<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It’s not that I don’t like the Australian accent, but I simply couldn’t understand. Accents are tricky.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Soon I developed a way of coping. Laughing when they laughed, nodding when it seemed something to agree on and asking a question when the topic seemed closed. <\/p>\n It was during a Christmas dinner. A lot of family was sitting around the table and the conversations kept a quick pace. My heavy bloated head couldn’t keep up, so I deployed my conversation coping technique. It seemed to do the trick, until the whole gathering fell quiet and in the distance I could hear someone saying: “What do you think, So?” t of the people had already resumed their conversations and my moment of fame had passed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Great, from now on these people will remember me as the girl who had no interest in them cause she was too busy stuffing her face with food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [:]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [:en] Despite\u00a0not being a native English speaker, I always thought my English is fairly good. That was until I arrived to Australia. Those first weeks of trying to understand the Ozzie accent, were agony. It took me about six weeks to get comfortable with the accent and I was staying with this fun lovely family […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neatnonsense.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.soldbyso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/clear.gif\"){kind=spacer}
<\/span><\/span>Despite\u00a0not being a native English speaker, I always thought my English is fairly good. That was until I arrived to Australia. Those first weeks of trying to understand the Ozzie accent, were agony. It took me about six weeks to get comfortable with the accent and I was staying with this fun lovely family for only one week.<\/span>\u00a0They were absolutely fabulous. Unfortunately my head felt heavy from having a severe cold. It was like my head was bobbing as I struggled to keep it up\u00a0straight and my eyes open. Yet being there with these great people I tried my hardest to get to know them and converse with them.<\/p>\n
\nIt worked most of the time. The time it did not, was a moment to remember.<\/p>\n
\nMy head turned around with a look of bewildered surprise. It had question marks written all over it. Busted. I had been more occupied with the food than with the conversation and now they knew.
\nLuckily one out of the crowd came to my rescue by adding: “…of redheads. What do you think of redheads?”
\nOooh, right uhmmmm and that was it. Mos<\/p>\n