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Australian and New Zealand Accents

Australia & New Zealand Accent

The accents of Australia & New Zealand are similar enough that they are grouped together. You'll hear Jim Johnson leading you through the accents, along with the voices of various Aussie and Kiwi actresses demonstrating all of the sound changes throughout the practice materials.
$30.00
$30.00

Australian & New Zealand Accent Learning Materials

  • The Australian & New Zealand accent materials include recordings of AccentHelp coach Jim Johnson guiding you through learning the accent, and leading you through a monologue using the accent, plus the voices of four actresses from Australia and New Zealand going through all of the practice materials. Plus you'll hear four volumes of recordings of native speakers, all of it totaling over six and a half hours of materials.
  • You'll get a PDF of the teaching materials, plus the same book in three more formats: a PDF file to print, MOBI for Kindle and EPUB for other portable readers.
  • You'll also get a PDF transcript of the conversations with native speakers to follow along with the recordings.
  • This accent is appropriate for productions of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, When the Rain Stops Falling, and lots of other plays. You also hear it in films like Muriel's Wedding and Heavenly Creatures and from people like Paul Hogan and Hugh Jackman.
  • Australian accents are usually subdivided into the categories of broad, general, and cultivated, with broad representing the strong, "bush" accent that many people are used to hearing in films such as Crocodile Dundee. Australian accents are fairly similar across the country - surprising for such a large country - but there are some variations which will be apparent in the included recordings. Most New Zealand Kiwi's have a shared accent as well.
  • All of the sound files are in MP3 format so that you can play them on your computer, load them onto your phone, or burn them to a CD.
  • You'll receive a link via email so that you can download all of the materials as ZIP files directly to your computer.
  • You'll also get future updates for free!

5% of all profits on AccentHelp accents go to diversity scholarships for actors at the University of Houston.

Listen to a Sample!

Audio files in Five Volumes (294.3 MB, 393 minutes)

Volume 1: Learning the Accent

  1. Introduction to Sound Placement, Intonation, and Helpful Hints (10:38)
  2. R sounds in Australian accents (8:51)
  3. R sounds in New Zealand accents (2:18)
  4. Aussie Consonants (6:14)
  5. New Zealand Consonants (2:47)
  6. Vowels in Australian accents (15:47)
  7. Aussie Vowels continued (10:38)
  8. New Zealand Vowels (14:47)
  9. Diphthongs in Aussie accents (8:43)
  10. Diphthongs for Kiwi accents (5:45)
  11. Pronunciations for words in both accents (2:07)
  12. Practice Sentences for Australian (2:58)
  13. Practice Sentences for Kiwi (2:32)
  14. Practice with Sound Changes using a monologue (14:48)
  15. Sound Change Practice Continued (14:39)
  16. Practice with Intonation & Placement (8:03)
  17. Demonstrations of the Practice Monologue (4:36)

Volume 2: Recordings of Native Speakers of Australia

  1. Melbourne Australia Male reading (1:40)
  2. + his conversation (3:15)
  3. Melbourne Australia Female reading (1:00)
  4. + her conversation (1:19)
  5. Perth Australia Female reading (:53)
  6. + her conversation (1:13)
  7. Geraldton Australia Male reading (1:12)
  8. + his conversation (3:46)
  9. New South Wales Australia Female reading (1:40)
  10. + her conversation (3:32)
  11. Eastern Aussie Male reading (1:31)
  12. + his conversation (4:46)
  13. Female Australian Student reading (1:16)
  14. + her conversation (3:45)
  15. Australian Female reading (1:03)
  16. + her conversation (4:25)
  17. Australia Female reading (1:05)
  18. + her conversation (1:35)
  19. Perth Male reading (1:26)
  20. + his conversation (4:10)
  21. Queensland Group conversation (6:01)
  22. Melbourne Male reading (1:22)
  23. + his conversation (4:03)
  24. Sydney Male reading (:50)
  25. + his conversation (2:24)
  26. Sydney Male reading (1:13)
  27. + his conversation (:38)
  28. Melbourne Male reading (:55)
  29. + his conversation (8:35)
  30. + reading Aussie phrases (8:49)

Volume 3: More Recordings of Native Speakers of Australia

  1. Melbourne Male reading (1:13)
  2. + his conversation (:28)
  3. Brisbane Male reading (1:21)
  4. + his conversation (1:51)
  5. Australian Female reading (:51)
  6. + her conversation (1:47)
  7. Geelong Victoria Male reading (:50)
  8. + his conversation (2:48)
  9. Hawthorne Male reading (1:16)
  10. + his conversation (4:09)
  11. Melbourne Female reading (1:00)
  12. + her conversation (:32)
  13. Perth Female reading (1:07)
  14. + her conversation (4:32)
  15. Melbourne Female reading (1:07)
  16. + her conversation (1:43)
  17. Melbourne Male reading (1:02)
  18. + his conversation (2:50)
  19. Sydney Female reading (1:11)
  20. + her conversation (1:36)
  21. Nana Glen Male reading (1:02)
  22. + his conversation (2:02)
  23. Tasmania Male reading (1:19)
  24. + his conversation (2:20)

Volume 4: Recordings of Native Speakers of New Zealand

  1. Dunedin New Zealand Male reading (:58)
  2. + his conversation (2:47)
  3. 2nd Dunedin Male reading (1:13)
  4. + his conversation (1:43)
  5. Christchurch New Zealand Female reading (1:28)
  6. + her conversation (3:49)
  7. Christchurch NZ wife reading (1:21)
  8. Christchurch NZ husband reading (1:23)
  9. + their conversation (9:10)
  10. Wellington NZ Female reading (1:28)
  11. + her conversation (3:31)
  12. NZ Male reading (1:26)
  13. + his conversation (1:06)
  14. Napier NZ Male reading (1:04)
  15. + his conversation (3:43)
  16. Wharangei NZ Male reading (1:15)
  17. + his conversation (8:12)
  18. Auckland NZ Male reading (1:03)
  19. + his conversation (3:11)
  20. Tauranga NZ Male reading (:58)
  21. + his conversation (2:33)
  22. Warick NZ Male reading (1:06)
  23. + his conversation (7:13)
  24. Auckland NZ Male reading (:57)
  25. + his conversation (2:46)
  26. Wellington NZ Female reading (1:18)
  27. + her conversation (1:19)

Volume 5: More Recordings of Native Speakers of Australia

  1. Queensland Male reading (1:26)
  2. + his conversation (2:47)
  3. Tazmania Female reading (:58)
  4. + her conversation (1:01)
  5. Sydney Male reading (1:34)
  6. + his conversation (11:05)
  7. Sydney Female reading (1:05)
  8. + her conversation (2:08)
  9. Melbourne Female reading (1:05)
  10. + her conversation (1:54)
  11. Brisbane Female reading (1:18)
  12. + her conversation (3:36)
  13. Villawood Male reading (1:21)
  14. + his conversation (3:27)
  15. Australian Male reading (1:15)
  16. + his conversation (2:16)
  17. Western Australian Female reading (1:14)
  18. + her conversation (3:47)
  19. Western Outback Female reading (:47)
  20. + her conversation (1:18)
  21. Melbourne Male reading (1:05)
  22. + his conversation (1:59)
  23. Wollongong Female reading (1:10)
  24. + her conversation (9:09)
  25. Donnybrook Male reading (1:23)
  26. + his conversation (2:30)
  27. Brisbane Male in conversation (2:14)
  28. New South Wales Female in conversation (3:51)
  29. Blue Mountains Male reading (:54)
  30. + his conversation (1:22)

Most of these recordings are made "in the field" so you will hear such things as birds, cars or other people in the background. A transcription of the conversations is included to help you follow along.

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