Prost, Cheers, Saude, Santé, Skol...
Things you learn when you travel...
How to ask for a bier (or alcohol in general) and how to say cheers in the local language, I guess that's probably because it's always a short word, easy to remember, and people will always understand you. Here in Brazil we have loads of different ways of asking for a beer, but an usual "uma cerveja" will do the trick (You'll probably have to say the brand you'd like before... Then I can't help... Just nod, hehe). I guess that the reason why we have so many different ways of asking for things or even speaking is that we're always trying to be informal, so words are shortened, and phrases that have no sense at all are spoken by everyone. Anyway, since I came back I've been analysing my own language, and it get pretty funny sometimes... I just keep asking myself "Why we say stuff like that?" and I get to amazing conclusions that are as funny as the expressions themselves. Goethe said something like "The best way of knowing your own language it's learning a foreign one" and I think that he was completly right in this one.
By the way, would you care to leave some comments? I don't really care to write this to myself, but if other ones are reading it wouldn't be too much to write a word or two...
Tschüs!
