiwi accent but you're really good !!!!

This sounds perfect. Got the New Zealand accent down!

Wow Amy, you are amazing! I've never heard someone so flawlessly switch between accents so accurately!

Amy that was perfect! Your video has been shared on a popular radio station in New Zealand. Reason on all the kiwis commenting here within the last 24 hours :)

OMG, it's like you're inside my Wellingtonian head!

You sound great! I needed to learn an accent for theatre class, and you helped a lot! You're very pleasant to listen to, and your tips are very helpful. Thanks and great job!

Love these videos. Thanks for posting Amy. You're amazing!!

@ 1.02 I bet you were so proud of yourself for remembering the medical terminology. That genuine happy smile and tilt of the head back says so. Well done.

Hey, thanks for this! I study German and French and have taken phonetics & diction classes in both, and it's way easier now that I know IPA to distinguish between accents, but videos like this really help hone it in.

Amazing job done, very helpful, thanks for sharing

Amy you are incredible. I LOVE doing accents and must say am pretty good at them. But that is a New Zealand accent that is probably better than mine! And I was born raised and live here! It is my accent! I am also glad to see that your approach seems similar to mine except you are able to explain. Embody the accent. I just imagine my self as being from that place and do that.

I don't normally watch things posted on my wall on Facebook but this certainly peaked my interest. As a Kiwi I have to say that you have nailed this as about as perfectly as you can. Well done.

I LOVE this channel! Keep going!!! Love from NYC!

Very impressive example of the middle register (perhaps higher) of the urban kiwi accent. Enjoyed it very much. Loved all of the little tidbits (moolk/milk, flowuh/floor, ketch'n/kitchen, 'vehnts/events).

You nailed kiwi AND Aussie accent. Brilliant! I’m Aussie and u transitioned seamlessly between the 3 accents!

Haha I'm from wellington too, I know exactly where you worked your accent is so perfect you sound so normal, it shocked me when you started talking in your normal accent !

Thank you so much for this video! I'm a student and I have a course on different accents and varieties of English. And gosh was I lost with this one! As a foreign speaker I find English accents hard to notice/find the differences, but your videos are very helpful xx

Thank you sooooo much for this video! I had a voice acting audition sent to me by my agent that called for a New Zealand accent. I almost passed it up, as I didn’t feel confidant. But after watching this video, it all made more sense. I went for it, sent my audition in, and very quickly received an email back from my agent saying, “Chris, good to know you can do a convincing New Zealand accent!” A thousand thank you’d for sharing your expertise and breaking it down in such a clear and concise way. 🙏🏾 Wishing you the very best!

Starting the video in a kiwi accent was great. actually thought you could be a kiwi yourself. so refreshing to hear it done with respect and not overexaggerating.

Wow that's spot on! You're good as! Forwarding this to all my Canadian friends.

Wow. You're really really good. Most people just make us sound like slightly softer Aussies. Well Done! Love it

I love how all the Kiwis myself included get satisfaction from somebody getting our accent right

Brilliantly crafted. Just wow

sinnerlanj = center lounge plizzin trees = pleasantries tep : tip tep wuttuh : water you get from the sink

Every country has its own accent which brings an extra flavour to the language. Travelling in England, a Kiwi girl told me that the English gave her a strange look after hearing her accent. But I love the accent though I am not a Kiwi.

Gold Lounge! Yeah man. Crazy times.

WOW, such a good video, the best one i have seen yet. Also she's really nice, where as other people just complete make fun of our accent

Your Aussie and NZ accents were both bang on. I legit thought you were kiwi first, then I thought you were Aussie when you switched! Well done!

this is probably the most accurate video of a non-Kiwi doing a kiwi accent, man I swear if people saw you around in the country people would think you were a kiwi

I'm very impressed with how much you've nailed the accent. Good work 👌

I think I need to learn more about the accent from you in NZ (Christchurch). :) Nice video.

This is so true. Kiwis like to exchange niceties before they actually discuss what they are after whether it's a face to face or phone based conversation. They are very polite, generally. They would always say, "Yes, please." or let your pass car with a big smile or let you use an unconsumed parking ticket.

Beautiful. The lesson was good too!

Can I just love you now Amy lol (one of the lines from my pleasantry arsenal haha joking) you really brought this accent across like you actually have it! I am born and bred in New Zealand :) living in the main city haha so surprised at how well you've brought it across! 99.9% there. Liked and subscribed, you awesome Amy you.

You're really good! Thanks for doing these.

First class instruction. I think that I have bought movie tickets from you, Amy, while you lived in Wellington! Ships passing in the night...

not sure how well she did with the new zealand accent bc i'm american, but from what it sounds like she's amazing!! plus i watched her vid on american accents and she nailed mine (midwestern). i live near STL so it's a little more dialed back but the smaller cities sound JUST like her impression. impressions are a true talent!!

its amazing how you can just switch it up lol love it thumbs up

Can't believe you only have 575k subscribers. Forget the linguistic talent, you deserve 5M just for your gorgeous smile!😍

spot on. not just the accent, which was very very guhd, but also the tendency towards banter before transactions. my mum does that heaps. well-observed and thanks for the hint of home.

I'm a south islander kiwi and you were doing the north island accent.

This is probably one of the very few New Zealand accents I've ever heard attempted correctly. Well done

People don't know that a kiwi is a bird?

I'm genuinely impressed by this. I love doing accents, I'm a bit of a parrot, and my mum is Aussie, dad is a New Zealander with a very neutral accent. I've mastered a few accents, to the point where people can ask me to do a specific region of South Africa, Republic of Ireland or Northern England (I can't figure out Manchester or Newcastle though. Geordie is just incomprehensible). But even though I've got Kiwi blood in me, and I've been to New Zealand more often than anywhere else, I could never wrap my head around the accent. I always got stuck on the way the "i" becomes a "u" sound. My cousins would make fun of me if I dared to try my version of the accent, but I'd swear at them in German, which normally put a stop to that. Anyway this video, 9 years old be damned, might help me practice my NZ vocals. Thank you!

sooo spot on!

Very good !! Thanks

is that what we speak like? O.O

Yep, you nailed it really well.

I lived there for a year. She is brilliantly accurate. Love her green eyes

As a Kiwi, what a wonderful video! I was looking for the right words to describe the Kiwi accent to an American and this was great :D

That was absolutely bang on. I wonder if you could do the different Kiwi accents. For example although I do mostly sound like that accent, it is very much a North Island accent. Have you tried a Southland accent? We roll our 'R's heavily and it produces what I would call 'thick words' which I know sounds odd.

It's amazing how different can be... Ty

Amazing, You nailed it.

So good! Well done!

I'm a NZer and I say Amy's reproduction of NZ accent/speech is indistinguishable from the genuine article. Extraordinary

One thing I noticed about New Zealand, is that in Aukland, a lot of people say their i's like a really sharp "i" sound, really like and "eee" sound just shortened right down (similar to a white south african Johannesburg accent). But some accents it's more of a short "e" sound, and others it's the more typical "u" sound, like "fush and chups".

I noticed that the "Kiwi" accent is very light and articulate, an sound that has a dance like quality; the Aussie accent is very chill and heavy.

Wow youre real good at this!!

Awesome you totes nail it Amy.

Kiwi here! You absolutely nailed it! At first I thought you were an actual New Zealander!

Hey I live in Wellington and have always gone to the Readings Gold Lounge for like the last 12 years at least.

The fluidity in which you switched from New Zealand to Australian to American broke my brain

Amazing how when switching accents the whole face changes as different facial muscles are used.

I AM SERIOUSLY MIND BLOWN! AMY YOU SLAY!

This is pretty much the Auckland accent only haha...

I'm from Palmerston North..New Zealand and would love to see the States one day!!!

Wow u are spot on! good job!

Thank you mate I was about to move to New Zealand

my goodness. It's impossible not to instantly adore this woman! She does completely nail the accent, but what she really gets right is the 'pleasantries'... and it is really cute... at least until you're in a hurry in a supermarket and spot the shortest checkout queue only to wait while the nanna in front of you takes 10 minutes to purchase her bottle of milk and denture adhesive, and makes the checkout girl an honorary granddaughter.

I'm a kiwi, your kiwi accent is PERFECT. you fooled me! well done I'm really impressed

Im an aussie who's dated a Kiwi for 2 years.Someone just asked me if Im a kiwi, Ive just realised I've picked up the accent. Shit.

Wow when did you work in the Cinelounge? I worked at Readings for 7 years 2002-2009. What a small world.

Hello! This was great, very informative, I've been wondering about New Zealand accents for a while, so this was really helpful. I wanted to know if you have or could possibly do a Welsh accent? North or South, but I was thinking just a standard Welsh accent, since that's what I'm trying to master right now. Thanks!