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If you're not Australian, and you think this is all an exaggerated stereotype, you're in for a surprise. Even I was surprised. None of these were made up. We actually talk like this.
Its actually St Vincent de Paul Society (originally called Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) - As an Aussie - when I do slang, I try to remember what the original word or name is because someone will always ask you. And there is so many slang words out there now for the samething or even the same slang for various things, it all depends on how you use it in a sentence. Eg Pissed or Crook. I dont think I need to tell you the different meanings for them?
HAHA SO TRUE! I am Italian, and when I first came to Australia I struggled to understand these short words, now I am used to it. This is my country. I love Australia!!
@@anthonygadaleta3427 You just found one.... I hate it and this so called language, I absoluteley HATE the Australian accent!!! It is the UGLIEST in the world!!!!
I honestly thought that this video would be an over exaggeration. But instead it was an eye opener... None of us Aussie’s can judge each other because regardless of whether you go for Blues or Maroons in the State of Origin, walk around in a button up shirt and chinos or thongs, singlet and footy shorts, drive a Ford or a Holden... We’re all one in the same, a bunch of lazy buggers who butcher the English language.
Please accept our apologies Lauren. We don't mean to be rude but it's so easy to slip back into our way of speaking and we honestly forget that others don't follow.
@@lisamorice4701 true. Also it's just so much quicker. My friend tells a story about how she was traveling with a friend and they hooked up with a couple of Canadians and they were talking about their plans for the day and after a couple of minutes the Aussies were done talking but it took the Canadians another 5mins to say exactly what they had said and they just waited for them to wind down before saying that, yeah, they'd just said exactly that but in far fewer words. Lol (and I'm not knocking Canadians - Aussies invariably bond with Canadians when o/s [altho nothing like we bond with each other - that can get a bit crazy if you haven't seen an Aussie for several months - it's like meeting a long lost brother or something])
XD IKR? I was surprised. I think one time I mentioned Vinnies to someone, they asked "Vinnies?" I said "oh, sorry, 'saint Vinnies'." She was taken aback for some reason. Lol
Although they did say it was the abbreviation for tennis BALL. I've not heard that either but maybe in other states it's common usage (I've only REALLY lived in NSW but only never been to WA and NT - who knows what abbreviations they have there; occasionally I have no idea what Victorians or Tasmanians are saying)
I live in Bali for a year and many Australian tourists here. For me, it was hard to understand what they say if they use their accent. so sometimes when they talk to me I just smile to pretend that I understand their words. LOL sorry. I am learning more Australian accent so I can understand more.
@Juan Rivas doubt it. Most Aussies don't bother with that stuff. Plus we have a hugely multicultural society. Aussies tend not to really care what you look like but what they do judge you by is how well you can do your job (so yeah, not really a criteria on holidays)
@Chris Russell 😏 I flip in and out of speaking Ocker or 'English' depending on context (who I'm hanging out with, where I am etc - my mum was really strict about slang when I was growing up 🙄)
i had a japanese exchange student come over a couple of years ago and although shes practically fluent she couldnt follow our conversations because we butcher and drawl it so much and they only get taught american english.....
Yeah at our uni we used to run conversational English classes for o/s students and they were always packed cos ppl just wanted to know what Aussies were actually saying
Up my part of the world we abbreviate almost ALL the country towns ('Byron' didn't use to be a yuppie term for Byron Bay, that was just locals abbreviating - Mullimbimy=Mullim, Murwillumbah=Mbah, Evans Head=Evans etc)
That's because you're saying it wrong! You gotta say "Chukun' a sikie." lol It must be fun though... hope you have some Aussie friends you can really talk with...
Oi cobbas you forgot the one thing that's guaranteed to confuse everyone who isn't strayan. "Yeah nah" I mean it can mean literally opposing things depending on how you use it XD
We also have a habit of using a negative to describe a positive eg. how far is it to the pub? aussie answers "Not far" instead of saying "its close. How are you? "Not bad" = I'm good etc
We also call people who live on the street, ‘Dero’. Some words are not abbreviated but extended. Australians tend to end altered words with an O, or an A, or are Y. We also tend to alter peoples names; e.g Sharon = Shaza. David = Dayvo etc.
Yeah and we SOO can't understand that! Don't get it at all. And what I really hate (and maybe this is an Aussie thing) is how, especially if you're traveling in North America - ppl will go out of their way to get you to talk just so they can listen to your accent. I started to feel like a zoo exhibit.
Could someone please tell the American film and TV industry that this is how to sound Australian? We don't use slang phrases about wallabies, goannas and other Aussie wildlife with every sentence. Oh, and most of us don't say 'Crikey' and sound like Steve Irwin either.
My Canadian friend lived here for two years, in the car my Mum said “oh it looks like a prang!” Friend said “What’s a prang?”, Mum said “A ding-dong.” Didn’t clear you anything! 😂
Strut'n'Swagger Yeah, they bunged a few suss expressions in there, but reading the comments and the boys seem to have gone over okay with their audience.
Rajam krishnamurthy WRONG my family were settlers NOT convicts and most of my friends are descendants of either settlers, aborigines or recent immigrants from all over the world in fact only an extremely small portion of Australians were or are descendants of convicts
You've got a very British accent in Australia becase you used to be convicts, and you "reduce" every single word because those convicts had no education and you "inherited" that. Recent immigration means nothing since those immigrants have not changed/influenced your accent.
hey mate, you might want to go around to report everyone uploading your video, ive seen it on about 6 different channels, cheers mate have a good one, from a fellow aussie
InfiniteWonderz appreciate it mate... most of them have contacted me and they've linked to the facebook video rather than this one (hence the small viewing number here!)
Brian Derbyshire Yeah, it's actually a big problem for content creators on UA-cam who rely on ad revenue from their videos here. A lot of traffic gets diverted from the main upload to people stealing it and putting it on Facebook - what's worse is that the person who stole it can get ad revenue for the content they didn't make.
THANK YOU for posting this, I'm an American expat and when I try to explain to my American friends how hard it actually is to have a fluent conversation they don't get it because "They speak English, right?" Oh my, the dialects!!! On top of the abbreviations, Australians have the tendency to change the active speaking voice into passive voice, making the verb an object. For example, "Let's have a chat" instead of "Let's chat", or "I need to have a lie down" instead of "I need to lie down". Now add to the mix the propensity to leave out articles in front of locations (i.e., "I'm going hospital" instead of "I'm going to the hospital" and I find I have to work really attentively at actively understanding "convos"!
I'm going hospital?? We say I'm going TO hospital because it's a PLACE. And there are obviously several hospitals. (If in a small town you can say the hospital as there's only one hospital ) It's like saying I'm going to bed. You don't say I'm going to THE bed. And I'm having a shower, a lie down, a bath, a swim, a drink. Take a shower sounds weird
honestly we use majority of these, if not, we at least understand them. ive never been overseas and when i was young, i would think this is completely normal, but of course informal, and i would think everone knew them.. the first time i heard that other countries don't say Macca's, I was shocked
Omg, i am so glad finding this video, cuz, everytime i get text or material in Australian English, it is really diffucult to find the slang. Maybe Australian people find it natural, daily vocab, but us find it difficult slang. Thanks for the video
I actually use all of these except Tenno ( tennis ball) and din dins in normal convos ( though I do say din dins to the dogs when it’s food time). I think it all comes down to wether you are raised old school or new school. My dad is old school Aussie and uses a lot of Aussie slang that has basically disappeared from our language now. My bf is from new school and literally had no idea what we were talking about at family gatherings. After 9 years hes caught up with it all but made me realise how our parents language shapes ours. I wouldn’t change my slang for the world and have passed it onto my nieces and nephew ..
Maybe it's just me. But I'm so used to my fam saying talking like this in Australia that I forget what things are actually called when I'm talking to friends from other countries 😂💯
Some of these we also use in the States, just probably not quite as frequently, and not all in a string of an abbreviated sentence... but I use quite a bit of those abbreviations, especially towards the end.
Undies are reg grundies, pie with sause is dogs eye with dead horse, need to take a leak is shake hands with the unemployed or syphon the python, term for a loose women is she bangs like a dunny door in a dust storm, some of the slang I learnt growing up.
A friend I have told me to watch a video like this (I’m Canadian) and told me not to talk to her until I’ve learned Australian Slang....this helped.. sorry but I laughed my head off the whole time!
Sarah And Ava You just to hang around aussies for a while. They will just use the words and then you can be like ‘what does that mean’ Then they will get really pissed off at you but will still be nice enough to explain😂
Most Unique yeah true lol I had about 4 Aussie friends but only one that I know of had an accent and she sent me a video “ello mate” and I laughed and said oh yea you have an accent lol she said “I left a sanga in the Ute and it’s gone festy” and I was like what?? 😂😂😂 “I left a sandwich in the car and it’s gone gross” lol
+hijosh How is it going mate? My name is Renzo and I am from Venezuela in South America. I just saw this video thanks to one of my mates from Australia and I´m a new subscriber, I love Australia and its people, you guys rock, it´s my biggest dreamto go Down Under and meet all my mates there. I think the Australian accent is the coolest ever and watching this video has make me have heaps of studying to do. Keep it up :)
@@whateveritis3103 I grew up and live in Sydney (northern part) but I have traveled around Australia quite extensively and never heard anyone saying the days like that
Sydneysider’s version of Aussie slang. In Melb we say bathers (not cozzie), kinder (not kindy). No one says Tenno, but tenner =$10. The rest are great. And Rhys - it’s defo Spag Bog or Bol. And mornos is a fair dinkum thing.
I'm realising the difference between nsw slang and Victorian slang since moving to Victoria last year. Down here no one knows what a scallop is cause it's a potato cake. 😊
@@michellie5929 yeah defo regional differences - even Newcastlians speak a different language to the rest us in NSW and where I come from (up near QLD border the accent is broader and the slang very surfer based)
@@michellie5929 i know right! But like it makes sense bc there is a food called scallop potato, if people call potato cakes scallops then you have two kinds of scallop potatos :P how confusing
I live in England (in the “British / Georgie ” ) part, and this is just like the slang here 😂 but some are even shorter. My cousin who was born here texts me at random times or asks me. “Wan’a pop ova* to the chipzie an’ gets sum dona’s w sum cola’s. “ ( want to go down the the fish shop to get a Donna and coke” “That gadgie's a propa doylem, man.” (That person is a complete fool) “O’ gon doon to pop at da’ park for a puff” (Want to quickly go down to the park for a quick cigarette’ “Mate giv’ me a runners will ya” mate means friend of course or close to you. So “give me my trainers will you?” “You’s larrikin” ( can say it in many ways but in this ways just by your tone but this one* “You all are up for a laugh?” | “you are always laughing” “you are always joking” “Eh that is a bit iffy!” | “Thats a bit risky” there’s another ways to say ‘iffy’ say like truth or dare and you get a dared to go outside with short shorts and a crop top in the middle of a really heavy rain storm. And your friend says to that person “ Eh that’s a bit iffy” meaning that’s a bit unfair. “Ar’ ye gon wear ya flanno” (Are you going to wear your shirt (flannel shirt) ). “I’m chock a block” | I am full. I looked at my friend weird when they said that because I hardly hear it. “Giv’ me a coldie” | “give me a beer” “Fair dinkum” | * I used to say this a lot* () “ Yes honestly “
Actually that is not quite correct, Reg Grundy was an Aussie tv producer so they would call undies either Reggies or Grundies as rhyming slang for "undies". Grotesque undies is new to me, however with 3 sons totally plausible!
I love the Australian accent. I find it so cute, and I don't mean that in a rude way, I mean that in the best way possible. It must be hard to communicate with an American if you're an Aussie. Aussie: mornin' mate! I see you got maccas for brekko? what're we eating for s'arvo? better yet! what's for din-dins?" American: what?
Yep i have never head it called Mornos either.. Lived in Australia for 50 + years.. And i have a Brother and a Sister who served in the Australian Navy..
I'm 54 yrs old. Born & raised in Australia. I have never heard of if morning tea called "morno' I have heard any sort of break, morning tea or afternoon tea refered to as a "smoko".
To anyone who is not Australian and thinks they are exaggerating, all of those are totally legit and part of our vocab
this is incredible to me. thanks for confirming that it's real.
Yeah exactly
Yeah. It's completely legit.
+Maddymadsy22 strue
except for calling tennis teno
If you're not Australian, and you think this is all an exaggerated stereotype, you're in for a surprise. Even I was surprised. None of these were made up. We actually talk like this.
yep, i'm an aussie too and it's pretty much spot on lol
entertain7us14 I was expecting this to be one of those one that's has things I've literally never heard of but I say all of these lol
I'm Australian and a little of this is BS.
its really not
Damn I wouldn't understand many things and people would think I am stupid 😂💔
I’m Aussie and honestly I never knew half of these words were ‘Aussie slang’ I just thought they were normal everyday language that everyone used....
Savannah•WDW boggie 😂
They missed whipper snipper and goon bag
i was gunna comment this
Savannah•WDW me too! 😂
Same 😂 😂
I didn't realise how many of these words I actually used! Loved this!
same
yeah same, like for kindy. I just call it kindy and didn’t realise people actually call it kindergarten hahahaha oops
Me too!
Do you usually use these words in one sentence ? That will be really hard to understand
just wang yes we really do haha. This is the best video to confuse every person who isn’t Australian
Wait..... Vinnies isn't the full name...?
hahahaha! i thought that too!
Thats what I thought
...
No it's Saint Vincent or something it's just quicker so we say "Vinnie's"
Its actually St Vincent de Paul Society (originally called Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) - As an Aussie - when I do slang, I try to remember what the original word or name is because someone will always ask you. And there is so many slang words out there now for the samething or even the same slang for various things, it all depends on how you use it in a sentence. Eg Pissed or Crook. I dont think I need to tell you the different meanings for them?
Blackpink Isn't in my area i know when i sad that i visibly gasped
America: make a uturn at the roundabout
us: “chuck a yue”
Yanks call 'em traffic circles
JJames Burke no we don’t.
Lol MEEEE!!!!!!
well I say chuck a spewie cause you say "chuck" and "yue" so we just added spew for some reason
Flip a bitch
As an Aussie I can confirm this is 97% slang we actually use on a daily basis or that Ive heard anyway lol
Lani Barr Aussie toooo hahahaha
also an aussie
sames
Same though haha
cold tater tot Hiii 😁 you know Joongki? Don’t know if you could tell but I watched DOTS 3 yrs ago and it became my prof pic for everything
Aussie sounds like more laid back english. I kinda like it.
tbh when people try hard to speak formally a lot of people unknowingly put on a british accent
@@lynchie2073 Ikr! It just sounds fancy
YOU BETTER LIKE IT xd
We were all comvicts. Waddaya expect
@@hayleywhiting2843 I'm not a convict but I was born in aus 😐
We use short slang and speak fast so that we can say more to each other in a shorter space of time. That's not lazy thats efficient 🤣
because there are so many flies
so true tho XD
So how do u type the days?
Fukin right’o mate
didyabringthegrogalong?
Not an abbreviation but i recently found out the word 'reckon' is Australian, as in the rest of the world apparently dont use it
It’s sometimes used in England :)
Same with “far out” apparently, but I’m not 100% certain if this is true or not
WaterSpriite if so im *mindblown* again
ya reckon? i SPOSE maybe
Blackpink Isn't in my area wait, other countrys dont use it!?!?
HAHA SO TRUE! I am Italian, and when I first came to Australia I struggled to understand these short words, now I am used to it. This is my country. I love Australia!!
Hey Patricia - You'd be flat out like a lizard drinking in finding an Australian of Italian origin who didn't love Australia :)
Patricia Ortiz “this is my country” u sure about that? Ur Italian lmao it’s not really ur country
Rachael Croton calm down...
ORTIZ is not Italian, ORTIZ is Spanish. I lived in South America for 10 years.
@@anthonygadaleta3427 You just found one.... I hate it and this so called language, I absoluteley HATE the Australian accent!!! It is the UGLIEST in the world!!!!
I honestly thought that this video would be an over exaggeration. But instead it was an eye opener...
None of us Aussie’s can judge each other because regardless of whether you go for Blues or Maroons in the State of Origin, walk around in a button up shirt and chinos or thongs, singlet and footy shorts, drive a Ford or a Holden...
We’re all one in the same, a bunch of lazy buggers who butcher the English language.
Jackie omg this is sooo true aha💕❣️😂
Fuck chinos
fuckin' oath
But fuck the liberals am I right
@@Jordan-uc3rk f
Missing "onya" for good on ya.
Onya for spottin' that
Good one!
Hahaha
+Ronan Dee "carn" for "come on"...
Mirin
drug addict = druggo
most commonly as a joke tho
+ExtaSe most of the people i know mainly say druggie
ecstasy = eccies
pills= farkin pingaas
FATAHMORGANAH Legit true or we call them junkies
Im Lauren from Vietnam. Im tour guide here but when two Aussies talk to each other, I feel like Im out of the conversation and Im deaf in English 😂😂
Please accept our apologies Lauren. We don't mean to be rude but it's so easy to slip back into our way of speaking and we honestly forget that others don't follow.
@@lisamorice4701 true. Also it's just so much quicker. My friend tells a story about how she was traveling with a friend and they hooked up with a couple of Canadians and they were talking about their plans for the day and after a couple of minutes the Aussies were done talking but it took the Canadians another 5mins to say exactly what they had said and they just waited for them to wind down before saying that, yeah, they'd just said exactly that but in far fewer words. Lol (and I'm not knocking Canadians - Aussies invariably bond with Canadians when o/s [altho nothing like we bond with each other - that can get a bit crazy if you haven't seen an Aussie for several months - it's like meeting a long lost brother or something])
@@susie9893 I'll be back as soon as I can. So impressive to see you all show the world how to deal with a virus. Well done Vietnam
devo!
CORRECTION :
when 2 Aussies chat you like you're out of the convo
SEE HOW IT'S MUCH SHORTER ?
"Chuck a uey." - Australian proverb. :P
Yessss
Roz Harris ye lmao
LOL
Where is the fucking lie
Fucken eh, giv'r! ~Canadian proverb
I just realised how lazy we are at pronouncing the full word HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA love it
That's pretty much why we're so good at pulling off other accents... we don't have to relearn tongue placements because we basically have none lol
It’s not laziness, it’s saving time to use for important stuff :p
you mean.... other people dont say smoko? or salvos? or sickie? or rego? VINNIES ISNT THE FULL NAME???
XD IKR? I was surprised. I think one time I mentioned Vinnies to someone, they asked "Vinnies?" I said "oh, sorry, 'saint Vinnies'." She was taken aback for some reason. Lol
Saint Vincent’s de Pauls to be exact 😉
I thought it was the full name as well!
sorry your comment is funny. I hit 'dislike' by accident
We don't, my boyfriend is Australian and I'm trying to get on track with the slang 😅
The only thing I've never used is 'Teno' other than that... I use every...single...one haha great video!
Next up: The explanation of "Yeahnah"
And the difference between “nah yeah” and “yeah nah”
Literally never heard anyone shorten tennis to tenno
Although they did say it was the abbreviation for tennis BALL. I've not heard that either but maybe in other states it's common usage (I've only REALLY lived in NSW but only never been to WA and NT - who knows what abbreviations they have there; occasionally I have no idea what Victorians or Tasmanians are saying)
@@susie9893 as a Sydneysider who spends a lot of time in Melbourne for work, it's pretty much the same, Suze. Nobody says tenno.
There were several words they made up.
Tenno. Nope, not in NSW, Qld or Tassie.
Right? Also, what the fuck is "mornos".. its bloody smoko, not mornos lol
I live in Bali for a year and many Australian tourists here. For me, it was hard to understand what they say if they use their accent. so sometimes when they talk to me I just smile to pretend that I understand their words. LOL sorry. I am learning more Australian accent so I can understand more.
Just to make things more difficult for you, there're different accents per region.
@Juan Rivas stop being ridiculous.
@Juan Rivas doubt it. Most Aussies don't bother with that stuff. Plus we have a hugely multicultural society. Aussies tend not to really care what you look like but what they do judge you by is how well you can do your job (so yeah, not really a criteria on holidays)
@Chris Russell 😏 I flip in and out of speaking Ocker or 'English' depending on context (who I'm hanging out with, where I am etc - my mum was really strict about slang when I was growing up 🙄)
@@KyrstOak yeah There is but we can still understand what each other are saying
Dude, you forgot one word "BBQ = Barbie"
Cheers!
+Ilfan Budiraja "I'll put some extra shrimp on the barbie" Although they call them prawns actually hahha
+Néstor Majnó Also we don't really put prawns on the barbie
Aubrey Fitzwilliam I know mate.
"Put another shrimp on the barbie" we don't call the "shrimp", we call them "prawns" and who puts them on a barbeque.
oh my god this is like the most important word😂😂
Wait till you dive into Aussie nick names. What a mine field.
Examples of people I know: johno Brezza pisspaul netty Asha lezzlo the list goes on
Lol Sco Mo
Yeah my nickname is Simmo
Oh no I'm worried now
@@jasonschultz7964 doesn't count if you give yourself a nickname even if you are PM.
i had a japanese exchange student come over a couple of years ago and although shes practically fluent she couldnt follow our conversations because we butcher and drawl it so much and they only get taught american english.....
Yeah at our uni we used to run conversational English classes for o/s students and they were always packed cos ppl just wanted to know what Aussies were actually saying
Rego's even legitimised by the government (at least in NSW). Maccas by McDonalds as well.
the maccas ads on tv dont even say mcdonalds they say maccas
true
So you basically make everything sound adorable. :3
Cheers mate. You're a bloody legend
Simon Cantley
Was that supposed to be directed at me? xD
Bloody oath :)
Simon Cantley
Heh, I'm not sure I understand that.
+IMakeThings Its a good thing
I have been here for 5 years and I still struggle to understand but what I love about Australia is they are genuine people and friendly
me too, took me 20 years to get used to it :P
I'm English and this was pretty funny.
YangSing1 ye same
I'm English and this was pretty devastating.
@@dantedante839 'devo'
Don't affend my language (it is funny )
That’s good to know
Watching this I realise how much we abbreviate words. Just the norms round here.
Up my part of the world we abbreviate almost ALL the country towns ('Byron' didn't use to be a yuppie term for Byron Bay, that was just locals abbreviating - Mullimbimy=Mullim, Murwillumbah=Mbah, Evans Head=Evans etc)
I’m from Australia and I can confirm this is 100% true! sometimes I tell my friends I’m chucking a sickie and they look at me like I’m a lunatic😂
That's because you're saying it wrong! You gotta say "Chukun' a sikie." lol It must be fun though... hope you have some Aussie friends you can really talk with...
Oi cobbas you forgot the one thing that's guaranteed to confuse everyone who isn't strayan. "Yeah nah"
I mean it can mean literally opposing things depending on how you use it XD
Nah yeah as well.
Aww yeah nah yeah mate
We also have a habit of using a negative to describe a positive eg. how far is it to the pub? aussie answers "Not far" instead of saying "its close. How are you? "Not bad" = I'm good etc
We say something similar in ontario; yaaah-no. Meaning I HEARD you and that shit is NOT happening under my watch.
warren harrison isnt that normal?
U guys R absolutely AMAZING.
Epic shit !
from France.
J'suis pas content TV ye cheers m8 enjoy your baguette or whatever they r those long fucking sandwiches lmao
Oui
Guys stop sayong badwords
@@Marissa82P I'm pretty sure cunt isn't that much of a bad word in Australia.
@@FairyCRat accurate. Still, pick your demographic just to be safe. I don't use it with my family, but my mates and colleagues I do.
Even though I am a fellow Aussie, hearing all the slang in one video was so funny. Made my day. Chookas
We also call people who live on the street, ‘Dero’. Some words are not abbreviated but extended. Australians tend to end altered words with an O, or an A, or are Y. We also tend to alter peoples names; e.g Sharon = Shaza. David = Dayvo etc.
Yes, dero is short for derelict
A dero is a person who lives on the street and is a heavy alcohol drinker..
Avocado = Avo
Have an avocado = Avanavo
Nice 😂
Avocado on toast = smashed avo
You aint wrong 😂
I really love Australian accent. I've been to Australia since oct. 2018 up to July 2019 and I've been to Brissy as well
Yeah and we SOO can't understand that! Don't get it at all. And what I really hate (and maybe this is an Aussie thing) is how, especially if you're traveling in North America - ppl will go out of their way to get you to talk just so they can listen to your accent. I started to feel like a zoo exhibit.
i could listen tou you talk all day i love the aussie accent xxx
+Ellan Kane Cheers Mate.
+Ellan Kane why do u like our accent
Could someone please tell the American film and TV industry that this is how to sound Australian? We don't use slang phrases about wallabies, goannas and other Aussie wildlife with every sentence. Oh, and most of us don't say 'Crikey' and sound like Steve Irwin either.
G'day mate, let's go Croc wrestling. Crikey! Watch out for those Drop Bears!
mrsilikeeggs
Strewth! You're right, cobber!
Nor do we say "Chuck a shrimp on the barbie" ☺
Flat out like a lizard drinking.
And yet they force our Aussie actors to sounds American, go figure
This is awesome, some others I don’t remember hearing:
Sandwich = Sanga
Bottle of Beer = Stubby
Biker that’s a member of a club = Bikie
Pretty sure they said sanga
nice
Fuck cyclists tho
A bikie is specifically a member of an outlaw cycle gang. Many bikers would be offended when called a bikie.
Good job on Australia's got talent
+jared dietrich Thanks so much!!!
I can't find the vid! Where is it?
it's telly mate... telly
Never seen anything so accurate
My Canadian friend lived here for two years, in the car my Mum said “oh it looks like a prang!” Friend said “What’s a prang?”, Mum said “A ding-dong.” Didn’t clear you anything! 😂
LOL
a Prang, a Ding dong, A Stack, A Fender Bender
is that any clearer ?
Sorry lads, never heard of Morno's or tenno, everything else is legit!
i use "tenna" like as in ten bucks lol
Strut'n'Swagger Yeah, they bunged a few suss expressions in there, but reading the comments and the boys seem to have gone over okay with their audience.
Tenno we use that as the spot club so where going to the Tenno
Tenno is legit. Can confirm daily use back in the high school days when I was handball king
Service decency. Yew!
You forgot 'Woop Woop' for some very far away place in the middle of nowhere!
"You live in woop woop"
In the sticks or bumfuck no where are terms I've heard
Beyond the the Black Stump is what we always say
'Out bush' too
OMG six years living in the county and I’m still struggling to understand Australians 😭😭😭
Just add an "-o" or an "-y" to the end of any word and you've got it.
Omg I'm here 3 years and still struggle to understand them...
Same here
I've lived in Australia my whole life (37 years) & haven't heard some of them. I've learned a few only thanks to videos such as these 😅
Well you know you’ve gotta learn the language. There’s three I speak, English, Aussie and Bad.
That sad moment when you realise you use 99% of these.
So true :D
Is that British?
*lifts fake tea*
We are British.
Reanna Clopein British convicts to be precise.
Rajam krishnamurthy Between 35,000 to 50,000 British people have immigrated to Aus every year since WW2
Rajam krishnamurthy WRONG my family were settlers NOT convicts and most of my friends are descendants of either settlers, aborigines or recent immigrants from all over the world in fact only an extremely small portion of Australians were or are descendants of convicts
this is the one time we actually try and do a "Bri-ish" to try to imitate a British accent while we do it
You've got a very British accent in Australia becase you used to be convicts, and you "reduce" every single word because those convicts had no education and you "inherited" that. Recent immigration means nothing since those immigrants have not changed/influenced your accent.
Lol literally few hours ago my oz colleague said "tradies" and I had to ask what does it mean. Didn't know there're so much more abbreviations :))
hey mate, you might want to go around to report everyone uploading your video, ive seen it on about 6 different channels, cheers mate have a good one, from a fellow aussie
InfiniteWonderz appreciate it mate... most of them have contacted me and they've linked to the facebook video rather than this one (hence the small viewing number here!)
InfiniteWonderz fuckin nark. who gives a shit?
slackjaw2008 Because I assume he makes money off of this so it's essentially stealing.
Brian Derbyshire Yeah, it's actually a big problem for content creators on UA-cam who rely on ad revenue from their videos here. A lot of traffic gets diverted from the main upload to people stealing it and putting it on Facebook - what's worse is that the person who stole it can get ad revenue for the content they didn't make.
InfiniteWonderz Nothing wrong with a few cheeky linkos mate
Oh my god I didn't realise we did this to so many words... it's ingrained in all our minds from the day we are born
THANK YOU for posting this, I'm an American expat and when I try to explain to my American friends how hard it actually is to have a fluent conversation they don't get it because "They speak English, right?" Oh my, the dialects!!! On top of the abbreviations, Australians have the tendency to change the active speaking voice into passive voice, making the verb an object. For example, "Let's have a chat" instead of "Let's chat", or "I need to have a lie down" instead of "I need to lie down". Now add to the mix the propensity to leave out articles in front of locations (i.e., "I'm going hospital" instead of "I'm going to the hospital" and I find I have to work really attentively at actively understanding "convos"!
Please, please do another video on Aussie dialect with the other speech patterns I mentioned! :-)
I'm going hospital?? We say I'm going TO hospital because it's a PLACE. And there are obviously several hospitals. (If in a small town you can say the hospital as there's only one hospital ) It's like saying I'm going to bed. You don't say I'm going to THE bed. And I'm having a shower, a lie down, a bath, a swim, a drink. Take a shower sounds weird
honestly we use majority of these, if not, we at least understand them. ive never been overseas and when i was young, i would think this is completely normal, but of course informal, and i would think everone knew them..
the first time i heard that other countries don't say Macca's, I was shocked
I live in Queensland in Australia and smoko means morning tea
Me too but I call a cigarette either ciggy or durry
Yeah
And remember, even if you don't smoke, a smoko also means to take a short break. Ie coffee break, lunch, afternoon break.
Omg this is so true. Been living more than 10 years in Oz now, and subconsciously I have been using these words.
but coppa is longer than cop
and acadaca is the same syllables as acdc lol
easier to say
Scourge Productions how is adding an "a" to a word making it easier? you're making it more complex
You just say it out you don't have to say it out loud. its like R. I . P and just saying rip
listen its just the way we speak right
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Omg, i am so glad finding this video, cuz, everytime i get text or material in Australian English, it is really diffucult to find the slang. Maybe Australian people find it natural, daily vocab, but us find it difficult slang. Thanks for the video
HAHAHA I bloody enjoy watching this, thank you!
No worries!
Could you please do accent challenge?
Like Australian accents in different states?
Warm regards :)
That would be interesting ;)
Cigarette = durrie
Dart
Cancer stick
Ciggies 🙂
duzza
Rollie
I actually use all of these except Tenno ( tennis ball) and din dins in normal convos ( though I do say din dins to the dogs when it’s food time). I think it all comes down to wether you are raised old school or new school. My dad is old school Aussie and uses a lot of Aussie slang that has basically disappeared from our language now. My bf is from new school and literally had no idea what we were talking about at family gatherings. After 9 years hes caught up with it all but made me realise how our parents language shapes ours. I wouldn’t change my slang for the world and have passed it onto my nieces and nephew ..
Maybe it's just me. But I'm so used to my fam saying talking like this in Australia that I forget what things are actually called when I'm talking to friends from other countries 😂💯
I learned the word povvo from Ja'mie King.
HAHAHA OMG trust
+Dainty Daisy From where I am we shortened it to just "pov"...
Optamizm That's quiche.
MEE TOOO
HAHAH yasssss
Some of these we also use in the States, just probably not quite as frequently, and not all in a string of an abbreviated sentence... but I use quite a bit of those abbreviations, especially towards the end.
when they said undies.. oh my god... i thought it was normal in every part of the world to say undies lmao
Me too
I mean, I'm not from Australia and that's a pretty familiar term to me too.
It's common in the USA, not sure about other English-speaking places
Jesus. I'm Russian and I say undies. Some Aussie ancestors, maybe?
Undies are reg grundies, pie with sause is dogs eye with dead horse, need to take a leak is shake hands with the unemployed or syphon the python, term for a loose women is she bangs like a dunny door in a dust storm, some of the slang I learnt growing up.
And I just realize that I wouldn't survive in Australia xD
even though I know English
+Andrea Jonas Lol xD You'd probably pick it up after a while... or just stand there not knowing a word while other people talk around you : P
+Andrea Jonas I moved to Australia 12 years ago from the US. It was a learning curve, but not impossible :D
Chelsea Paige Haha it would took a looong time xD a big challenge
Angie Ryan I can imagine! Bet it was a challenge wasn't it?
Alice C :o seriously!?
I'm Australian and these words are basically part of my everyday life
A friend I have told me to watch a video like this (I’m Canadian) and told me not to talk to her until I’ve learned Australian Slang....this helped.. sorry but I laughed my head off the whole time!
Sarah And Ava You just to hang around aussies for a while. They will just use the words and then you can be like ‘what does that mean’
Then they will get really pissed off at you but will still be nice enough to explain😂
Most Unique yeah true lol I had about 4 Aussie friends but only one that I know of had an accent and she sent me a video “ello mate” and I laughed and said oh yea you have an accent lol she said “I left a sanga in the Ute and it’s gone festy” and I was like what?? 😂😂😂 “I left a sandwich in the car and it’s gone gross” lol
Warren552011 lmao niceeeee 😂
Warren552011 WHAT?? NOOOOO NOT THE KANGAROOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS HORRIBLE 😱😱😱😱😱
Warren552011 cool and that sucks. I wanna try it a bit. I won’t like it lmao
Lovin this! I cant believe I actually used some of these abbreviations/slang words till now. We Aussies are some hell of a people ^ ^
I just find this so funny. I love Aussies
Tracksuit Pants > Trackies!.
Creative Ziggy That's what I thought!
Creative Ziggy I say both. Both are pretty accurate.
+Creative Ziggy yea its both trackies or trackie dacks
+Creative Ziggy
I've always said tracky dacks
+Buck Andrews same u from -'Aussie' I am
This is actually so accurate its hilarious
So this is how new languages are created
I’m a full blown Aussie and this is awesome, abbrevo’s is exactly how most aussies talk 😝🤘🏻🇦🇺
I laughed so hard! From abroad, but have lived in Oz for four years. Loved it, mate!
P.S. missed the bathers and thongs 😃
LOL
the fucking thongs huh ?
Cozzies, not Bather's
Bathers? You mean Dt's (D!ck togs) or bikini?
Im aussie and i use about half of those... But you guys are honestly the funniest guys on UA-cam. Laughing my head off!!😂😂😂
Electrician - Sparky xD the funniest thing I heard in Aussie
And a carpenter is a chippy 😁
Also brikkie = brick layer
Sparky. That's a good one aha.
+hijosh How is it going mate? My name is Renzo and I am from Venezuela in South America. I just saw this video thanks to one of my mates from Australia and I´m a new subscriber, I love Australia and its people, you guys rock, it´s my biggest dreamto go Down Under and meet all my mates there. I think the Australian accent is the coolest ever and watching this video has make me have heaps of studying to do. Keep it up :)
OMG that was epic. I was at the gym watching this and I didn’t even care I was half hiding my laugh. 😂😂😂👏🏽👏🏽
Wow I didn’t realise how many words we actually shorten or the fact that this is mostly an Australian thing😂
As an Aussie I'd say apart from the Monday-Sunday part (cos never heard anybody says the days like that), it's actually pretty accurate
Zya Ravie hear it all the time. Almost everyday but just from certain people. Working class mostly
Where do you live? That's the only way to say them.
@@whateveritis3103 I grew up and live in Sydney (northern part) but I have traveled around Australia quite extensively and never heard anyone saying the days like that
@@zyaravie911 well I've worked out west and that's exactly how they say em, also in QLD
Sydneysider’s version of Aussie slang.
In Melb we say bathers (not cozzie), kinder (not kindy). No one says Tenno, but tenner =$10.
The rest are great.
And Rhys - it’s defo Spag Bog or Bol. And mornos is a fair dinkum thing.
I'm realising the difference between nsw slang and Victorian slang since moving to Victoria last year. Down here no one knows what a scallop is cause it's a potato cake. 😊
@@michellie5929 yeah defo regional differences - even Newcastlians speak a different language to the rest us in NSW and where I come from (up near QLD border the accent is broader and the slang very surfer based)
@@michellie5929 i know right! But like it makes sense bc there is a food called scallop potato, if people call potato cakes scallops then you have two kinds of scallop potatos :P how confusing
I'm from the US and I found this thoroughly awesome and I'm going to pick some of these up 😂👌👍
Been living in OZ for near 15 years. I understand everything he says and understood that little paragraph at the end perfectly. Funny
That's brilliant! I will be flying to australia soon, hope to learn all these. 😊😉
You might not encounter that much slang if you mostly hang around Sydney. It's more prevalent in rural areas
This is amazing! Ya'll should have included totally and suspicious. My ex used to say totes sus all the time!
woolies - woolworths, c'mon guys !!
And yet I've said Woolies to some Aussies and they don't have a clue what I'm talking about. So weird
I live in England (in the “British / Georgie ” ) part, and this is just like the slang here 😂 but some are even shorter.
My cousin who was born here texts me at random times or asks me.
“Wan’a pop ova* to the chipzie an’ gets sum dona’s w sum cola’s. “ ( want to go down the the fish shop to get a Donna and coke”
“That gadgie's a propa doylem, man.” (That person is a complete fool)
“O’ gon doon to pop at da’ park for a puff” (Want to quickly go down to the park for a quick cigarette’
“Mate giv’ me a runners will ya” mate means friend of course or close to you. So “give me my trainers will you?”
“You’s larrikin” ( can say it in many ways but in this ways just by your tone but this one* “You all are up for a laugh?” | “you are always laughing”
“you are always joking”
“Eh that is a bit iffy!” | “Thats a bit risky” there’s another ways to say ‘iffy’ say like truth or dare and you get a dared to go outside with short shorts and a crop top in the middle of a really heavy rain storm. And your friend says to that person “ Eh that’s a bit iffy” meaning that’s a bit unfair.
“Ar’ ye gon wear ya flanno” (Are you going to wear your shirt (flannel shirt) ).
“I’m chock a block” | I am full. I looked at my friend weird when they said that because I hardly hear it.
“Giv’ me a coldie” | “give me a beer”
“Fair dinkum” | * I used to say this a lot* () “ Yes honestly “
DEVASTATED*
had to be said. haha
cheers c*** ;)
markyhabs Devo
Devo.
Nah mate, devo.
What about grotesque - Grotty then you have underwear - undies. Then you have grotesque underwear. - Grundies
Bro, that was the funniest thing I've read in a while! I never thought of that. Although I thought grundies was gross - undies.
:P
That's in my name mate
Actually that is not quite correct, Reg Grundy was an Aussie tv producer so they would call undies either Reggies or Grundies as rhyming slang for "undies". Grotesque undies is new to me, however with 3 sons totally plausible!
._.
I never thought 'grotty' was abbreviated from something else.
I thought Vinnies is what it’s called lol. Even for an Aussie, it’s an informative vid
Emperorof Pigs You must be young if you didn’t know that one.
hahahaha I say at least 90% of these. It sounds funny when you put them all together :)
U australians guys are totally crazy and I like it.
Also, Straya day is January 26th, my birthday.
Lol Straya Day. Most Australian thing I have eveA read.
@@darknomad5600 Not even an exaggeration, everyone calls it that.
Dark Nomad best day of the year lol
I love the Australian accent. I find it so cute, and I don't mean that in a rude way, I mean that in the best way possible. It must be hard to communicate with an American if you're an Aussie.
Aussie: mornin' mate! I see you got maccas for brekko? what're we eating for s'arvo? better yet! what's for din-dins?"
American: what?
100% true. I hear them everyday. At first I was confused whether Aussies speak English or some other alien language 🤔😂
I have never heard morning tea called Mornos .....That sounds really weird 🤪 LOL 🤣 But the rest I would say is pretty much Accurate 😉😊🤣🤣
Very common term in the Navy
@@AusJimBob
Ahhhhh ok thanks for that ☺☺👍
Yep i have never head it called Mornos either.. Lived in Australia for 50 + years.. And i have a Brother and a Sister who served in the Australian Navy..
I'm 54 yrs old. Born & raised in Australia. I have never heard of if morning tea called "morno' I have heard any sort of break, morning tea or afternoon tea refered to as a "smoko".
@@ginaspeciale9086
Yes that is correct 🙂🙂😉
🤣 I moved to Australia from the UK a few months go and this is so accurate!
I'm Aussie and I use almost all of this
I have an Australian friend and he called mc Donald’s macas and I was like wtf is that and he said mc Donald’s and I was shocked
I used to work in IT with a guy from Bangladesh. We taught him to say "flat out mate" meaning he was really busy doing his work! So funny 😂😂
australia is like that girl who calls her cats with names that end with “eee”