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Dona Ana: Olá, filho!
{{Dona Ana: Hello, Son!}}
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A ligar a esta hora?
{{You are calling at this hour?}}
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Fernando: Olá, mãe!
{{Fernando: Hi, Mom!}}
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Desculpa, eu sei que é cedo,
{{I’m sorry, I know it’s early,}}
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mas estou a ligar para te dizer
{{but I’m calling to tell you}}
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que há um festival de chocolate na cidade
{{that there is a chocolate festival in town}}
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e para saber se queres ir comigo.
{{and to find out if you want to go with me.}}
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Dona Ana: Desculpa, podes repetir?
{{Dona Ana: Sorry, can you repeat [that]?}}
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Sabes que eu ouço mal.
{{You know that I hear poorly.}}
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Fernando: Há um festival de chocolate na cidade.
{{Fernando: There is a chocolate festival in town.}}
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Começa hoje!
{{It starts today!}}
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Dona Ana: Chocolate?
{{Dona Ana: Chocolate?}}
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Que bom, eu amo chocolate!
{{How nice, I love chocolate!}}
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Até sonho com bolos de chocolate!
{{I even dream of chocolate cakes!}}
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Fernando: Eu sei, eu sei!
{{Fernando: I know, I know!}}
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Eu estou em casa hoje e vou ao festival.
{{I am at home today and I am going to the festival.}}
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Queres ir comigo?
{{Do you want to go with me?}}
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Dona Ana: Quero, quero,
{{Dona Ana: I want to, I want to,}}
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mas explica o que
{{but explain to me what}}
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as pessoas fazem no festival.
{{people do at the festival.}}
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Fernando: Os visitantes aparecem no festival,
{{Fernando: Visitors show up at the festival,}}
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provam muitos tipos de
{{sample many types of}}
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chocolate de muitos países
{{chocolate from many countries}}
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e constroem os seus próprios bolos
{{and build their own cakes}}
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ou pratos de chocolate
{{or chocolate dishes}}
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com a ajuda de cozinheiros profissionais,
{{with the help of professional cooks,}}
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incluindo bolos que não existem nas lojas ou pastelarias.
{{including cakes that do not exist in shops or pastry shops.}}
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Dona Ana: Isso é muito interessante.
{{Dona Ana: That is very interesting.}}
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Mas se eu chego ao festival
{{But if I come to the festival}}
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e vejo aquele chocolate,
{{and see that chocolate,}}
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roubo tudo, como tudo e depois
{{I’ll steal everything, eat it all, and then}}
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o meu corpo não cabe na roupa!
{{my body won’t fit in my clothes!}}
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Fernando: Cabe, cabe, tu és muito elegante!
{{Fernando: It will fit, it will fit, you are very elegant!}}
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Dona Ana: Conta-me mais.
{{Dona Ana: Tell me more.}}
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Podemos comprar chocolates?
{{Can we buy chocolates?}}
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Fernando: Claro.
{{Fernando: Of course.}}
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E parece que também
{{And it seems that}}
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há atividades onde ganhas
{{there are also activities where you win}}
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um prémio que tu escolhes,
{{a prize that you choose,}}
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entre algumas opções.
{{among some options.}}
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Eu vou à tarde e levo o meu carro.
{{I’ll go in the afternoon and take my car.}}
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Dona Ana: Ótimo.
{{Dona Ana: Great.}}
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Então passas na minha casa primeiro
{{So you’ll drive by my house first}}
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e dás-me boleia?
{{and give me a lift?}}
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Fernando: Sim, sim!
{{Fernando: Yes, yes!}}
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Dona Ana: Obrigada, filho.
{{Dona Ana: Thank you, Son.}}
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Até logo!
{{See you later!}}
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Fernando: Até logo!
{{Fernando: See you later!}}
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Eliana
Joseph
eu gosto dessas pequenas histórias, muito obrigada
Good one
Agora eu quero bolo de cocolate!
Pode nos explicar as explicasaos do “claro”
Parece que sta muito
Olá! A explicação é que “claro”, neste contexto, significa “of course” ou “sure” 🙂 Em outros contextos, tem outros significados, como “light” ou “clear”, por isso é sempre preciso ver o sentido da conversa.
Good exercise.
I understand that it was a telephone conversation but I could have done without the muffled voice at this stage of learning. Otherwise, I find these audios very helpful.
Eu tambem! (Sorry, can’t do the accent).
I hardly understood anything. I’m beginning to think I really can’t learn this langauge.
I know it’s discouraging when the language just sounds like noise, but don’t worry. It’s normal for it to take a while to be able to understand a real dialogue like this. You just got started with the Units, so I don’t expect yourself to understand a lot yet. At this stage, keep listening to the Shorties, but use it to start familiarizing yourself with the language, rather than as a test.
I would also recommend spending some time with Smart Review before continuing forward in the Units. That way you can solidify what you’ve learned so far before adding more to your plate. 🙂
CD, in addition to turning on the translation over to the right you will notice a 1 X. Click on that through the numbers that make the recording go faster to, say, 0.5 X which is half speed – much slower. It gives you time enough to follow the Portuguese as well as the translation.
Is there an English translation of the questions and answers hiding somewhere? I frequently guess the answers, because I recognize a couple words, but rarely understand the question.
Right now there is no translation for the questions and answers, but we are considering adding translations in the future. We’ve gone back and forth because on one hand, it helps mimic real life to be in a situation where you are forced to figure out the meaning based on what pieces you know, but of course it would also be helpful to be able to check yourself. We just hope it doesn’t cause learners to immediately toggle on the translation when they don’t understand. 🙂
Ok. I will live with your decision regardless.
Regarding the words isso and aquele, are there different instances when you use either word or does it matter?
Isso is an invariable demonstrative pronoun, whereas aquele (or aquela, aqueles, aquelas) is a variable demonstrative determiner.
Isso is considered impersonal, meaning it doesn’t go along with a noun. It’s just “that” (near listener). Aquele is different because it is used along with the noun (“that” thing) and is also used to refer to something that is more distant (either in space or time).
So you would say Isso é fascinante – That is fascinating
and Aquela festa foi enorme – That party was huge
Notice how isso stands on its own and is more vague, but aquela is modifying the word festa.
I would recommend checking out these two units to get a more thorough explanation:
This and That
Which One?
Most of the words in this conversation are unfamiliar, and I’m just guessing. It’s very discouraging.
Its confusing and disappointing that the conversation in the end of the unit doesn’t practice the words we’ve just learned and instead includes new words
I’m so sorry you’re feeling discouraged here. I would recommend making heavy use of the Translate button at this stage to help you understand the dialogue. We definitely don’t expect you to understand every word, or even most of the words, in such an early unit.
You can follow along with Translate turned on until you have more of a foundation. The main purpose right now is to show you how some -er verbs are used in real life. For example, you can see how the -er verbs querer, saber, caber, escolher, etc, are conjugated within the dialogue.
I agree though that we could simplify this episode and keep the focus more on the regular -er verbs, as there are also a lot of -ar verbs and irregular verbs included. It’s a lot of new information, along with new vocabulary too. I made a note to review this and find a better episode to use for this level.
The dialogues will include lots of new words, as we wouldn’t be able to keep the dialogues realistic without them, but we probably went too far with this one! Thanks for the feedback. 🙂
I don’t think you went too far with this episode at all. It was exactly as it should be. It should be a little challenging, that’s how you learn! Thank you and keep up the good work!
What a GREAT recording! Well done, actors! However, it was disheartening because I knew very few words. New words are great, but there were so many of them I couldn’t even conceive of taking the quiz. Still, after hearing recordings from a competitor, you put them to absolute shame! Keep these folks!!!