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AE 485: 1 Tip to Buy Cheap Books (in Australia)

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AE 485: 1 Tip to Buy Cheap Books (in Australia)

What’s going on, guys?

So today, I was putting together a PDF download, and I’m trying to find a lot of different books that you can get to help you learn English, but also learn about Australian culture, among other things like documentaries, movies, anyway.

The basic idea here for this video is that I wanted to show you how to get cheap books in Australia. So, if you are a bit of a bookworm who likes to buy books online, this is the way that you can find the cheapest option for whatever book it is that you’re looking for. Anyway. Okay.

So, let’s check out the screen here. First thing’s first, I want you to type in Booko into Google, okay. You might need to make sure that Google is Google.com.au, but the website we’re looking for is Booko, BOOKO.com.au. Okay. So, you’ll see it open up here, and you can literally search any kind of book that you want to get, right.

So, one example that I was looking at was a famous book by an author called Tim Winton in Australia and that book is called ‘Cloudstreet’. So, we’ll do a search for that. You can see there’s a few different options here that have come up with Cloudstreet in them, but obviously the first one here is the one we’re looking for.

So, click on that, and then we’ll see that there’s a whole different bunch of editions, right? So, you can get paperback, you can get… what have you got here, ah, MP3 CD, you can get the Kindle edition, and the e-book, all these different options, right? So, you’ll obviously need to find the best option for you. The good thing is prices will be listed for ‘new’ down the side here and ‘used’ down the sign here as well. Okay. And when it was published.

So, if for example, we look at… let’s see if I can find… okay, Cloudstreet, here. Paperback English. Okay. Your standard paperback book. We’ll click on that and you will see, and this is the part that I really like about this Booko website, you will see all of these different stores online listed in order of cheapest, at the top here, to most expensive at the bottom. And the thing that I love about this, aside from obviously showing you the best option for you, from all the different websites online, whether it’s overseas websites, whether it’s in Australia, is that it also shows you delivery and whether or not there’s a fee, and it factors that fee in to the ultimate price. And on top of that, it shows you availability and then total price on the side. Right?

So, you can AbeBooks is selling Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet for only $14.10, 10 cents, and then it is a $1.31. But even with that delivery fee the total is still cheaper than the next best one, which is only $0.06 more from Angus and Robertson for $15.47.

So, this site is awesome. Okay. I really recommend using this site if you guys are looking for books. Once you found the book that you want, once you have found a really good price, sometimes too these prices are quite substantial. The top spot could be $5 or $10 cheaper than at the next point down.

So, you would click them on the website at the top there. It’ll send you directly to where on that website you can get this book. You would then just click add to basket and obviously, whichever website this is, you’ve got to fill out the information required, and then you can buy it.

So, just a short video today, guys, that I wanted to show you for anyone on here who loves buying books.

I might also quickly show you that you can find some pretty obscure things on here. Okay. So, I think, from memory, this website was the one that I got my Portuguese grammar book through. So, it’s not just common novels, right. You’re going to find a whole bunch of really obscure books. So, if you’re looking for things like English grammar. Maybe you will type in ‘English grammar book’ and see what comes up. What have we got here? Central Grammar in Use with Answers.

So, you’ll see a whole bunch of these things come up, English Grammar Workbooks for Dummies. That was actually written by my dad’s friend Geraldine Woods.

So, yeah. Anyway, great website site. I really recommend using this before you’re thinking about getting books, whether it’s from book stores in Australia that you walk into or other sites online, I would really recommend jumping on this website and doing a search just to compare those prices, because quite often you’ll save a little bit of money, especially, if you’re going to a book store in Australia, an actual bookstore, right, a physical bookstore. Quite often their prices will be a little bit above what you can get here and it gets delivered to your door, right, in the mail.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this video, guys. Hope it was helpful for you. And I would love to know from you what was the last book that you bought online? Tell me about it in a comment below and I’ll tell you soon. See ya!


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    AE 486 – Expression: Cash Your Chips

    By pete — 6 months ago

    Learn Australian English in this expression episode of The Aussie English Podcast where I teach you the expression to CASH YOUR CHIPS.

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    AE 486 – Expression: Cash Your Chips

    Independent senator and power broker Nick Xenophon has vowed to continue his battle against gambling.

    These figures show Australia tops the world in gambling losses.

    The average Australian who gambles loses $1,279 a year and increasingly that’s via online sports betting sites.

    The ABC’s national sports editor David Mark has more.

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    G’day, you mob. Welcome to this episode of Aussie English, the number one podcast for anyone and everyone or wanting to learn Australian English. Whether it’s your first time listening to this podcast, guys, in which case, big welcome, thanks for taking the time to listen to this podcast and take your English to the next level, or you are a long-time listener from the very beginning, back in, I think, 2015, a few years back, three years back, when I started. Big thanks to you as well. I really, really appreciate that you’ve stayed with me this whole time, and I keep getting e-mails from people who, obviously, I’ve never met, but who say, you know, I’ve been following you since the very beginning, and it really means a lot to me when you guys send me those emails to say ‘g’day’, to tell me your story, to tell me how long you’ve been listening to the podcast, because even though you guys hear me all the time when I’m talking or I’m in videos, I don’t get to hear from you guys unless you send me an e-mail. So, don’t ever feel like you can’t do that. I really do appreciate that, guys.

    And if you’re curious my email is TheAussieEnglishPodcast [at] gmail.com so feel free to always send me a message, give me feedback, just say ‘G’day’, ask me questions, I’m always available, and I always try to reply to as many e-mails as I can. Anyway, guys.

    This is the Aussie English podcast, obviously. It’s brought to you by the Aussie English Classroom and that is at TheAussieEnglishClassroom.com. This is the website where for these expression episodes I have a classroom, right, so I have an online classroom where I upload bonus content for these expression episodes specifically designed for students who want to study and who want to improve their Australian English or English in general as quickly as possible. And so, I have quizzes. I have vocab lists and videos explaining complicated vocab from each of these episodes, complicated expressions, and then also challenges like creating short videos to share in the Aussie English Classroom Facebook group.

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    Today’s movie scene, guys. Today’s movie scene was from a story from ABC News a few years back in 2016 and it was obviously on gambling in Australia. So, this is quite often a contentious issue that comes up in the news in Australia, and we’ll get to that a little bit later, but yeah, Nick Xenophon, who was mentioned at the start there, is an Australian pollie, an Australian politician, who’s always fighting against gambling. I think for his electorate, the people who voted him in, gambling’s a big issue. Anyway. We’ll get to that in the Aussie English fact today.

    So, let’s talk about the Aussie joke. Well, it’s not an Aussie joke, it’s just a joke, but I got a joke today about gambling, right? So, gambling, the expression today, which will get him to too shortly, is ‘cash you chips’, related to gambling, the joke’s related to gambling as well. So, here’s the joke, guys.

    What did the dealer say to the deck of cards? What did the dealer say to the deck of cards?

    I can’t deal with you anymore.

    What a pearler! What a pearler! What a good joke!

    I can’t deal with you anymore. Do you get it? Do you get it?

    What did the dealer, the person who deals cards, as in to hand them out to the players, what did the dealer say to the deck of cards? I can’t deal with you anymore.

    So, the joke here is, obviously, ‘I can’t deal with you’, literally, that would be I can’t use you to deal when a we’re playing a game of cards. I can’t physically do it.

    But, ‘to deal with someone’ is a phrasal verb that means to stand someone, to tolerate someone, to put up with someone. So, if you can’t deal with someone, it’s that they are annoying you and you cannot tolerate that person anymore.

    So, what did the dealer say to the deck of cards? I can’t deal with you anymore. Meaning, I can’t tolerate you, but also meaning I can’t literally hand you out to other players. Alright, anyway.

    Bad jokes aside, today’s expression is ‘to cash your chips’, ‘to cash your chips’. This was suggested by Paula in the Aussie English Facebook group. If you guys are in The Classroom, make sure that you send me an email with your Facebook email so that I can invite you to the Facebook group, because this is where we suggest the expressions each week. You guys then vote on them. And then, I’d do them in this episode. So, ‘to cash your chips’. Good job, Paula, this was a really, really good one. The definitions, we’ll go through that first.

    If you ‘cash something’, you know, ‘cash your chips’, ‘to cash something’, it is to exchange something for money in terms of coins or notes, as opposed to check or money orders or credit online, right. That’s ‘cash’. ‘To cash something’, to turn it into cash, to turn it into money like coins and notes. ‘To cash something’.

    ‘A chip’. ‘A chip’ can be a few things, right. If you hit a trunk of wood, a tree, with an axe, the bits of wood that come off the tree, the small pieces of wood that chip off the tree, are called ‘chips’. And I would imagine this is where the word ‘a chip’ comes from, which refers to a small disc used to represent money in betting games like poker at casinos. Right? So, I would imagine back in the day, people probably used chips of wood in order to represent money when they were gambling with one another, right? ‘A chip’. A small disc used to represent money.

    So, let’s go through the expression definition, guys.

    Literally, ‘to cash your chips’, if you cash your chips, it is that you’re at a casino or you are playing some kind of game where your gambling money and you’re using chips to represent money, obviously, and you wanting to convert those chips into money after you’ve finished gambling. So, ‘to cash your chips’ is literally to exchange your chips for money when you’re done with playing a game.

    And it can also be to convert your assets into money more generally, right? If you want to sell your shares in a company or something and turn it in to actual cash, you might cash your chips in that sense.

    But figuratively, if you ‘cash your chips’, this is to stop participating in a gathering or an activity. It is to leave a gathering, like a party or some kind of event, and/or go to bed.

    And it can also mean to die, okay? To cash your chips.

    So, let’s go through three examples of how I would use this expression on a day-to-day basis, right, in everyday life.

    Example number one. Imagine you’re at a casino. You’re obviously playing a card game like poker or blackjack, you’re gambling, you’ve been gambling for a few hours, you’ve lost a bet, you’ve won a bet, but at the moment you’re ahead, right? So, you want to quit while you’re ahead. You have made a bit of money. You’re not at a loss. You’re at a win. You’re making a bit of money. Maybe you’ve made a few hundred dollars, a few hundred bucks, and it’s a good time to call it quits, it’s a good time to call it a day, it’s a good time to go and cash your chips. Both literally and figuratively, right. Cash your chips, turn them into cash, but also to leave, figuratively, cash chips, go home. So, you might turn to the dealer who’s dealing out the cards at the table and maybe the other players as well and say, sorry fellas, sorry guys. I’m done for now. I’m in a cash my chips and head home. It’s time to hit the sack. It’s time to go home.


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    Example number two. You’re at a friend’s party or a family gathering of some kind, right? Maybe it’s a baby shower, and ‘a baby shower’ is where you celebrate a pregnant woman who is about to give birth by showering her with baby gifts, right. Maybe you give her… what are baby gifts? Jesus. A dummy, a pack of nappies, some baby clothes. I don’t know. Whatever they sort of items are. So, you’re showering this woman with baby gifts at the baby shower, and it’s her first child. She and her husband bit the bullet a few months ago and they decided they wanted to start having children, and lo and behold, within a few months they were pregnant and well on the way to having their first child. So, once the party’s wrapping up, though, once it’s finishing up, wrapping up, people are thinking about leaving. They may say, okay, time to go home, time to leave, it’s time to cash our chips. Time to cash our chips and head home. Sorry to bail, but we’re going to cash our chips and we’re going to leave.

    Example number three. In this example, imagine you are a carer are working at an old person’s home. What we call ‘a nursing home’, an elderly people’s home, in Australia, and this is where elderly people, once they get to a certain age where they can’t live on their own, they go to a nursing home and they’re taken care of by carers. So, one really grumpy old man named Bob who is always giving everyone hell, he’s always treating everyone horribly, he’s treating the staff horribly, the other members or clients really horribly, and he ends up getting sick and passing away at the ripe old age of 101. So, when you find this out, you might go and tell the other clients or the other staff, you might announce to them, that this guy’s passed away. You might say, oh, (it) turns out Bob cashed his chips last night. He passed away. He died. He kicked the bucket. He snuffed it. He cashed his chips.

    And I guess, a note here, guys, referring to someone dying in this way is somewhat insensitive, right? So, you can do it, but you need to be aware that, in delicate situations, it could be perceived as offensive. Right? So, if you were to know be at a funeral or something and walk up to the person who was married to the person who died and said, oh, I’m sorry to hear that Bob cashed his chips, you would want to use the correct term ‘pass away’, right? I’m sorry to hear Bob passed away. That is the most correct term to use in sensitive situations.

    If on the other hand you’re in informal situations, you’re hanging out with friends, it’s not a big deal, you don’t even know the person you’re referring to, saying things like ‘kick the bucket’, ‘snuffed it’, or ‘cashed their chips’ is absolutely fine. Okay.

    Let’s go through listen and repeat exercise, as usual, guys. This is your chance to practice your pronunciation. Whether you are trying to nail the Australian pronunciation like my sort of general Australian accent, or whether you’re trying to now your American English, British English, Irish English, South African English, New Zealand English, whatever accent it is, focus on that, and let’s practice your pronunciation, okay. Let’s go.

    To
    To cash
    To cash your
    To cash your chips x 5

    Nice one. Nice one. So, we’re going to do this in the present perfect today for the full phrase, conjugating through the different pronouns. Okay? So, the present perfect tense ‘to have done something’, in the perfect tense, right. Okay. So, let’s go.

    I’ve cashed my chips.
    You’ve cashed your chips.
    He’s cashed his chips.
    She’s cashed her chips.
    We’ve cashed our chips.
    They’ve cashed their chips.
    It’s cashed its chips.

    Good job, guys. Good job. I know it’s not easy saying it at the speed that I say it quite often, using the connected speech that I use quite often, but I don’t want to sort of coddle you. I don’t want to baby you. You guys are intermediate to advanced learners you need to be listening to and practising the pronunciation of how native speakers actually speak, and so that is why I try to keep this relatively advanced. Okay?

    So, remember too, if you would like the breakdown video for the pronunciation, connected speech, intonation, everything related to your pronunciation in English for this episode as well as all the previous episodes, make sure you go to TheAussieEnglishclassroom.com, sign up, give it a go, and you’ll get the video for today’s episode as well as all the previous expression episodes.

    All right, with that, guys, let’s get into the Aussie English Fact and then we’ll wrap up for the day, we’ll finish up for the day. Okay.

    So, today’s Aussie Fact is all about gambling, and it’s more than one fact, it’s a number of different facts. And I actually learned something new too, when I was researching this for today’s Aussie facts. So, gambling in Australia.

    So, the most popular forms of gambling in Australia include electronic gambling machines, also known as ‘poker machines’ or the slang term ‘pokies’, casino-based games such as poker and roulette and blackjack, lotteries, scratchies, which are scratch tickets, where you get those tickets that you will use your nail or a coin to scratch the surface of to reveal a number or a symbol, ‘scratchies’, and online betting, particularly for racing and sports.

    In 2010, about 70% of all Australians gambled in one way or another. Whether it was your one-off punt at the Melbourne Cup, the horse racing cup once a year in Melbourne, or the habitual gambler at the local T.A.B. gambling on sports or racing as well. And ‘T.A.B.’ is used in Australia and New Zealand to stand for ‘Totalisator Agency Board’, T.A.B.. It’s a betting shop somewhere you go to bet on racing or sports.

    Australia spent about $19 billion in 2008 to 2009 on gambling, $12 billion of which was pissed away on the pokie machines alone. That’s insane. That really shocked me.

    Australia leads the developed world for gambling losses, something else that shocked me.

    In 2014 the average Australian lost $1,279 dollars per adult gambler only just beaning Singapore who came in at $1,243, and way ahead of the U.S. at $705 who was in third position.

    The average problem gambler in Australia loses $21 grand a year, $21K, $21,000 every single year, with about 115,000 Aussies considered ‘problem gamblers’. Another 280,000 Australians are considered ‘moderate risk gamblers’ who are on their way to becoming problem gamblers. And a sixth of pokie players are considered problem gamblers.

    People aged 18 to 24 spend more on pokie machines than any other age group. Something else that shocked me as every time I’ve passed through one of those places with lots of poker machines, I tend to see a lot of elderly people in there. I don’t see many people who are 18 to 24. So, there you go.

    And 90% of women who are deemed to be problem gamblers report that pokie machines were where their addiction began.

    Despite Australia being ranked 50 third in terms of population in the world, it has one fifth of the world’s pokie machines, easily having more poker machines per head of capita than any other country in the world. And despite poker machines accounting for 60 to 65% of all gambling revenue, most Aussies don’t even play them. Nearly 75% of Aussies claim not to play a pokie machine in any given year, which is amazing considering that 75-80% of all problem gamblers use poker machines.

    So, aside from all these negative things related to gambling, guys, as with many things in life, there’s always a tradeoff, there’s always two sides to the coin or two sides to every story, right? And while gambling is obviously very detrimental, potentially harmful, to problem gamblers, it’s also an industry that comes with many positives.

    State tax revenue is between 4-13% of each state’s total revenue in Australia, which is funneled into statewide services like schools and hospitals and infrastructure.

    Online wagering and sports betting employs thousands of people and pays hundreds of millions in fees and taxes as well.

    And in 2009, hotels, clubs, and casinos employed more than 150,000 Australians.

    So, there you go, guys. Whether you like gambling or you hate gambling, there are some facts for you. I hope you find them interesting. And if you do like gambling, I hope that you do it responsibly and don’t piss away too much of your hard-earned savings.

    Anyway, with that, guys, I hope you enjoy this episode. As usual, I hope you’re having a ripper of a weekend and I would chat to you soon. All the best, guys. See you later.


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    AE 281 – 1 Simple Tip To Sound Australian: The Muted T

    By pete — 2 years ago

    Learn Australian English in this pronunciation episode of Aussie English where I teach you to pronounce the muted T like a native!

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    AE 281 – 1 Simple Tip To Sound Australian: The Muted T

    G’day guys.

    Welcome to this episode of Aussie English.

    Today is one simple tip to sound more Australian. Let’s go.

    So today’s lesson is going to be focusing on muting the T in words and at the ends of words when it’s preceded by an N.

    So when you have an N and a T in a word or at the end of words quite often we mute the T in Australian English, and probably other dialects of English as well.

    So today we’re going to do a series of exercises guys.

    They’re going to be listen then repeat exercises to help you practice your pronunciation of the muted T.

    I’m going to say the word with the T. I’m going to say the word with the muted T.

    And then I’m going to use the word in a sentence with the muted T.

    So, the first set of words is going to be auxilary verbs and modal verbs that are negated.

    So, “can’t” becomes “can’-“, “won’t” becomes “won’-“, etc..

    Listen and repeat after me guys.

    Listen and repeat:

    Aren’t.
    Aren’-.
    They aren’- coming.

    Isn’t.
    Isn’-.
    He isn’- coming.

    Can’t.
    Can’-.
    I can’- help you.

    Won’t.
    Won’-.
    He won’- answer.

    Don’t.
    Don’-.
    I don’- know.

    Doesn’t.
    Doesn’-.
    It doesn’- matter.

    Shouldn’t.
    Shouldn’-.
    It shouldn’- matter.

    Wouldn’t.
    Wouldn’-.
    It wouldn’- matter.

    Couldn’t.
    Couldn’-.
    I couldn’- see.

    So now let’s two words that end with N and T.

    Listen and repeat:

    Bent.
    Ben-.
    I ben- the wire.

    Blunt.
    Blun-.
    The knife’s pretty blun-.

    Elephant.
    Elephan-.
    There’s an elephan- over there.

    Content.
    Conten-.
    I’m pretty conten-.

    Count.
    Coun-.
    I can coun- to ten.

    Dent.
    Den-.
    Someone put a den- in my car.

    Discount.
    Discoun-.
    Can you hook us up with a discoun-.

    Document.
    Documen-.
    Have you read the documen-.

    Faint.
    Fain-.
    I think I’m in a fain-.

    Hunt
    Hun-.
    Do you guys like to hun-.

    Lent.
    Len-.
    Mum len- me her car.

    Paint.
    Pain-.
    I’m gonna pain- these walls.

    Point.
    Poin-.
    What’s your poin-.

    Stunt.
    Stun-.
    He pulled off a pretty wicked stun-.

    So those are words that end in -NT, but now let’s do words that have -NT within them where the T gets muted.

    Listen and repeat:

    Appointment.
    Appoin-men-.
    What time’s the appoin-men-.

    Absentminded.
    Absen-minded.
    He’s a little absen-minded.

    Enchantment.
    Enchan-men-.
    Someone’s cast an enchan-men- on me.

    Resentment.
    Resen-men-.
    He’s feeling a little resen-men-.

    Stuntman.
    Stun-man.
    I wish I were a stun-man.

    Printer.
    Prin-er.
    We’re going to need a new prin-er.

    Centre.
    Cen-re.
    I’ll meet you guys at the shopping cen-re.

    Counter.
    Coun-er.
    Put your hands on the coun-er.

    Hunter.
    Hun-er.
    That guy likes to hun- ’cause he’s the hun-er.

    Mountain.
    Moun-ain.
    We’re going to go climb the moun-ain.

    Accidental.
    Acciden-al.
    That was acciden-al.

    So, that’s it for today guys. That was one simple tip to sound more Australian.

    This is a really common thing for native speakers, at least Australian native speakers of English, to do, and it will definitely help you sound a lot more like an Australian if you practise the pronunciation of -NT as just an N sound, and it will also help you understand and hear when people do this, when native speakers do this, when they’re speaking to you.

    Can you think of any other words that end with -NT or have -NT in them where you could mute the T?

    Comment below and let me know chat to you later guys.

    All the best.


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    I’ve been a fan of Lindsay from Lindsay Does Languages for a while guys, and today I had the privilege of interviewing her on The Aussie English Podcast.

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    “I like languages a little bit. I learn them, I teach them, I make videos about them, and I write about them. I live in England with Ashley and our tortoise Gonzo. Lindsay Does Languages is my job. It’s pretty cool.”

    I first stumbled across her on YouTube when I found one of her videos where she was wandering around some town in Sweden (I think?) talking about the language, the culture and the people in general. Within no time at all I’d lost a big chunk of my day after consuming one video after another on her channel.

    So, if you like language learning and you like traveling, or you just want some motivation regarding your own language learning pursuits, then I definitely recommend you go suss out her website and/or YouTube channel. Although, beware! You may lose a large part of your day there. She’s brilliant!

    We chat about a bunch of different things for just over an hour including, British vs Aussie English, different slang terms, language learning and getting through the intermediate plateau to the advanced levels in English or whatever your target language may be.

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