Как быть иностранцем

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Джордж Микеш - Как быть иностранцем (1946!)
Писатель и журналист Джордж Микеш родился в Венгрии. Перед Второй мировой войной он приехал в Лондон в качестве корреспондента венгерской газеты.

George Mikes. How to be an Alien

A HANDBOOK FOR BEGINNERS AND ADVANCED PUPILS

Книжка совсем коротенькая, 37 страниц, в печатном виде - с иллюстрациями, но в сети (см. ссылку выше) - без. Вот парочка цитат:

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit.

In the last century, when a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared: 'We are not amused'; and the whole British nation even now, a century later, is immensely proud of how rude their Queen was.

If you go for a walk with a friend, don't say a word for hours; if you go out for a walk with your dog, keep chatting to him.