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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 footy players. You can check out Will Smith's movie Concussion, it's about the chilling discovery of CTE.Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

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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 Geographic. Lastly, I tell you what is a "myriapod".Improve your listening skills today – listen, play, & pause this episode – and start speaking like a native English speaker!

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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 episode – and start speaking like a native English speaker!

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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!

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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 today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

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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 Trans-Tasman rivalry between New Zealand and Australia and why our jokes about one another often involve sheep.

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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.This guy now speaks four languages and having an incredible life. And the guy's only in his mid 30s!Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

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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!

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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 northwestern Victoria.We also talk about silo art popping around Australia. Artisans have painted over these old grain silos, giving them new life as creative outlets. There are so many beautifully painted artworks that there is a website so you can visit them all!Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

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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!)Breakdown the meaning of the words in this expressionDiscover what the expression meansKnow the origin of the expressionLearn how to use the expression in contextGo through a pronunciation exerciseTake note of some pronunciation sounds to be careful about, andTell you about Australia's famous "Shipwreck Coast" and the Loch Ard wreckImprove your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!