Garie Beach

Need help with Australian pronounciations!!!!?

Im from the States (Texas!) and will be going to Australia in a few weeks! Here are the places i will be visiting... some might seem obvious, but i want to make sure i am saying them right! :) THANKS Manly Beach Bondi (Bond-eye?) Adelaide Cape Jervis Penneshaw Kangaroo (just checking!) Flinders Chase Kelly Hill Caves Vivonne Bay Alice Springs Ayers Rock Uluru Yulara Watarrka Kings Canyon (just checking!) Cairns Daintree Kuranda

Public Comments

1. Sounds right, I'm from TX too though. I like your P.O.V. avatar shot, makes me feel a little closer to you.
2. You've got Bondi Beach right Ayers Rock is like saying air with an s on the end Cairns is like saying Cans Everything else is very much how you read it Good luck and have a great time! Check out Surfer's Paradise! It's the best!
3. its funny im aussie living in the usa and i had to adapt to the american way of speaking so i can understand ... manly thats manly ( manlee) bondi you got already adelaide add-ill-aid... Jervis Jer-viss.... penneshaw is penny-shore.. flinders chase is flin-ders ... kelly hills is as it sounds ... vivonne bay is viv- e- on .. alice springs is as it sounds ayers rock will always be ayers rock and not uluru as they are trying to rename it ( its and aussie ting ) ayers is airs ..uluru is uh -la -ru.. yulara and watarrka i have never heard of ... cairns is kens daintree is daint tree... kuranda ia koo-runda ...and heres the big one you missed aussie is not ossee it is ozzie thats the one i get peeved with .. thing is i noticed you left out the best places ... broome ... like you sweep with broom .. canarvan ... ca- nar- van ... and the true center of australia the real aussie experience PERTH ... go west my man go west ... happy vacationing my friend and if you need somebody to carry your bags im free
4. Manly Beach .. Manly Beach. Manly = like a man. Bondi (Bond-eye?) Yes, Bond-eye. Adelaide AD- uh- laid Cape Jervis Cape JARvus Penneshaw PEN-uh-shaw Kangaroo (just checking!) Flinders Chase FLINders Chase Kelly Hill Caves .. hello? Kelly Hill Vivonne Bay viv-ON Bay Alice Springs AL-uss Ayers Rock AIR-zz Uluru OO-- luh - roo Yulara YUH-lara Watarrka ... dunno, I'm from the south. I'd say WUTuhkuh .. but that might be wrong. Kings Canyon (just checking!) Cairns CANs Daintree DAINtree Kuranda KOOranda
5. Most of these are pretty much what's you'd expect. I can't see any here which are possible to get badly wrong, execpt BOND-eye (NOT BOND-dee). Don't worry too much - you'll still sound Texan anyway, and no one will mind! MAN-lee BOND-eye ADD-el-aid JER-vis or JAR-vis (I've heard it called both, EDIT: probably JAR-vis) VI-von (not VIE-von) (EDIT: I think the above person is right, emphasis on the 2nd syllable) airs rock or OO-loo-roo (either is acceptable, probably Uluru is preferable) yu-LA-ra I think