Today we live in a society where gender plays an important role in many respects. From the moment we are born, we are being socialised into traditional gender roles, which portray expectations about our future roles and preferences. Language has an essential role in our socialisation process. Through language we become aware of gender stereotypes in behavioural patterns as well as gender stereotypes in language. Gender stereotypes in language is a wide area of research but there is a big gap to be filled in terms of naturalistic data. Consequently, this study is based on natural conversations. The purpose of this paper was to investigate what stereotypes or ideas we have about women's and men's language and see if these affect our perception of gender differences and linguistic awareness. I also wanted to find out if there were any cultural and gender differences in these aspects. The investigation is based on the results from a questionnaire that consisted of transcripts of real conversations. The result of this study show that the informants' perceptions were affected by gender stereotypes in language. In addition, the informants had common ideas about what is seen as typically 'female' and 'male' characteristics. They seemed to agree that women often gossip, ask a lot of questions and talk about emotions, whereas men tend to talk about sports, use rational discourse and talk with short sentences. Furthermore, concluding from the results it was evident that there were no cultural or gender differences in the perception of gender stereotypes.