English as She Is Spoke The Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English
English as She Is Spoke The Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English
- ISBN 13:
9780486829326
- ISBN 10:
0486829324
- Edition: Bilingual
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/17/2018
- Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary
Imagine the Portuguese traveler, with this book in hand, offering grooming tips, "Dress your hairs," making polite dinner conversation, "Like you the soup?" and inviting an acquaintance to take a walk, "Let us go to respire the air." The collection is organized into sections of familiar phrases, familiar dialogues, and familiar letters — which might not strike the native English speaker as particularly familiar, concluding with a selection of humorous anecdotes.
As Twain observed, "In this world of uncertainties, there is, at any rate, one thing which may be pretty confidently set down as a certainty: and that is, that this celebrated little phrase-book will never die while the English language lasts. Its delicious unconscious ridiculousness, and its enchanting naïvete are as supreme and unapproachable, in their way, as are Shakespeare's sublimities."