Learning different accents and slangs is so cool. slangs, infact! As learning an accent doesn't make sense sometimes. It comes out automatically and I love it when it does!
Accents :
I have been in Australia and its kinda cool over here. One funny thing about aussie accent is that "Australia" is seldom pronounced as it spells :-) Its pronounced AUSTRAYA in an aussie accent! but sounds great, believe me! And if you wanna say "G'day mate" which is a very common aussie greeting. pronounce it as "good eye mite" ;-)
I found aussie accent cooler than UK's baak(back) and Maanchester(Manchester)!! I have been closely monitoring UK and aussie accent and found very easy to differentiate.
Slangs:
Slangs have always fascinated me wherever I go.They make you so into their culture and make you feel more familiar wth the local community.After speaking the "Mumbaiya" slang from Mumbai(India) for years from my childhood which was great fun,I am really finding aussie slang interesting too.Everything becomes short in aussie.
As Australian becomes aussie, breakfast becomes brekkie, present - prezzy,document - doco and so on.
Thats it from me!not a masterpiece but am getting there.
So if you see your mate going to a bottle shop to buy a slab(a carton of 24 bottles/cans of beer), that would be very much Australian ;-)
