1 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,410 G'day, guys! Welcome to this episode of Aussie English. 2 00:00:13,420 --> 00:00:19,120 Today, I have a little something different for you guys, a little something different. 3 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:28,620 So, today, I have the pleasure of sitting down for a chinwag with Charlie, who is one of the two man team from real English with real teachers. 4 00:00:28,630 --> 00:00:32,050 These guys are over on YouTube where you will see the first part of this interview. 5 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:33,750 This is the second part. 6 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,550 So, I highly recommend that you check out the first part, whether or not you do it before or after this episode. 7 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:44,740 It doesn't matter that much as we talked about a lot of different things in our sit down. 8 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:49,600 So, Charlie is from Britain originally, although, I think he was saying his father is Australian. 9 00:00:49,930 --> 00:00:51,790 So he's living in Australia at the moment. 10 00:00:52,270 --> 00:00:57,970 And he wanted to chat to me about differences between British culture and Australian culture. 11 00:00:58,030 --> 00:01:02,200 So, we talk about a whole bunch of different things, comparing British versus Australian culture. 12 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:07,330 Specifically, things like Christmas and holidays and schooling, everything like that. 13 00:01:07,370 --> 00:01:15,850 OK. So, it's a pretty interesting interview if you're interested in the differences, the subtle differences between Britain and Australia. 14 00:01:15,850 --> 00:01:20,500 It's also obviously a good chance for you to practice your listening comprehension with different accents today. 15 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:34,090 And beyond that, guys, keep an eye out if you're a member of the Premium Podcast, as I'm going to upload the entire hour long interview on the website for you to access as a members only episode. 16 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,470 Anyway, guys, this has been a long enough intro. 17 00:01:36,610 --> 00:01:37,600 Let's get into it. 18 00:01:43,810 --> 00:01:57,790 Yeah. So, one thing that I've thought about asking you, because a lot of my students, they have different vocabulary based on that country, like a lot of Russians, they call their cousins, their sisters and brothers. 19 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:01,020 And I wanted to... I just wanted to check with Australians. 20 00:02:01,030 --> 00:02:03,010 I imagine it's fairly similar to Britain. 21 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,570 But what would you like... 22 00:02:04,570 --> 00:02:07,780 What would you class as family for you? 23 00:02:09,290 --> 00:02:16,720 That's a good question, I think, well, obviously, genetic ties to anyone who's actually, you know, blood related to me. 24 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:18,700 That'd be generally family. 25 00:02:19,330 --> 00:02:22,450 I think we can extend that to very close friends sometimes. 26 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:31,810 But I think by and large, I wouldn't refer to, you know, really, really close friends as brother or sister or anything like that or cousins. 27 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:32,970 I might. 28 00:02:32,970 --> 00:02:32,980 OK. 29 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:50,410 Sometimes with children, so, now that I have a son and I hang out with friends who are very close, I might refer to them as Uncle So-and-so to my son who wants to get him to kind of associate this person with, okay, this person's not just friend or not just some old person that Pete knows, but to kind. 30 00:02:50,410 --> 00:02:50,560 Yeah. 31 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,910 To kind of try and bridge that gap. 32 00:02:51,970 --> 00:02:54,370 But yeah, it is different, I think, across cultures. 33 00:02:54,370 --> 00:03:11,470 I know that especially in Asian countries, they tend to have a lot of different labels for, you know, members of the family, friends, they'll even refer to people, I think, in Indonesia they would refer to older men as uncle to show respect, and they have those kinds of things, which is really interesting, but yeah. 34 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,470 Yeah, so, it's fairly... 35 00:03:15,070 --> 00:03:16,450 It sounds fairly similar. 36 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,230 Yeah. 37 00:03:17,230 --> 00:03:25,200 But would you would you like spend Christmas with the wider extended family like the cousins and the grandparents and even the great grandparents if you're lucky to have them around. 38 00:03:25,610 --> 00:03:25,970 Absolutely. 39 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,450 Well my son's got great grandparents, but my grandparents, I would always, yeah, spend Christmas with them. 40 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,620 And this will be something that's different for both of us. 41 00:03:35,650 --> 00:03:36,970 Christmas here is always hot. 42 00:03:37,420 --> 00:03:38,470 So, I'm very used to associating Christmas with... 43 00:03:38,540 --> 00:03:40,900 It's confusing me so much seeing Christmas trees. 44 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:41,100 Right now. 45 00:03:41,290 --> 00:03:42,640 Well, it's so funny, too, for us. 46 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:47,610 Right? Because we'll get the Christmas tree and we'll put tinsel on it, and, you know, which is meant to represent the snow. 47 00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:51,840 And yet, we'll walk outside and go to the beach with a surfboard and play cricket and stuff. 48 00:03:51,970 --> 00:03:58,330 And that kind of like compartmentalisation of the mind doesn't seem to be very obvious until later on. 49 00:03:58,330 --> 00:04:03,220 You're like, why do we watch all these snowy movies about Christmas when it's summer? 50 00:04:03,370 --> 00:04:05,500 And then you realise, oh, they're from the northern hemisphere? 51 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:06,880 Of course. You know, that's when it's a winter. 52 00:04:06,910 --> 00:04:09,780 But yeah so, I think that would be culture shock for me. 53 00:04:09,790 --> 00:04:17,080 The first time I ever spend Christmas in the northern hemisphere, I would be like, this is weird, really weird, you know,. 54 00:04:17,950 --> 00:04:20,650 But I would imagine a good weird, wouldn't it be like? 55 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,070 Oh, this is what it's meant to be like? 56 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:26,010 Well, that's hard, right, to know what's meant to be. 57 00:04:26,020 --> 00:04:28,540 I guess it would make sense in terms of that, but I'd be... 58 00:04:28,630 --> 00:04:40,420 I'd be like, so this is the time where everyone has barbecues and goes outside and we spend time walking around, going to the beach, surfing, you know, and yet you would, say, go to Canada and spend it inside because it's negative 30 outside. 59 00:04:40,450 --> 00:04:42,640 I'd be like, but it's the holidays. 60 00:04:42,670 --> 00:04:43,890 You're meant to be out and about. 61 00:04:45,090 --> 00:04:52,360 It's true. Okay. So, you've got a real, like, associations to Christmas and barbecues, outdoor, on the beach. 62 00:04:52,690 --> 00:04:53,750 Yeah. 100%. 63 00:04:53,750 --> 00:04:55,390 And it's set up differently. 64 00:04:55,390 --> 00:04:58,360 I think... I don't know what it's like in Britain, but I know that in America you... 65 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,130 they have massive holidays, I think from like September until January or something. 66 00:05:03,130 --> 00:05:07,610 Right. They get like three months off, because I think it's... 67 00:05:07,610 --> 00:05:13,460 Is it then that they get the big gap, because they want to enjoy the outdoors and outside before winter. 68 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:21,920 Whereas in Australia you will have little chunks of holidays throughout the school year, and then over Christmas, it's like a month and a half, maybe like six weeks. 69 00:05:21,950 --> 00:05:24,700 You don't get like some massive, massive break to enjoy the Summer. 70 00:05:24,710 --> 00:05:28,900 We get the 6 weeks. We get to six weeks in July, August. 71 00:05:29,020 --> 00:05:29,550 Okay. 72 00:05:29,550 --> 00:05:29,980 Yeah. And then we... 73 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:33,080 So that's the Spring Break equivalent in America, right? 74 00:05:33,110 --> 00:05:35,120 Where they get a big chunk over spring. 75 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:37,940 I think Spring Break is Easter. 76 00:05:38,390 --> 00:05:39,920 Okay. Yeah. 77 00:05:40,010 --> 00:05:44,570 I don't know how quite to answer that query, but... 78 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:51,530 Yeah. So, we get the six weeks in the middle of the summer, the peak of our summer. 79 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:59,480 And then we get, like, half term in October time, maybe November, and then December is the Christmas holiday. 80 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,550 Crazy. It's funny how they get set up around that though. 81 00:06:01,550 --> 00:06:05,420 Right? Like, around the seasons more so than the holidays, I think. 82 00:06:07,550 --> 00:06:09,000 Yeah, yeah, most definitely. 83 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:12,360 And so, it's completely flip reversed for you guys. 84 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:19,410 And, do you still enjoy watching the festive films like in the snow and things like that? 85 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:22,290 I think it's just something you never question, because you grow up and you just... 86 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:25,200 They're always the big ones from America or even from... 87 00:06:25,310 --> 00:06:26,410 I remember 'Love Actually'. 88 00:06:26,430 --> 00:06:29,550 Right. That came out from Britain, and that was a Christmas film, right? 89 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,410 And you just don't... It's just... 90 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:38,610 you know, it's summer, but when we flick on the telly, the TV, you're going to see a lot of different movies from America and Britain. 91 00:06:38,610 --> 00:06:39,950 And they're all going to be snowy movies. 92 00:06:40,110 --> 00:06:41,190 'Home and alone', right? 93 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:44,760 That was all that snow and everything when he was in New York over Christmas, and you just... 94 00:06:44,910 --> 00:06:45,780 you never think about it. 95 00:06:46,850 --> 00:06:54,300 Okay. Okay. So, you don't really connect it, but you just know that the rest of the world is experiencing a snowy Christmas. 96 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,480 Yeah. You just know that's their Christmas, that's their version of it. 97 00:06:57,540 --> 00:06:59,990 It's always has snow and ours just always has summer, you know. 98 00:07:00,090 --> 00:07:06,690 And they'll have the jokes here in Australia where you'll see Santa in like boardshorts on the beach with his surfboard or something. 99 00:07:07,470 --> 00:07:08,730 Oh, that's great. 100 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:15,330 I like that. Do you think there are any films out there of Aussie Christmas, like, celebrating the fact that you're on the beach? 101 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:21,690 I think there should be. There's one I remember watching as a kid, though, I don't know if it was specifically focussed on Christmas. 102 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,280 It's called 'Bush Christmas'. 103 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:26,580 I think. It's one of Nicole Kidman's first movies. 104 00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:29,790 And she's like fifteen and ginger. 105 00:07:29,970 --> 00:07:31,830 She had red hair when she was young. 106 00:07:32,190 --> 00:07:37,570 So, that's a really interesting one about kids and they, you know, I think they get stuck in a well. 107 00:07:37,590 --> 00:07:39,630 Something interesting happens out in the bush. 108 00:07:39,660 --> 00:07:43,260 So, it's a good way of seeing what Bush life is like out in rural areas of Australia. 109 00:07:43,290 --> 00:07:44,910 And I think it's over Christmas, obviously. 110 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:46,810 But, um, yeah, from like the 80s. 111 00:07:47,070 --> 00:07:49,510 That was a good movie. I remember watching as a kid during Christmas. 112 00:07:49,540 --> 00:07:50,400 'Bush Christmas'. 113 00:07:51,060 --> 00:07:52,830 'Bush Christmas'. I'll watch it. 114 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:58,410 Maybe I'll watch it this Christmas, because it's my first Christmas away from home and I'll be on the beach. 115 00:07:58,740 --> 00:08:04,020 Man, you should. And I think, too, you know, we associate things like... 116 00:08:04,980 --> 00:08:06,090 what is it like Australia Day? 117 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,850 That is around January, I think January 25th (26th*), right? 118 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,890 And so, we have... we used to have. 119 00:08:10,890 --> 00:08:24,210 I don't know what the channel's called anymore, but it was Triple J, a certain radio station, and they used to count down the 100 most common songs on that day, because everyone would be at the beach hanging out, you know, for Australia Day. 120 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:30,440 So, that's interesting too in terms of if you ask the average Aussie what Australia Day is all about, they'll be like, ah, it's a piss up. 121 00:08:30,450 --> 00:08:34,050 You go have a barbie and listen to Triple J and just get smashed, you know? 122 00:08:35,210 --> 00:08:37,440 That sounds like the Aussies that I've met. 123 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:37,970 Pretty much. Yep. 124 00:08:39,790 --> 00:08:41,550 Oh, that's funny. 125 00:08:41,850 --> 00:08:52,770 Okay. And so, that must mean that you've got a bit more of an awareness of, like, the other side of the world or, you know, north hemisphere. 126 00:08:52,930 --> 00:08:54,630 'Cause in England, we didn't really... 127 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,800 we never obviously really heard about the equivalent in the southern hemisphere. 128 00:08:58,970 --> 00:09:01,380 Well, you've got 'Home and Away' and 'Neighbours', right, on TV? 129 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:02,540 Those two TV shows. 130 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:04,500 That was about it. 131 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:07,850 This is true. Yeah. That is our cultural awareness of Australia. 132 00:09:07,850 --> 00:09:09,070 Well, I think that's the thing, right? 133 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,020 We have little brother syndrome where we're inside a house looking out. 134 00:09:13,230 --> 00:09:18,700 And I think you guys are inside a house looking in or maybe looking out one window towards the US, right? 135 00:09:18,780 --> 00:09:19,050 Yeah. 136 00:09:19,380 --> 00:09:23,880 And so, I think, it's kind of like, do you know the relationship between Norway and Sweden, where I think it's... 137 00:09:24,390 --> 00:09:27,840 Sweden obviously produces a ton more TV shows and everything. 138 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:35,040 So all the... I think the Norwegians can understand the Swedes, because they watch all their TV, and the Swedes don't understand the Norwegians, because they don't care. 139 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,510 Right? And so, I think it's like that, but a massive scale. 140 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:45,540 Britain's not too bad, 'cause you guys have a closer affiliation, I think, with Australia, as we're in the Commonwealth still. 141 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,610 But I think the US definitely. 142 00:09:47,610 --> 00:09:51,900 Like, I've spoken to people from the US in my accent just like this. 143 00:09:51,930 --> 00:09:53,520 And they'll be like, I don't understand you. 144 00:09:53,730 --> 00:09:55,100 And you'd be like. 145 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:56,650 I don't think I've got a strong accent. 146 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:05,010 It's different, but it's not like, you know, Scottish or, you know, Southern Texan or something where it's so strong. 147 00:10:05,250 --> 00:10:07,380 But because we're watching movies all the time... 148 00:10:07,380 --> 00:10:10,050 like, I can hear American accents and tell you where they're from. 149 00:10:10,170 --> 00:10:12,690 You know, I can't imagine that someone... 150 00:10:12,690 --> 00:10:15,640 and British as well, you know, you watch Game of Thrones and you get so used to..., 151 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,780 oh, that's you know, that's from Yorkshire, that's from Scotland, or whatever. 152 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:20,340 And you like, I see how they doing that. 153 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:33,780 But because we're so exposed so exposed to your accents and to American accents and everything and culture, you know, we know a lot about it, but you quite often made Americans who will just be like, dunno, the next thing about Australia. 154 00:10:33,810 --> 00:10:36,060 What's the capital? Isn't Sydney the capital of Australia? 155 00:10:36,930 --> 00:10:39,680 Yeah, yeah, sure. Canberra. 156 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:39,990 I know that one. 157 00:10:39,990 --> 00:10:41,970 Just like New York. New York's the capital of America, right? 158 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,010 Yeah. I had some eye opening moments. 159 00:10:47,020 --> 00:10:51,030 I was applying to go to the gym in Ohio, America. 160 00:10:51,540 --> 00:10:58,620 And the lady said, oh, I've met a couple of people from where you're from. 161 00:10:58,950 --> 00:11:00,510 They were really friendly. They're really nice. 162 00:11:00,750 --> 00:11:01,440 And then... 163 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:01,980 Who you calling my people? 164 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,820 Yeah. And then... well. And then, I said, oh, okay. 165 00:11:05,850 --> 00:11:10,980 I'm from near London, and she said, oh, no, these guys, they were from England. 166 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,520 How long does it take to get to London from England? 167 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:15,240 I was like, wow!? 168 00:11:15,460 --> 00:11:17,520 Good question. That's ,meta, like... 169 00:11:18,580 --> 00:11:22,860 Yeah. How long is a piece of string? 170 00:11:22,860 --> 00:11:30,720 Jesus, that is crazy. What was it like for you, though, coming to Australia were the accent's tough to wrap your head around, especially the stronger, broader accents? 171 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,810 Or was it just add this is, you know, much of the same thing. 172 00:11:35,410 --> 00:11:37,890 Because my dad's a half Australian... 173 00:11:37,890 --> 00:11:37,900 Gotcha. 174 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,150 ...I've always had a little bit of an influence. 175 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:45,090 He's always tried to make me support Australia when I go to school, when I get beaten the shit out of. 176 00:11:45,740 --> 00:11:49,800 But, so yeah, I've always had the exposure there . 177 00:11:49,800 --> 00:12:02,190 And it's hilarious, when we'd go on a trip to Australia, my dad is very, very, like, he speaks middle class English, BBC kind of language or accent, and he gets off the plane. 178 00:12:02,190 --> 00:12:04,010 He's like, g'day, mate. 179 00:12:04,010 --> 00:12:05,390 How's it going? 180 00:12:05,390 --> 00:12:06,560 Like, what?! 181 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:07,680 Blends in. 182 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:09,420 Yeah, yeah. 183 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,690 But yeah, it's good fun noticing the differences. 184 00:12:13,110 --> 00:12:16,590 How do you get us too in terms of being part of the Commonwealth? 185 00:12:17,130 --> 00:12:18,360 Because I always wonder that... 186 00:12:18,390 --> 00:12:26,270 I know that, you know, I can imagine the Queen kind of looks down and knows a little bit at the other countries that are, you know, this is where we sent all of our criminals, you know. 187 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:33,810 But I always wonder what it's like looking at Australia from the outside, because obviously from the inside, we're very... 188 00:12:34,190 --> 00:12:37,020 you know, well, I know what to expect and what it is, but. 189 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:39,420 Did you have certain preconceived notions? 190 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:40,680 Or, I guess you grew up with it. 191 00:12:40,710 --> 00:12:45,360 Does the average Brit have preconceived notions of what an Aussie is or what our culture's like? 192 00:12:46,200 --> 00:13:04,060 I think... I don't know if it's accurate to say this, but I think the people that travel outside of Australia, the Australians that travel outside of it, aren't actually the accurate stereotype of Australia. 193 00:13:04,110 --> 00:13:07,530 So, they might be giving you a false name, and... 194 00:13:07,530 --> 00:13:10,440 A bad one or a good one? 195 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:20,880 Well, the majority of them certainly feel like very, very comfortable just expressing who they are and how they feel at any moment in time. 196 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:20,890 Yep. 197 00:13:20,890 --> 00:13:30,390 And they love a good drink and they love a good party and they love to get their tops off and wear shorts and thongs in the most inappropriate weather. 198 00:13:30,630 --> 00:13:33,030 I think that tends to be the same thing for Brits here. 199 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:48,480 Right? The Brits... Like, if I were to go to Bondi, Bondi Beach, right now, the average Brit that I'm going to meet is going to be probably 22 years old, wasted, and, you know, has a pretty strong maybe central northern accent, right. 200 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,530 They don't... I mean, there'll be some Southerners, but quite often you'll meet these... 201 00:13:51,540 --> 00:13:52,940 You know, what's going on there, mate? 202 00:13:52,940 --> 00:14:00,040 Isn't it great over here! You know, you you'd just be like, I'm pretty sure this doesn't represent the average Brit. 203 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:07,730 Yeah, well, it confuses me now because I think that kind of does in a way. 204 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:08,960 Oh really? Okay. 205 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,720 Because I can't comment. I haven't been there yet. 206 00:14:10,890 --> 00:14:15,750 So, one day I'll be able to be like, oh, my God, this is exactly Bondi Beach, but worse weather. 207 00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:20,340 Yeah, it does highlight... 208 00:14:20,340 --> 00:14:30,840 like, when you go abroad to different countries and you hear the Brits that are abroad, it makes me think, oh, wow, this is really what we sound like to other countries, and... 209 00:14:31,330 --> 00:14:38,700 It's funny with America, because it tends to be that you don't meet any conservative Americans ever when you... 210 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:43,890 when you're in Australia. So, every single American I'll meet will be from New York... 211 00:14:43,950 --> 00:14:45,900 Well, probably mostly California. 212 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:47,550 So, they're pretty much Australian. 213 00:14:48,270 --> 00:14:49,800 And they come... in terms of culture. 214 00:14:49,860 --> 00:14:50,880 And they come over here. 215 00:14:50,910 --> 00:14:57,240 They're very... they're incredibly left-leaning, open-minded, pro-gay marriage, smoking weed, whatever. 216 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,800 Like, they're like, you know, do whatever you want. 217 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,930 And you're like, where are all the Trump supporters? 218 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:06,690 And then, you realise there's like a huge demographic that just never think, oh, I'll go for a holiday in Australia! 219 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:09,990 Yeah. Or they don't even think about getting a passport. 220 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:11,730 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly, right. 221 00:15:11,820 --> 00:15:25,130 And I would imagine... I interviewed a guy on Aussie English recently from Yorkshire, and he was a chimney sweep, and he told me that for the first time, 30 or 40 years of his life, he never left his suburb or something. 222 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:31,680 He met his wife, who was 40 minutes away in Doncaster or something, and he'd never left Sheffield or something like that. 223 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:32,700 And was just like, what? 224 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,550 What?! Like, how do you not leave... 225 00:15:36,070 --> 00:15:40,270 You...? That's like me driving to Geelong from here, which is twenty five minutes away. 226 00:15:40,290 --> 00:15:42,180 Like, how do you not...? 227 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:43,950 And that's a big thing between our cultures, right? 228 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,210 My dad always says in Australia, 100 years is a long time. 229 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,770 In Britain it's not. In Britain, 100 kilometres is a long way. 230 00:15:52,890 --> 00:15:54,500 And in Australia it's not. Right? 231 00:15:54,570 --> 00:16:03,690 So, was that a weird thing to get your head around when you came here that you could drive in any direction effectively for four days and it's going to be the same accent. 232 00:16:03,870 --> 00:16:05,660 The countryside'll change a little bit. 233 00:16:05,670 --> 00:16:08,520 You'll see different animals, but you'll have the same people. 234 00:16:08,910 --> 00:16:14,760 Whereas, obviously in England or Britain, you can drive for maybe, what, one day and then you're in a different country? 235 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,000 Oh, not even. Yeah. Just an hour. 236 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,730 To get to Scotland, right, you can do that a day. 237 00:16:18,690 --> 00:16:22,260 Oh yeah. You could do that in like 10 hours or something depending on exactly where you are in the south. 238 00:16:22,710 --> 00:16:25,320 And that's from here to Canberra or here to Sydney. 239 00:16:25,410 --> 00:16:30,060 Right? And that's probably like if Australia was this big, that's that, right? 240 00:16:30,420 --> 00:16:32,190 That's ten hours. 241 00:16:32,970 --> 00:16:34,080 Yeah. It's a different animal. 242 00:16:34,090 --> 00:16:51,780 It's a weird one to get your head around, but I think, it's also satisfying getting on the road and actually managing to go quite a distance, 'cause in the UK you spend five hours on the road and you pretty much move a couple of miles. 243 00:16:51,870 --> 00:16:55,590 It's so congested and there's so many cities that the roads are going around. 244 00:16:55,650 --> 00:17:02,460 Whereas, in Australia, like, we went down from the Gold Coast to Sydney and it took about 10 hours. 245 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,360 I think we changed on, like, twice. 246 00:17:05,420 --> 00:17:07,820 We had two roads. 247 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:08,400 That was it. 248 00:17:09,180 --> 00:17:17,550 It's funny, yeah, when you look at the maps of Europe, like, if you look at the map of Europe and you look at roads and it's just, like, you could literally... 249 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:22,950 there's no patch of earth that's kind of like you couldn't walk to from the side of the road. 250 00:17:23,370 --> 00:17:32,640 Whereas in Australia, around the cities it's like that in suburbia, but as soon as you get outside the cities, you know, there's just farmland, forest, bush. 251 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:37,110 There's so much space that's just not utilised because it's arid environment. 252 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,780 And I think that's a big difference, too, right, that everyone thinks Australia's huge, and it is, but it's not usable. 253 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,990 You can't... we can't farm most of Australia. 254 00:17:46,110 --> 00:17:50,940 You can't really use the desert for anything, you know, really. 255 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,020 So, it just gets left alone. 256 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,300 Alright, guys. So I hope you enjoyed that episode. 257 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:04,260 Once again. Go check out Real English with Real teachers. 258 00:18:04,260 --> 00:18:09,030 If you guys are working on your British English, this is a great YouTube channel to go and check out. 259 00:18:09,030 --> 00:18:10,500 They interview a lot of different people. 260 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:18,570 They talk about a lot of different topics that will help you with your everyday English, and you'll get to practice your listening comprehension of British English. 261 00:18:18,570 --> 00:18:21,030 Once again, Charlie, thanks so much for inviting me on for a chat. 262 00:18:21,060 --> 00:18:22,860 It was good fun. It was a good chinwag. 263 00:18:22,890 --> 00:18:24,200 There was lots of slang in there. 264 00:18:24,210 --> 00:18:31,110 And I hope a lot of the information was interesting, to say the least, in terms of Britain versus Australia. 265 00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:38,280 Anyway, guys. 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