Let you consider yourself a guru in English, you can freely communicate on literary topics with a pretty British in a cafe near the house, but it is worth it to be in one of the countries that we will talk about how your knowledge of the language will strengthen the wall that is a local language. Let us find out what you need to be prepared during a trip to the following places.
Australia
At least on the continent, the absolute majority speaks in English, from the first time you can not understand a word, especially if before that I never encountered Australians.
The passion of Australians to abbreviations known to the whole world, for example, they call themselves just Aussie ("OzI" - Australian, approx.). You can hear Barbie instead of barbeque, and also do not be surprised if the local youth tells what cool you have LAPPY ("LAPTOP" - laptop).
As for pronunciation, Australians often change [AI] to [oi], which echoes with a British pronunciation, but still Australians do it like no other people.
India
Indian English also deserves a separate item. The concepts of "Indian English version" in linguistics does not exist, but the specific pronunciation of Indians is able to knock out from the rut even an experienced translator, what to talk about tourists. To estimate the scale of "problems", see the series "Theory of the Big Explosion", where one of the heroes says, using a mixture of Hindi and English.
As for real Indians, get ready to learn all the infinitive forms of verbs, because in India you can hardly meet the local resident who will hide the verbs. Also, the Indians prefer to ignore the temporary forms of the verb, so to say the first time, in what time the event occurs, which your new Indian friend is talking about, is very difficult.
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Singapore
Arriving in Singapore, you will not experience great problems in communications with the local population, but still have your own features here. Single's media - combinations of English and Chinese - love to replace interdental sounds on [t] and [d], there should be no problems here. It is unlikely that you will hear how Singapurts say [R], so get it up in advance to throw out this sound in advance to understand what is in principle we are talking. A little joy for those who suffered at school with articles - in Singapore you will meet many like-minded people, here articles are preferred at all. Singapore version of English is considered one of the most common for the Ear of the Russian tourist.