Fernanda 先生のインタビュースクリプト（その２）
Magalhães:I think that there. . . well. Brazil. We have a lot of things, you know. It's a very. . . it's a young country, very
young country, but I think because we have a lot of people there from a lot of countries, different countries,
we have that special singular thing that we can find maybe just there. And one of these things is music. I
think the Brazilian music is, I can, I can say that it's like the one, the most of interesting kind of music
because it's a mixture of all influences, a lot of influences—African and European and Asian—a lot of mix
can __. The Brazilian music, I can say that something unique. And here in Japan you can listen Brazilian
music a lot. Maybe people, they don't know that's Brazilian but bossa nova and samba, they're the most
famous. And of course you can learn about, a lot about Brazilian culture if you can understand __ lyrics. I
think that the music is the thing that I think that's more interesting about my country, I think, culturally.
Interviewer:
You've just talked about your stereotype about Japan. On my part I had my stereotype on Brazil, such asfootball and carnival. So, do you Brazilians love football and carnivals?
Magalhães:It's a difficult question but, well. . . . Talking about the big country is Brazil but, uh. . . . I think people,
Brazilians like football, yeah. Brazilians really like football. It's a. . . I think it's. . . . When we have a World
Cup, and I talk to my students, the country just stop to watch football. And this is a national, nationalfeeling, I think. This kind of. . . . But carnival. . . carnival is I think. . . . For example, I don't like carnival. It's
not too general, I think it's too. . . . Carnival is too stereotype because, of course, the carnival thateverybody knows, just happen in one place in Brazil, that's Rio de Janeiro. The others carnival __completely different in the south, south areas, it's completely different. That carnival doesn't happen in theothers place of Brazil.
Interviewer:I see. I found your English is very good. So next I'd like to ask you about the situation of English languagein Brazil. It is widely spoken in your country?
Magalhães:But, you know, I learned to speak English in Japan.
Interviewer:Ah, oh. That's surprising.

Magalhães:Yeah. I don't speak Japanese. I speak English because, you know, we learn English in Brazil. I think
everybody who goes to university study English. But it's, I think it's like here. You don't have opportunity topractice and they. . . we think we know the language but we don't know when you try to speak. “Oh, theBrazilian accent.” It's really, really difficult to understand the English Brazilian accent. But people, theydon't, Brazilians don't speak other language than Portuguese. But, you know, people, we know, I think,nowadays English because of the Internet and we have a lot of American. . . and music and movies there.
I think English. . . people can understand, but they cannot communicate, you know, __ reading somewords, you know. But they don't speak.
Interviewer:
So they are reluctant to speak English.
Magalhães:I'm sorry?
Interviewer:
Well, they don't. . . are they reluctant. . . ?
Magalhães:Ah. I think, you know, South America, we have, we are the only country who speak Portuguese. Theothers speak Spanish. I think it's Spanish for them. Brazilians, they are more interested in learning
Spanish than English because of their, of course, its proximity. It's close, it's close the outros countries. Uh,
it's not, I think it's a matter of education. We learn of course basic English at school. But if you want a realgood level of English, you should pay a lot of money for that in the private schools. In some privateschools. And of course we don't have opportunity to talk with them. Even in, it's funny, even someforeigners, when they visit Brazil, they try to speak Portuguese. They have the guide, open the book andtry to speak some words and we communicate then just, you know. . . . We have a expression like that isvery Brazilian __ is a Brazilian way of doing things. We can deal with my small English, it's OK, I cansurvive with that.
Interviewer:
That is very cultural thing.
Magalhães:I think so. I think so.

Magalhães:I think Japan, especially here, as a foreigner I miss having more English information about everything.
Especially here, foreigner studies before we don't have, you know, a lot of information of thing in English.
There are. . . is a kind of complain. Myself, like. I always feel like “I cannot read,” yeah. I always ask otherprofessors and you're bothering everybody to translate some information. This is quite. . . . Japanese is adifficult language, you know. Even if you can speak, for reading is quite difficult. And I think this is mycomplain. I'm sorry for complaining but I think because of English the wide-world language, maybe inJapanese universities they could make this __ include more foreigners.
Interviewer:
Maybe, I hope this interview may contribute to change the situation.
Magalhães:I hope, too. I'd be very happy.
Interviewer:
OK. Thank you for today.
Magalhães:Thank you. It was a pleasure.