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Aussies don't have an accent. It's everybody else who has an accent. Sheeze...😎
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That's pretty much how we see it on this side of the ditch too mate.
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Agreed :) Ours is just kinda Yobbo. Pretty much straight BOGAN!
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Ryan: "I just pronounce every letter the way it's written." Arkansas and the entire Sioux nation just left the chat ! 🤣
Except when the word is "forward" [fo'wad] 😄
So has every English speaker no matter their accent. English is a crazy language. The way it’s written and the pronunciation is incredibly inconsistent making it one of the harder languages to master.
Connecticut and Illinois were a bit peeved, too.
Like “scoowal”. Apparently, in the US, “school” has a W in it.
Has he ever tried to ask for Sault-Sainte-Marie?
It's actually funny for us Aussies, we don't hear our accent in our day to day life but we're so used to watching movies with American actors that when we watch an Australian movie the Aussie accent is incredibly noticeable to us?? What's with that?? 😂😂
Context. We accept, and even expect, American accents in movies.
Quite often Australian actors are trained in speaking with an Australian accent believe it or not 😂. Producers want them to sound like what the world expects to hear.
I actually like your accent Ryan, not harsh, clear and articulate, quite pleasant :)
I could happily listen to Matthew McConaughey all day. Love his accent. The New Jersey accent - no way.
You’re right. The New Jersey accent is very Nasal. American accents as a whole are pleasant though I find understanding a Strong Boston accent sometimes needs concentration. When my daughter & I travelled from the Eastern U.S. to Canada the Flight Crew were all speaking French to my daughter. She had to show her Passport to prove she wasn’t Canadian but Australian. ❤
Adelaide, my home town. Nothing worse than someone trying to do an Aussie accent, they always get it wrong. Check out Merryl Streep when she played Lindy Chamberlain.
Lol.. Most people in Adelaide have that pompous English sound to their accent anyway. Don’t get me started on the way you pronounce LEGGO as “LAYGO” 🤦♀️😂
Oh gosh yes, she butchered it. "A dingo ite myyy bieby". It was awful.
Lindy Chamberlain is a Kiwi, but hers is a strange accent, it would be very hard to do, but you're right Merryl Streep butchered it.
Totally agree and when Americans try use an Aussie accent it's always over the top
@@donna6592so true, most people from S.A for example say derby instead of the rest of country say Darby also Castle and Carstle
I’ve been living here for 14 years and believe me it’s glaringly obvious when I hear an American accent.
"Glaringly" being the obvious word! Yes it is.
I drove a cab for a long time and I learnt to ask if they were Canadian first (because it's hard to distinguish the difference from a few words). Canadians get a little offended if you ask if they are American 😂
This Aussie loves most American accents. I tell you what though Ryno.... I was so freaking proud of you finally pronouncing Emu properly earlier in the week. Onya matey!!!
I love the American accent..could listen to it all day..urs included Ryan..
I'm not a native English speaker. But Aussie accent i so lovely. It sounds to me like every single sentence is a question ❓ 😂
The one guy with the pronounced up inflection was a Kiwi ( New Zealander)
So you find that upward inflection some Aussies do at the end of a sentence (even when they are not asking a question) lovely???
We're not asking anything, we just have a tendency to finish sentences with an upward inflection 😅
@@justinr9784 Yes, I know but I don't find it lovely in the slightest.
Oh, that shouldn’t be happening! Upward inflection makes it a question, even if it’s a statement!
Oh wow! That last shot is the War Memorial in Adelaide, South Australia. My home town! 🦘🇦🇺🐨
Yep, been there mate 😂
The whole video is in Adelaide. You can see it's filmed across Adelaide Uni on the Barr Smith Lawns, and on North Tce by the Art Gallery
@@theearthbutterfly Yes you're right, my home town, I would recognise it anywhere.
Actually, your accent is very mild, and easy to understand, Ryan. I know a bloke from Kansas who is easy to understand but really harsh, like the proverbial "finger nails down the blackboard". New Yorkers speak very quickly, but the southern drawl is really slow. In other words, there are many American accents! Also, most Americans are really loud, but then I had an uncle - my aunty married a GI after World War II - and he was one of the most quietly spoken men I have heard. It's hard to generalise.
True
And us Australians can sound very harsh to outsiders.
@@aflaz171 Nah, you sound great! Very down to earth, relatable, fun! British accents sound snobbish. What's funny, is that it took me at least a year to learn the difference between the two! I hear the clear difference now though. Most Americans can't. Took me a bit, but I got it down 😊
I spent some time in America a while ago and one girl kept trying to do her Australian accent to me, I never thought it was convincing. She then challenged me to do an American accent - so I started talking American and her jaw literally dropped. She then said if she didn’t already know I was Australian she would have thought I was American. I did have the advantage of being in the US for 6 weeks at that point so I had been listening mostly to only Americans for a while.
Americans are awful at doing Australian accents but it's very easy for us to convincingly put on American and British accents... funny that. I guess we hear them constantly on TV etc but they don't hear so many Aussie accents.
Look up Robert Downey Jr doing his Aussie accent... it's not terrible... he certainly tried but he sounds like an Australian from a beer commercial from the 70s.
@@justinr9784 Elizabeth Moss is scary good at an Aussie accent!
There’s nothing wrong with any accent. We grow up hearing sounds and accents are a kind of music. We mimic what we hear. Yours Ryan is easy to understand and as others have said soft.
“You’ve gotta pronounce every lehhterrr... It’s skewalllll” 😂😏
We’re used to it via American TV programs
I’m a 66 year old dual citizen born in the USA. I lived in Oz from 1969 to 1972 and acquired an Aussie accent in my teens which took me several years to lose when we left Perth and moved to Orlando. I actually made a conscious effort to NOT pick up a southern accent while spending 7 years in Southern Florida. I have a west coast US accent to this day. Even though I moved back permanently to Oz in 1985, I don’t sound Australian (despite spending the last 39 years here).
My phrasing style and slang is Aussie, but the accent is definitely a softer version of west coast USA. Sometimes I forget I have an American accent until someone asks me where I’m from 🤷♀️. I “listen” with an Aussie tuned ear I suppose.
I’m proudly Australian and would not choose to live anywhere but Perth (IMHO the world’s best kept secret). When teased about still sounding like a “Yank” I usually just smile and tell them that “I know my deep backwards square leg from a silly mid off” …so that has to count for something. 😉🏏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 oi oi oi❣️
I hope you watch AFL mate.
@@michaelmayo9048 Cricket mate 🏏 … all the way. Never got into AFL🤷♀️
@@MsBethharris l didn't realize l replied to a woman..so l understand why you don't watch AFL.
We’ve all grown up with American accents since the 60’s as we’ve watched American tv shows since then. I think the southern accent is softer on the ears. I believe the American accent is one of the easier accents to master.
I love all American accents, I grew up watching American Movies from John Wayne to Gone with the Wind, yes I can listen to an American accent all day.
G'day,l have travelled too the USA twice and my favourite is from the deep Southern accent, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
The accent that I love is Matthew McConaughey's - he sounds delicious when he's being charming ❤ But even that doesn't beat a soft, deep Irish accent! ☘️
Stewart is comforting. Like Norman Rockwell. Same era. Stewart was from rural Pennsylvania. Doubtless he migrated to Transatlantic as the standard media accent of the time but some of the Pennsylvania must have remained.
Your accent is fine
I worked with a Banker from Boston once, something something the third, that was an experience! I asked him once do I need to type the 3rd it's just a local letter and he said "of course it's my name"! The Canadian's are usually easier to get along with, they have quieter voices and better manners! I do like watching Texas Flip N Move and Barnwood Builder's those yanks are mostly fun and so friendly! Don't drop me in New York! 😫
Love the southern accent in America.
Love Jimmy Stewart ❤️
I love some American accents- the Boston accent and some Southern accents. Americans speak from the diaphragm (English through the mouth; we are a bit nasally), and sometimes that can make it seem like they are trying to command attention. We're not great at people doing that in public, and at times then, it can seem annoying. I was married to an English guy from Liverpool. Once, at a barbeque, someone approached and asked, "Is he talking to you in German, and you're answering in English?" We all have an accent of some sort.
Comforting yes . I think the ones we are mostly used to hearing are comforting.
One of my g'kids picking up American accent from TV etc 😂
It's interesting. We Aussies hear Americans speak all the time on film, media, the internet, etc so it doesn't phase us any way. We can understand everything.
However hearing in person is a different story. It really stands out and sometimes I have trouble understanding what they're saying.
I don’t know what American accent in The Green Mile is but I love that one.
Old style Southern 😊
When I was living in the US I was dating a girl from Savannah GA. They say that southern accents are fading, they're not in Savannah. She was extremely hot and as a result I now have a Pavlovian response when I hear that particular variation 😁
The "California" or middle accent is just normal to me. I find the Boston and Jersey accents a little grating sometimes. I like southern accents (they vary) a lot as they evoke memories of friendliness and good times from my time there.
Everybody I know watch
It's a wonderful life,
Best Christmas movie ever.
Jenny, South Australia
I really like the Boston accent. I also like New Jersey, hamming it up, it's great. I also like the Missouri accent, the person I knew from there had a really soft tone. Really lovely.
Yep we love it
I love American accents, why not, and southern accents are really nice to listen to
You accent is one of the most tolerable American accents I've come across, I really struggle with the thick American accent with the heavy "R's" and or Southern, I just can't do it and I don't know why :P
Yo Ryan. You have the best kind of American accent.
Fun video! I want to hear your Australian accent now Ryan
I once was talking to an American guy on the phone at work. When he called me "Mam" in a really strong American accent I just fell in love with him💖. I had an image of him looking like a Marine, tall, very handsome. I have no idea what he really looked like but that was the image I got from his voice.
I love it when Americans say "Mam". 😊
Me too. It sounds so respectful.
I worked in a tattoo shop, in AUS and when the US marines came in, we would be super busy, but damn when they said “excuse me Mam “ to get served, even though the counter was ten deep of customers, you couldn’t ignore there polite request.
I'll tell ya what, ladies.. I have 2 lovely Marines in my family. Both cousins, but all the close male relatives use the term out of respect. 3 are single. I'll introduce you, if you can introduce me to a nice ozzy man 😂 (I mean, I'd seriously do it! I just know it's not likely) ugh.. tired of American men. I'm a sucker for tall dark and handsome, Australian accent! Outdoor type. Long hair is a bonus 😄 even well spoken aboriginal would be fine. I can't remember his name, but that famous didgeridoo player, David....aghh can't remember his last name. So awesome that guy is! But I'm not overly picky .. a woman can dream, can't she!? ❤ lol I'm glad you ladies appreciate our respectful word "ma'am" using service men 😊
“…I just pronounce each letter an exactly as it appears on the paper…” Yes, but you do it with an American accent. I once tried learning Koine Greek (a language not spoken these days) from an American book. It said (basically), “To learn the correct pronunciation of each letter, the following English phrases are written using Greek letters. Read each phrase.” The first “English phrase” was “Dark sez”. I repeated it over and over, but I just couldn’t figure out what it was saying. Finally, I cheated, I checked the answers at the back of the book…..OooH! Doc says (as in , the DOCTOR SAYS). After a few more “easy English phrases”, I gave up and enrolled in a Koine Greek course in college 😁
Now you know how us Aussies feel when you attempt to do our accent! 🤣
Your accent is fine, Ryan. Easy on the ear.
How many ‘like’ does that girl say!
6 I think lol
Nope 7 times lol
Aussie here. Dont find any seppo accent bad. Some are more enjoyable than others to me. But it is not the accent, it is the loudness or the attitude sometimes. Most Americans I know are lovely people.
Lots of people around the world like the Australian and British accents
Ryan you have a lovely sounding speaking voice. As for the southern drawn out accent, I laugh at it. I don't dislike them though.
Our accents vary pretty wildly too, though not as much as yours
The "just pronounce every letter" thing had me cackling. You have to pronounce every letter... in an American accent though! So like... "just do an American accent"? 😂
Also, as an Aussie, I don't much like the Australian accent myself. I feel like a traitor.
Thanks for the video! I've been binging your back catalogue and I love it!
I’m Australian - I don’t have an issue with any US accent 🇦🇺🇺🇸
To be honest... I think most Australians are pretty indifferent to the American accent. It is ever-present in our lives on the TV and in the movies... I don't think anybody is sitting at home saying "THAT'S IT!!! I've had it with that stupid American accent"... US shows are still rating really well here... Soooooo... I think we're fine with it.
Try being on a cruise ship where 90% of the passengers are American 😵💫😩
@@Sydneysider1310 lol.. WTF?
Agree. Not many Australians have a problem with American accents.
@@donna6592 exactly 😂
More the American mindset than the accents.
The Boston accent sounds very similar to the Australian accent. So we can pretty much impersonate an American accent without trying.
Interesting. We must all hear things differently. I'm from upstate NY, Boston is about 5ish hours from me, and I don't hear the similarities at all lol
I find Australian accents to be far nicer! Boston, much like NYC, sound obnoxious to me, honestly 😅
I sound much like the guy in the video. Standard American accent 😄
I love American/ lCanadian accents
I'm Ausie. When I worked near Joberg people assumed I was Rhodesian.
I personally find some American accents unpleasant to listen to, but I don't know where those accents are from. I have had to discontinue listening to the odd audio book because of the accent, but again, I couldn't tell you which type of American accent it is. You, however are very easy to listen to and have a very pleasant accent 🙂
Yes, we do know of A Wonderful Life (for most generations).....and it's a great movie Jimmy Stewart is well known here. I'm not a fan of the American accent, it's not offensive but I think because I hear it on TV so much and now online, I do appreciate it when my ears do not have to listen to it, but it's not an awful accent, just grates on you after a while. Americans for sure are the loudest people on the planet, you always know when there is an American in the room.... :)
Hilltop hoods was the band in the rhyme. Look into them mate. Aussie hip hop legends
Americans speak 🗣️ and spell phonetically, generally, and that is how it should be. It’s like America 🇺🇸 took the English language and perfected it as good as it could be, considering that it’s a total mismatch of Latin, Greek, etc., etc., etc. Gray for instance is how it’s spoken and should be spelled, not Grey (Greee if you pronounce it as it’s spelled). Australian here and huge on phonetics, it’s usually how kids learn to read and write, sound it out.
I love hearing other people of America and the world talk our Australian Accent. That's really fun. Love It. Catch ya's. Aussie Gina. Love Alwys.💖🎼💖
that actor at the being was born in England , and if you listen you may pick it , but not easy
people from adelaide generally have a mild aussie accent, and share some pronunciations with Brittan. The guy should of gone to north queensland to up the contrast.
Accents like music, is an individual taste. Just because one person doesn't appreciate good music, doesn't mean another won't. Terra Australis.
Shout out to my home town Adelaide!
I love the accent
Ryan, your accent is a hint of southern and reminds me of King of Hill accent
It's marginally better than a Kiwi accent. 😂
Kiwis seem to avoid pronouncing the vowel sounds if they can possibly help it.
That’s not hard!
we hear Americans so much we don't really notice it much, however, the deep southern accent is a bit harsh, I do declare.
I love trying to identify which part of the US people are from when I hear their accents for the first time. Slowly getting better at it!
we have accents in Oz ... im south oz..... english accent, NSWales has its own accent as doec Vic and Qld..... WA is very mixed
It's funny, I was born n raised in Brisbane, then at 25 I moved to teach in China for 10 years, and I used to come home every summer with a British accent lol. In act, when I visited London the first time when I was about 30, people constantly asked what part of London I was from!
I can't do accents but I do like the American accent.
That was pretty funny - the guy Ryan said should be a CIA agent because no-one would know where he was from? To me, he sounded like he was trying to sound like Elvis... haha. I do prefer the Southern accent - it's "softer" on my Aussie ears. I associate it with more homely, trustworthy people, whereas Jersey and New York type voices sound more like gangsters. If anyone watches JJLA, his voice is very soothing and has that soft Southern sound - I think he is from Georgia. Strangely, I find Ryan's voice and accent nice - there aren't many words that are said very differently to what we are used to hearing from Americans except when he says "fo'wad" with no "r"s.. but his brother Tyler's voice is really hard to listen to and loud...he is at a 10 when he needs to be at a 4. I have to turn the volume down to a minimum if I watch his videos. His voice seems to emanate from the back of his throat, like he could still talk if his teeth were clenched, whereas Ryan's is more "rounded" in the mouth and with less vocal fry. As they are related though, perhaps that is just voice, more than accent.
Some Aussies talk fast your accent is great sweetie also southern accent is musical and I like it.english have so many accents some are hard to understand.
im in Oz and have a friend from boulder Nebraska..... now thats an accent xxx
I find it it that we are inundated with media with an American accent which comes all of the mispronunciation of some words that grate with me
Ryan the reason why the young girl with the two guys said that when you hear it on TV it isn't the same as in person is because all American TV has the audio put through a voice synthesizer that takes part of the accent out. It has been that way since the '70s. The girl was too young to know. Back in the '70s and '80s when American actors would come out for Logies awards, sort of your Tony awards people would be lost and say, is that really, so and so, you sound so different. We have also been doing the same on commercial radio for the same time so DJs sound very much the same voice.
The rolling rrr sound used to be prominent in the 40's movies. I used to think those accents came from Irish or Welsh immigrant families. My grandfather was Welsh and he rolled his rrr's too. As the decades passed it became softer (in some parts of the US, grating in others) and became more distinct as a totally American take on language. I hardly notice American speakers now unless they're right in front of me and I can find some irritating, especially as so many are so loud! I spent some time with a person from Arkansas once, I wanted to hit her she spoke soooooo slow drawing out every sound in each word. She was married to an Aussie, I didn't meet him and did wonder if he was deaf her accent was so bad.
What I think also is some people blatantly exaggerate, like New York or Louisiana for example. Australia has 4 main types, common, like you refer yourself as, Occa, like Steve Irwin, proper/posh like Cate Blanchett and the aboriginal accent.
My mother said when she first came to Australia (1958) you could tell what state people came from by the way they spoke.
I love the southern accent, the transatlantic, I don’t mind the rest, except when it gets to the nasal twang shot like bullets a million miles an hour 😂I’m always surprised when someone says that they like the Australian accent, but happy
Y'all all sound kinda funneh
G'Day Y'All. Apparently we Aussies are the only people that shorten words.!.
I like the southern accent
I honestly can't tell the difference, I once spoke to an American, they couldn't tell that my friend was saying Mars Rover and thought it was something else, Americans can tell the difference between the 2 accents, I can't
I love America and Americans!
Ryan, if i had never watched you videos and heard you speak i would likely not guess you were American. I love that Southern drawl, I could listen to it all day. Not sure if it is an American thing, but some have their tongue glued to the lower teeth. Anoys the insides out of me. Iritates me, irks me. Drives me nuts.
To all Americans, rest of the world and fellow Aussies love to all regardless of your accent. Av a good day mate. Put a steak on the barby too, and ope ya got a tinny
I'm from Adelaide, where this was filmed, and I'm usually pretty stoked to meet an American. I always have a burning curiousity how an American ended up in hidden, tiny, boring Adelaide 😂
Aww I'm from upstate NY, and I'd LOVE to go to Australia! I do plan on vacationing there....well I want to, I just don't know anyone there, and I don't have anyone that could or even would take that kind of trip with me (lots of fear of planes and the very LONG way there) 😂 myself included! But I'd suck it up just to experience that awesome place, the beautiful beaches, the laid back people, I'd love to meet at least a few Indigenous people, I find them so fascinating (My Mother had a good amount of Indigenous American in her through her grandmother) I look like my Dad though 😅 but I still partake in activities and pow wows, as well as other Indigenous activities here in the States. There's SO much I love about Australia. I watch Anything Australian when it comes to content lol. It didn't really hit me until I came across an episode of Bondi Rescue, then started looking up other areas and the culture, the Indigenous people, the beaches, the beautiful tropical regions etc Etc. Ugh if only I had just a few people to show me around 😂 If you live there, I think you're SO lucky! 😊
G'day mate, growing up I thought we(aussies) were the only people on earth with out an accent, I thought we are so blane just like you do. As some were saying when you hear an American in real life your accent really sticks out, I love you accent your whole nations lingo.Good on ya Ryan. Peter
Hey Ryan. Most American accents are easy on the ear, except perhaps some of the southern accents...Australian accents can be difficult to listen to and we are very good at butchering English. A boston accent is delightful.
I think the indiana accent is pretty good, easy to understand what you're saying
While I was travelling North America for 8 months, I found the North Eastern area, Seattle, SF accent the most interesting. I did love the diversity 🙃🙃
A lot of people say that italian is such a nice language to hear but I feel you Ryan cause for us who speak our own language seems boring ❤
Yes Ryan, Aussies have seen "It's A Wonderful Life "... We're even aware of Old Hollywood. Are you aware that Errol Flynn is from Down Under, or have you never heard of him? 🤣🤣🤣
American accents is my favourite. Easy to listen and understand.😊
I like listening to Cindy Lauper.
The making of we are the world 🌎
Personally , I love accents in general , there are some however that drive me nuts , I can't even listen to the old Jeopardy guy without wanting to be sick , and informercial voices /accents absolutely drive me nuts too , you have a very pleasant natural accent and a nicely matched voice , so you are very easy to listen to ...
to me, your accent is quite neutral. nothing wrong with that! I can understand what you're saying haha!
An American asking that question is not likely to get the whole truth as politeness dictates that you try not to offend people, and Ozzies and Kiwis come from the British culture where this is drummed into you from birth. I come from a Dutch background and the Dutch are reknowned for being very blunt and direct, so even if the Ozzies and Kiwis think otherwise after all this time it is still there. The adage 'if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all' is still in force.
Depends on which one😂
I love my friends accent and she was born in Texas but lives in Louisiana now. 😊