Talk Like A Kiwi

Now that immigrants in New Zealand have found out they need to “dumb down” their CVs (i.e. not include irrelevant little details, e.g. degrees) to find work, a charitable trust based in Auckland is also offering to help to recent arrivals – to understand the Kiwi accent and use of English. The British Telegraph newspaper…

Kiwi Accents

Many think that there is only one, perhaps two types of Kiwi accent. This is a fallacy, there are many regional variation in both accents and dialects. As the country becomes more influenced by migration and international speech patterns further variations are bound to occur: For samples of recordings see Dialects and Accents of New…