{"id":338,"date":"2011-11-08T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:15:09","slug":"the-dangers-of-overheard-conversations-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/the-dangers-of-overheard-conversations-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Overheard Conversations (part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Big Game?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I really don\u2019t know what happened here. I was in Ba\u00f1os in Ecuador and overheard someone tell a friend that, \u201cBoca va a jugar esta noche\u201d. I took this as meaning that the famous Argentine football team had a game on in town. It did strike me as strange at the time but I guessed it must be true. Anyway, the other Brits who were there to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> with me all went along eagerly to the tiny stadium in town.  We bought some snacks and eagerly settled down. I had my first serious doubts when a couple of overweight 40 year olds starting warming up gingerly in front of an otherwise empty stadium. It turned out to be a training routine for a local pub team and they must have been bemused to see a group of popcorn munching gringos watching them from the sidelines.    <\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Stop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was on a long bus journey as usual and was heading to Lima. The buses here have a driver and an assistant who takes tickets, unpacks bags and keeps the driver supplied with alcohol and coca. Anyway, this assistant said to a fellow passenger, \u201cYa estamos in Lima\u201d, so I rushed out of my seat, grabbed my rucksack and hopped down the stairs into a deserted one horse town. Fortunately I knew that Lima had more than 10 houses in it and so got back on the bus before it pulled out again. I spent the rest of the journey trying to figure out what he had actually said and couldn\u2019t manage it. I might have managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> but I haven\u2019t yet learned how to overhear conversations properly.   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?q=boca+juniors+game&um=1&hl=es&rlz=1C1GGGE_esAR419AR419&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=T_2Xdk-r--ltyM:&imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.worldtravelforcouples.com\/south-america\/argentina\/buenos-aires\/la-boca-2\/&docid=iZ8ocjzbMbKthM&imgurl=http:\/\/www.worldtravelforcouples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Boca-Juniors.jpg&w=640&h=480&ei=El65To_GBYb-ggfI2fHTCA&zoom=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Big Game? I really don\u2019t know what happened here. 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