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I dream to be a world tour surfer,
but first I need to learn to catch
more waves and first, I need to be
bigger. I do dream about that all the
time. I'm Quincy Simons. I love
surfing and I'm 7 years old.

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What makes a good surfer and a bad
surfer? Well, it's like it's.. Like
art. It's like playing an instrument,
you know, you've got to have a sense
of flow. The ones that really stand
out are the ones that make it look
effortless. Quincy, you know, she
definitely has this rhythm with the
ocean that is quite remarkable.

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There's no reason why Quincy couldn't
be a professional surfer. You know, I
was actually really stoked for her to
have such a great connection with the
ocean at such a young age.

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G'day, guys! And welcome to Aussie
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G'day,guys and welcome to this
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Anyway, guys, let's get into this
episode. So, at the start there, I
wanted to show you this short clip of
this seven year old surfer, she is a
little grommet taking the surfing
world by storm, right? And she had
the nickname Flying Squirrel. So,
this is ABC News's YouTube channel,
go and check out the entire mini
documentary on this girl. It's about
nine minutes long, the link will be
in the transcript, go check it out.

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Alright, I've got a joke for you and
it's a fruit joke because the
expressions related to fruit,ok? So,
the joke is: why were the apple and
orange alone? Why were the apple and
orange alone? Because the banana
split. Did you get it? Because the
banana split.

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So, alright, apple, orange, banana.
These are all fruit. Why were the
apple an orange alone? You know, they
were together and by themselves with
no other fruit around or people, I
guess, fruit people around because
the banana split. So, the joke here
is we're 'split' being a verb, 'to
split', it's kind of like an English
slang term for to leave, you know,
'sorry, guys I'm going to split',
it's like, 'sorry, guys, I've got to
leave', right? To split. And a banana
split is a special dessert, right? It
is a sweet dish with bananas cut down
the middle and filled with ice cream,
normally chocolate sauce and nuts,
right? A banana split.

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So, that's the joke there, the banana
left. That's why apple and orange
were alone.

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So, the expression today is 'apples
and oranges'. Often used in an
expression like 'comparing apples and
oranges', right? Ah, that's like
comparing apples and oranges. That's
apples and oranges, mate. So, apples
and oranges was suggested by Fatima.
She suggested this one in the Aussie
English Facebook group. Guys, if you
are not in the Facebook group, make
sure that you jump over to Facebook,
obviously, do a search for Australian
English language group and you will
find it. Join there, guys. And I post
in there all the time and I try and
encourage you guys to post, to meet
other language learners learning
English, want to learn more about
Australia and also improve your
speaking, right? Interaction. It's
all about developing a community and
interacting.

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So, the definitions of the words in
this expression, relatively
straightforward today as the
expression is 'apples and oranges',
you've pretty much just got two
fruit, right? An apple, an apple is
the round fruit of a tree from the
rose family, surprising, huh? And
it's native to Central Asia. I didn't
know that before looking this up, you
know, apples are everywhere in the
world today, but they first arrived,
they first appeared in Central Asia.

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The other fruit that we have here,
oranges. This is a large round, juicy
citrus fruit, you know, similar to
limes and lemons, tangerines, and
what's the other one? Mandarins,
right? Love those, and oranges are
native as well to Asia, but to South,
South East Asia.

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So, I wonder if you guys have heard
the expression 'apples and oranges',
like 'comparing apples and oranges',
right? You probably have something
similar in your native languages, but
if we compare something to comparing
apples and oranges, we are saying
that those things aren't the same.
So, it's like comparing two very
dissimilar things. You're comparing
two things that are very different
from one another, right? So it's used
with reference to two things that
you're talking about that are
fundamentally different and therefore
not suited to comparison. You're
comparing apples and oranges. Those
things aren't the same thing, man.

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So, I looked up where this expression
came from and it seems to be another
one of those English ones that's very
old. So, it's first used in John
Ray's proverb collection in the year
1670, and it is nearly always
accompanied by a warning that you
can't compare those two things, ok?
Apples and oranges. Alright, so let's
go through some examples, guys.

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So, example number one: imagine that
you need to buy a new surfboard this
summer because maybe your old one's
nose snapped off or something, right?
You tried duck diving under a wave,
the nose of the surfboard hit some
rocks because the... It was really
shallow there and the nose snapped
off. So, you got to buy a new one.
So, there are loads of options,
obviously, you got short boards,
you've got Malibu boards, or
longboards, you've even got hybrid
boards, but your heart's ultimately
set on a short board as you've always
ridden those.

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So, you end up finding two really
good bargains online. You know, maybe
you do a search on websites like
Gumtree or Facebook Marketplace
trying to find a good deal, snap up a
bargain, right? You communicate with
the sellers online and you get a good
price organized for each of them. The
only thing left to do is to go and
check these out in person to see if
these boards are in good nick, to see
if they're in good condition.

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So, you pick up a mate and you go and
see the first surfboard and then you
go and see the second surfboard and
ultimately you decide hmm, the first
one by far and away was the best one,
it was in the best nick, and it also
came at a cheaper price, right? So,
your mate may disagree with you and
he might think, 'you know, that first
one wasn't as good as the second one,
the second one was way better'. He
may say to you, 'it's like comparing
apples and oranges, mate. The second
one was in a league of its own. It
was completely superior to the first
one. What are you smoking? What are
you thinking? Get the second one!',
and you may think the inverse, right?
You might think 'no way, the first
one was by far and away the best', so
comparing the first one to the second
one is like comparing apples and
oranges, they're nowhere near,
they're not in the same league, they
are so different, ok? I'm going to
buy the first one.

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Number two: so you've applied to
study in Australia at a bunch of
different universities, right? At a
bunch of different unis and you want
to study something like Biology or
Engineering, Medicine, Arts,
Psychology maybe, and maybe you apply
to unis in and around the Melbourne
area, like Melbourne Uni or Monash,
RMIT or La Trobe. Eventually, you
hear back from each of these unis
who's each said that they're going to
accept you based on the application
you submitted. You know, they said
you've passed the entrance, you know,
an application process with flying
colours, you've done really well, we
want you in our uni.

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So, say that you want to study
Medicine and you decide, 'you know
what? Melbourne Uni is by far and
away the best university for medical
degrees in Australia', well, in
Melbourne, and so the choice is very
simple because it's like comparing
apples and oranges, because
Melbourne's the obvious choice,
because it's in a league of its own,
it's so good, it's obvious I need to
go with Melbourne because it's like
comparing apples and oranges, right?
Very different things.

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Example number three: so, imagine you
want to get a new dog to work on,
say, a cattle station or maybe a farm
in the Australian outback, right? You
live in the Australian bush and you
run a lot of livestock, like cattle
and sheep on your farm, and you need
some good working dogs to take care
of the cattle, to round them up and,
you know, get them in their pens when
you need to organize them, maybe ship
them off to sell them, whatever it
is. So, you get a friend to bring
over some puppies and he ends up
bringing over a Kelpie puppy and a
Labrador puppy.

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So, he asks you, 'which one of these
two dogs would you like?', and you
tell him, hands down, that you want
the Kelpie, right? It's a simple
choice. It's like comparing apples
and oranges because the Kelpie is a
dog that has been specifically bred
to work on farms herding things like
sheep and cattle, right? Taking care
of livestock, whereas the Labrador is
a retriever. It's meant to retrieve
things that you say have shot out of
the sky like a duck or something. So,
the choice is a cinch, it's very
easy, it's crystal clear which one
you want to go with, the Kelpie
because it's like comparing apples
and oranges.

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So, there you go, guys. The
expression 'apples and oranges',
hopefully you understand that now,
hopefully you can use that just like
a native speaker would use it in
conversation. It is when you are
comparing two fundamentally different
things that are not suited to
comparison. So, you can't compare
those two things, mate. It's like
comparing apples and oranges. Those
are two very different things. You
can't compare them. You know, if they
were the same, it would be apples and
apples and oranges and oranges,
right?

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Alright, good job. So, now let's go
through the little listen and repeat
exercise. This is a little exercise
here, guys, for you to practice your
pronunciation. When I'm talking with
my students, when I'm giving them
advice on working on their
pronunciation, I'm always telling
them it is a never ending battle,
right? This is something that you've
got to work on every single day if
you're trying to improve your
language skills, and it's something I
do every single day in the languages
I'm learning, ok? So, just spend a
little bit of time doing this each
day and your pronunciation will
definitely sharpen up, ok? So, listen
and repeat after me.

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Apples.

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Apples and.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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So, before we get into the next
exercise, pay attention there to how
I'm linking these 'apples and
oranges'. So, 'and', the word 'and'
quite often gets turned into an N
sound like, literally, like the
letter N, right? Apples and oranges.
Except it's a schwa quality, right?
Instead of saying N you're saying N.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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We're also linking that Z sound at
the end of apples to the start of
'N', 'apples and', 'apples and'. The
D disappears off the end of 'and'
because that's just 'N' and we link
that N sound to oranges, 'apples and
oranges'.

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I should also mention it's the dark L
there at the end of 'apples'. So I'm
not actually saying L, la la la la
la, the light L. So, I'm saying it
more like a reverse W sound, that
'ew', 'ew'. Apples to apples.

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So, this happens when the L sound is
followed by no sound at all or a
consonant, the Z sound in this case,
'apples and oranges', ok? So, we'll
do this five more times and then
we'll get into the next exercise.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

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Alright, so now I'm going to go
through the sentence 'I think it's
like apples and oranges', ' You think
it's like apples and oranges', pay
attention here to how these words are
linking together, ok? And try and get
that flow happening where listen to
my intonation, my cadence, the way
I'm linking these words and try and
do that yourself, ok? Let's go.

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I think it's like apples and oranges.

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You think it's like apples and
oranges.

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He thinks it's like apples and
oranges.

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She thinks it's like apples and
oranges.

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We think it's like apples and
oranges.

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They think it's like apples and
oranges.

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It thinks it's like apples and
oranges.

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Good job! So, you may notice those
K's at the end of 'think' and the
'like' linking to the next words
because each of them starts with a
vowel, right? 'Think it's like
apples'.

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Alright, remember, if you're working
on your pronunciation, I have an
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make sure that you go to
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you can sign up for the Australian
pronunciation course.

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Anyway, before we finish up today, I
thought I would teach you some surf
slang that will be related to the
Aussie English fact where we'll be
talking about surfing culture in
Australia. And also, I'm going to
make a video about surfing culture
and surfing slang and vocabulary,
everything like that this week. So,
keep an eye out for that on YouTube
as well, ok?

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So the five words are: wettie,
boardies, sunnies, rashie and leggy.
I wonder if you know any of these
words? I wonder if you recognise
them, I wonder if you've heard of
them before and I wonder if you can
discern what they mean. If you
haven't, right?

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So, you'll notice there that they're
all one syllable and then they have
the sound -IE, which is usually spelt
-IE, or -IES, if it's plural, on the
end there, ok? So, that happens a lot
in Australian slang.

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So wettie, right? Your wettie. You
can use the T flap. Your wettie, your
wettie. Did you bring your wettie to
the beach, guys? You should put your
wettie on before you go into the
water because the water's quite cold
and the wettie will keep you warm,
and many people who wear wettie often
get in the water and they pee in
their wettie.

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So, what do you reckon a wettie is?
It's a wetsuit, right? They've taken
the first syllable of the word
wetsuit, a suit that you wear when
you get wet to keep you warm, a
wetsuit. They've taken the syllable
'Wet' and they've put -IE on the end.
Wettie.

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So, number two: bordies, bordies. If
it's a really hot day, you might not
put on your wettie, instead, you
might wear some boardies because, you
know, you want to keep cool.
Boardies. Bordies are boardshorts,
and that's why it's plural, that's
why it's not boardie, it's boardies,
because boardshorts is always plural,
right? These are shorts that you wear
that you can wear like bathers,
boardshorts. Often that you used
whilst riding boards like a surfboard
or a boogieboard or bodyboard.
Bordies.

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Sunnies. Man, I'm sure you guys know
what sunnies are. If you go outside
and it's a really bright day, the sun
is glaring, you know, it is
incredibly bright, you might put your
sunnies on to protect your eyes.
Sunnies, sunglasses, right? We've
taken the word 'sun' and we've put
IES on the end, because the word
sunglasses is plural. I love wearing
sunnies when I go outside.

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The fourth one here is: rashie, so I
might put on a rashie. If I'm wearing
boardies and I want to go for a surf,
I'll put a rashie on because I don't
want my board, with the wax on the
board, to scrape my chest and give me
a rash, so I put on a rash vest or
what we can also call a rash guard. A
rashie. Rashie. Rashie, right? Plenty
of people wear rashies.

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And the last one here guys is leggie.
Leggie. So, I might be going for a
surf in my wettie. I've taken my
sunnies off, I've left them on the
beach, maybe if it's a really hot day
I won't wear a wettie, instead, I'll
put on some boardies and my rashie.
And when I go down to the water's
edge with my surfboard, I'll tie the
leggie to my ankle.

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So, what would I tie to my ankle
that's attached to the board? The leg
strap, right. So, the leg strap is
attached to the surfboard, you attach
it to your ankle and we just take the
word 'leg' and add -IE on the end.
Leg strap, leggie.

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So, there you go, guys. Anyway, I
hope you enjoy this episode, guys, I
hope you've learned a whole bunch and
I will see you in the YouTube video
and in the next episode on Surfing
Culture. Peace!

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