PETE SMISSEN | Hobby Collections, Learning Portuguese & Pronunciation Importance

It's a language focused episode .... but with side orderings of randomness as well.

In Conversation #94, Pete and I discuss: our ever increasing range of hobbies, nerding out on language learning, Nigel Richards and his ridiculous memory abilities, why I might be able to pick up Portuguese relatively easy and the type of people who are able to master accents and pronunciation.

As always, I hope you enjoy. Kyrin out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Intro
(0:45) - Melbourne vs Sydney traffic
(4:56) - Kids & cats
(11:19) - Hardcore hobbies
(16:05) - Playing and collecting guitars
(21:14) - Hobbies with a long-term payoff
(25:58) - The hardest thing we've ever done
(29:40) - Hating on polyglots
(34:21) - Language proficiency at a native level
(39:53) - The Scrabble rabbit hole
(43:51) - What it's like to have photographic memory
(47:37) - Lobotomies, split brains & swearing
(55:20) - Portuguese swear words sound so nice
(57:26) - Pronunciation in Portuguese
(1:03:30) - The importance of pronunciation
(1:09:00) - Language community wokeness
(1:13:55) - Who nails the Aussie accent?
(1:22:37) - Managing mental health
(1:26:51) - Aussie English podcast


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