Female fighters of Kurdistan - Amazing video!

There's an amazing segment in an Australian TV programme (a bit like Panorama) on the Kurdish Amazons

[video="youtube;Xww8Snj_dY8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xww8Snj_dY8[/video]

Reply 1

DErasmus

What the hell is her accent about? I knew she was Australian but she sounds very strange to me, is this how Australians usually speak when they trying to be posh?

Reply 2

young_guns

Original post by DErasmus

What the hell is her accent about? I knew she was Australian but she sounds very strange to me, is this how Australians usually speak when they trying to be posh?

She's not trying to be posh, there are generally three variations in the Australian accent, called Broad, General and Cultivated

http://dialectblog.com/2011/07/10/types-of-australian-accents/

Broad would be Steve Irwin

General (this website says) is Julia Gillard (though I think she was pretty broad)

Cultivated would be Cate Blanchett

If you're upper-middle class, you generally have the cultivated variety which sounds less nasally, more "neutral". This journalist has the cultivated accent. I also think she has some other influence in her accent (maybe one of her parents is Kiwi or South African), there's definitely another element in there

A normal cultivated accent, like Cate Blanchett's, can be seen here

[video="youtube;BjovJWUMXu4"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjovJWUMXu4[/video]

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Reply 3

DErasmus

Original post by young_guns

She's not trying to be posh, there are generally three variations in the Australian accent, called Broad, General and Cultivated

http://dialectblog.com/2011/07/10/types-of-australian-accents/

Broad would be Steve Irwin

General (this website says) is Julia Gillard (though I think she was pretty broad)

Cultivated would be Cate Blanchett

If you're upper-middle class, you generally have the cultivated variety which sounds less nasally, more "neutral". This journalist has the cultivated accent. I also think she has some other influence in her accent (maybe one of her parents is Kiwi or South African), there's definitely another element in there

A normal cultivated accent, like Cate Blanchett's, can be seen [video="youtube;_qWtQlTNVCQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWtQlTNVCQ[/video]

I see. It was very odd for my distinctly English ears... my ignorance of Australia is showing, enough of that i'm watching the documentry I just find her voice irritating :/

Reply 4

young_guns

Original post by DErasmus

I see. It was very odd for my distinctly English ears... my ignorance of Australia is showing, enough of that i'm watching the documentry I just find her voice irritating :/

The cultivated branch of the Australian accent sounds slightly closer to an English accent. Personally, I think the cultivated strand is lovely, but this journalist, as I said, does have some other element in her accent that makes it a bit irritating to me too.

Hope you enjoy the documentary, it's awesome when the Kurdish girls are singing and then start doing that "Yalalalallalalallaa" thing

Reply 5

DErasmus

IT was good. You could tell the journalist was pooing herself during the main shooting... can't say i'm surprised although the chances of her being hit behind all of that were probably small (I thought it was brave that she poked her head out a few times...). Won't this work against them though since now they've just revealed bits of their defence?

Female fighters of Kurdistan - Amazing video!

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