Quote Originally Posted by carole View Post
We do actually talk quite different to the aussies ,but i know just as we think canadians and americans sound the same, although i can hear the difference myself,, most people think kiwis and aussies are the same, but take it from me we are NOT!!!
Hi Carole, many many years ago I spent more than a year on the west coast of Ireland in a little fishing village that also was a center for traditional Irish music. It was a popular tourist destination, and many people from many different countries around the world passed through.

I spent an afternoon with a couple of women from New Zealand who were backpacking their way around the world. I mentioned to them that I noticed that New Zealanders always had their flag sewn on their backpacks and asked them about it. They told me "That's so people won't mistake us for Australians!"

I said, "Oh, like Canadians always have their flag on their packs so they won't be mistaken for Americans!"

I could kind of pick up the differences between Australian and New Zealand accents. The New Zealand seemed somewhat like the South African accent to me, more than the Australian did.

I of course may be way off base with that! Do you think you sound much like South Africans?