communication with foreigners

Arčar 1

12 (a) ama òn i òn e ednì rumɤ̀nci

But he – he’s got these Romanians [there],

13 (a) jà ne mòe se razbèrem s n’ì

and I can’t understand them!

23 (a) rumɤ̀neca ìde i nìe pòčvame po mìmike gòre.dòle se razbìrame

If a Romanian comes by, we start with gestures, and more or less communicate.

25 (a) on s onovà momčènce ne govòri sàmo mène dìri

And he (the Romanian) won’t talk to that other boy, he only seeks me out.

26 (a) è takà takà dobrè jà vìkam jà stanà tùka pa inžinèr be

And so on. Fine, I say, I’ve turned into the “engineer” (expert) here!

Bosnek 1

90 (a) i onìa ot xolàndija ni mnògo bèa aresàli ta idòme po

And the people from Holland liked us a lot, and we went around –

Gela 3

71 (c) mnògu hùbava razbìrame se vìka pu anglìjski ama vəv gelà

we understand one another very well in English, but in Gela

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Recommended Model for Citations

Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016) Babjak 1: 13-15. In: Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)

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