AE 944 - Aussie Slang: Bad News
Send us a text 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 teach you the Aussie slang phrase "bad news". 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!
18 Jun 20215min
AE 942 - The Goss: Gladiators, Footy, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Send us a text 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 talk about the hard physical contact sport that is Australian football - or footy! This is the kind of sport that, if things go really wrong on any given moment, will give you CTE. CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a fatal brain disease found common in f...
16 Jun 202138min
AE 941 - Expression: Make Your Skin Crawl
Send us a text 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 how to use the expression "make your skin crawl", the origin of the expression, and what is funny about a bumblebee.We also talk about Angelina Jolie getting covered with bees for National Geographic. La...
13 Jun 202121min
AE 940 - 80+ Spoken Contractions In English
Send us a text Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English Podcast!In today's episode, I teach you 80+ commonly used Contractions in the English language.A contraction is 2 words that are combined to create a new word with a new meaning.These contractions are helpful when conversing to native English speakers.Learn what these contractions are so you can use them in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today – listen, play, & pause this episod...
12 Jun 202118min
AE 938 - Aussie Slang: Back of Beyond
Send us a text 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 teach you the Aussie slang phrase "back of beyond". 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!
11 Jun 20214min
AE 936 - The Goss: The World's Most 'Instragrammable Bird' & Australia's Oldest-Ever Person
Send us a text 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 talk about the world's most Instagrammable bird -- the frog mouth bird! Tune in today and find out why this bird, once named as 'the most unfortunate-looking bird', now holds the title of Instagram's most popular bird.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play ...
9 Jun 202123min
AE 935 - Expression: Rattle Your Dags
Send us a text 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 how to use the expression ‘rattle your dags’, the origin of the expression, and what the Aussie slang term ‘dag’ means.We also talk about Australia’s biggest sheep shearing competition and then cover the ...
6 Jun 202125min
AE 934 - Interview: Japanese vs Australian Culture & Growing Up a Global Citizen with David Rajaraman
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie English podcast where I invite guests and interview them. Join us for about an hour of fun talking about what's going on in their life!Today is a special interview episode where I am interviewing my dear friend David Rajaraman. He is of Indian descent though he grew up in Brunei.David then came to Australia and studied aeronautics at university up in Queensland. With a turn of events, he ended up in Japan teaching English.T...
5 Jun 20211h 14min
