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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Australia!

22Jun

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Australia!

Today, Australia is renowned for its acceptance of immigrants. Whilst not only making the country ethnically diverse, it also makes the country linguistically diverse too, with the languages of Australia being more interesting than you'd probably think... Indeed, many think that the languages of Australia are just English and maybe a few other languages. Yet, it's more than that, with there being hundreds of weird and unknown languages spoken in the country, as well as the ones you'd have thought of... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Australia Although there had been minor European contact with Australia beforehand (notably by the Dutch), the majority of European contact with Australia would begin after James Cook "rediscov...

15 Australian Slang Words That You Should Start Using!

Almost every language and dialect has its own slang. Australian English is no different. This got me thinking, which are the best Australian slang words you can use? We recently covered both British slang words and American slang words. I though it was only fair that we covered Australian slang words too. Australian slang borrows a lot from British slang. Although, there are a lot of Aboriginal and native Australian influences on their slang as well. It also shares a lot in common with New Zealand slang due to its proximity. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 15. Mate - Good Friend When you think of Australian slang words, mate is probably the first one that comes to mind. This is mostly down to fact that American TV shows and movies often use ...

13 most sophisticated languages

Various languages are seen as posh. Others are not. But this begs the question, what are the most sophisticated languages? Here they are! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 13. Hungarian When speaking about sophisticated languages, Hungarian probably isn't the one that comes to mind (it's probably #1 or #4!) However, there is certainly a degree of sophistication that comes with learning a difficult language! And Hungarian is by far one of the most difficult languages to learn on the planet! To many, Hungarian may not sound sophisticated, perhaps more barbarian-like than sophisticated. But I assure you, if you are able to master such a unique and difficult language, it certainly classes as sophisticated! Perhaps, you could argue that this is ...