Australian English Through Stories
5 funny Aussie tales to learn everyday slang, expressions, vocabulary, and Australian culture
By James Weller
5 chapters · 75 pages · Level B1 · EPUB & PDF
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You can speak English all your life and still get lost in an Australian sentence. Someone offers to meet you at the servo in the arvo, or tells you to grab your thongs, and familiar words stop meaning what you think.
This book translates Australian English from the American side, starting with the word you already know. The key phrases come with their American equivalents: a footpath is a sidewalk, a bowser a gas pump, a ute a small pickup truck. The notes flag the false friends too. An Australian jumper is a sweater, a biscuit is a cookie, and thongs go on your feet.
The phrases come up in stories set in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, written at an intermediate level so nothing gets in the way of the dialect itself. A kangaroo wanders into a Bondi café, a magpie steals sunglasses at South Bank, and a Perth beach waits for its afternoon sea breeze, the Fremantle Doctor.
By the last page, “No dramas, my shout” needs no translation: no problem, and the speaker is paying.
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