2007-12-30 13:25:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
If you mean to speak with one as your primary accent, you need to have done most of your schooling here. That's where people learn their accents - in the schoolyard. I arrived when I was 16 and that was too late, I already had my accent and 45 years later people still pick my origins. My youngest brother and sister developed a true Australian accent as they did all their schooling here.
That being said, you can learn an Australian accent and use it so others will think you are Australian just as you can with any accent. Actors do it all the time. It won't, however, be your primary accent and you will revert to that when you are with family and friends. How quickly you learn an accent depends on your ear and your ability. Don't try to put it on or you will sound very weird.
2007-12-30 13:36:09 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Adults rarely loose their accent, although if they live in a country long enough many years their accent will be modified some what. Girls pick up an accent quicker than boys. My daughter at 12 had an english accent and got a weird New Zealand one in the first year. It was never really what people would pick up as a New Zealander. My boys being 15 and 16 developed a neutral accent but even today 20 years later they can be detected as having a English accent
2007-12-30 14:05:01 · answer #2 · answered by jennifer h 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess it would depend on your natural talent for accents - watch Australian movies like The Castle, Muriel's Wedding and tv shows like Home and Away and Neighbours to pick up the way Aussies speak. Nobody speaks like Steve Irwin though so give his accent a miss!!
2007-12-30 13:35:53 · answer #3 · answered by Nicole G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people pick up accents after moving to an area right away, whereas others take forever, or they never drop their old accents. You might find yourself picking it up after only a few weeks, or, it might never happen. It also depends on how many people around you have the accent.
2007-12-30 13:33:51 · answer #4 · answered by paperdoll198 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do australians have accents I lived here in the land of oz all my life and never noticed. I suppose it helps if you are born here.
2007-12-30 13:37:06 · answer #5 · answered by spanneroi 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Depends on how many drinks you've had.
2007-12-30 20:18:24 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Shell ♥ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It didn't take me long at all............my first word as a boy was spoken with an aussie accent. Fair dinkum.
2008-01-02 20:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by benjamin_ashton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋