Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.We are going to talk about dad's choice of a dead Aussie to be invited to dinner.My dad Ian, my talking buddy here in The Goss series, wants Admiral Arthur Phillip with him on the dinner table.Arthur Phillip is a British admiral who founded the first permanent European colony on the Aus...
Jul 10, 2021•26 min•Ep. 956
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast.In today's episode, I am going to teach you how to say /e/ versus /æ/!Learn the difference between the words like "set" and "sat" or "merry" and "marry".First, we go over the correct pronunciation of /e/ and /æ/.Then, we compare the sounds when used in words, like berry and Barry.And lastly, I give you a FREE listening exercise!I am going to say 10 differe...
Jul 09, 2021•12 min•Ep. 958
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "banged up".Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
Jul 09, 2021•4 min•Ep. 955
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this English Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These are weekly episodes where I teach you how to use English expressions like a fair dinkum Australian!I am going to teach you 6 English expressions that you can use in your daily conversations!Here are some English expressions guaranteed to level up your English:A hard nut to crackChasing rainbowsA rising tide lifts all boatsRattle your dagsMake your skin crawlScaredy catIn this video, I ...
Jul 04, 2021•16 min•Ep. 954
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "go bananas".No, we don't need bananas on hand while saying this expression.Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native E...
Jul 02, 2021•3 min•Ep. 953
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast.These episodes aim to teach you common English expressions as well as give you a fair dinkum true-blue dose of Aussie culture, history, and news and current affairs.In today's episode, I teach you all about the English expression "scaredy cat".Listen in and watch as I tell you the origin of the expression, give examples on how to use the expression, and run by a pronunciation exercise....
Jun 27, 2021•17 min•Ep. 952
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie English podcast!I am going to reveal to you my results from the Australia Talks survey!It's nice to know that a majority of Australians, despite the Covid pandemic going on, feel better about their lives.Also, a lot of Aussies would want lying politicians should resign - I think any citizen of any country would want that, don't you think?And survey results say we're a happy bunch here down under! At 76%, Austral...
Jun 26, 2021•26 min•Ep. 951
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "out the back of bourke". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
Jun 25, 2021•3 min•Ep. 950
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.In this episode, we get to talk about cattle farmers in Botswana who have been drawing 'eyes' on the bums of their cows to prevent lion attacks - and it's working!In a project they aptly named the "I-Cow Project", they have come up with this idea to prevent large pre...
Jun 23, 2021•23 min•Ep. 949
Send us a text Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English Podcast.I had a great time chin-wagging with these two adorable mates from Melbourne, Australia!Meet Bec and Penny, the content creators of Language Lovers Australia and the Language Chats podcast.They initially got me on their podcast to talk about Aussie English. We now turn the tables as I got to interview them about how we Australians learn different languages.We talked about the differences between learn...
Jun 20, 2021•54 min•Ep. 948
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this special episode of the Aussie English podcast!The Australian news network ABC Australia recently surveyed 60,000 Australians on various topics.I thought it'd be nice for me to take the actual survey and let you guys know what the buzz is all about.The 2021 Australia Talks national survey aims to find out 'where you fit as an Australian' by asking you a bunch of questions - from your opinion about the Australian constitut...
Jun 19, 2021•21 min•Ep. 947
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, I teach you the Aussie slang phrase "bad news". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
Jun 18, 2021•3 min•Ep. 946
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.In this episode, we talk about the hard physical contact sport that is Australian football - or footy! This is the kind of sport that, if things go really wrong on any given moment, will give you CTE. CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a fatal brain disease found common in foot...
Jun 16, 2021•37 min•Ep. 944
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast.These episodes aim to teach you common English expressions as well as give you a fair dinkum true-blue dose of Aussie culture, history, and news and current affairs.In today's episode, I teach you how to use the expression "make your skin crawl", the origin of the expression, and what is funny about a bumblebee.We also talk about Angelina Jolie getting covered with bees for National Ge...
Jun 13, 2021•20 min•Ep. 945
Send us a text Learn Australian English in each of these episodes of the Aussie English Podcast!In today's episode, I teach you 80+ commonly used Contractions in the English language.A contraction is 2 words that are combined to create a new word with a new meaning.These contractions are helpful when conversing to native English speakers.Learn what these contractions are so you can use them in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today – listen, play, & pause this epis...
Jun 12, 2021•16 min•Ep. 943
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, I teach you the Aussie slang phrase "back of beyond". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
Jun 11, 2021•3 min•Ep. 942
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.In this episode, we talk about the world's most Instagrammable bird -- the frog mouth bird! Tune in today and find out why this bird, once named as 'the most unfortunate-looking bird', now holds the title of Instagram's most popular bird.Improve your listening skills toda...
Jun 09, 2021•21 min•Ep. 941
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast.These episodes aim to teach you common English expressions as well as give you a fair dinkum true-blue dose of Aussie culture, history, and news and current affairs.In today’s episode…I teach you how to use the expression ‘rattle your dags’, the origin of the expression, and what the Aussie slang term ‘dag’ means.We also talk about Australia’s biggest sheep shearing competition and then cover the Tra...
Jun 06, 2021•24 min•Ep. 939
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie English podcast where I invite guests and interview them. Join us for about an hour of fun talking about what's going on in their life!Today is a special interview episode where I am interviewing my dear friend David Rajaraman. He is of Indian descent though he grew up in Brunei.David then came to Australia and studied aeronautics at university up in Queensland. With a turn of events, he ended up in Japan teaching English...
Jun 05, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 940
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, we talk about the Aussie slang word "ay". Eh, nope, this is different from the word "aye" - careful, ay!Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
Jun 04, 2021•3 min•Ep. 938
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.In this episode, we talk about the Australian bird malleefowl, a species that lays its eggs in dome-shaped nest mounds. Another "mallee" can also be found in Australia - the mallee woodlands of Victoria. An abundant variety of eucalypts called mallee grows in this region of northwe...
Jun 02, 2021•28 min•Ep. 937
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this English Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These are weekly episodes where I teach you how to use English expressions like a fair dinkum Australian!For this episode, we talk about the expression "a rising tide lifts all boats".Get a load of these excellent activities!Get this week's top story about a koala overpopulation in Cape OtwayListen to a koala calling out for a mateShare to you this week's funny joke (haha...
May 30, 2021•25 min•Ep. 936
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, we talk about the Aussie slang word "avo". Careful, this is different from another Australian slang word "abo".Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English s...
May 28, 2021•3 min•Ep. 935
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.In this episode, we talk about a plague of mice that is currently ravaging Australia! We are talking about millions of mice that are literally getting everywhere - eating grains across fields, invading homes and destroying stuff. It's really turning to a horror story where a mayor estim...
May 26, 2021•23 min•Ep. 934
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this latest episode of the Aussie English podcast! Finally! It's been awhile since I actually "walked" while recording this new "Walking With Pete" episode.I got a rush of outdoors this day and tell you about these special lenses that I've been looking for. Have you checked the episodes with the new studio? Let me know what you think!Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - ...
May 23, 2021•15 min•Ep. 933
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, we talk about the Aussie slang phrase "Aussie salute". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
May 21, 2021•3 min•Ep. 932
Send us a text Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs.In this episode, we talk about 20 things you should NEVER do in Australia! Yes, because like any culture, there are some things we don't really appreciate. And here's a teaser for you: don't ank an Australian for the nearest Starbucks. Yeah, that popular coffee chain is not ex...
May 19, 2021•34 min•Ep. 931
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this English Expression episode of the Aussie English Podcast. These are weekly episodes where I teach you how to use English expressions like a fair dinkum Australian!For this episode, we talk about the expression "chasing rainbows".Breakdown the meaning of the words in this expression,Discover what the expression means,Learn how to use the expression,Listen to real dialogue examples of the expression in use,Go through a pronunciation exercis...
May 16, 2021•20 min•Ep. 930
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this new series of interviews with my fitness buddy Marcus Kain!Hey there, you mob! Meet Marcus Kain, or Muzz as I know him, is a certified nutrition, strength & conditioning coach. He's been helping me with my work out and I got him here on the podcast to talk about health and fitness topics.In this third episode (of three), we talk about fake natties. Yep, sounds like patties, the food! But actually a fake natty (plural = fake natties) is sho...
May 15, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 929
Send us a text Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie Slang series where I teach you how to use Australian slang - like a fair dinkum Australian!In this episode, we talk about the Aussie slang word "Aussie". Learn what it means and how you can use it in your daily conversations.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!...
May 14, 2021•3 min•Ep. 928
