And even if you are really good at that and have trained yourself to translate really quickly, chances are you are not sounding very native and fluent when you speak. That’s because when you translate, you tend to use sentence constructions that are specific to your native tongue, not English. Anyway, my bedroom was on the second floor, the garage was at ground level, and my house was about ten or twelve feet above street level – he was at street level. And, because of the angles and brush and trees – and because I had the radio on (low, I had a friend sleeping upstairs) – the sound of the guy and his mother/wife/girlfriend (it was never clear) talking went over me, but Lisa could hear what they were saying.
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