G’day mate. I’m a native English speaker just like you, but as a hobby I enjoy learning about various English dialects especially yours. Your RU-vid channel is by the best Australian English resource I’ve come across. Plus your face shines with a lively personality and a beaming smile.
Thanks a lot . about one year I have been in TAFE for learning English , my Aussie teachers never learned me this that you did in just 8 minutes , I appreciate it .
Such a funny video! “Plant”, lol. I’m an Aussie and I never realised that we change the “a” sound before an N, but I could so hear it as you explained it. Thanks for sharing the info 😊
I really enjoy Aussie ESL videos because they make me think about my accent in a different way 😊 I think you explained the Aussie 'an' sound very well - it's partway between the American and UK sounds. Not so keen on you saying we sound like crows ... but then again, you ARE a crow-eater, aren't you? 🤣🤣
I've been told that my Australian accent sounds virtually indistinguishable from a native, which I guess is the result of one year of relentless listening to Australian media. The sound mentioned in this video was one of the hardest sounds for me to pin down getting started, and I've mastered it since. Nice to keep me on my toes with this video, though, so thanks.
@@ボイヤ-u7u It's hard for me to articulate how exactly I went about it-especially since my method of doing it is pretty idiosyncratic-but I'll try. This reply also assumes that you speak English either natively or as a second language very well, so yeah. A large part of what I did was dive straight into Australian media and listen very closely for anything for me to repeat. I didn't get down to memorizing individual phonemes and have like three examples assigned to that one phoneme-as though I were studying for a test-like how many accent learning websites format their teaching; I instead dived straight in to find the most obvious phonemes for me to latch onto. The most helpful sources for me were The Daily Talk Show, Aussie English (more specifically his "The Goss" series), 60 Minutes Australia, Economics Explained, and thejuicemedia. All of these contain people speaking with an Aussie accent at length, almost to the complete exclusion of all other accents, which gave me a lot of time and many opportunities to pick out phonemes for me to repeat after them as I'm listening. I didn't pay much attention to what they were actually saying-I don't know the first thing about economics, for example-I was more so concerned with the sounds being made for me to catch and repeat right after they say it. It's so hard to put all of this in a reply on RU-vid, but upon listening with incredibly focused attention persistently, you'll soon find yourself using the same phonemes you repeated after the speaker you were listening to. One phoneme that tripped me up a bit was the way the "o" diphthong (a pretty hard diphthong to nail on its own) mutates if it precedes a vowel in Australian English. I found myself unwittingly adopting that mutation after catching it initially and spending the next few days listening out for that one diphthong to confirm to myself the places wherein it pops up. When I hear it, I repeat it after the speaker. That's the way I did it with virtually every monophthong, diphthong, consonant, mutation, etc., that I encountered.
@@ボイヤ-u7u When it comes to speaking with a different accent spontaneously I feel like this is where people most lose the forest for the trees. I didn't focus extremely hard on every single phoneme for me to pronounce, but instead settled on imagining vividly what I want to say either before I speak or as I'm speaking. Focusing on every phoneme, I find, makes my speech sound very stilted and slow. Focusing on every phoneme as you speak usually only works after you've gotten used to the phonemes that you've picked up and practised; that's the only time it's not at all stilted. For the most part, though, vividly imagining what you're gonna say works more, as counterintuitive as it seems. Reading in the accent helps with speaking as well, and this is the only time where I'd say that scrutinizing every phoneme you utter works, since what you're going to say is already laid out for you by what you're reading. Stopping to better articulate a phoneme in case you mispronounced it works, since you don't want to go on without it having been amended and sticking out like a sore thumb down the line. Focusing hard on phonemes usually works with listening, while focusing on imagining what you're going to say works better with speaking. There's a bit more that I did, but this is about as much as I can lay down for you. You can come back to me if there's anything you don't quite get.
@@brandonvestra thanks for all the tips and pieces of advice. I'll definitely try them out and see how it turns out. Looking forward to listening to convos about economics while learning nothing about it!
A melbourne accent is very close to what I am teaching. The only difference really would be some slang words and the short 'e' sound. When a Melbournian says the word 'elf' it sounds a bit like 'alf'.
Hey Candice. Great video as always. Loving your videos dealing with the sounds, melodies, slang, and other tips. I would love to know how you go about practicing a totally new accent, though. Basically, I'm looking for structure, or a plan, let's say. I'm guessing the very first thing I need to do is to drill those individual sounds, especially the long vowel sounds. What do I do after that though? How do I up the ante to phrases, then sentences, then spontaneous speech?
Great question! Starting with the short vowel sounds is the best place to begin. The Long vowel sounds are usually a combination of the short sounds, so you need to nail those first. After that move on to letter combinations and consonants. The most important thing is that you practice every day with video/lessons like mine to focus on improving and then just start speaking with it! Even if it's not perfect, just use the accent when you go out to the shops, or chat with friends. It will be weird at first, but that's the quickest way to become fluent! Repetition and be like Nike... Just Do It. 🙃
Great video as usual. But I think worth acknowledging that many Australians, and this could be state by state issues, will say words like plant, answer, dance, differently to how Candice was pronouncing them. More like PLARNT, ARNSWER, and DARNCE. A little like parts of the UK (but not all), and certainly in the cultivated accent, think Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett. Is that fair Candice?
Totally fair. The 'ah' sound that you mention in these words is usually specific to South Australia, or even just Adelaide. I believe it's due to the history of the city (it was the 'free settlers' who arrived in Adelaide rather than the convicts) so the dialect in that region is a bit more 'posh'. The more general Aussie pronunciation of these words is as I pronounced in these videos though. :-)
@@candicemoll8386 I'm from Brissie, say the 'ah' sound I but wanted to sound like Sir Humphrey from Yes Minister growing up! :) So some self-cultivation can happen too I guess. 'Ah' sound and 'aitch' for me!
Hey, Candice .... unfortunately I haven't seen it mentioned in the comment sections of your videos yet (it might have been - perhaps I should have searched harder for it) , yet I think it would really help if you were able to record yourself in higher volume. I always have to turn up the volume to properly listen to what you have to say. And if you could edit ALL your previous videos in order to increase their sound volume (I'm just kidding - I know that's asking too much...... and anyways..... the problem might be my hearing .... I might be becoming deaf with age - and I'm not that old.... so most probably you could do a better job when it comes to your recording sound volume).
Hey Candice. This may or may not be far too advanced for this channel, but I was wondering if you could cover this since this is something I haven't been able to figure out but it seems important in actually sounding convincingly Australian. It seems that the Short A gets elongated in words like bad and glad but they don't in words like dad and lad. I also noticed that people elongate the Short A when they use "rad" as an adjective, but they keep it short when they refer to a person's name "Rad." Is there a pattern behind this? At first I used to pronounce all of these -ad words with a regular Short A, but I sounded weird with certain words when I did that, and I eventually picked up a few specific words where Aussies would always elongate the Short A so I no longer mispronounce those particular words, but I can't be too confident when it comes to other words that end with -ad if it's a word I haven't heard Aussies use too often, and I was wondering if there was any way to figure out which Short A sound to pronounce with or if I could only simply memorise certain words that this happens with. Thanks!
Ahhhh yes. You're the first Aussie I've found talking about this. Every other Aussie I've ever talked to about this just went "WTF are you talking about? No we don't lol." This same thing also happens right before an M as well, like in the words scam and ham. The thing I HATE is that it DOESN'T happen when you have a vowel right after the AN (unless it's a suffix like in the word "planning" oh my god), so you would THINK that "planet" and "plan it" would sound identical but NO the thing happens with "plan it" but you still use the regular short A with "planet." One genuine question. I've heard Aussies say that Cairns is pronounced the same as "cans" but I've always found that very weird, and I thought that just pronouncing it as written (k-air-ns) would make more sense, but then I realised that "air" and the elongated short A sound quite similar, so do many Aussies only think that Cairns is pronounced like cans because the vowels sound similar, or are they ACTUALLY correct that Cairns is pronounced like cans?
Aaah all of this is so true! Hahaha! The Aussie accent is so silly :p Ok, the thing with Cairns is just because the sounds are similar in the Aussie accent. Eg. If a Scottish person pronounces it they would likely pronounce all of the letters and it would become K-air-ns. But because Cairns is located in Australia, the Aussies get to choose how they pronounce it, and so all will argue that it's Cans. Haha! It's just the combination of our silent 'R' and the 'N' rule in this video.
