Hi, I need your help, native English speaker! 🇧🇷 ➡️ 🇬🇧

Hey everyone! We’re currently reviewing all the translations for our Visual Novel and we ran into some tricky situations like the one in the image above. As many of you already know, we’re a Brazilian team, so we write the original dialogues in Brazilian Portuguese and then translate them to English. The problem is that Portuguese is a gendered language, and we often face dilemmas that don’t exist in English. Here’s a perfect example: In this scene, Patty is correcting Mike. She’s teaching him to speak in a more feminine way — explaining that, as a girl, the correct form is “obrigada” (feminine), not “obrigado” (masculine). In Portuguese this line feels natural, but a literal translation to English sounds awkward and loses its meaning:

“Mike, it’s not ‘obrigado’, it’s ‘obrigada’!”

We don’t want to remove the dialogue because this moment is important for Mike’s personality and for the psychological development of the scene. We also don’t want to replace it with something that feels forced or unnatural. So here’s our question for you, native English speakers: Is there a natural way to translate this kind of gendered dialogue without losing the psychological weight and meaning?
Or do you have any creative suggestions on how we could adapt this scene while keeping the idea that Patty is teaching Mike to speak and behave in a more feminine way? We would really appreciate your help! Feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments below or in our Chat. Every opinion is super valuable to us Thank you so much for your support and for helping us make our VN the best it can be! See you in the comments!

(And please excuse the delay in releasing this new update, but we're having problems with Grok, the AI ​​we use for translation; a lot of hashes are incorrect and it's made a huge mess of the dialogues, but we're working hard and revising everything to deliver this update without dialogue errors.)