Natural English Conversations
32 everyday Australian dialogues, each with a vocabulary breakdown and a speaking exercise.
Taught by Peter Smissen
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- 10 hr 18 min of content
- 64 lessons
- Certificate of completion
- Full lifetime access
$159.00
Course Content
32 sections · 64 lessons
What you'll be able to do
- Follow everyday Australian conversation, slang and all
- Use common expressions naturally instead of translating from your own language
- Handle real situations — shops, appointments, directions, small talk — with the right words
- Recognise Australian slang and know when it's appropriate to use it yourself
- Improve your pronunciation and rhythm by imitating real dialogue
- Build the confidence to join a conversation rather than just follow it
Who is this for?
Intermediate learners and above who can follow a simple conversation but get lost as soon as native speakers relax into slang and fast speech. You'll need to be willing to speak out loud — half of this course is imitation practice.
About this course
In this course you'll study natural English conversations — dialogues between two or more people about everyday situations, spoken the way Australians actually speak them.
You'll learn the vocabulary, expressions and slang that come up in those conversations, and how to use them naturally rather than correctly-but-oddly. Then you'll practise your own speaking by imitating the dialogue.
How each conversation works
- Vocabulary Breakdown — a video where we go through the dialogue line by line: what the words mean, why they're used, and what the slang really signals.
- Speaking Exercise — your turn. You take a role and imitate the conversation, so the language ends up in your mouth and not just in your notes.
What you'll be listening to
32 dialogues from ordinary Australian life — a snake bite, a coffee mix-up, buying at Bunnings, getting directions to Uluru, a trip to the surf shop, a doctor's appointment, buying a ute, moving house, a housewarming, fish and chips, the farmer's market, surviving a bushfire. Situations you'd actually find yourself in, with the language that actually gets used in them.
How to use the course
Don't skip the speaking exercise. Watching the breakdown feels productive, but the imitation is where the expressions stop being something you recognise and start being something you can say. Pick the conversations closest to your own life first — they're the ones you'll use this week.
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