- Australians generally use British English for the majority of language, with 'colour' and similar words spelled with a 'u', while words such as 'specialised' use an 's' as opposed to a 'z'
- Some popular Aussie words/terms and their meanings:
- G'day - good morning or hello
- Arvo - afternoon
- Mate - friend
- Cheers - thank you
- She'll be right - it will be OK
- Barbie - barbecue
- Mozzie - mosquito
- Bloody oath - hell yeah
- Thongs - flip flops
- Ta - thanks
- Bogan - redneck
- Australia as a name comes from the latin terra australis incognita meaning unknown southern island
And what do you know about Australia? Comment bellow. :)
So interesting
ReplyDeleteI agree with Laura, it’s interesting
ReplyDeleteInteresting Facts about Australia
ReplyDelete1. Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. The most common non-English spoken languages are Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Mandarin.
2. The world's highest proportion of migrant settlers in a developed nation with over 25% of Australians born in another country.
3. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.
4. Approximately 1.35 trillion bottles of wine are produced by Australia.
5. Australians refer to English people as Pome, which is actually the acronym for Prisoners of Mother England.
1 Australia has three times more kangaroos than people
ReplyDelete2 Australia is in the top ten in quality of life
3 Australian "national" food - Vegemite. Веджимайт - it is processed yeast, brown mass with a pungent odor and very salty. Smeared on bread in a very thin layer.
4 Another national Australian food is Meat Pie, meat patties in the form of a basket of dough, on top of the basket is also closed with dough. Inside the stuffing with all sorts of additives and spices, very liquid usually. Meat Pies are sold in supermarkets as frozen convenience foods
5 Australia is the lowest continent in the world, its average height above sea level is 330 m.
I know about Australia that:
ReplyDelete1. IT is also known as ‘the sports capital’ of the world. The reason is – more than 70% of its capital participates in a recreational activity or sports, at least once in a week.
2. Australia is the only country in the world where there are more species of venomous snakes than the non-venomous snakes. The Inland Taipan is the most venomous snake, and with its one bite, it can kill at least 100
3. There is a lake known as ‘Pink Lake’ in Australia. The name of this lake, which is a salt lake is named after its color. It is in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. However, the color of this lake is not always pink, and changes as a result of the change in salinity of the water and the concentration of brine prawn in the lake.
3. “Selfie” is an Australian slang term, which was named the international word of the year in 2013. It was first used in an online forum by a drunk from Australia in 2002. And today, as we all know, it is a widely used term all over the world.
4. Western Australia is currently the worlds largest producer of gold.
5. Surprisingly, 50% of young Australians between the age of 14 and 19 years use cannabis.
The facts that I know about Australia:
ReplyDelete1. In Australia everyone is your mate.
“Mate” is a way to say friend or colleague in Australian English. It has become a iconic expression for Australia and is used with people you don’t even know.
2. What do you reckon? / Whaddaya rekon?
This expression means “What do you think?” reckon = think
Although this phrase is used in other types of English, Australians tend to use this term on a frequent basis.
-“Whaddaya reckn of my new car?”
-“I reckon she’s a beauty!!”
3. Australia is "kangaroos"!!! Kangaroo is the national animal of Australia. There were 34,303,677 kangaroos in Australia in 2011 within the commercial harvest area. And they (kangaroos) are found only in Australia.
4. 1. The name Australia comes from the Latin, ‘Terra Australia Incognito’, which means the Unknown Southern Land.
5. The longest fence in the world is in Australia and it is 5,530 kilometers in length. It is called the ‘dingo fence’.
Fascinating Facts about Australia
ReplyDelete1. Australia is the biggest island and the smallest continent in the world.
2. The snow-covered areas of Australia are larger than Switzerland.
3. Approximately 75% of Australians live near or on the beach.
4. Australia has a very low poverty rate, and a high standard of living.
5.The first Australia Day was celebrated to commemorate the opening of a prison in Sydney, and many Australians don’t wish to celebrate the day for that reason.
1.With cats and dogs here strictly, no stray animals in the city there.
ReplyDelete2.Public transport is more expensive than in Russia. Although the payment scheme is somewhat different. Here you buy a ticket not for a “bus” or for a “subway”, but for a time: for 2 hours or for the whole day. And also it is necessary to take into account the zone, where you will go. 1st zone - within a radius of 10–12 km from the center, everything further is the second zone.
3.If at the bus stop there is a disabled person in the seat, then the bus, approaching, sinks to such a level that a person can call in without problems.
4.The Australian government takes great care of the children. Schools are very good, clean, beautiful, with good playgrounds, computers.
5.Business here is strongly encouraged. According to doingbusiness.com, Australia is one of the most convenient countries to do business with.
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ReplyDeleteFacts about Australia
ReplyDelete1) Vegetation covers nearly 7 million square kilometres or 91 percent of Australia.
2) The largest Greek population in the world beside Athens in Greece can be found in Melbourne Victoria.
3) Most of Australia's exotic flora and fauna cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
4) The only nation-continent of 20 million people in the world
5) More than 80 percent of Australians live within 100 kilometres of the coast making Australia one of the world's most urbanised coastal dwelling populations.