I just love the variety of accents within the English language. It's really fascinating.

When I read the title, I remembered this video that shows how seemingly unrelated accents have a lot of common features:

Great video! I will always remember 'tin iggs', which means ten eggs. The 'i' here is pronounced like the first 'e' in the English word 'eagle'. That is typical New Zealand English for me.

There are certain terms in Australian English such as fair dinkum (especially fair dinkum shed) and pangers and mash (not sure about the spelling, it means sausages and mashed potatoes). But I just read a book by a Samoan living in New Zealand (Albert Wendt) and he used as well 'fair dinkum'. I don't remember having heard 'mate' or 'no worries' in New Zealand, so I regard this as Australian English (but I could be wrong).

Don't understand why Clovek's comment below got a downvote...

Spasibo Viktoria =}

I always thought that if I’d try to reduce my German accent and go for a more native sounding one, I’d like to acquire a Kiwi accent. Just because it’s something you’d never expect from a German.

The two varieties are easy to tell apart as this video by my favourite NZ YouTuber (How to Dad) proves: https://youtu.be/hlb3gGNBHFE. Here’s part two: https://youtu.be/xWsQ5lwgpSw.

@Alex - thanks for the comments, and I'm glad you liked the video :)

I have rarely heard "fair dinkum", but it does exist. "no worries" and "mate" is common, even my landlord addresses me in that manner ;)

"bangers and mash" is quite common here, too, and I believe that has actually spilled over here with the immigrants from the UK.