Podcast: Você já ajudou alguém em inglês?

Hi Ana, I like very much your podcasts, I listen every day!
Once, when I worked in a magazine store, I helped a couple of foreign, chineses.
So, I tried to help them, but they had a very difficult accent, so hard than there was a moment that the woman said: “oh bi gad”
So I thought, my english is very bad even!
And she insisted “oh bi gadú”, so I thought, she must be speaking in chinese now.
when we were both giving up, I thought! she is trying to speak in portuguese!
“OBRIGADO”…
So a said: “ahhhh…de nada!”
I laughed a lot!

I like English a lot, but I have some more difficulties to speak than to write or read, because in my work I don´t have opportunity to listen English, usually, I need to read, only. Therefore I have difficulties to help someone in English, I believe.

Hi, Ana Luiza.
At he moment I am supermarket operator. Once time, at my work I was attending a costumer and then, the baker called me and say…”Hey, Maicon come here please, this costumer is asking me something but I don’t understand anything what she’s saying”…I was The only one that knew speak english at my work and then I started to talk her…She wanted one sort of bread…unfortunately, we have no the bread that she wanted…And then we started talk a lot. I find something strange in her, the accent was very different, I asked to her…”where are you from?” and she answered me…”I’m from French”…She asked to me to try the cheese that I sell, While she ate, she tell me which my english was very much…and I say to her…”I am still learning, Do you believe?”….She gets amazed because I unterstood everything that she said…It was an experience very cool…I’ll never forget of that…I hope that many people who are learning english can have an oportunity to talk with a foreign….
Dear Ana, continue with this wonderful job that you do in your website….God bless you!!!!

Some years ago I’m at a shopping in niterói and I saw a polish in shop ask something about how go to the port .
He ask many times just this :
What is the number of the bus to go the port . And the saleswoman take the phone , call other people to talk with he and when I and my girlfriend ask how could we help he . And he wrote and I understood what he desire in that moment . I and my girlfriend help and take the bus with he and I told that is what JESUS say to me do . He are a and I ask he why he choose that store , and he told me : I saw Jesus in the front of the store , The store are a gospel store ;)

I had the opportunity to help someone at Buenos Aires/Arhentina.
It was interesting because the person was from England and he didn’t know nothing in Buenos Aires,then I had follow him for many tourists places and my award it was practice the England language, it was nice!

Hi Ana, i don’t know exactly when was the first time i heard about ingles online, i just know that since then i have been enjoying a lot all podcast. In the past i used to be able to speak in english easily, but at moment i lost a lot of my skill and i have been improving it using your podcast.

Thank you a lot

A certain day I met a lady who was trying to enter in the bank but didn’t know where to leave metal objects. As I was inexperienced in the English language I couldn’t help her as best as possible.

Hi Ana Luiza, another great post. Congratulations!

Yes, I live in Curitiba – Paraná and sometimes I hear foreign people language being spoken.
I was walking down the street and two people ask me in english how to do to go until the Jardim Botânico.
I said I speak english a little bit, but I believe to get answer it. I showed the way and they thanked me so much.
I think was amazing speak in english and help some foreign people.
That it all.

Hi, Ana!
I’ve recently helped a foreigner woman that was trying to buy a bag in a store here in Brasília. I actually live in São Paulo, where I bump into many people speaking English and I always try to pay atention on them, so I can learn a little more…LOL.

Just a piece of advice: I’ve noticed that in most of the cases they (foreigners) don’t like nosy people ofering them some help even before they realise they need it; so I usually wait them to ask me for help or, in some cases when I notice that the person seems to be friendly, I use some polite word, such as ‘excuse me’ or ‘I’m sorry to bother you’ before offering my help, weareas that, to be honest, I want to start conversations with them to practice my English and not only to help them… Here in São Paulo we’ve learnt to take any opportunity when it arises (I’m not sure if I can use arise meaning ‘aparecer, surgir’, since I’m trying to improve my writing…).

Another great podcast, Ana. Thanks a lot!!!

Unfortunately, I never found any foreign on the streets, but I’d really like to find one. It’ll be a good chance to practice my English Language.

Ana, you’re doing a good job. I’ve always learned a lot from you !

Hi Anna ! I have a question !
Na frase “I find that usually I’m able to concentrate much better…” a palavra “find” pode ser usado nesse contexto ou seria também correto usar a palavra “think ?

Hi Ana.I can´t wait for this opportunity. I think in my city it will be to much hard, cause here almost all the foreigner just speak spanish and I learned that language too much time ago.I hope to be able to learn english like I learned spanish.Thank you for all and a big kiss.

Hi Ana!!

I work in a Corean Company, and the language used is English, of course!
Last month, my team has a big problem with system and a specialist came to help us… but, only my friend Camila and I know a little of this language, and I was very nervous… but I could give to he some informations about the problem and what we expect after the solution. So, because this kind of situation I always follow your posts and I’m in “Curso Online – Basico”.

Thanks for share your tips!!

See you!!

Well I have a funny story…

Last year a friend of mine was spending some days in Sao Paulo and we were at Parque Ibirapuera walking a little bit when he said ‘Hey Jeff, let’s ask someone to take a picture for us’ alright… we saw a girl and I asked ‘Hey, você pode tirar uma foto pra gente?!” and her face was like ‘WHAT?!?!’ she didn’t understand anything and said ‘Sorry, I don’t speak Portuguese…’ and I asked in English ‘Can you take a picture for us, please?’ we thanked her… some minutes later we met her again! HAHAHAHAHA but now she was trying to read some information to know how to go into a museum, there was a security, she said something but the security didn’t get it and we helped her again… ‘Hey, you have to keep your bags there’ the security thanked us and so on… anyway we made a new friend and she’s from Austria! Her name is Kerstin, It was a nice experience because it was my first time talking in English with a foreigner… I loved!

Great podcast Ana! :D
Estou quase terminando seu curso! Progredindo 100% com certeza.
Abraço.

Hi Ana!!!

I’ve been living in Dublin for 9 months…. and yesterday I was walking on the street and a Woman asked me about an address…….but I wasn’t able to help her….. I got so upset!!! hahahha
I have some difficulty to speak English….. :( but yours podcast has been helped me a lot!!!!

Kiss!!!!