Do people from Australia and New Zealand have different accents?

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mareeclara

Yes...some people who speak with more "refined" accents are harder to pick up, even for us locals, but there are distinct words like aussies say " good" kinda like "goud", fish is "feesh", six as "sex", chips as "cheeps" and words like dance and chance..hhmmm hard to say, its shorter vowels...in New Zealand we say those words like the British I guess saying more "charnce" and "darnce".

NOT everyone in New Zealand says "sux" "fush" "chups" its again less "dramatic" as that...although I admit when I lived in England and heard the kiwi accent I could hear things like "wund" for wind etc....ie its the "i" that is dramatic vowel, but we in general have shorter vowels than english accent.
I got hasseled all the time for ben, glen, pen, and yes when they thought I was saying bin, glin pin and yis!!! I think the aussie accent might be similar in that respect.

You have to be in each country for a week or so to pick up on the differences...usually you can tell an aussie accent within a sentence....I personally find it "harsher" and more nasaly and its mocked here like our "kayway uccunt us hussled over in oz"....

Mike R

Yes... they're similar but not exactly the same. To most Americans they sound almost the same but they're somewhat different. But if you're from Australia you can tell if someone's from New Zealand and vice versa.

rebecca m

YES rolf harris rachel hunter have different acents

daisyrose

sure do

Australia

Yes Kiwi's say

pin for Pen

and

Pen for pin...

tentofield

They are different and easily distinguished. There are different accents developing in Australia as well. The most noticeable, to me, is that of Adelaide. It is getting easy to pick South Australians. In another 100-200 years there will be four or five easily distinguished accents in Australia.

referralguru

Yes but to t5he untrained ear it would like trying to tell difference between Canadian and Americans, I can't but can tell a kiwi a mile off.

The_Mouse

Yes. They talk with a funny accent over the Tasman.

LOL

zee_prime

I've been living in NZ most of the time since 1968 but I came here from Britain at the age of 20. I've also lived in Aussie. Yes, we've got different accents, but it took me about a year to pick it.

Elizabeth

Yes, we Australians do have a different accent to the New Zealanders.
Often people from other countries can't tell but Aussies and Kiwis always know.
Example:
Aussies say - fish and chips
Kiwis say - fush and chups

A Kiwi would probably dispute that but that's the way it sounds to us.

tuppenybitz

very different

kaidyznayr

yes very. I have freinds from both

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YES

love&faith

Deffinatly, and one thing i have also noticed is now different my accent is just from people in australia. I am from the north west of sydney and noticed just between districts there are different accents.. ''sounding like a westie''

also all the major capital cities.. all have different accents, i have only just noticed it now while i have been overseas! but its there!

tnecletic

Yes definately. Just listen to people from the different countries. It's like the difference from the north to the south here.

mariemlm

yes

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