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John: So Sarah, you're an English teacher, right?
約翰：薩拉，你是名英語老師，對吧？
Sarah: That's right.
薩拉：沒錯。
John: You must have taught in many countries before.
約翰：你之前一定在很多國家和地區教過英語。
Sarah: Yeah, I did. I taught in the USA, in Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan and Ecuador.
薩拉：對，沒錯。我在美國、臺灣、中國、韓國、日本和厄瓜多爾教過英語。
John: Oh, Ecuador.
約翰：哦，厄瓜多爾。
Sarah: Yeah.
薩拉：對。
John: So you must be able to speak Spanish very well.
約翰：那你一定也會說西班牙語。
Sarah: I think so. I studied really hard, and then when I lived in Ecuador, I spent a lot of time talking to people.
薩拉：是的。我在厄瓜多爾時非常努力地學習了西班牙語，我花很多時間和當地人交談。
John: Did you teach Spanish, too?
約翰：那你也教西班牙語？
Sarah: No, I didn't. When I lived in Ecuador actually, I volunteered for the United Nations.
薩拉：不教。我在厄瓜多爾生活時，我是聯合國的志愿者。
John: Wow.
約翰：哇哦。
Sarah: And I taught families and they were being relocated to Canada because they were fleeing the drug wars of Colombia.
薩拉：我的工作是教一些家庭英語，這些家庭要逃離哥倫比亞的毒品戰爭，他們會被重新安置在加拿大。
John: Wow.
約翰：哇哦。
Sarah: So I felt very badly for these families but they had a really bright future. So that was good. But then one week, I had a family, a couple of families and they were being relocated to Sweden.
薩拉：我為這些家庭感到難過，不過他們有一個非常光明的未來。這很好。不過有一周，我教了幾個要被重新安置在瑞典的家庭。
John: Oh.
約翰：哦。
Sarah: And I said, "I can't teach them Swedish." And the UN said, "Well, maybe just teach them English." So I thought, they're going to Sweden, they don't need to learn English right now. And my friend at the time – she's Norwegian, and we were living together. And every day, she helped me to learn a little bit of Swedish. Just enough for one class so that I could teach these families...
薩拉：我說，“我不能教他們瑞典語”。聯合國方面說，“你就教他們英語吧”。可是我想，他們要去瑞典，他們現在不用學英語。當時我有個朋友，她是挪威人，我們住在一起。她每天都幫助我學習一些瑞典語。足夠我在當天的課上教那些家庭的。
John: Wait, wait.
約翰：等一下。
Sarah: ...some Swedish.
薩拉：瑞典語。
John: You were teaching Swedish language?
約翰：你教瑞典語？
Sarah: Yes.
薩拉：對。
John: You are an English speaker.
約翰：可是你的母語是英語。
Sarah: Yes.
薩拉：對。
John: You lived in Ecuador.
約翰：你當時在厄瓜多爾生活。
Sarah: Yes.
薩拉：對。
John: And a Norwegian person taught you Swedish.
約翰：一個挪威人教你瑞典語。
Sarah: Yes.
薩拉：對。
John: So you could teach Swedish to people from Ecuador.
約翰：所以你教厄瓜多爾人瑞典語。
Sarah: From Colombia, currently living in Ecuador.
薩拉：那些人來自哥倫比亞，他們當時住在厄瓜多爾。
John: So they could move to Sweden.
約翰：他們要搬去瑞典。
Sarah: Yes.
薩拉：對。
John: And you did this as a volunteer.
約翰：你志愿做這份工作。
Sarah: Yeah. I wanted to help people. So I moved to Ecuador and I got a volunteer job with the United Nations to help teach people but I never thought I would be teaching Swedish.
薩拉：對。我想幫助別人。所以我去厄瓜多爾做聯合國的志愿者，去幫助他人，我以前從來沒想過我會教瑞典語。
John: Wow.
約翰：哇哦。
Sarah: Yeah. It was a lot of fun.
薩拉：對。那很有趣。
John: I would like to try that someday, too.
約翰：如果有機會，我也想嘗試一下。
Sarah: You can do it.
薩拉：你可以的。
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