Make Australia Your Home: Tips for Singaporeans
Having the opportunity to study abroad is undoubtedly a fantastic experience. However, the thought of leaving your country and family behind can be a bit daunting, especially when you are travelling alone. This piece will help you ease your way into the Australian culture, and one day, you will be able to make it feel like a home away from your sweet home.
Improve your pronunciation, right?
Being a Singaporean in Australia, it’s important to make sure that you pronounce everyday words in a way that the Aussies understand. For instance, flour is often pronounced as ‘flower’. So, don’t get confused or shocked when they mention that the main ingredient for a cake is flour. More often the ‘l’ in almond and salmon is silent.
Asian grocers will offer the food of your choice
Singaporean students in Australia will certainly crave for some authentic chicken rice or curry fish head. If so, you can visit a local Asian grocer, and you would not feel like you are in Australia. Some recommended pastes and sauces that you may get to add authentic flavours into your cooking are the Prime Taste and the A1 curry paste brands.
Cut down on the Singaporean English
Using ‘lo’, ‘la’, or ‘leh’ at the end of your sentences may confuse locals, in the same way as Singaporeans are confused when Australians use their slang. It is tough to explain why it’s necessary for you to use those expressions, and how it can add an enhancement to the sentence. In case you are in a conversation with your professor at an Australia University, it’s better you try to suppress your familiarity with adding ‘lo’, ‘la’, ‘
Read up your Australian language
Australians love abbreviating the words into something that needs a little effort to say. For instance, Aussies often use the slang ‘arvo’, which means afternoon. McDonald’s is referred to as Maccas. You will also hear ‘no worries’ and ‘thanks love’ very often, which also exemplifies that laid-back nature of Australians.
Apart from these four tips, you can join the Singaporean society, where you will find many like-minded Singaporean students trying to grasp, understand and appreciate the Australian culture.
Hopefully, these tips will equip you before going to Australia. To get information related to student visa Australia, universities, courses, scholarships etc., you can call our expert education consultants at AECC Global.
AECC Global is an education agency and consultancy in Singapore and other nine other countries across the globe.
