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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

What If We Asked Carla and Rafael?

Grandma Nena has booked the chapel, and the godparents have to be chosen. Bia wants Carla, Daniel wants Rafael, and Susan, from Chicago, wants Emily. Float an idea the gentle way, "what if we asked both of them", say what wouldn't be fair, "it wouldn't be fair on your sister", ask two friends to be godparents, and learn what a father and a godfather call each other from the day of the baptism.

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THE STORY

Saturday the thirty-first of August, twenty thirty. Alice is almost nine months old, Bia is back from Sao Paulo, and on Monday Daniel flies to the Northeast again. At breakfast, news from the farm, Grandma Nena has spoken to the priest. At eleven, at Rafael's cafe on Sol Street, a question for Carla and Rafael. And at nine that night, on video, Susan has a candidate of her own. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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A vó já falou com o padre.ah VAW zhah fah-LOH kohng oo PAH-dreeGrandma has already spoken to the priest.
o batizadooo bah-tchee-ZAH-doothe baptism
Dia doze de outubro, na capela da fazenda.DJEE-ah DOH-zee djee oh-TOO-broo, nah kah-PEH-lah dah fah-ZAYN-dahThe twelfth of October, in the chapel on the farm.
escolheuehs-koh-LYAY-oochose, he, she or you
a gente convidasseah ZHAYN-tchee kohn-vee-DAH-seewe invited, in a what-if
E se a gente convidasse os dois? A Carla e o Rafael.ee see ah ZHAYN-tchee kohn-vee-DAH-see oos doys? ah KAR-lah ee oo hah-fah-EWWhat if we asked both of them? Carla and Rafael.
tinha que serTCHEEN-yah kee sehrhad to be
Eu achei que tinha que ser um casal.EH-oo ah-SHAY kee TCHEEN-yah kee sehr oong kah-ZOWI thought it had to be a couple.
precisampreh-SEE-zowngthey need
Padrinho e madrinha não precisam ser casal.pah-DREEN-yoo ee mah-DREEN-yah nowng preh-SEE-zowng sehr kah-ZOWThe godfather and godmother don't need to be a couple.

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