Encontrar a Frase Certa
Finding the Right Phrase
When you’re not sure how to say something in Portuguese, sometimes you have to take a detour…...
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- Joel: Não sei se tu fazes isto em inglês, Joel: I don't know if you do this in English,
- mas se eu não tenho a certeza que vou dizer uma frase perfeitamente, but if I'm not sure that I'm going to say a sentence perfectly,
- eu penso [numa] segunda ou terceira forma de dizer a mesma frase, I think of a second or third way of saying the same sentence,
- a saber que não vou errar numa preposição ou qualquer coisa. to be sure that I'm not going to make a mistake with a preposition or something.
- Então, às vezes, eu tenho que fazer uma pausa So sometimes I have to pause
- porque estou a calcular o que é que... because I'm working out what...
- Estou a pensar no que estou a dizer. I'm thinking about what I'm saying.
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Vocabulary
calcularto calculate, to estimate, to figure desviar-seto dodge, to stray, to deviate errarto err, make a mistake a frasesentence, phrase a linguagemlanguage general, lingo, discourse a língualanguage a palavraword Expressions
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