How to Say Goodbye to Your Friends

You can learn that mate means friend from a textbook or a vocab list. But you probably won't understand the nuance behind it until you spend some more time with British speakers, or if you're immersed in the language in some way. And by the way, immersion can be done in the country or artificially from abroad. If you want to hear more about immersion, you can go back and see a previous episode I did on that topic.