Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Communication

To get back to the hotel from the flooded Amazon beach (next week it should be okay), I took a local bus to Santarem. Ten minutes passing by, when suddenly I notice an older man standing behind me. Since I don't speak a word in Portuguese or Him in English, I didn't bother to try, so I spoke to him in hebrew.
Our conversation was something like that:
Me: (hebrew) (hebrew) (hebrew) . . . (hebrew) ?
Him: (Portuguese) (Portuguese) . . . (Portuguese) !


"Between 55 and 70 percent of your communication is non-verbal. Only about 7 percent is actual words used and the rest is tone of voice, etc."

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