Never, but the only non-Australian country I've been to is Germany, and as far as I can remember, all of them either didn't comment, or did know I was Australian.



To an American ear, though, I can sort of see how British and Australian accents sound similar. In fact, a really strident Aussie accent actually begins to verge on Cockney at some points.

maybe it's because you phrase everything as a question? with that terribly annoying inflection? that makes everything you say sound like you're not entirely sure what's going on? like this?

American real estate agents do the same thing, Tesco.

They do? To be fair, the IRL Aussies I know dont do that

rack off you dag

I'm an Aussie, and never have been mistaken for anything else, but an Aussie when I speak.



I've been asked if I'm an Aussie, by dutchmen, taxi drivers in England, and also in South Africa. No one has ever said I sounded British, or from New Zealand. My English teacher back in the day, used to say I was a bit of a New Yorker, which I gathered was more from me watching American TV than anything else.



I have to watch the way I pronounce certain words in England, because I find myself pronouncing certain words in an American way, such as 'chance' and 'can't', even places like 'Marylebone' are prounounced slightly differently in England compared to America.



The only time I have been mistaken is when I go to a restaurant, and people start speaking Japanese to me, before I have even opened my mouth. I'm not Japanese, actually don't think I've ever been to Japan. That's more to do with the fact I'm asian, than my accent.

that's really odd...



lol@if I'm from British

Yes...I had to read that sentence thrice to try to make sense of it too radiostaticstar.

i saw some lousy american refer to an aussie actress as british just last night and couldn't believe they can't tell the difference, but i guess that's like telling an american they sound the same as canadians (which they do).

Stubby, read through what you've written before you click 'post comment'. If it makes no sense, write it again.

That sounds harsh, but we only want the best for you, Stubby old boy.

I have been.

i pretty much blended in wherever i went in europe and south america, but not because of they way i spoke, but because i look mediteranian. Sometimes I catch myself speaking and think "geez how occa(sic) do i sound"

I'm tryna be helpful, jebbie.

actually, there was an incident which for me reinforced the fact that people judge you on how you look first and foremost (and that there are a lot of racist folk all round the world)



We were staying at my gf's best friend's place in leeds and the girls had an ann summers party. The brit lads took me to an 'authentic' (read: boring pub with 5 middle aged balding fat blokes sitting at the bar) english pub. When we came back the ladies had finished playing with their 'toys' and a lady i hadn't met asked me where i was from. I told her Australia, to which she responded: "No, you're not Australian, she's Australian (pointing at my gf's best friend who''s a blonde with blue eyes) Where are you from??" I insisted I was Australian, and she kept saying "No, you're not an aussie, blah blah blah" So i got up and went to bed. The next moring the people we were stayng with apologised and told me she was just a backward yorkshire lass.

don't be ashamed of your heritage habib.

hahaha

but seriously though. I'd known no other country apart from good ol' Austraylya till I was 28. And even then I didn't go back to my parents 'motherland'