They assured us that they have “enjoyed our little conversation to the full”. They used their last opportunity to teach us some phrases when we finally said good bye and “enjoy yourselves”. The really last thing they said was “Ta ra!” which means something like good bye in England.

Thank you guys… It was a pleasure!

During our conversation, several discussions arose and sometimes, one of the guys said politely: “I’m terribly sorry to interrupt you…” which we found quite funny. Another comment of the guys while discussing was: “I’ve been asking myself the same question.”

After a while they took delight in really searching important examples for a good bar conversation. And suddenly the phrases just spluttered out. They were now noting themselves the expressions they had in mind and explained us the meanings. “To drink like a fish” means to drink high volumes of alcohol. Because they were still thirsty they told us that they “were gagging for a drink”. Which lead them to the expression “to knock back a drink”. But obviously you can also say “to slam a drink”. When they realized that the list of words was growing, they said: “This calls for a drink”. They finally wanted to “celebrate our unforeseen conversation with another drink”. They were glad that they didn’t “hang around with other guys in the bar” because we would probably not have had “the heart to approach them”.

It was Friday evening when we decided to go to the Irish Pub in the Europa-Center in Berlin for accomplishing our “Bar Project” together. We thought it would be more fun to do it twosome.

When we arrived, it was about 8:30 pm, so not too late. Consequently, there were not so many people. In order to get an overview of the guests who were there, we chose first of all a table in a little corner, so that we had the possibility to observe everyone a little bit.

Shortly after, we noticed two guys on the bar who seemed to be friendly. So, we decided to talk to them, even if we were in the beginning a little bit hesitant. We didn’t know exactly how to find the right words in order to explain them our project, but we just began to speak to them. Therefore, after a short “small-talk” conversation including questions like “Where do you come from?” or “What are you doing in Berlin?” we did not only talk about our project, so that we had the possibility to get some funny and interesting expressions. We didn’t focus on typical English or American expressions. Our intention was to have a normal conversation and to note from time to time words or sentences.

The two guys were both from England – which was not difficult to find out because of their typical English accent – and stayed just for some days in Berlin.