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109 - Dream Houses with Pete

American English Podcast

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The Importance of Being Stubborn

I think just by being exposed to it, like I could hear myself almost wanting to say it in a certain situation. You would pick those things up really quickly because you'd just be surrounded by the same. Whereas with Americans who come to Australia, if they're really stubborn and they don't want to pick up the slang or the expressions, they constantly stick out like a sore thumb. They never kind of really enter the all you're one of us. But if you start saying things like, g'day, what do you reckon? These kinds of terms that you're going to hear all the time, then definitely fit in more than if you were to be stubbornly American outside of

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