Ha, ha, as an Australian, Rafael, I agree with Trime that very few people use slang like dinkum any more. Whenever I've travelled to the US they thought I was British. In Australia, like anywhere else, your accent & pronunciation of words depend on your level of education. Country people do have a drawl, but since Australia is very multicultural, you hear English spoken here with Indian, Chinese, Polish, Japanese, American & many more accents.

yes i have to agree, though i am canadian, i use parts of both british and american english. forisntance, we canadians use the spelling" colour" and the americans use"color". but there is also a difference in both american and canadian english. one thing is that they sometimes leave out words and use more slang( mainly"y'all" wich means" you all"). we canadians tend to keep our sentances long and and to the point.

The biggest difference is the probably accent, though if you talk to people by text, you'll see that Australians generally spell using British English, which is slightly different as well. (color->colour, authorize->authorise etc). There are a few words which are unique to Australia (dinkum, doona, etc) though these probably aren't used very commonly. By the way, an "accent" *is* the way someone pronounces words!