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Posted by Beto on May 19, 2008

Australian English

Posted under Chronicles of Australia

A couple of weeks ago I started a class called Accent Reduction at the Macquarie Community College (nothing to do with Macquarie Uni). The class is essentially about the Australian accent. No, I won’t end up speaking like Steve Irwin, but the aim is to try to mimic little by little the Aussie pronunciation, which is weird at times but cool. Let’s see how it goes, now I need to put a lot of attention to the schwas.

Posted by Beto on May 7, 2008

Mariachis

Posted under Uncategorised

Oh yeah, there are (possibly) Mexican mariachis in Australia! The picture was taken the other day at the Icebergs in Bondi Beach in a Mexican party to commemorate the Cinco de Mayo.

Mexican mariachis!!