Australian vs British SLANG | English Vocabulary and phrases with Lucy!

Hi everyone! Welcome to another mmmEnglish video.

I am here in London and I have just

run into another lovely English teacher

YouTube English teacher - it's Lucy!

Hello! I'm Lucy from English With Lucy and I

also have an English Channel.

I'm sure that a lot of my viewers also

actually subscribe to you so I'm sure

they'll be very excited to see us together!

Yeah, surprise! So some of you might have

already seen the video that we made

together on Lucy's channel that was all

about British slang words and Lucy

tested me to see how good my knowledge

was of British slang.

It was OK, but... [You were pretty good actually!] Really? [Yeah!]

Well, right now in this video I'm going to be

testing your knowledge of Australian

slang, which is where I'm from.

I'm holidaying in London and Lucy's from London, but I'm

originally from Australia.

[I'm looking forward to it! Let's get started!] OK, let's get going!

I've got my list here! So, the first one that I'm

going to ask you about is 'arvo',

'arvo', 'arvo', 'arvo'. Is it like avocado?

No, that's 'avo'! What if i gave you an

example? "I'll see you this arvo!" Afternoon!

Yes! It's really common "I'll see you this arvo."

God! I would have no idea is someone said that to me!

OK, let's go another one! Let's talk about

a 'servo'. And in the same way we have a

slang word that's called 'bottle-o'.

Just add an 'O' to everything in Australia! 'Servo'...

'bottle-o' ['arvo', 'avo']. OK, is a 'bottle-o' a bottle? Of wine?

It's a bottle shop. So, if you're going to

go to the 'bottle-o', you would get wine!

OK, so a 'bottle-o' is the bottle shop...

Yeah... You guys call it an off-licence, don't you? [Off-licence, yes.]

Um... So, 'servo'. Is that just like a

normal shop?

No, it's a service station. Like a petrol station

Yes! 'Servo' [My Lord!] Add an 'O' to everything!

OK, 'servo'! Service Station! [Hot tip!] Yeah, it makes sense! It makes sense!

OK, what's next? We have... Oh, I think you'll know this one, this one's easy!

A mate. It's a friend! We actually use that the same.

And we also like to imitate Australians by saying 'G'day mate!'

'G'day mate!' If you were going to imitate an Australian,

you'd be like, 'maaaaaate'! That's perfect!

OK, 'barbie' Barbecue! OK, good.

Next one is... What if i said i was going

bush? Are you going out? To the countryside?

See how the English people

say "we're going to the countryside" and

Australian people say "we're going bush"! There's no preposition or anything! You're just going

bush!I think you probably know this one. It's quite

commonly known that we call these

'thongs' Flip-flops

Yeah. Because thongs is very skimpy

women's underwear.

Yes. So, what do you call thongs (the underware ones)?

Ummm... G-strings. Oh yeah! G-strings! I remember I

had to change my G string, on my violin!

What if i said i was going to have a

'durry'? Is that a delicious curry?

No, no it's not. Not just a curry, a delicious curry!

Not quite as good as a delicious curry! I'm going to have a 'durry'...

No! But it sounds like it should be! [I just think of diarrhoea!] No idea!

It's also... It could be a 'dart'. [A rush?] No! These are

all words for, like a cigarette, slang

word for a cigarette. You'd call a cigarette a 'durry'? We'd call it a

'fag', a 'ciggy'!

Or a... [umm] the ones that you roll: 'rollies'!

So, basically to speak Australian, you have to

end everything in either 'O' or 'E' Yeah, or 'A'.

Any vowel! Just just let it drift off!

You just have to leave your mouth open!

A 'sanga'. A 'sanga'. I don't know!

If I said I'm going to grab a 'sanga'... Sandwich!

Yes! Sandwich is just 'sanga'.

I didn't do too badly, did I? No, not at all! You actually did

better than I expected,

so well done! So, that was Australian slang.

Thank you, Lucy for helping me out that one!

Thank you for testing me! Well, you did

OK! If you are interested to learn a

bit more about British slang, you can

check out the video on Lucy's channel that

we made together where she tested me on

my skills with British slang, so... She's pretty good!

Not perfect though!

[Hmm]... but the link to Lucy's channel is

just underneath this video in the description

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