December 28th - Conversation

This is a conversation between two Brazilians guys in the U.S.A. The first one represented by *** is a Brazilian who lives in the USA since five years old. By the other hand his partner is just visiting USA to practice his spoken English. Try to figure out what are the diference between them.

*** Excuse me!
## yep!
## Is there something wrong ,sir?
*** No actually, Do you speak English?
## Of course , I do.
*** Oh wonderful!
## Are you American?
*** No, I'm not!
## English?
*** No , I'm not! I'm Brazilian!
## Oh , what a coincidence ! I just came back from Rio.
*** Oh, Is that right?
## Yeah, I spent ten days there. I love my country , you know.
*** Well that's interesting! I love Brazil too!
## Oh, thank you!
*** Such a beautiful place!
## Thank you!
*** Yeah! Well anyways , I was wondering if you could tell me where I could find a phone booth.
## A phone booth! Yeah! "orelhão".
*** Wait,wait,wait! "ore","ore" what?
## Orelhão ! You forgot many words in Portuguese, didn't you?
*** Yeah, sorry! I've been living in USA since I was 7 years.
## I see. If I were here since my childhood, I would forget it too.
*** o-re-lee-yao ! Actually, could you type that into my eletronic dictionary ?
## Of Course I can ! Can you hold that for me please?
*** Oh Yeah, sure!
## Look . "Orelhão" , There you go.
*** Orelhão. just let me hit "translate" ...orelhão = big ear...actually my ears are kind of small !!!
## Oh no, I'm not talking about your ears sir!
*** No?
## No! It is because it is ...um the telephone is inside of something that resembles a big ear . That's why!
*** Oh, I see!
## Let's see if I can find one here to show you. Oh , I know there is ...Oh , there, there , there ...can you see that blue thing there?
*** Oh, that big blue thing is a big ear!
## Yeah, and there is a telephone inside !
*** Right , so If I get inside that big ear , I can phone someone from my ear and I can phone somebody.
## Exactly , it's not that complicated. You will see...but Do you have telephone tokens?
*** Yes, Thank you very much for asking... I've already bought some.
## That's great then! You won't have any trouble.
*** Ok , well that's great! Thank you so much then.
## You're very welcome! I have to go , but I hope you enjoy your stay here in Utah.
*** Ok , thank you so much!
## Ok , see you later! Tchau,tchau..bye,bye!
*** Bye, tchau,tchau!