Just say munted a few times with a bit of emphasis and feeling- it will grow on you 
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I’ll cheat a bit and use Google Fu, but all of these are in common usage and are but a sample.
Two that aren’t in the list are Bunyip (lives in Billabongs and eats swimmers) and Yowie (our version of Bigfoot)
Also Heebie-Jeebies, which is what you get when you think a Yowie may be sneaking up on you
- A Cold One – Beer
- Accadacca – How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC
- Ankle Biter – Child
- Arvo – Afternoon (S’Arvo – this afternoon!)
- Aussie Salute – Wave to scare the flies
- Avo – Avocado
- Bail – To cancel plans. ‘Bruce bailed’ = Bruce isn’t going to turn up.
- Barbie – Barbecue
- Bathers – Swimsuit
- Beauty! – Great! Most often exclaimed as “You Beauty”
- Billabong – A pond in a dry riverbed
- Billy – Teapot (In the Outback on the fire)
- Bloody – Very. Used to extenuate a point
- Bloody oath – yes or its true. “You right mate?”… “Bloody Oath”
- Bludger – Someone who’s lazy, generally also who relies on others (when it’s someone who relies on the state they’re often called a ‘dole bludger’)
- Bogan – This word is used for people who are, well let’s say, rednecks. Or, if you like, just call your friends a bogan when they are acting weird.
- Booze Bus – Police vehicle used to catch drunk drivers
- Bottle-O – Bottle Shop, basically a place to buy alcohol
- Brekky – Breakfast
- Brolly – Umbrella
- Bruce – An Aussie Bloke
- Buckleys Chance – little chance (Buckley’s Chance Wiktionary)
- Budgie Smugglers – Speedos
- Buggered – Exhausted
- Bush – “Out in the bush” – “he’s gone bush” In the countryside away from civilisation
- Cab Sav – Cabernet Sauvignon
- Cactus – Dead, Broken
- Choc A Bloc – Full
- Choccy Biccy – Chocolate Biscuit
- Chook – Chicken
- Chrissie – Christmas
- Ciggy – a Cigarette
- Clucky – feeling maternal
- Cobber – Very good friend. ‘Alright me ‘ol cobber’.
- Coldie – Beer. ‘Come over for a few coldie’s mate.’
- Coppers – Policemen
- Crack the shits – Getting angry at someone or something
- Crikey – an expression of surprise
- Crook – Being ill or angry; ‘Don’t go crook on me for getting crook’
- C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven’t done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.
- Dag – Someone who’s a bit of a nerd or geek.
- Daks – Trousers. ‘Tracky daks’ = sweatpants (tracksuit pants)
- Dardy – meaning “cool”, is used amongst South West Australian Aboriginal peoples and has also been adopted by non-indigenous teens. – wikipedia
- Deadset – True
- Defo – Definitely
- Devo – Devastated
- Drongo – a Fool, ‘Don’t be a drongo mate’
- Dunny – Toilet
- Durry – Cigarette
- Esky – An insulated container that keeps things cold (usually beers)
- Facey – Facebook
- Fair Dinkum – ‘Fair Dinkum?’ … ‘Fair Dinkum!’ = Honestly? … Yeah honestly!
- Flannie / Flanno – flannelette shirt
- Flat out – Really busy – “Flat out like a lizard drinking” – As busy as a bee
- Footy – Football (AFL / Aussie Rules)
- Frothy – Beer
- F*ck Me Dead – that’s unfortunate, that surprises me
- Furphy – rumours or stories that are improbable or absurd
- G’day – Hello
- Galah – an Australian cockatoo with a reputation for not being bright, hence a galah is also a stupid person.
- Gnarly – awesome – often used by surfers
- Going off – busy, lots of people / angry person “he’s going off”
- Good On Ya – Good work
- Goon – the best invention ever produced by mankind. Goon is a cheap, boxed wine that will inevitably become an integral part of your Australian backpacking experience.
- Hard yakka – Hard work
- Heaps – loads, lots, many
- Hoon – Hooligan (normally driving badly!)
- Iffy – bit risky or unreasonable
- Knickers – female underwear
- Lappy – Laptop
- Larrikin – Someone who’s always up for a laugh, bit of a harmless prankster
- Legless – Someone who is really drunk
- Lollies – Sweets
- Maccas – McDonalds
- Manchester – Sheets / Linen etc. If you’re from England, finding a department within a shop called Manchester could seriously confuse you.
- Mongrel – Someone who’s a bit of a dick
- Mozzie – Mosquito
- No Drama – No problem / it’s ok
- No Worries – No problem / it’s ok
- No Wucka’s – A truly Aussie way to say ‘no worries’
- Nuddy – Naked
- Outback – The interior of Australia, “The Outback” is more remote than those areas named “the bush”
- Pash – to kiss
- Piece of Piss – easy
- Piss Off – go away, get lost
- Piss Up – a party, a get together and in Australia – most social occasions
- Piss – (To Piss) to urinate
- Pissed – Intoxicated, Drunk
- Pissed Off – Annoyed
- Rack Off – The less offensive way to tell someone to ‘F Off’!
- Rapt – Very happy
- Reckon – for sure. ‘You Reckon?’… ‘I reckon!’
- Rellie / Rello – Relatives
- Ripper – ‘You little ripper’ = That’s fantastic mate!
- Root Rat – someone who enjoys sex (maybe a little too much)
- Rooted – Tired or Broken
- Runners – Trainers, Sneakers
- Sanger – Sandwich
- Servo – Service Station / Garage
- Shark biscuit – kids at the beach
- Sheila – A woman
- She’ll be apples – Everything will be alright
- Shoot Through – To leave
- Sick – awesome; ‘that’s really sick mate’
- Sickie – a sick day off work, or ‘to pull a sickie’ would be to take a day off when you aren’t actually sick
- Skull – To down a beer
- Slab – A carton of beers
- Smoko – Cigarette break
- Snag – Sausage
- Stiffy – Erection
- Stoked – Happy, Pleased
- Straya – Australia
- Strewth – An exclamation of surprise
- Stubby – a bottle of beer
- Stubby Holder – Used so your hands don’t get cold when holding your beer, or to stop your hands making your beer warm!
- Stuffed – Tired
- Sunnies – Sunglasses
- Swag – Single bed you can roll up, a bit like a sleeping bag.
- Tea – Dinner
- Tinny – Can of beer or small boat
- Thongs – Flip Flops. Do not be alarmed if your new found Australian friend asks you to wear thongs to the beach. They are most likely expressing their concern of the hot sand on your delicate feet.
- True Blue – Genuinely Australian
- Tucker – Food. ‘Bush Tucker’ tends to be food found in the Outback such as witchety grubs.
- Two Up – A gambling game played on Anzac day.
- U-IE – to take a U-Turn when driving
- Up Yourself – Stuck up
- Woop Woop – middle of nowhere “he lives out woop woop”
- Ya – You
- Yous – (youse) plural of you!
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“munted”
Oh, I am already convinced. But my girlfriend is choosy with words, especially when we enter the realm of profanity!
@joergkutter did the same! But we need a little romance, as this feels like tindering words…
The best words have a story!
It is hard with Aussie tho because we use these words like standard language.
The list will give you a chuckle.
Common phrases also like “going off like a frog in a sock”
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She will struggle with Australian then
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Hahaha!
It’s really good that this is not a Dutch forum, as we tend to lick the bottom of the ashtray with words!
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She loves everything Australian. Almost as much as everything Scottish (but that might be cause of the kilts…)
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Australia will, 100%, easily win this hands down. The list @Gloucestre posted is great but what maybe doesn’t come across is how common many of those are. Like, some of those come up in most conversations 
Out of the major English speaking nations Australia has done the best things with the language IMO.
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S’right mate, these words are just the start but are part of the lingo.
Strayan is basically a dialect impenetrable to the uninitiated.
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Tell them how Melbourne is actually pronounced
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There is only one way to say Melb’n
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It is a bit like Cholmondeley or Hampshire in Britain (point if you know what the locals say)
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I was sold by Barangaroo (a neighborhood in Sydney)
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How about “boink”? I wanted to write “zoink”, but that doesn’t seem to be often used (and it’s from an oldish TV show).
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I like “boink”, but it’s only a 3 on the “blumfluffery” scale, don’t you think?
Remember - these are the non-binding & welcome to break “rules” of the list.
It contains words that:
- sound funny
- are funny
- mean something amiable and/or offensive, depending on context.
- can be used in a pub and/or when generally being drunk and/or otherwise wasted
- could appear in a Shakespeare play too
- generally seem to have two or more syllables (though the exception that proves the rule)
EDIT Joseph Gilgun would use “boink”, but would Shakespeare?
Hard trying to think of words we use differently
Cozzies, togs and budgie smugglers are swim wear.
Ken Oath! is a common exclamation as is Absofuckinlutely!
No worries, and no wucking furries, mean no problem (but like everything Australian, context is important; our sarcasm fu is strong)
Everyone enjoys the odd parmi (or parma) at the pub occasionally.
On a long trip we might stop to drain the snake, water the horse or splash the boots.
Yeah, nah is more common that Nah,yeah.
Ya need to watch “The Castle”, probably the most Aussie movie ever, closely followed by “Muriel’s Wedding”.
30 years on and “You’re terrible Muriel”, “Tell him he’s dreaming” and “That’s going straight to the Pool Room” are still used in everyday conversation.
Ha, movies are my #2 passion. Will watch it for sure … but I thought that Australia made just three movies: Crocodile Dundee 1, 2 and 3
PS Just Kidding. “Long Weekend”, the 1978 version, is my favourite Australian movie!
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Crocodile Dundee ones are pretty good too, but the two I listed capture every day Aussie life,
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I just rewatched Crocodile Dundee, and except for the knife scene it did not age well, sorry to say.
But I love Toni Collette, so I’m looking forward to Muriel’s Wedding (which I saw about a hundred years ago … dubbed to German, so everybody sounds like 33-45!).