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It just grew on me. How to share when your tastes have changed in English.
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when this is the case and open up great connection moments around your preferences in life.
Hey Lindsay, how are you? I'm fantastic, Michelle. How are you? What's going on? Good.
Yeah, everything is good over here. Lindsay, are there any foods or drinks that you like now that
you didn't use to like? Oh, for sure a lot. When I was a kid, I didn't like all the vegetables,
very much mushrooms and even like avocados or sushi. I was a little freaked out about it first.
Coffee, wine, beer, many, many things actually that I've learned to like kale. What about you?
What about you, Michelle? Anything that's grown on you? I think onions are a big one. I used to
pick onions out of things and now I will ask for extra onions if I want. I also read wine,
yeah. Red wine. Okay, what is that about? Is it that our taste buds get dullers or we don't taste
the extreme or we just get more tolerant and less sourdough or more adventurous? We see our friends
having onions. What do you think? I don't know. I've thought about that before. Is it that it
actually tastes different at some point? I don't know. It's a fun thing to think about actually.
I do think I feel like I've read somewhere. I think technically your taste buds do decline.
Do become more dull over time. I think. I'm not a doctor, but I feel like I've read that somewhere.
But maybe it's a combination of all those things. Who knows? Anyways. But yeah, I used to hate.
I used to never drink red wine and then it was overnight and then I tried it and I thought,
oh, now I like this. It's interesting. Very weird. Okay. Well, then today I'm excited. I actually
dropped the expression in our conversation very subtly. I'm not sure if our listeners heard it.
But we are talking about an expression for our listeners to put in their pocket today.
When they're dealing with this situation, a change in taste. Right? Yes. Yes.
Yes. So the expression is it grew on me, something grew on me. So that's what we're talking about
today. Guys, if you're listening on Spotify at the end of this episode, we are going to have one
of our super fun key polls. If you haven't heard this at the end of, well, for every episode,
actually, we have a poll pretty much. And some of them, we announced the results too on a future
episode. So it's a great way for us to interact with you. So listen up and at the end, we will give
you that poll. But let's get into it now. So Lindsay, do you use this expression? It grew on me.
Yeah, I do. I definitely do. I think it's good. I think it's useful to show that you didn't like
something at first. And then for some reason, because it's true, not just with food. It can be true
with people, actually. Right. Yeah. Growing up made it in like at my first, but then he grew on me,
became my best friend. Right. It can be true with your apartment, your home, your neighborhood.
There's actually so many things that this could be used to talk about. Oh, so many things,
because our opinions, our feelings about things are always changing. We're not just stagnant of the way
we feel about things and we just feel something the first day on then it just never changes. Yeah,
that can happen. But I feel like it's kind of rare. I agree. I agree. So our listeners are going
to love this today. All right. So wearing so yeah. Yeah. So this again, it doesn't mean something is
literally growing on you. It means it just say it grew on me. It means that you didn't like
something. And then for some reason, you started to like it. So from food to people to places,
all sorts of things. And guys, just one more thing before we move on, if you haven't yet listened to
episode 21 94, we have played it cool with these English idioms. Yeah. And hit the follow button
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Michelle, should we give our listeners some great examples here? Let's do it. Let's do it. All right.
Lindsay, you're up first. Okay. At first, I didn't like living in Denver, but it really grew on me.
True or did you like it right away? I think I've liked it. I think I like it more for less for the city,
more for the mountains, what's around Denver? The lives that most people will leave Denver on the
weekends. It's a city. It's fine. It's good. There's some restaurants, some bars, things, but it's
more about the nature that's out there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. So here is mine. I didn't want
to have a dog, but once I got him, he grew on me. Oh, you had a beagle when you were a kid,
right, Michelle? Yeah. I guess kids usually fall in love with their dogs right away, generally.
But yeah, although I do remember, I remember when we, it was the, he was dropped off to officially
be hours. And I remember he was in, he was running around, barking his head off on the front lawn.
I guess he had the zoomies as you would like to call them. And, and I had this feeling of, oh,
no, did we just make a mistake because it was, how was it feeling? I was 10. Okay. It was this
feeling of, oh, this is, this is our dog. Now this is real. This I had one and one for so long.
And I remember this little feeling of, oh my gosh, when we first got him, but then he really
grew on me. And I loved him. I mean, he was not a perfect dog. Anyway, that's another story for
another day. But yeah, I think also I've had friends of mine or I remember I worked with a guy who
his kids really wanted a dog and he was so against it. And he finally got a dog and he has two
and he's a big dog. And then he ends up being the one that the dog is primarily bonded with,
right? Of course. Yeah. That's how it always happens. That's how that was my mom. And my mom
didn't want the dog. And then it was, it was the greatest love affair. So, oh, I love that. I
love that we're talking about this today. It's very appropriate because on this day that we're
recording April 4th is Keefer's gotcha day. It is. It's gotcha day today. Four years ago, we got him
on April 4th, 2020. So just dropping that gotcha day. What does it mean? Michelle? Just real quick.
That's a day is we use that about definitely dogs. I don't know about other animals. I'm guessing,
but sure. Why not? The day that you got them. Yes. And I know that feeling. I can really resonate
with what you're saying here. Michelle, you get the dog in the house. You're like, oh my gosh.
Did I make a mistake? Is this the right thing? But quickly they grow on you. Of course they do.
Yes. Absolutely. Well, happy gotcha, data. All of you.
All right. Let's do one more example.
Okay. So I thought I didn't like tea, but when I moved to the UK, I had it every day and it grew on me.
Yeah. Did that happen to you too when you were living in London?
It's not that I thought I didn't like tea, but I never imagined myself wanting to sit down
with a cup of tea at work. And it really did happen. Something happened while I was there.
In the game British. I love it. I didn't. I don't know. That's what I wanted. It was so funny how
that happens. But think about right for listeners guys, listen to our conversation.
This is fantastic. I feel like we've we have bonded over our conversation with with our dogs,
adoption days, how we felt, what we're learning to like tea and coffee. This is the stuff of
connection right here. So being able to express it, you didn't like something at first and then you
did over time. There's so much more than just the phrase that could come up. Michelle, definitely.
It's so much fun to talk about these things. I feel like both of us, I'm going to use this word
giddy. I feel like we're so excited and everything kind of speeds up and we're excited to chat.
So this is really good stuff to talk about your tastes in this way. It's really good stuff.
All right. So where else, Michelle, should we go for listeners?
All right. I mean, Lindsay, any other examples of this from your real life that you can think of?
Yeah. I mean, yeah. So you're so you're question about New York and our notes here. I felt the
same way a little bit about New York. I thought to myself, especially when I was pounding the
pavement with my roommate at the time, we were doing trips up from New York to New York every
day to try to get an apartment and it was July and it was hard to find an apartment. And I thought
to myself, oh, I don't know how I feel about this city. This city's really intense. Can I really
make it in New York? You know, can I do it? Right? But it grew on you. Of course, of course. And I'm so
glad I lived there. I'm sure you feel the same way, right? Yeah. Absolutely. But I do remember when
I first moved there, I was I was ready to go and it's weird because I it was always my dream to
live in New York always since I was a little girl. And I remember walking around the city with my
mom when she was there. And I remember I said, I don't understand it. What why did I want to live
here? What is so great about the city city? Well, I don't I don't get it. And now I think it's
the bad, you know, it's so wonderful. Of course. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. But how like how long
had you been there before you said, I want to leave? Like was it two weeks or three months?
When did you and then when did you cross the threshold and just tipping point of you actually liked
it? Good question. I think it was once I I got a job. I got a more because I was living in a
temporary living situation just for a few months. And once once I was I signed a year long lease.
Yeah, it was fine. Oh, sometimes it's just about I remember actually being on the corner
on the upper side. And I remember talking to my brother on the phone and I was probably crying.
I remember he said to me, no, Michelle, you have to you can't leave. You have to stay there for
at least a year. And yeah, he's like, you can't you can't come back. You have to stay there for a
year or two. And it's true. Once you have that feeling of it's final. And I'm not going to change
this for a certain amount of time. You're kind of forced to get over how you're feeling and just
make the best of it. And then you kind of just get with the groove. Yeah, it kind of speaks to
the value of committing to something fully. Not always having a backup plan, not always having
one foot in one foot out instead. We're fully in. We're all in or we're all out, right? Yeah,
yeah. I like that. Hmm. Okay, Michelle. What else? What are some other ways that we could say this?
What do you think? Okay, well, here we have the first one is I changed my mind. So that's pretty
straightforward, pretty literal. So I didn't like coffee, but I changed my mind. Now I have it
every day. Lindsay, did you always like coffee when you? I think the first time I tried it,
I probably wasn't crazy about it. I'm not sure who who is. Maybe the smell is amazing,
but the taste is pretty bitter. It's kind of a acquired taste. Yeah. So most people I think are not
crazy about it at first, but then it becomes part of your habit part of your day. You associate it
with all these other things. But this one, I changed my mind. You're right. It's pretty literal.
It's pretty much like I just did a right turn, a hard right or a hard left turn. It's kind of
describing your change in choices more so that it grew on me, grown me as more gradual,
a little less literal. Right. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I remember when I first started drinking coffee,
I actually drank it black. I don't know why. I don't know if I felt like I had to maybe you
thought you had to. You didn't know there's any other options. Who knows? But yeah, no, I don't
I don't do that. I mean, just things that you went in the other direction. I went in the opposite
direction. I started drinking like a lot of teas and then kind of went into coffee with milk and
now I just drink it black. So I went, wow, the exact opposite directions. So that's just, well, do you drink,
do you drink coffee for the taste or because of the function? I think it's both now. I do like the
taste, especially when I make it fresh at home in the morning. I like the taste, but I also like the
ritual and the smell and just settling in with a cup of coffee. It's everything, right? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, definitely. Okay, so what's another one? Okay, my taste changed, right? So I didn't like coffee,
but my taste changed. Yes. Or this one is kind of a more cutesy way of saying it. I had a change
of heart and this can be for we could just follow up on this one. It's not just it's also for many
other things. We could do a whole episode on it, but you could use this in a little bit of a humorous
way. Oh, I didn't like coffee, but I had a change of heart when I tried it from this shop or
something. Yeah. So it would be funny. It would be kind of funny and silly if you use it here,
because usually change of heart is used for bigger things like this person. I always wanted to go
out with me and I just kept turning them down. Then finally one day I had a change of heart and I
decided to give them a chance. That's a bigger deal. Coffee preferences. A little more mundane,
right? Right. So this would be more if you're if you're kind of you kind of be in a little humorous
at showing some personality. You could use this, but exactly the what Lindsey said, true. Yeah,
I love it. Okay. Anything else, Michelle? What else do we need to know here? When and when? Well,
right. You can discuss when or why this happened. So you can add something to it, right? I didn't
like New York at first, but I changed to my mind after a few months when I had a beautiful day in the
park. Right. Somehow everything felt different. So you can use this also to tell a story. It doesn't
have to end there. Oh, yeah. You can tell origin stories of things. You can say, you know, I never
planned a own-mounted business, but then I you know, there's a lot that you can do here to show who
you are. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Let's do a role play. Shall we? Let's do it. All right. So here we are
friends getting lunch. All right. So oh, this sandwich is amazing. Is there eggplant? I don't like
eggplant. You know what? I didn't either, but it grew on me. Now I have it a few times a week.
Wow. All right. Well, maybe I'll try it again. Yeah. You might change your mind. Yeah. Maybe
my tastes have changed. So how was your new boss? Well, she's good. At first, I didn't like her,
but then I had a change of heart when she took me to lunch and we had a great talk. Since then,
she's been great. That's great. Sometimes you just need that personal connection. Definitely.
Nice. Nice. Nice. Yeah. The idea of not liking some food, like for example, my, I think my
my brother took my niece to Japan recently, but she doesn't eat. She's a vegetarian. And so she
didn't eat fish. And I'm like, Oh my gosh. How can you go to Japan and not eat fish? No. I'm
heartbroken. Or I studied abroad. It was someone who didn't eat cheese in Paris. I'm like,
how many are going to pass? Not eat cheese. No. Yeah. Sometimes sometimes when I travel, I make
exceptions of things that I might not eat at home. And then I say, okay, the rules are out the
window. That's how I feel about travel. Yeah. For sure. You have a license to eat anything you want
when you travel. I am. All right. So here we said, you know what? You asked about egg plant.
And then I said, Oh, well, you know what? I didn't like it either, but it grew on me. So that's
exactly the phrase we're teaching you guys today. Okay. Yeah. And we might to follow up on,
you know, what? Because that's why I highlighted it because I liked it. I think we should. Yeah.
Good. Good idea. Guys, hit follow up for that episode. Yep. And then you said, yeah, you might
change your mind. Right. Exactly. So you're just suggesting. And then you said, yeah, maybe my taste
have changed. And you can say this in the plural, my tastes have changed. It's kind of hard to get
that S in a little bit. Or maybe my taste has maybe my taste has changed. You can say that too in
the singular, right? Yeah. You good. Maybe my taste has changed. Yeah. I think so. Right. Yeah.
And then we start talking about your new boss. And you said at first, I didn't like her,
but then I had a change of heart when she took me to lunch. And we had a great talk. So this
goes more along with how it's really used, right? Your feelings have changed.
So change of heart is pretty appropriate here. Yeah. That's why we said it would be funny if you
used it to talk about your comfort. Yeah. Because it's a bigger deal. Yeah. Starting to appreciate
someone's company, you know, rather than a choice of coffee. So Michelle, what is our poll for today
for listeners to participate in right now? All right, guys, well, since we talked about coffee a
lot on the show today, the poll is how do you take your coffee black with milk or cream? Okay,
with milk or cream and sugar. And the last one is with sugar, just sugar, no milk or cream.
I'm super interested to hear what our results here are, Michelle, because I mean, so many cultures
around the world drink coffee and take it differently. It could be cultural. It could be personal
your choice. I am excited to see where it breaks down. Super excited. Me too. All right. And coming
up on a future episode, we're also going to cover it's an acquired taste because I was going to
throw that in here because it seems so perfect. But I realized that deserves its own episode.
So look after that. It's going to be a fun one. Yeah, I think we're going to talk about some fun
stuff on that episode. Take away here, Michelle, is what? I mean, we don't always immediately like
everything, whether it's a person and apartment, a neighborhood, a cup of coffee. It could go from
something as simple as food as food or drink to your lifelong relationship. The person you marry
me eventually could have grown on you. Maybe you didn't like them at first, but they
grow on you, right? Yeah, exactly. So this can be used to talk about so many things. It's talking
about your current taste or your past. You couldn't use it to tell a story. You can get excited to
share things you haven't come in with a person you're talking to. So this is just a really
common one that can be used in so many different ways. So listen out for it, give it a try and use
it to connect. All right, good stuff. All right, Michelle. I'll see you in the next episode. Have a
good one. Bye, Lindsay. Bye. Bye.
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