{"id":2283,"date":"2011-05-17T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2011-05-14T03:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T03:32:59","slug":"non-verbal-communication-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/non-verbal-communication-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Verbal Communication: Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/non-verbal-communication-part-i\/\">non-verbal communication series<\/a>, we&#8217;re going to learn another hand gesture common in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><em>The two hand slap<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This gesture is used to express the idea that you don&#8217;t care, or that something doesn&#8217;t matter to you.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re talking with your friend about how your friends got tickets to a show, but you didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ah, n\u00e3o me importa. N\u00e3o queria ir.<\/em> [insert hand gesture here] Oh, I don&#8217;t care. I didn&#8217;t want to go.<\/p>\n<p>Or let&#8217;s say\u00a0 you&#8217;re talking to a co-worker about politics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eu n\u00e3o ligo com essa coisas. <\/em>[Insert hand gesture here] I don&#8217;t care about that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you do it. Hold both hands up, palms facing your chest. Then swing one hand forward and the other back, and then switch them, making sure to make a satisfying slapping sound as you do. Swing them back and forth a few times and make sure they hit each other. Your hands should make the same kind of movement that flippers in a pinball machine make.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s another situation you could use this gesture for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our non-verbal communication series, we&#8217;re going to learn another hand gesture common in Brazil. The two hand slap This gesture is used to express the idea that you don&#8217;t care, or that something doesn&#8217;t matter to you. Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re talking with your friend about how your friends got tickets to a show&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/non-verbal-communication-part-ii\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[35696,35697,35700],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-gesture","tag-hand","tag-movement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}