Before You Head Down Under
Where: Australia
Quick quiz: What language do they speak in Australia? Well, English of course, but with their own special slant. Luckily the National Museum of Australia has developed an online Aussie English for the Beginner tutorial for all non-Aussies to bone up on their "Australian". You'll soon learn that the locals Down Under wear trackie daks on weekends and drive their ute to to a barbie with their tinnies in an esky.
The interactive guide's nicest feature is the "Hear the word in use" button, when you hear Croc-Dundee-like-fellows chatting with the great Aussie drawl. Perfect training for your holiday: We know it's important to be able to fit in with the locals, and it's not just travel in non-English speaking countries where you need help.
Still puzzling over our great Aussie sentence? In plain English, what we said is that the Aussies wear a jogging suit on Sundays and drive their pickup to a barbecue with their six-packs in a cooler. Why couldn't they just say what they mean?
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