Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
Like someone commented on your other post, I’m not aware of any NZ English dictionary. Spelling is generally done with UK English spelling (with a lot of American spellings leaking in these days), but in terms of pronunciation I don’t know of any consolidated dictionary.
Often you can search up certain words on youtube videos just by searching for "NZ pronunciation of [word]. The wikipedia page here might help as well, but it’s pretty technical.
There are also videos like this one, that try to teach an NZ accent by focusing on sounds that make it unique, though her speech in that video sounds to me like someone trying to do an NZ accent rather than a native one, but it might still help.