OK, so I'm Carina, this is English in Brazil, and today I'm in Australia with this amazing teacher!
Thank you!
My name is Rachel, I've been teaching or being at Langports for 10 years.
We have a lot of students from Brazil and they're really wonderful students. A lot of fun.
Are you saying that just because I'm Brazilian?
No!
Actually I used to teach Japanese to Australian students, and I must say that Brazilians and
Australians are very similar.
I find the culture seems to be quite similar and my students are always very happy when they come.
Yeah, I felt the same! Australians are so friendly, they're so welcoming... I feel great here
It's a great place to be.
Thank you!
And today we're gonna talk about Australian slang words!
G'DAY MATE, HOW YOU GOING?
Wow, that sounds so Australian!
Yeah, it's just a way of saying "hello".
So she's going to share some slang words with us, and I'm gonna try to guess them.
So, the first one is G'DAY, MATE.
Yeah, G'DAY, MATE, which is actually short for good day, but "good day" is very formal, "g'day" is more relaxed.
So we like to shorten things in Australia.
I don't know if it's because some people might say we are "lazy", but we like to shorten things.
You're just like the koalas.
Exactly!
So G'DAY MATE is HOW ARE YOU?
No, it's good day, which basically means Hello.
It's like good evening, but in the day. So it's "hello".
And "Mate"?
"mate" is friend.
Generally the men seem to say it more, and the men say it to each other.
But girls can say it as well.
I personally don't, but some of my male friends say "mate" to me.
And we do like to shorten things. So if I said to you for example...
What do you think that means?
Brekkie.. I think it's breakfast right? Sounds like "breakfast".
It is breakfast!
We do that a lot with words like:
Television!
Very good!
With an "R" sound?
Yeah "This arvo"
For example:
Weather?
No, it's a time of the day. So it's not in the morning, it's not in the evening..
Afternoon?
Yes!
OMG
I know, it's crazy. So ARVO is short for afternoon.
Omg, that's so amazing, I'd never guess this one.
Yeah, a lot of Australians say it. So as I said, we like to shorten our words a lot.
Another one is:
Ah, I think I know that!
It's the doll! Nah, I'm just kidding! It's not the doll, it's not Barbie.
Its barbecue, right?
Exactly! So we say that, or SANGA for sandwich.
Could you repeat that, please?
Yeah, it's quite Australian, not a lot of people say it, but you'll hear it.
Especially if you travel in the coutryside.
And when you said "sandwich" a part of a song came to my mind, which is VEGEMITE SANDWICH.
What is that type of sandwich? What is it?
Vegemite is a spread we put on the toast or bread.
And unfortunately, it looks like chocolate.
So students, or people coming to Australia, that don't know, will get it out of the tin or out of the jar
and eat it like chocolate. Please don't do that! It's very very salty.
Salty?
Very salty and very strong.
If you eat it, you have to put just a little little bit on. Even I can't eat it too much.
But do you like it?
My family like it! I personally don't really like that.
So yeah, so SANGA is for sandwich. And BOTTLE-O. You can to to the BOTTLE-O
...to get some wine, or beer.
Bar?
Bottle shop.
So the shop where we buy alcohol, we call that BOTTLE-O
Again we shorten it, instead of bottle shop, bottle-o
I've just got to go to the loo.
I think I know this one, because it's the same in Britain, right? So it's bathroom, right?
Yeah, so we don't say bathroom in Australia, we would say the toilet or the ladies.
But Loo is a very sorta casual thing, it's not a bad word, it's just very casual, and that's what we say.
It is from Britain, a lot of our words actually are. Because we were colonized by
the British... well actually they sent their convicts here.
So yeah, a lot of our words are very British English.
Yeah you sound British sometimes.
I'm from South Australia, which is a little different.
And then you said you can say "I can go to the Ladies" which is the toilet or bathroom. What if I'm a man? Where do I go?
THE GENTS.
Which is short for gentleman.
Yeah, because they shorten everything!
Exactly! We like to shorten everything.
We have some more words like... for our bikini or for swimwear, we say TOGS
Togs in Queensland. But where I'm from in South Australia we say BATHERS.
Yes, and in New South Wales they say COZZIE. So it depends where you're from.
Yeah, just like Brazil, we have so many words for.. I don't know.. Manioc, for example.
Mandioca, aipim, macaxeira... It depends on where you are.
So that's for Brazil, but in Australia we love swimming so we've got a lot of
words for swimwear.
That's right!
Yeah, they might bite you.
Bite me?
I don't know! What can bite you? Mosquito?
Yeah! You're right!
Yes mosquitoes.
Yes, lot of MOZZIES out. Again we just shorten.
And if I say TA to you?
It sounds weird but I think it means thank you.
You're correct! It does! It's very short.
And that's what we teach when babies are small, we teach them TA before thank you.
It's easy to say, I think.
In what kind of situation can I say TA? In any situation?
It's more casual, so I wouldn't say it if I didn't know someone and I wanted to be polite.
But if we're friends and I say "hey can you please pass me that glass?" and you pass it to me.. "TA".
We have a few more..
Ah that's easy! This is vegetables, right?!
Make sure you eat your VEGGIES. And because I'm a VEGGO, I eat a lot of VEGGIES.
AH you're a VEGGO?
So if I'm a VEGGO I eat a lot of VEGGIES. Vegetarian.
Yeah you have Veggie burger, veggie food, veggie everything.
Yes, so veggos are people who are vegetarian.
I could say:
It was about 25 degrees, so it was a real Scorcher today.
Very hot.
Is it an abbreviation of something?
No, it's for a hot day. Really, actually yeah, it'd be scorching hot.
Which means very very very hot, but we just say scorcher, which means a very hot day.
And what about CHRISTMAS?
Well as you know, we like to shorten everything. So we often say CHRISSIE.
DID YOU GET A CHRISSIE PREZZIE?
CHRISSIE PREZZIE? Present?
Yeah you got it! CHRISSIE PREZZIE
It's a whole new language!
That's right, but we might not shorten both of them.
So we could say: DID YOU GET ANYTHING FOR CHRISSIE?
YES, I GOT A NICE PREZZIE.
PREZZIE, present.
Ok so... a CUPPA?
For BREKKIE, I think I'll have a CUPPA and a nice BICCY.
Biccy is biscuit. Now in Australia we say biscuit instead of cookie.
But if we wanna shorten, we say Biccy.
And CUPPA is generally cup of tea.
A cup of tea.
For coffee we don't really say it. we would say coffee. So CUPPA would be a cup of tea.
CUPPA TEA
Yes, cup of tea and a biscuit : A CUPPA AND A BICCY.
A CUPPA AND A BICCY, please.
That's right yes!
Australians, we're relaxed kind of people, we don't like to stress too much.
So if someone has a problem, and they're really worried, we'll say:
Is it "It shall be alright"?
Yes, everything will be okay.
She'll be right, everything will be OK.
But it's actually short for SHE WILL BE.
But we're not sure why we say that. But yeah it just means "Everything will be ok".
SHE'LL BE RIGHT, RELAX! NO WORRIES, TAKE IT EASY!
And you also say no worries a lot, right?
So there's two ways we say it.
If someone says "Thank you", instead of saying "my pleasure" we can say "no worries".
Or if we want someone not to worry about something. "No worries, she'll be right, relax!"
We like to say it all, yeah!
and what about Sheila?
Sheila means girl, and my father probably uses it a little.
But I don't use it, I think it's more older people.
Maybe in the country they use it a bit.
But I think people my age or younger don't use it so much.
But it does mean female.
Could you give me an example in a sentence?
You're a nice Sheila!
You're a nice girl, yeah!
I'm a sheila then, cuz I'm a woman.
Exactly! And for a man we say "bloke"
I personally, again, it's a little bit.. not what I would say, but yeah. So" He's a nice bloke."
i'm a nice Sheila.
Ok, just like a nice guy. Would you say "guy" here?
I say guy. Guy is probably a little more American, but I think through the internet and TV and movies, American English is now a little bit more popular than it sued to be.
We used to be really British English, now it's changing a little bit.
I guess you forgot McDonald's.
Oh that's cuz I don't eat there, but yes McDonald's.. Macca's
"Let's go to Macca's"
Probably the last one is:
For example if you said: Rachel, how old are you?
"Don't be a stickybeak!"
Means kind of: Don't ask me things that are a bit personal, don't try and find out everything.
Or maybe if you have neighbors, and you're like, always looking at.. want to see what you're neighbors are doing.. Don't be a stickybeak
Stickybeak.
So thank you very much, Rachel!
No worries!
No worries... haha
I'll never say "You're welcome" again, I'll just start saying "no worries".
Well thank you. Lovely to chat to you all. And we hope to see you in Australia, in Queensland, at Landports, our lovely school.
See you next video, bye!