Bom, hoje em dia já não é novidade como usar o Twitter, mas eu encontrei este vídeo super simpático que se chama Twitter in plain English (Twitter em inglês fácil) que explica o que é e como se faz para usar o Twitter.
Veja o vídeo abaixo e acompanhe o roteiro com as palavras e expressões mais difíceis traduzidas. Enjoy!
So, what are you doing? It’s one of the first questions we often ask friends and family. Even if (mesmo se) the answer is just mowing the lawn (cortar a grama) or cooking dinner, it’s interesting to us, it makes us feel connected and a part of each other’s lives. Unfortunately (Infelizmente), most of our day-to-day lives are hidden (escondido) from people that care. Of course, we have e-mail, and blogs and phones to keep us connected. But you wouldn’t send an e-mail to a friend to tell him you’re having coffee. Your friend doesn’t need to know that. But, what about people that want to know about the little things that happen in your life? Real life happens between blog posts and e-mails and now there’s a way to share (compartilhar). This is Twitter in plain (plano, fácil) English. Thanks to Twitter, it’s possible to share short, bite-sized updates (atualizações pequenas) about your life and follow the updates of people that matter to you via the web. Here’s how it works. Meet Carla, she’s addicted (viciada) to her mobile phone, reads blogs every day and has contacts all over the world. She heard about Twitter almost skeptical (cética). After some of her friends couldn’t stop talking about it, she gave it a try (decidiu experimentar). She signed up (se inscreveu) for free (de graça) and saw that Twitter pages look a little like blogs with very short posts. Each page is personal and has updates from friends. She got started (começou) by looking up (procurar) for friends on Twitter.com. After finding a few, she clicked “follow” to start seeing their updates on her Twitter page. Within hours, she began to see a different side of people she chose to follow. She didn’t know that Steven in Seattle was a baseball fan or that Julia, in London, was reading a new investment book. The little messages from Twitter painted a picture of her friends, family and co-workers that she’d never seen before. It was the real world. Soon, she became a fan of Twitter and posted updates every day. Her friends followed her updates and learned that she recently discovered a passion for Van Halen. They could see Carla’s life between blog posts and e-mails. For Carla, Twitter worked because it was simple, the updates were always short, under 140 characters. Plus (Além disso), she could post updates and follow her friends using the Twitter website, software on her browser, a mobile phone or instant messages. By asking members to answer the question, “What are you doing?”, Carla found that Twitter brought her closer (aproximou-a) to people that mattered to her, 140 characters at a time. Find out (Descubra) what your friends are doing at Twitter.com. I’m Leele Fever and this has been Twitter in plain English, on the Commoncraft show.
