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With a Foreigner
- Today, while walking on a street, I found a young foreigner staring at a map.
- As he looked as if he lost, I decided to speak to him. Me "Excuse me.
- Can I help you?" Foreigner "O quê?
- Não estou entendendo.
- (I'm not sure what he said, but I guess he said like this.)" M "Well, um...
- Do you speak English" F "English?
- A little, I speak." M "Do you have any trouble?
- You look you've lost." F "Yes, I go...
- I don't know... this word...
- English... say..." M "Okay, well... yes, can you write it down in your language?
- Maybe I can imagine what it means. Ah... Write.
- Just write it down.
- (a gesture of writing)" He wrote down "prefeitura (I'm sorry if its spelling is not right.)" Of course, I didn't understand.
- M "Let me see...
- How do you pronounce this word?" F "Prefeitura.
- Pre-fei-tu-ra." M "Prefeitura?
- Hmm... can you describe what this is?" F "Ah...
- Many people, paper, work for city and the people..." M "...Aha! Now I got it!!
- You want to go to the city hall, right?
- The city hall is around here!" F "Yes!!
- Thank you!" M "My pleasure.
- Go down this street, and..." To be frank, his English was not necessarily good, but I was happy to find that even if we knew few words, we could understand through helping each other.
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