Aussie English

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian! I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "bathers". Yes, you'll be hearing a lot of Aussies say this slang word especially during the summer season! Can you now figure out what it means? Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English podcast! Here's another epic chin-wag episode for you mob! Meet Kyrin Down from Brisbane, Australia! Kyrin studied mining engineering at an Australian university. He then went on to work for Rio Tinto, a giant mining company. And all of a sudden, he threw all that away and chose to travel around the globe. He went around South America and Asia, fell in love with someone from Colombia - and he's not even 30 yet! Watch and listen in today to learn what it's like living in Brisbane, what stoicism is about, and why you should not focus on achieving happiness all the time. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this weekly episode of the Aussie English podcast! I will teach you all about the English expression "have a bone to pick with someone". No, you don't have to be holding a bone in your hand when you say this expression. With this English expression lesson, I will also be telling you about Australia's own dinosaur! Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English podcast! When speaking, native English speakers tend to shorten or contract words. In this case, the auxiliary verbs AM, IS, and ARE can be contracted with pronouns without changing their meaning. Mastering these contractions will make you sound more natural. You will also gain a better understanding of what native speakers are trying to tell you. First, I will teach you the correct pronunciation for the auxiliary verb (am, is, are) and the pronoun. You will learn how each of them should be sounded out when they are contracted together. There will be three examples provided for each contracted pair of the auxiliary verb + pronoun. Find a good spot where you can practice your pronunciation. Focus on how the sounds change and pay attention to the intonation. Let's get into this! Contraction #1: Am I Contraction #2: Are You Contraction #3: Is He Contraction #4: Is She Contraction #5: Are We Contraction #6: Are They Contraction #7:

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian! I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "a basket case". You may have heard of this before. In a song? Yes, that metal-heady song perfectly describes the slang term "a basket case"! Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These episodes aim to teach you common English expressions as well as give you a fair dinkum true-blue dose of Aussie culture, history, and news and current affairs. In today's episode, I am going to teach you all about the English expression "have balls". You and your funny brain are thinking of male body organs, isn't it? Surprise, this expression does have something to do with it! This week's exciting story is about a "ballsy" teenager who drove away a bear to protect her dogs -- there, you see the word "ballsy"? This episode is packed with real life examples on where and how you can use the expression "have balls". Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English podcast! Here are 11 awesome, fair-dinkum, true blue Australian English phrases that you can use in your everyday conversations! For each phrase that I will talk about, I will explain the meaning of each phrase so that you have a true understanding of what it means. Also, I will be giving you situations where you can use each phrase - in real life English conversations. As a bonus, I will be telling you synonyms for these phrases - so you don't 'overuse' what you learn today. Oh, and another bonus, I'll remind you how to pronounce the words correctly. Note that some of these phrases are being contracted; the sounds are shortened; so that you sound just like a native English speaker. 00:00 Start 00:54 Phrase #1: Are you kidding? 02:33 Phrase #2: As if! 04:18 Phrase #3: That's epic! 05:57 Phrase #4: No worries! 07:51 Phrase #5: Tough luck. 09:29 Phrase #6: Catch ya (later) 11:07 Phrase #7: Sorry 12:32 Phrase #8: What's going on? 14:0

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian! In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "give it a bash". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs. In today's episode, We are going to talk about two naked Aussies who got caught naked in the bushes! Yes, two buck-naked men recently got lost in the Royal National Park. SES (State Emergency Services) had to be called in and search for them. And so they got fined $1000 each for not following the travel restrictions. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These episodes aim to teach you common English expressions as well as give you a fair dinkum true-blue dose of Aussie culture, history, and news and current affairs. I am going to teach you about the English expression "in the belly of the beast"! Do you remember the children's story about Pinocchio's dad getting swallowed by a whale? We got someone who experience just that in 2021. In this episode, I will tell you the meaning of the expression, how the expression came about, give you situations where you can appropriately use the expression. Also, I will talk about whales in Australia and introduce you to Migaloo! Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs. We are going to talk about dad's choice of a dead Aussie to be invited to dinner. My dad Ian, my talking buddy here in The Goss series, wants Admiral Arthur Phillip with him on the dinner table. Arthur Phillip is a British admiral who founded the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent. Watch or listen in today why we think Admiral Phillip is a deserving dinner table guest. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. In today's episode, I am going to teach you how to say /e/ versus /æ/! Learn the difference between the words like "set" and "sat" or "merry" and "marry". First, we go over the correct pronunciation of /e/ and /æ/. Then, we compare the sounds when used in words, like berry and Barry. And lastly, I give you a FREE listening exercise! I am going to say 10 different words and show you two possible answers. Your task is to know which sound is used on the word. This episode has a bunch of examples for you to practice on! Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian! In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "banged up". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this English Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These are weekly episodes where I teach you how to use English expressions like a fair dinkum Australian! I am going to teach you 6 English expressions that you can use in your daily conversations! Here are some English expressions guaranteed to level up your English: A hard nut to crack Chasing rainbows A rising tide lifts all boats Rattle your dags Make your skin crawl Scaredy cat In this video, I tell you what these expressions mean & give you situations where you can appropriately use them. Watch the video to the end to get a little surprise! Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian! In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "go bananas". No, we don't need bananas on hand while saying this expression. Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These episodes aim to teach you common English expressions as well as give you a fair dinkum true-blue dose of Aussie culture, history, and news and current affairs. In today's episode, I teach you all about the English expression "scaredy cat". Listen in and watch as I tell you the origin of the expression, give examples on how to use the expression, and run by a pronunciation exercise. Also, learn the story of a lost Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog or Maremma. And lastly, I give you cat facts about Australia! Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie English podcast! I am going to reveal to you my results from the Australia Talks survey! It's nice to know that a majority of Australians, despite the Covid pandemic going on, feel better about their lives. Also, a lot of Aussies would want lying politicians should resign - I think any citizen of any country would want that, don't you think? And survey results say we're a happy bunch here down under! At 76%, Australians say that they are happy. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian! In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "out the back of bourke". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs. In this episode, we get to talk about cattle farmers in Botswana who have been drawing 'eyes' on the bums of their cows to prevent lion attacks - and it's working! In a project they aptly named the "I-Cow Project", they have come up with this idea to prevent large predators from attacking their cattle. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English Podcast. I had a great time chin-wagging with these two adorable mates from Melbourne, Australia! Meet Bec and Penny, the content creators of Language Lovers Australia and the Language Chats podcast. They initially got me on their podcast to talk about Aussie English. We now turn the tables as I got to interview them about how we Australians learn different languages. We talked about the differences between learning languages in a community environment - like language meet ups, versus learning it properly in a classroom setting - like uni. We also talked about what it takes to really discipline yourself in learning a foreign language; sticking to your schedule and making sure you always have progress. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!