{"id":1872,"date":"2015-06-15T09:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:45:45","slug":"listening-resources-for-australian-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/listening-resources-for-australian-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Resources for Australian English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve mentioned before, the TOEFL is starting to add <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/listening-resources-for-british-english\/\">audio of non-American native English speaking accents<\/a>. Last time, we looked at British English. Today, I\u2019m going to show you some good resources for listening to Australian English.<\/p>\n<p>Many students I work with tell me that they find Australian English more challenging than the two international standard Englishes: British and North American English. Australian English is closer to UK English than US, but it does have many distinct pronunciation features that are different from either international standard.<\/p>\n<p>In case you come across Australian accents on your TOEFL exam (or on the campus where you eventually attend school), you need to be prepared. You should test your ability to listen to Australian English by listening to the accent at different levels of difficulty. This post gives you <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/toefl-listening-tips-tricks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TOEFL Listening<\/a> practice at the easy, intermediate, and hard levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Easy Australian English Listening:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elllo.org\/study\/australia\/english_2004.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ello.org\u2019s Australian English<\/a>. On this page, Australian English speakers are interviewed about different topics. People on the tracks speak a little bit slower than they might in regular conversation. The pace of speech is similar to the TOEFL. The Australian accents are distinct and clear.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/education\/learn-english\/video-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/education\/learn-english\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Australia&#8217;s Learn English website<\/a> provides many Australian English learning material from beginner level onward. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/education\/learn-english\/video-courses\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Video Courses<\/a> focus specifically on beginner level English listening practice. All the speakers in the videos are Australian. This site really does have a lot of different beginner-level listening resources, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcaustralia.net.au\/program\/living-english\/AI1812H\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living English<\/a>, an Australian web-TV series designed for ESL students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Intermediate Australian English Listening:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/communitychannel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natalie Tran\u2019s Youtube Channel<\/a>. Natalie Tran is an Australian actress and comedian. In her Youtube Channel, she shares her thoughts in short, funny videos. Natalie speaks more quickly than the speakers at Elllo.org, but her accent is also not as strong. Because Natalie\u2019s videos are meant for an international audience, he accent is a more \u201cinternational\u201d than most Australian speech.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qRO38UQGH7A&#038;list=PL2F513BCCBA2F4546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Business of English YouTube Series<\/a>. This series shows Australian business people talking in different professional settings, ranging from office parties to more formal business meetings. The speakers talk very clearly, but the conversations are fast paced. Each video includes a vocabulary study with word explanations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Advanced Australian English Listening:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Many of my students have enjoyed challenging themselves by watching the Australian television comedy \u201cAll Together Now.\u201d The characters all have very strong Australian accents. They use a lot of Australian slang, and they speak very quickly. You can find a few episodes of this show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=all+together+now+episode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, or you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umbrellaent.com.au\/search?controller=search&#038;orderby=position&#038;orderway=desc&#038;search_query=All+together+now&#038;submit_search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch every episode for a subscription fee through the Umbrella Entertainment website<\/a>. To help my students, I\u2019ve completely transcripted episode 26 of the show. You can watch episode 26 below, and you can download the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh.resources\/ATN26Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve mentioned before, the TOEFL is starting to add audio of non-American native English speaking accents. Last time, we looked at British English. Today, I\u2019m going to show you some good resources for listening to Australian English. Many students I work with tell me that they find Australian English more challenging than the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13605],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[13630],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-skills"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Listening Resources for Australian English - Magoosh Blog \u2013 TOEFL\u00ae\ufe0f Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/listening-resources-for-australian-english\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Listening Resources for Australian English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As I\u2019ve mentioned before, the TOEFL is starting to add audio of non-American native English speaking accents. 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His work at Magoosh has been cited in<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C50&amp;q=Recine+magoosh&amp;btnG=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> many scholarly articles<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/minds.wisconsin.edu\/handle\/1793\/65479\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> his Master's Thesis<\/a> is featured on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingwithpictures.org\/2013\/09\/research-highlight-teaching-english-language-learners-with-comics\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Reading with Pictures<\/a> website, and he's presented at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witesol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-WITESOL-Program-FINAL-10-28-14.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> WITESOL (link to PDF)<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/interoff\/docs\/nafsaregionv_2014conference\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NAFSA<\/a> conferences. David has taught K-12 ESL in South Korea as well as undergraduate English and MBA-level business English at American universities. 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