{"id":2363,"date":"2010-07-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2010\/07\/12\/how-to-answer-the-phone-in-portuguese\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:11:02","slug":"how-to-answer-the-phone-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2010\/07\/12\/how-to-answer-the-phone-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"how to answer the phone in Portuguese?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I subscribed for a phone number in Bras\u00edlia recently, that&#8217;s because my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Significant_other\">SO<\/a>\u00a0stays there for the summer, and that makes communication easier.<br>Looks like an important person has had the number before for quite a while, and I keep getting calls from strangers.<br>I don&#8217;t get away with explaining in my pigeon Portuguese, that I am Jochen from Berlin, and that I prefer talking in English or German.<br>So in the tradition of my early social bookmarking customs, I will list here a couple of phrases mainly of interest for myself, but maybe also for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>who is talking? =&nbsp;quem est\u00e1 falando?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>this is Jochen speaking =&nbsp;Jochen est\u00e1 falando aqui<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how can I help you? =&nbsp;como posso ajud\u00e1-lo?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I assume you dialed the wrong number =&nbsp;suponho que voc\u00ea discou o n\u00famero&nbsp;errado<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am a software developer = eu sou um desenvolvedor de software<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>may I develop some great software for you? =&nbsp;posso desenvolver um&nbsp;software excelente para voc\u00ea?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>may I set up an amazing web-site for you? =&nbsp;posso criar um incr\u00edvel web-site para voc\u00ea?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do you speak English, German, French, Hebrew or Esperanto? =&nbsp;voc\u00ea fala Ingl\u00eas, Alem\u00e3o, Franc\u00eas, Hebraico ou Esperanto?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If they steal my time, I can just as well have some fun with them, right?<br>Luckily enough I can pronounce and also understand these phrases quite properly. Son#2 and quite a big part of my social context keep speaking Portuguese, and finally I have start practicing Portuguese after all these expensive courses \u2013 if not with friends and family, then with strangers. Exciting, I tell you.<br>There should be a button, helping me to redirect them from simple VoIP to Skype videophoning \u2013 that could be even bigger fun, I mean at least with one half of the Brazilian population \ud83d\ude09 But to be honest with you: Like 95% of the callers are male. I still have to achieve that somehow!!! Maybe like that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>shall we talk over Skype? =&nbsp;vamos falar pelo Skype?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do you have a webcam? =&nbsp;voc\u00ea tem uma webcam?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>my Skype ID is J-o-c-h-e-n-_-H-a-y-e-k =&nbsp;meu ID Skype \u00e9 J-o-c-h-e-n-_-H-a-y-e-k<br>(I will have to remember, how to spell the names of the letters properly;<br>Google Translate actually also speaks that for me, but that&#8217;s way to fast)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div>Update:<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very grateful to my 1st commentator, who corrected my Google Translate provided initial phrases. I incorporated his suggestions here immediately.<br><br><br>Update:<br>You may regard this as bragging, and it may be that, but I hope you also enjoyed reading these lines and I also hope you had a very good laugh, that&#8217;s supposed to be healthy. Maybe my SO or her daughters will pick this up. OMG! 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