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O Fado

Fado

O Fado

Fado

Learn more about Fado, the music style that best captures what it means to be Portuguese.

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  • 00:00:03O povo português é um povo muito ligado ao seu passado, The Portuguese people are a people very attached to their past,
  • 00:00:07existindo muitas vezes um ambiente de melancolia e de tristeza [and] there is often an atmosphere of melancholy and sadness
  • 00:00:12em relação ao mesmo e às pessoas que nos marcaram. around it and the people who have impacted ("marked") us.
  • 00:00:17De todas as palavras da língua portuguesa que existem, Of all the words in the Portuguese language that exist,
  • 00:00:20há uma que regista na perfeição esse espírito português -- there's one that perfectly captures this Portuguese spirit --
  • 00:00:25trata-se da palavra “saudade”, a qual só existe na nossa língua. it is the word "saudade" (similar to "longing"), which only exists in our language.
  • 00:00:30E a melhor forma que os portugueses arranjaram de mostrar o que é ter saudade And the best way the Portuguese have managed to show what it is to have "saudade"
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Vocabulary
o ambienteenvironment, atmosphere, ambiance arranjarto arrange, get, set up, fix atravésthrough CaracterizadoCharacterized ConcretamenteSpecifically destacarto highlight, stand out EspíritoSpirit estilostyle, design InesquecívelUnforgettable o ladoside O lamentoSorrow, regret, lamentation ligadolinked, connected, on sing. masc. a línguatongue marcarto schedule, arrange, mark, score MelancoliaMelancholy mostrarto show palavraswords o passadopast noun ReconhecimentoRecognition registarto register, record, account for saudadelonging, yearning, nostalgia o significadomeaning, significance TraçadoTraced, planned, mapped out tristezasadness unirto unite, join a vozvoice ÚltimoLast
Expressions
Estando este últimoThe latter being Na atualidadeAt present, Nowadays Ao longo deAlong, Over the course of, Throughout Muitas vezesOften, many times
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