Looong weekend! F*ck yeah!
Jun. 1st, 2011 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gothikmausMy weekend has officially started. Tomorrow's a bank holiday and I took a day off on Friday, I stayed at work a bit longer today so I could finish the most urgent things. And if something comes up, my boss can take care of it from France. I also handed in all my articles for this week. I had the culture and sport page this time around: this week we have a special feature on the local basketball team, next week I'll write about football and the one after that about volleyball.
I just want to sleep until midday tomorrow, eat a big brunch and enjoy having the flat all to myself.
In yesterday's post I talked about British vs American English and a couple of people mentioned the Australian accent too. Well, maybe it's because I've only ever talked to one Australian in my whole life, and she had been living in England for 2 years at the time, so her accent wasn't so strong, but I have no idea what the "Aussie accent" sounds like.
For example, in this interview Alex O'Loughlin (who is my latest celebrity crush, by the way) says "'Cos I'm just Jenny from the block" and apparently he says it with an Aussie accent?
From 2:41
I consider myself quite a language geek and I love the English language, but if I think about it, I realise there's a lot I don't know. Not just the Australian accent, even the Irish accent, I have no idea how Irish people sound. Does anyone on my flist have links to clips, snippets from films etc. where I could hear different accents? I could just go to the Speech Accent Archive, but there are just so many times I can listen to "Please call Stella..." :P
(Or maybe I could just watch "Australia". What's the running time again, 12 hours?)
I just want to sleep until midday tomorrow, eat a big brunch and enjoy having the flat all to myself.
In yesterday's post I talked about British vs American English and a couple of people mentioned the Australian accent too. Well, maybe it's because I've only ever talked to one Australian in my whole life, and she had been living in England for 2 years at the time, so her accent wasn't so strong, but I have no idea what the "Aussie accent" sounds like.
For example, in this interview Alex O'Loughlin (who is my latest celebrity crush, by the way) says "'Cos I'm just Jenny from the block" and apparently he says it with an Aussie accent?
From 2:41
I consider myself quite a language geek and I love the English language, but if I think about it, I realise there's a lot I don't know. Not just the Australian accent, even the Irish accent, I have no idea how Irish people sound. Does anyone on my flist have links to clips, snippets from films etc. where I could hear different accents? I could just go to the Speech Accent Archive, but there are just so many times I can listen to "Please call Stella..." :P
(Or maybe I could just watch "Australia". What's the running time again, 12 hours?)
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Date: 2011-06-02 11:36 am (UTC)Australian and New Zealand accents are a little twangier; Irish accents are softer and sort of similar to Scottish in a way, except Scottish vowels are tighter. None of that is really helpful, but yeah, I would try movie trailers. Actually, this video is pretty awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
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Date: 2011-06-02 05:58 pm (UTC)That video is amazing! :O I died when she put on the Scottish accent. "You know, Walker like the shortbread?" XD Thanks for the link! :)