Next weekend, foreigners are coming to my town.
I'll be forced to have a conversation with them in English.
It's better to prepare myself before their arrival.
I would like to avoid misunderstandings that's why I'm going to prepare some set expression.
Let's conceive how my conversation might look like with one of them.
-”How was your journey?” He will probably reply „ The journey was long and tiresome.
Due to holes in the road, I couldn't have fallen asleep in the bus.
Hopefully I've taken some books for my journey, so I could have read some interesting stuff.
The road was iced and slippery.
I was afraid of having an accident, the bus driver was driving really fast.
It should have been forbiden.
I guess he broke some traffic regulations.
He even jumped the traffic lights.” The foreigner may also reply on contrary.
„ My journey was fine.
The distance between Warsaw and Toruń isn't big.
It takes 3 hours to get from there to here.
I'm used to public means of transport so that doesn't bother me.
I'm not demanding, I'm pleased with everything what I encounter.” Then I'll tell to him: „Now, I'm going to show you where you will be living.
I tried to find the most convenient and the chepeast singel room for you.
It was hard to find proper accomodation in the middle of the year.
Landlords and landladies are unwilling to rent a room for 2 months.
There were some vacancies in the dormitory.
However the price of singel room is higher than I thought it were.
Sice you are a foreigner student, the prices are diffrent for you.
I don't know why it is like that, but the manager treated you as an Erasmus student.
If you don't like your room, we can try to look something more convenient.
I understand your misgiving.
The room isn't the best quality, but the building is five minutes to center.
There is a great connection to your University.
Above all, I think you will consider Toruń to be a beautiful place to live.
The roads of Toruń are reconstracted in order to improve the traffic.
In 2015 in Toruń will have been opened new tramway.” To be continued...
February 2014
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