Fakten & Witziges

What Australian say – and what they really mean. Australia has given the world thousands of colouful words and expressions. From the back of Bourke to the rough end of the pineapple, it's all here. Aussie Slang is the phrase book for visitors to Oz interested in the local Australian Slang!

It's ideal reading for local blokes and sheilas, too.

Australians pride themselves on being easy-going and informal. Their vocabulary with its colour, humour and inventiveness reflects these qualities. This thoroughly entertaining Australian slang dictionary will help you decipher and speak the true Aussie language.

Full of dazzling definitions from true-blue Aussies, you'll never be lost for words with this collection of colourful sayings. From aerial pingpong (Australian Rules Football) to on the wrong tram (to be following the wrong train of thought) and finishing up with some verbal diarrhoea (never-ending blather), your mind will be brimming with useful (and not so useful!) sayings for your next run-in with a true Aussie character.

And, for dinky-die Aussies living overseas, use this book to expand your vocabulary and increase your unique way of communicating.

Welcome to the world of Aussie slang - have a beaut, bonza rip snorter of a time reading this book. Updated with over 500 new sayings.

„Reiseführer gibt es unzählige. Der Journalist Klaus Kilian hat einen anderen großartigen Weg gewählt, Land, Leute und Geschichte des Landes den Besuchern näherzubringen. In vielen lustigen, traurigen, in jedem Falle aber interessanten Geschichten erzählt er leicht und spielerisch was Australien ausmacht. Eine spannende Lektüre, die noch mehr Lust auf den Kontinent macht.“

The pitfalls of throwing a boomerang, the world's first feature film (1906), the largest coral reef in the world - these are just some of the subjects in this lively fact book sampling every aspect of Australian culture.

Answers to such pesky questions as "Who holds the Australian Test Cricket team in-flight beer drinking record?" and "How do you play a didgeridoo?" provide hours of fun for tourists and armchair travellers.

There are no flies on your typical little Aussie battler when it comes to the colorful expression of the well-aimed insult. This entertaining A-Z (from "Act the Angora" to "Zonked") of popular Australian slang contains a wealth of our funniest and most irreverent words and sayings, together with some almost-obsolete reminders of our rugged colonial past.

A selection of classic Australian folk songs and verse (also part of our rich oral tradition) has been scattered throughout to help bring to life some of our older expressions. Geoff Hocking's outrageous cartoons add to the fun.

This is compulsory reading for all and NO BULL!

Australien hat sich in seiner über 200-jährigen Geschichte als Nation kulturell und sprachlich von seinem britischen Mutterland weit entfernt. Wer heute mit englischen Sprachkenntnissen auf den Fünften Kontinent reist und meint, man würde schon durchkommen, erlebt schnell eine böse Überraschung. Es gibt eine Fülle eigener Wortschöpfungen, die man hundert mal am Tag hört, die aber selbst bei Engländern und Amerikanern völlig unbekannt sind und schon gar nicht in einem herkömmlichen Wörterbuch stehen.

Sprechen wie Crocodile Dundee: Dieses Buch ebnet Ihnen den Weg, sich in allen Situationen des täglichen Lebens mit den „Aussies“ zu verständigen. In humorvoller Weise wird dabei auch auf die kulturellen Eigenheiten der Menschen eingegangen, damit Sie wissen, in welchen Situationen Sie bestimmte Ausdrücke verwenden oder lieber vermeiden sollten.

In A Sunburned Country is Bill Bryson's report on what he found in the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet: Australia. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.

Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.

Leicht beschädigtes Exemplar, weshalb preisreduziert

In Europa wurde das Buch als Down Under veröffentlicht, in Kanada und USA mit dem obengenannten Titel

In A Sunburned Country is Bill Bryson's report on what he found in the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet: Australia. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.

Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.

Leicht beschädigtes Exemplar, weshalb preisreduziert

In Europa wurde das Buch als Down Under veröffentlicht, in Kanada und USA mit dem obengenannten Titel

With over 240 entries new to this Aussie Slang edition, this text is a comprehensive reference to Australian slang. The book includes translations of such Aussie slang phrases as "rattle your dags" and explains such descriptions as "a lair who likes to stir the possum".