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 Connect with Pete: Website: https://aussieenglish.com.au/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/australia_english/ Connect with Mere Mortals: Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReU Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcast Value 4 Value Support: Boostagram: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/support Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/meremortalspodcast Support the show