Why the Aussie accent is so hard | Did You Know?

We don't all sound like Crocodile Dundee.

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Why do we keep hearing bad attempts at the accent in movies and TV shows? What makes the Australian accent so hard to do properly? It's challenging because it’s similar to a lot of different accents and it's constantly changing and evolving, like all accents do.

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Linguistics Roadshow
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Macquarie University - Australian Voices
http://clas.mq.edu.au/australian-voic...

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