Learn Australian English in this expression episode of The Aussie English Podcast where I teach you to use GO OUT ON A LIMB. Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS Download MP3 + Transcript AE 517 – Expression: Go Out On A Limb This is the signal for ‘Big Bill’ Neidjie to begin on of the most important duties in the maintenance of his tribal lands. Only he and the other elders are traditionally entrusted with the task of burning the grasslands. They must clean the country, they say, but strictly according to aboriginal law. Bill’s son, Johnathon Yarramana, has come to learn just how and when the fires may be lit. The time is right when the birds begin to migrate. The young animals born in the grasslands have grown to maturity by this time and so can escape fire. It’s also a comparatively cooler time of year and beneath the dry stalks there is still dampness. Fires will not rage out of control and so the country will be cleansed, but not devastated. If the laws about burning are broken and fires are started later in the season of heat and dryness, there will be great loss of life. **** G’day you mob! How’s it going? Welcome to this episode of Aussie English, the number one podcast for anyone and everyone wanting to learn Australian English, but not just for them, for anyone who is trying to get to an advanced level in English and beyond as well. So, remember guys the Aussie English Podcast is brought to you by the Aussie English Classroom. This is my online classroom with my courses and all the content that I create to help listeners just like you improve your English. So, if you’re working on pronunciation, you’re trying to improve expression comprehension and use you, you want to expand your vocab and you want to do so with the bonus content for these episodes and much more, go to theaussieenglishclassroom.com and sign up and remember you can try that for just one dollar for your first month, ok? If instead you would just like the transcripts and the MP3s for these podcasts, that’s all you’re after, you just want to be able to read and listen, to make sure that you’re understanding everything that I am saying, then make sure you go to theaussieenglishpodcast.com and for the price of a coffee per month you will get access, unlimited access, to all of the transcripts and MP3s that you can download and you can listen and read, do everything you want with them anytime, anywhere. Anyway, guys, the movie scene at the start there, I hope you like that, that was a snippet from a David Attenborough doco, I’m not sure exactly which one, but I found that on YouTube and thought that I would chop a little part out of it and show you it because it has something to do with what we will talk about at the end of this episode and that is bushfires, ok? And Indigenous Australians use and have used for many thousands of years bushfires to control the land for hunting for many different purposes. Anyway, we’ll chat about that in the Aussie English Fact at the end of today’s episode. Alright, so, as usual, let’s start with an Aussie joke. So, I decided to try and find a tree joke, a joke about trees,