From, "chucking a sickie" to "having a yarn," these Aussie slang terms deserve a global audience.
Having grown up in Australia, I sometimes take our weird and wonderful lingo for granted. Sure, every culture develops its own unique slang; I thought I had learned Spanish until I turned up in Spain ...
We language educators know that words are much more than just words. Words are windows into a society’s “cultural universe”. Aussie words and idioms then provide a great entry point into Australian ...