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Daniel arrives in Rio de Janeiro to stay for a month, without a word of Portuguese. Each lesson is one day of his stay: the people he meets, and what he has to say to them.

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A year after his month in Rio, Daniel comes back, and this time he has a job in the city. He finds a flat, starts work and builds a life: thirty scenes from his first year of living in Brazil.

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Daniel's second year in Rio, from one Carnival to the next New Year's Eve: his parents come to visit, a road trip with Bia to her grandmother's farm in Minas, and a home for two.

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Daniel's third year in Rio: a promotion at work, a wedding in Salvador where he is one of the witnesses, a job offer for Bia in São Paulo, and a question at the top of Sugarloaf Mountain.

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Daniel's fourth year: a wedding that two families, two countries and one grandmother all have opinions about, from the plans in Rio to a summer getting Grandma Nena's farm in Minas ready, and the big day itself.

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Daniel and Bia's first year married: Christmas in the snow in Chicago, a flat of their own in Botafogo with a view of Sugarloaf, a dog from the shelter, and a baby on the way.

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Sarah lands in Mexico City with a backpack, a month, and not a word of Spanish. From a small hostel in the capital to Oaxaca and the Pacific coast, each lesson is a scene from her trip: the people she meets, and what she has to say to them.

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Sarah didn't get on the plane home. She goes back to Oaxaca, moves in with Valeria's family and volunteers at the neighbourhood clinic: two months of living in Spanish, from the rainy season to the Day of the Dead.

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Before her new job in Oaxaca begins, Sarah spends two months in the Yucatan. A guesthouse in Merida, a road trip with a new friend from Monterrey, cenotes, pyramids and flamingos, and Christmas and New Year with people who became family.

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Sarah is no longer a traveller. A nurse at the clinic in Oaxaca, she gets a work permit, a flat of her own and a crooked bookcase, visits Camila in Chiapas, and has to decide whether to go back to Boston. Learn to say what you want, hope, doubt and wish, and what you would do if things were different.

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Sarah's first summer as a resident of Oaxaca: a first birth, the midwife course, her parents' visit, the Guelaguetza, a storm on the coast with Mateo, Camila's new cafe and Valeria's engagement. Learn every way to talk about the past, and about what might have been: if I had known, I wish I had, as if it had been.

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Sarah and Julian start a year in Seville: a landlady who knows everyone, a hospital where midwives are called matronas, a 300-year-old letter in the Archive, tapas at ten at night and a proposal on New Year's Eve. Learn the Spanish of Spain: vosotros, vale, the words that change, and the accent of Seville.

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Spring in Seville: the Three Kings, a strike that nearly keeps Sarah from Valeria's baby, a hospital scare for Encarna, the choice of where to marry, Holy Week and the April Fair. Learn to warn, weigh up and set conditions, describe with every sense, and talk like a Sevillian, filler words and all.

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From the first heat of a Seville summer to a wedding in Teotitlan: a book deal, Rosario's last shift, a student of Sarah's own, Encarna's first flight, and the Sevillians in Oaxaca, where it's their turn not to understand the Spanish. Learn to report, wish, set conditions, disagree politely, and make a speech, and a promise.

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Sarah and Julian's first six months as a married couple in Seville, from the Three Kings to midsummer: a ministry, night shifts, a float in Holy Week, a book launch, a neighbours' meeting, a night in A and E, and Lucia and Pablo's wedding. Sound like someone who lives in Spanish, with sayings, irony, hedging and the speech of Seville.

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Emma arrives in Paris with one suitcase, a month, and not a word of French. From a small hotel by the canal to Lyon and the sea at Marseille, each lesson is a scene from her trip: the people she meets, and what she has to say to them.

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Emma didn't get on the train to the airport. She goes back to Lyon to start a life there: a job teaching English, a little flat of her own, new colleagues and neighbours, and a first year of living in French.

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Emma's second year in France: paperwork at the préfecture and a first private student, the autumn holidays at Chloé's grandmother's house in Brittany, Hugo moving to Lyon, and a little English school of her own.

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Ben lands in Tokyo with a backpack, a month, and not a word of Japanese. From a small family inn in the old part of the city to Kyoto and the sea at Kamakura, each lesson is a scene from his trip: the people he meets, and what he has to say to them.

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Ben didn't get on the airport train. He stays in Tokyo, finds a job at an English school and a flat of his own, and builds a life: colleagues, neighbours, a typhoon, a hot spring, and Yui. His first months of living in Japanese, from summer to the New Year.

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Ben's second year in Japan, from New Year in Kyoto to the summer fireworks at Kamakura. His parents visit, the two families meet, Yui is offered a job in Tokyo, and Ben sits his first Japanese exam. A year of big decisions, in Japanese.

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After two years, Kenta tells Ben that friends don't talk to each other in desu and masu. Ben's third autumn and winter in Japan, in the plain Japanese of friends and family: futsal, a night shift, the Hanaya in trouble, New Year's Eve, and a ring.

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The months between the proposal and the wedding. Sota moves to Tokyo, Ben becomes head teacher and sits N3, the families meet again, and in November, Ben and Yui are married at a shrine in Kyoto. Then a honeymoon in Okinawa.

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Ana chega ao aeroporto, se instala na casa de Emma, conhece a escola e participa de um piquenique com Emma, Sam e Maya.

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No primeiro mês, Ana divide tarefas da casa, faz compras, conta passeios e organiza com os amigos uma viagem curta e um café de estudo.

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Ana passa a frequentar a biblioteca comunitária, resolve imprevistos cotidianos e aceita ajudar Emma no próximo dia aberto.

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Ana, Emma, Sam e Maya planejam o dia aberto da biblioteca com Jordan, negociando tarefas, necessidades e mudanças até acolher o público.

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