Australian Vowel Sounds

Gallipoli: Where Australia found it's identity

Gallipoli, a beach in Turkey, is the most famous place in Australia's wartime experience. All Autralians know how important it was in defining Australia's national identity.

There is a great movie about Gallipoli. You can visit this website and see some clips from the movie.

If you haven't seen this movie yet, you should!

If you are from Turkey, I would love to hear your feelings about our shared history at Gallipoli.

ABC TV on iView

The ABC is Australia's public broadcaster. It airs a number of TV programs that are valuable to you as learners of English. I have made a list of the "best" programs. There are many more, but this are my recommendations.

News/Current Affairs:

Compass

Foreign Correspondant

Four Corners

Landline

Lateline

Media Watch

Q&A

The 7:30 Report

Australian/Aboriginal Topics:

Australian Story
Message Stick

Science:

Catalyst

The New Inventors

Entertainment:

At the Movies
The Bill

All of these programs can be viewed on ABC1 or ABC2. You can also stream them on the internet at iView.

The Story of Australian English

This is a great lecture about a new book on Australian English. You can listen to the story or you can read it by clicking on the transcript. This is an interesting and useful lecture.

The Aussie Accent

Here is a quick video of an Aussie comedian making fun of the Aussie accent.



The Aussie accent can be hard to understand at first. Many people have never heard it before coming to Australia as it is not common accent around the world.

This website gives lots of examples of the Aussie accent. First, the people read out a text. They will read either The Rainbow Passage or Comma gets a Cure. Then, they will talk about some autobiographical details (You can read this by clicking on the text file in the right hand column).

Listen to a few of the people so you can hear the differences between people.