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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

That's Not What I Meant

Saturday night, Alice asleep and Pipoca on the sofa. Daniel has good news from Fernanda, and the way he got it starts the conversation he and Bia have been putting off since Father's Day. Argue without wounding, "that's not what I meant", "then what did you mean?", "I'm not blaming you", "I just don't want to do this alone", ask "are we fighting?", and make up, "I should have asked", "shall we make up?", with a list on the fridge of who does what, in writing.

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THE STORY

Saturday the twenty-first of September, twenty thirty. Bia came home from Sao Paulo last night, Daniel has been sleeping at ten on doctor's orders, and tonight nothing is on the calendar. At nine, in the living room, he has news he has kept since Tuesday. At half past nine, the sofa. And at ten, at the window, the two of them make up, and make a list. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Mês sim, mês não.mays seeng, mays nowngEvery other month.
E você decidiu isso sozinho?ee voh-SAY deh-see-DJEE-oo EE-soo soh-ZEEN-yooAnd you decided that on your own?
por vocêpoor voh-SAYfor you, for your sake
Eu fiz isso por você.EH-oo fees EE-soo poor voh-SAYI did this for you.
deu contaDAY-oo KOHN-tahmanaged, in the past, word for word gave account
eu quis dizerEH-oo kees djee-ZEHRI meant, word for word I wanted to say
Não foi isso que eu quis dizer.nowng foy EE-soo kee EH-oo kees djee-ZEHRThat's not what I meant.
Então o que você quis dizer?ayn-TOWNG oo kee voh-SAY kees djee-ZEHRThen what did you mean?
pedir ajudapeh-DJEER ah-ZHOO-dahto ask for help
Eu não sei pedir ajuda.EH-oo nowng say peh-DJEER ah-ZHOO-dahI don't know how to ask for help.

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