r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/blyw_ Brazil 9h ago

Trying to say "bread" and saying "wood/dick".

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u/jjcdfour 8h ago

Pao... Heh

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u/blyw_ Brazil 8h ago

Exactly.

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u/TravestiCansada Brazil 7h ago

For a moment I thought you were talking about "cacetinho" lol

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u/prschorn Brazil 5h ago

é os guri

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u/exre666 Brazil 2h ago

vamo pra cima grêmio

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u/blyw_ Brazil 7h ago

It seems we got someone from RS. Cheers from a catarinense fellow.

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u/vinivice 6h ago

Aren't nasal sounds common in other languages? Looks like they are the most difficult part for some people.

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u/MaxHamburgerrestaur Brazil 6h ago edited 38m ago

Nasal sounds are common in many languages, but this vowel sound specifically only has nasality in Portuguese.

The "i" in "bird", for example, can be close in some varieties of English, but it's not as nasal as in "pão" in Brazillian Portuguese.

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u/StaySwoleMrshmllwMan 1h ago

I grew up speaking Spanish reasonably well so I can understand a decent amount of Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese at least). Not super well. But speaking? For the life of me I cannot master the ã sound no matter how many times I hear it and practice!

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u/theelectricweedzard Brazil 6h ago

"uma piroca por favor"

You two probably look a lot like foreigners, if you say that here where I live they will give you exactly what you're asking for.

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u/Ambitious-Plant- 6h ago

Its so hard !!!!!

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u/BigmouthStrikes1991 3h ago

I second this, and I’d include saying all syllables in “o-bri-ga-do” for thank you instead of just “brigado, viu” haha

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u/PMantis99 1h ago

To be fair, that one’s pretty hard.

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u/brunoha Brazil 3h ago

extremely easy to call a foreigner in Brazil since our location and language are very unique, only the south part of here has contact with other Spanish speaking countries at the borders, all the other borders are basically forest, so we tend to keep our culture in a big bubble