Hello. G'day, mate.
How are ya? How are ya, mate?
Good to see ya. Good to see ya.
Can I come in? Yeah.
They might hear stuff on the street, and they'll ring you and go, hey, what's going on?
And... Hey, sis what's up? Not much.
How's it going? Hi, how are you going?
My name's Kaitlin Keen. Hey, how's it going?
Nat, here. Let's see what's making news. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you later.
Basically, saying Mother Nature.
See ya later. See you guys.
Bye now. Bye. See ya.
G'day, you mob. How's it going?
Pete, here from Aussie English.
Today I'm going to teach you a bunch of contracted phrases in
Australian English.
Wait! Don't go. Don't go.
Don't go. Don't go. Don't freak out.
Don't panic. Jesus. It's not another one of those, I'm going to teach you "wanna" and "gonna" and
"lemme'" videos.
Okay, that's been done to death.
I know, you can find them elsewhere.
Today I'm going to teach you some of the more advanced, contracted, connected speech,
Australian English phrases that are used in greetings and goodbyes.
Okay, so without any further ado, let's get into it.
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Let's get going. Okay, so number one is "g'day".
"g'day". Now I've done a full video on the phrase g'day and how to
pronounce this like an Australian up above here.
You can just click that video and you'll be able to watch the full breakdown of that.
But that is number one.
This is a contraction of the word "good" and "day".
We would never say, "good day" when greeting someone and we say,
"g'day", "g'day".
Okay, we can use this in the morning.
We can use this during the day.
And we can often use this at night as well.
And it tends to be, although it sounds informal, it tends to be used with all
different kinds of people.
And it sort of shows the laid back nature of Australian English.
Hello. G'day, mate.
How are ya?
How are ya, mate?
Good to see ya. Good to see ya. Can I come in?
Yeah. So, say g'day with me three times.
Okay, listen and repeat after me.
"G'day". "G'day".
"G'day". Good job.
Number two, "what's going on?".
Now, we can say this as just "what's going on?", "what's going
on?" "What's goin' on?" "Hey, mate.
How's it goin'? What's goin' on?
" "G'day, mate. What's goin' on?" But you will sometimes hear this get really contracted
and almost made more nasal, right.
To sort of accentuate that Australian accent.
You'll hear this as "Scarnon?
". Right. It's almost like scar-non, right.
In a single word. "What's goin' on?".
"What's goin' on?". So, this phrase, "what's going on?", "What's goin'
on?", is used to ask how someone is.
It's similar to what's happening?
Right, like what's going on in your life, what's happening in your life.
"What's going on?".
"What's goin' on?". So, you could use this to ask about someone's recent
activities, what they're up to, how their family is.
It's sort of a very broad term about asking about their life currently
. "What's goin' on?". And a common reply to this is, "not much".
Right. "What's going on?
Not much." "What's goin' on, mate?
Not much." And a more informal Aussie one that you should use in informal
company is, "bugger all".
It's not that rude, but it's pretty Aussie.
"Bugger all". "What's going on, mate?
Mate, bugger all.
Nothing. Bugger all." So, let's say this three times in a row after me.
Okay, listen and repeat.
"What's going on?
Scarnon? What's going on?
Scarnon?" Number three and this one, I don't think
Australians can claim that they created it.
I'm pretty sure this one came from America, but it became very popular in Australia and
we use it everywhere now.
Okay, so, sorry, Americans we sort of co-opted that one.
"What's up?" "What's up?
" And it can get contracted further to just, "s'up?" "s'up?" "Hey, mate.
S'up?". So, this is as well like, "what's going on?" "Scarnon?" This is an
informal greeting, okay.
"What's up?" "S'up?" I would never say this to my grandparents if I were catching up with
them. I would say, I might say, "G'day, how's it going?
" But I would never say, "Hey, Nana and Grandpa.
S'up?" or "Hey, Nana and Grandpa.
Scarnon?" I'd probably say, "what's going on?" If I was going to use that at all.
Anyway, "s'up?" "s'up?" "What is up?" This is similar
to "what is going on?" "What is happening?" I'm asking about what you're up to
at the moment. How's your life currently.
You know, what activities have you been doing, how's your family.
Everything like that. It's kind of encapsulated in that greeting expression.
"What's up?" "S'up?"
So for example, repeat after me.
"Hey, Geoff, what's up?" We'll do it three times.
"Hey, Geoff, what's up?
" "Hey, Geoff, s'up?" Now, a little note about
intonation here, if you are going to say the full phrase, "what's up?"
Depending on the intonation you use because of the phrasal verbs, to be up,
it can mean many different things.
About three different things, to be honest.
So, we can have the first one.
What's up? As in, how are you?
We could also use it if we were to use the intonation showing concern.
"Oh, what's up!? What's up!?
" Right, it kind of, "what's up!?" It flicks up at the end there.
"What's up!?" Showing concern.
Okay, so I'm enquiring about your well-being.
If I saw a kid crying in the street, maybe my son's hurt himself and he's on the ground
crying, grabbing his knee.
I might say, "oh, Noah.
What's up!? Are you okay?
What's up!?" And then the last one is that you can use this when asking what someone
wants or what sort of problem they're having.
So, if I'm at work, someone walks up to me and they've got a bunch of papers, I might say,
"what's up?" "what's up?" And that shows that I am curious about what the
problem is, but I'm not concerned and I'm not saying hello.
Okay. All right, let's do each of these three times, starting with the greeting.
"Hey, what's up?" "Hey, what's up?"
"Hey, what's up?" Concerned.
"oh, what's up?" "Oh, what's up
?" "Oh, what's up?" Asking what someone wants.
"What's up?" "What's up?"
"What's up?" They're kind of close, but just pay attention to that
and keep that in mind when using this phrase in the future.
All right, number four.
"How are you going?
" "How are you going?
" This gets contracted quite often to, "how're ya goin'?"
"How're ya goin'?" And then further to just, "how ya goin'
?" Or "how ya goin'?" "How ya goin'?" "How're ya goin'?
" This is a very classic Australian greeting.
It's probably as common, potentially more common than "how's it going?
" Okay, "how are you going?
" "How're ya goin'?" "How ya goin'?"
Hey, mate. How're we doing?
How're ya goin'? Good to see you.
Yeah, you too. Before we break it down, I would pick "how ya goin'?" Nine times out of
ten more than "how are you going?" And I would pick it one hundred times out of one hundred
times more than "how do you do?
" Okay, I would never use "how do you do?" In English.
I probably shouldn't say never, but maybe if I was meeting the Queen of England or something, I
would say, "how do you do, your Highness?
" We're never going to use that with just strangers in Australia.
It would be very weird. So, let's break this phrase down.
I've got four different contractions.
We'll start with the main one, Okay, we'll repeat each of them three times.
Let's do it. "How are you going?" "How are you
going?" "How are you going?" That's the
full phrase, okay.
Now let's contract "going".
"How are you goin'?
" "How are you goin'?" "How are you goin'?"
Now we're going to remove that "are" from the phrase, okay.
That auxiliary verb, gone.
"How ya goin'? "How ya goin'?"
"How ya goin'?" And lastly, if we want to sound
really broad in terms of our pronunciation, we can remove the "H"
from the front of the word "how".
So, now we can say, "ow ya goin'?".
"ow ya goin'?" "ow ya goin'?"
It's funny, it sounds better.
You got to drop that voice, make that voice really deep.
"Ow ya goin', mate?" "How ya goin'?" "Ow ya goin'?" Very Australian.
I should also give an honourable mention to the phrase, "how are you?" Obviously, we use this as
well. It's just removing that "going".
We just think of, "how are you?" "What is your condition, how are you presently?"
Right. "How are ya?" Okay, so we're going to contract this as well.
"How are you?" Would never say it like that.
We would say, "how are ya?" "how are ya?" "How
are ya?" And if we really want to make it broad like we just went over, you can
remove that "H" and it sounds like, "Ow are ya?"
"Ow are ya?" "Ow are ya?" "Ow are ya, mate?
Ow are ya?".
All right. Number five, the last one of the greetings.
"How's it going?" "How's it going?" Now, in the
previous video I released, I covered this in detail.
So, this is a really good one to learn.
If you want to sound more like an Australian when greeting someone, especially with that one-two
combo of "g'day, how's it going?" You can also check out the g'day video
up here as well. This is one of Australia's biggest mysteries.
"How's it going?" What does it refer to?
Is it someone's day?
Is it someone's life or is it something else?
Comment below if you know or if you have any theories.
How's it going? Who is it?
What is it? It.
How's it going? The trick here is to making sure that you say
/ə/ in the middle, right.
The word "it" gets contracted to /ə/ with that schwa sound.
And then because there's a /G/ sound after that "T" that is muted.
/ə/ /ə/ /ə/ going, /ə/ going the "T" disappears
and we have a muted /K/-/G/ sound with the mouth.
"How's it goin'?" "How's it goin'
?" "How's it goin'?" "How's it goin'?" How's it goin'?".
And unlike the previous two examples, we can make this sound even broader, even
more Strayan.
If we remove that "H" from the front of the phrase and just say, "Ow's it goin'?"
"Ow's it goin'?" "Oh, g'day, Pete.
Ow's it goin'?" "G'day, Jane.
Ow's it goin'?" "Ow's it goin'?"
"Ow's it goin'?"
Lastly, guys, I've got three different ways of saying goodbye that are really good in Australian
English. Okay, number one, "catchya later"
"Catchya later" this is I will catch
you later, as in I will see you at another time in the future,
I'll catch you later.
We'll never say, "catch you later" we'll say, "catchya
later" Okay, so "catch" "catch" that "you"
gets turned into a schwa sound and shoved onto the end of the word "catch"
. "Catchya" "catchya" and the "T" in the word "later
" becomes a T-flap.
"Later". "Later".
"Catchya later" "Catchya later".
Say this with me three times.
"Catchya later".
"Catchya later". "Catchya later".
Good work. Now, the second example here is "see ya later".
"See you later".
A synonym for catch you later, right, means the same thing.
I'll see you later in the future at some possible
unknown time.
I'll see you later.
We don't say, "I'll see you later".
We contract it down to "see ya later".
So, the same rules here.
The "you" gets turned into a schwa sound in there instead of /ʉ/ you're
going to hear /ə/.
Ya. Ya. See ya.
See ya. And later, the "T" turns into a D-flap again or a T-flap.
Later. Later.
"See ya later". Say this with me three times.
"See ya later" "See ya later"
"See ya later". Lastly, we have a modification
of, see ya later.
And that is adding the word "on" at the end.
"See you later on" "I will see you later
on" "See ya later on" So, it almost sounds like a single long word.
"See ya later on" "See ya later on".
You might be thinking, what does the "on" add when we add that "on" to the end
of the phrase, "see ya later on"?
Effectively, this is different from "see ya later" because if we say, "I'll see ya later on"
I mean today.
I will see you at a later time, today.
Later on, today.
If I just say, "see ya later".
That could be I'll see you later today.
It may be that I'll see you at some point in the future or it may just be a goodbye that I'm
using, and I'll never see you again.
Right, if I leave a store, I've gone on a holiday to Germany and I leave a store and the guy speaks
Australian English might say to him, "See ya later".
But I won't say, "see ya later on" because he'll be like, what, you're going to come to my house or
something or are you coming back?
See you later on. So, say this with me three times, okay.
"See ya later on" "See ya later on"
"See ya later on" Now, one interesting thing that I've
just thought of is that we have this family joke, my grandfather's name is Ronald,
and they would call him Ron.
And so, you could not really tell if someone said to Ron, "I'll see you
later, Ron". He doesn't know.
I guess if someone is saying they'll see him later today or they'll see him in
the future or goodbye.
The one thing that I could notice here may be the intonation you would use when placing
someone's name at the end of that phrase.
You would say, "see ya later, Ron".
"See ya later, Ron".
It comes down a bit.
"See ya later, Ron". "See ya later, Ron".
Whereas if I was saying "on" at the end, as in, I'll see you later on, it keeps going
up. "See ya later on".
"See ya later on". Anyway, a bit of bonus there for you at the end.
All right, guys, that is it for today.
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I will include all of the different phrases here, how there contracted.
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slight differences in pronunciation occur here.
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