I have a pretty thick Aussie accent, and I have accepted that nobody has a clue what the hell I'm talking about when I travel, but they assume I'm gonna be a good time, and that's all I need 😂
It's like Australia and germany are having a war on how long words should be. In 50 years germany will have one giant word for every thing and australia with just have single syllable words
I met a guy from the Netherlands once who said he loved Australian slang including "chockablock," then described the Australian beaches as "un-chockablock" haha It was very endearing :'D
@@sharonralph3860 Wait really? Cool! Though I think I was more surprised about how some of these phrases weren't used by English speakers globally, and not just in a small corner of it. I also haven't been to New Zealand, but I do realise that Australia and New Zealand have their cultural similarities, I just hadn't known that that had also included some of these phrases so thank you for teaching me something new!
I feel very strongly that I met the 2 blonde German tourists in the first half of 2019 when i was living in the top part of western Australia in a town called halls creek I worked the front counter in a convenience store on the corner leading out of town and had a brief convo with the bloke about where he and his missus were going on their holiday The nostalgic feeling is so strong I remember how gorgeous his girlfriend was
The German girl is a doll. Australia actually has many immigrants like we do. "Here, let's cook it on the Barby, and crack a tube Mate." Let's have a barbeque and have a beer.
My grand mothers best friend from the early forties until they passed of old age. A third generation Chinese Australian woman whom worked as a cook in the out back of Australia on cattle and sheep station's. The charming little lady could speak seven language's. "Strine", and six aboriginal dialects. Not English or Chinese. Strine is a rhyming slang like the English style but with an aussie twist, of course. I met her when she was ninety seven years old. I was six. I had not one clue as to what she was saying, her grand daughter had to translate so we could have a conversation. She was wonderful to talk with. R.I.P Aunty Bee.
Sooo funny. I was never that great at foreign languages but having lived in Australia now for 30 years, I'm glad to report I got all of them, and quite often use them too. So, onya mate.
CH0CKABLOCK does not mean BUSY it means FULL, PACKED UP so if you say , it's Chocablock in here (and you're in a shopping centre) it doesn't mean the shopping centre is busy (even though it can be interpreted that way ) IT ACTUALLY MEANS... THE SHOPPING CENTRE IS FULL AND PACKED UP WITH PEOPLE which in turn means it's busy but Chocca's means FULL not Busy if you're in traffic and it's chocca's it means you are bumper to bumper and the roads are full
I agree the proper meaning of chockers is full. Like really full .. can't take any more. if the shops were chockers .. kind of means it's busy though (full of people)
I've only ever used "good onya" sarcastically and I've rarely heard it used sincerely. Poor Asian people. Their languages are so drastically different they had no chance
G'day Josh I just discovered your video your channel. This excellent channel really opens up our horizon. Chuck a sickie and chuck a u'ey are among the Ozzie slang words ireally like. Thanks mate
I work with so many people from other countries and often have to remind myself I need to turn down my slang so I can communicate properly. It's still a lot of fun to teach them some slang when we have time. Even some of the people I work with who have been here for years are still learning new Aussie words and slang
If you read "They're a Weird Mob" by Johnny O'Grady (aka Nino Cullota) the old phrase was "Gidday Mate! Owyergoinmateorright?" I grew up with it, still use it and it messes with my Asian coworkers terribly. I can't speak Mandarin though and they appear to be in the majority where I work so the joke may be on me.
It could be used for traffic, "the freeways are chockers today with every man and his dog going away for the long weekend" We would call traffic either caused after an accident or stop-start peak hour traffic "an absolute carpark".
A friend said "ratbag" to locals at Montreal, Canada, then we, a small group of Australians spent a few minutes trying to explain the term in Canadian English.
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I speak American English and I can understand a lot of what aussies say, but dont expect me to respond and keep up 😂😂 but you can get totally lost in the lingo 😂
I live in Nye,Texas. I got interested in Australia because I watched the movie and series Wolf creek, which immediately got me interested in Australia.But I don't really know Australia. Will it be dangerous for foreign tourists like in movies and series Wolf creek ?😅😅😅😅
I have a pretty thick Aussie accent, and I have accepted that nobody has a clue what the hell I'm talking about when I travel, but they assume I'm gonna be a good time, and that's all I need 😂
This comment made my day lol
I travel a lot. Now I wonder IF people understand me 😂😂😂😂
sorry mate, what was that, i didn't catch what you said :P
Good on ya, mate 😂
The lady saying choccy bicky was so cute lol
And Sang-ga. I proper laughed out loud
@@robbieb1254 it’s just Sanga
100% smashable
It's like Australia and germany are having a war on how long words should be. In 50 years germany will have one giant word for every thing and australia with just have single syllable words
Yes.
You should see some of the street signs on the suburbs of Perth... the Aboriginal names are crazy long!
We are more efficient than the Germans.
good onions mate.
Glad you enjoyed them.
On your Bunnos with the lot
As an Aussie, I didn't realise that we do indeed speak gibberish like it's actually english 😂😂
As an australian i realised i've actually spoken gibberish all the time not english😂
Yes.
😂 best reply eva
I met a guy from the Netherlands once who said he loved Australian slang including "chockablock," then described the Australian beaches as "un-chockablock" haha It was very endearing :'D
Un-chockablock 🤣😂😅
...woke up the neighbours I swear! 😂
I don't often laugh out loud reading the comments section but that was a ripper...😂👍
Chock-a-block is not a slang term.
It means when a pulley block(using 2 or more pulleys) is at the top of it's support.
This channel is underrated! that was funny af
Yay, thanks Matt! 😁😁
As an Aussie watching this, I didn't even realise some of these phrases were exclusive to Australia lol
They are not. They all are New Zealand phrases too.
@@sharonralph3860 Wait really? Cool! Though I think I was more surprised about how some of these phrases weren't used by English speakers globally, and not just in a small corner of it.
I also haven't been to New Zealand, but I do realise that Australia and New Zealand have their cultural similarities, I just hadn't known that that had also included some of these phrases so thank you for teaching me something new!
One of the Japanese guys in my friend, well done confusing him!
Easa Alshemsi Haha I did my best! 😜
Dude, they were all confused
Some of this was PhD level Aussie slang, you can't expect the young blood to be up on it.
Kkkkkkkk
It's all pretty common stuff.
Its for a content, not like they’re getting graded or anything.
I feel very strongly that I met the 2 blonde German tourists in the first half of 2019 when i was living in the top part of western Australia in a town called halls creek
I worked the front counter in a convenience store on the corner leading out of town and had a brief convo with the bloke about where he and his missus were going on their holiday
The nostalgic feeling is so strong
I remember how gorgeous his girlfriend was
Good job. Actually the first Aussie slang video that uses words that are spoken everyday in Australia that I have watched. on ya m8
The guy at 2:15 when he said no he sounded Australian
Haha wow that is spot on. Maybe he is secretly Australian...?
Nut
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT ❤️
I m glad that I knew 90 percent of these slang having lived in Australia for 10 long years.
The German girl is a doll. Australia actually has many immigrants like we do. "Here, let's cook it on the Barby, and crack a tube Mate." Let's have a barbeque and have a beer.
My grand mothers best friend from the early forties until they passed of old age. A third generation Chinese Australian woman whom worked as a cook in the out back of Australia on cattle and sheep station's. The charming little lady could speak seven language's. "Strine", and six aboriginal dialects. Not English or Chinese. Strine is a rhyming slang like the English style but with an aussie twist, of course. I met her when she was ninety seven years old. I was six. I had not one clue as to what she was saying, her grand daughter had to translate so we could have a conversation. She was wonderful to talk with. R.I.P Aunty Bee.
I'm glad you used slang we actually still use 👌
I love watching people trying to decipher Australian slang like it’s a different language
This is glorious, I love doing this with international friends too!
This was sooo good. Only one I had an issue with was chokablock, it means really full.
I agree with you. But every state seems to have different meaning for some words. I guess its from being lost in translation
I just say 'chockers' .'It was chockers full of chocolate'
Or chockers for short
Sooo funny. I was never that great at foreign languages but having lived in Australia now for 30 years, I'm glad to report I got all of them, and quite often use them too. So, onya mate.
in my part of the country chokablock refers to a particular
style of activity... 🤣
eg. wheres bazza?... he's in the top bedroom chokablock.
As a Australian from the sticks and now in the city. Nice video
CH0CKABLOCK does not mean BUSY
it means FULL, PACKED UP
so if you say , it's Chocablock in here (and you're in a shopping centre)
it doesn't mean the shopping centre is busy (even though it can be interpreted that way )
IT ACTUALLY MEANS... THE SHOPPING CENTRE IS FULL AND PACKED UP WITH PEOPLE
which in turn means it's busy
but Chocca's means FULL not Busy
if you're in traffic and it's chocca's it means you are bumper to bumper and the roads are full
There's a Maccas right behind them!
If something is "Chocker's," it's full. Not necessarily " Busy."
Yes, often used it to say I'm full of food.
I agree the proper meaning of chockers is full.
Like really full .. can't take any more.
if the shops were chockers .. kind of means it's busy though (full of people)
When l migrated to Australia it was so confusing all those slang words but after 46 years it’s so natural. Love the slang as it’s so practical.
"Have these phrases helped you?"
"...no"
diedddddd
I've only ever used "good onya" sarcastically and I've rarely heard it used sincerely.
Poor Asian people. Their languages are so drastically different they had no chance
In true Aussie style it's shortened to onya
G'day Josh
I just discovered your video your channel. This excellent channel really opens up our horizon. Chuck a sickie and chuck a u'ey are among the Ozzie slang words ireally like. Thanks mate
I work with so many people from other countries and often have to remind myself I need to turn down my slang so I can communicate properly. It's still a lot of fun to teach them some slang when we have time. Even some of the people I work with who have been here for years are still learning new Aussie words and slang
i would say chockers means more directly full, “oh man i’m chockers i can’t eat any more”
My favourite is how we say fucking “trackie dacks” lmfao
I have Yank friends who love how we shorten everything and chuck a 'y' on the end? Chrissy prezzy!!
i love oz accent mate. really funny
When asked "How ya goin", the reply is "Flat out like a lizard drinking".
and chuck "mate" on the end!
This is very entertaining for me as an Australian
As full as a state school hat rack. Bloody oath mate, fair dinkum, I am not pulling ya leg mate.
Chockablock was once a popular ice-cream in Australia too.
I do have some cousins living in Australia, but my english accent tends to american because most english teachers I had were americans
Dang! Dat German gurl 😍😍
If you read "They're a Weird Mob" by Johnny O'Grady (aka Nino Cullota) the old phrase was "Gidday Mate! Owyergoinmateorright?" I grew up with it, still use it and it messes with my Asian coworkers terribly. I can't speak Mandarin though and they appear to be in the majority where I work so the joke may be on me.
I'm loving this content. ☺
RylandsMusic Thanks Ryland! 😁 Hope you’re going well 🙂
2:55 choco sticky hhaha that was funny
Is funny - mind you I don't think I'd understand you just listening, Mate! And I've been here 13-years!! 👍😉🦘🐾
Great thanks mate, you made my accent pretty good.# Tons of love from INDIA
this was such an awesome content! thanks!
More of such videos please
im sitting here knowing every phrase and so painful to watch 😂😂
You'll be right mate. You'll get it in no time if ya ain't got it yet. Lol.
4:55 what was that
there is literally a macca's behind her
LOL
It's fun watching them try
hah. Shoulda tried em on the chunder song from bazza mckenzie:
I had a technicolour yawn and I chundered in the old pacific sea.
chockers is full not busy.
+1
How can my guts be busy if I can't eat any more. Or if I walk into a stadium full of people and say, Whoa! The place is chockers!"
Yeah full is probably more accurate. Though it can also mean busy/crowded :)
This was great, everyone was a really good sport with it all. :)
Chockablock is full ….like full of food ….car is chockas it’s crowded/full
Watching this from England, it's amazing how similar we are.
We wouldn't say 'chuck' we'd say 'pull a sickie' though.
German guy said "Kein Problem," which is a pretty good translation.
Aussie slangs is so interesting to learn, i just need to put some hard yakka.
Expression on their faces with chucka x,y,z lol
Choca Block was an ice cream block
My grandma after we went to the beach says, "it was chockablock"
Me as a 5 year old "chocolate block?!" 😂
good onya mate can have several meaning, depends how it is said
Right mate!
I forget we have so much slang poor tourists.. nice people you talked to.
yoza com down to cali on sunshine coast brud and meet some ppl here
can you do one with aussies and see how many they get
100% or your not an Aussie
When I was working in Melbourne city, my coworkers shorten my name from Bilyana to Billy and now it's just Bill. Soon enough it will be just B.
Bro the alert sound you used is the same one as Mattermost app, you screwing with me
Do Aussies also use chock-a-block as a noun (= traffic congestion)?
It could be used for traffic, "the freeways are chockers today with every man and his dog going away for the long weekend"
We would call traffic either caused after an accident or stop-start peak hour traffic "an absolute carpark".
@@zchettaz Thx
Thanks a lot about it my amazing teacher i wanna learn more about Aussie accent this word is being funny to me chuck a u ey
Yeah mate the traffic is chocoblock, chuck a fucking U e, oath cnt
Bruhhhh this more of a comedy😆😆..it's too funny lol
My fav ... " it's a nice die to die."
Dosvidonya, mate.
What about our double pluggers
The Germans are so good looking! 😍
fatherland genetics
My accent is so think that other Australians often don't understand me.
I love Australians
5:24 that's you walk in the street gurl.
No ice May ate
I learned this arvo from Tom Cardy's songs
A friend said "ratbag" to locals at Montreal, Canada, then we, a small group of Australians spent a few minutes trying to explain the term in Canadian English.
Has someone mad apps to help newcomers with Aussie slang?
I’ve lived here since I was 12 and now 26. Now I understand why my family keep getting on to me to speak “normally” 😂😂😂
MACADONALDUS
0:28 thought that was bambam for a sec XD
i just can't stop laughing ahhaah chuck a sickey xD what the heck hhahaha
Lol do has wanna hit Macas or H’j s ?
Ive😢heard a U Turn described in the United States as 'Flipping a Chester!' So I guess if you rotate a'C' 90 Degrees it becomes an U! Right?
I can see the Macca's logo in the background 😅
The korean girl is so pretty
Fair dinkum, the dingo aite moy boibee.
US uses chockablock, but not chockers.
Wow! Chuck a u’ey 😂 suddenly
When I told a tourist not to go to a certain place at 6 'cause it would be chokkas they thought I meant is was covered in chocolate.
Well I'm flat out
You little ripper mate
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Man I having an Aussie accent. True blue baby.
I speak American English and I can understand a lot of what aussies say, but dont expect me to respond and keep up 😂😂 but you can get totally lost in the lingo 😂
The Asian bloke is spot on. chuck a sickie = fuck work, I'm going to the pub with me mates
I live in Nye,Texas. I got interested in Australia because I watched the movie and series Wolf creek, which immediately got me interested in Australia.But I don't really know Australia. Will it be dangerous for foreign tourists like in movies and series Wolf creek ?😅😅😅😅