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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

It's Normal for Babies to Cry

Alice's one-month check-up with Bruno, Carla's boyfriend, who is now her doctor. Her weight and length, the heel-prick test, why she sleeps on her back, the vaccination booklet, and Daniel's forty questions. Give a verb its own subject, "it's normal for babies to cry", "before you leave", "it's important for you to sleep too", and understand a baby's check-up.

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THE STORY

Wednesday the ninth of January, twenty thirty, ten in the morning, at Bruno's clinic in Botafogo. Alice is five weeks old, and Bruno, Carla's boyfriend, is her doctor now. His nurse has just weighed and measured her, and Daniel has a list of questions on his phone. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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Quatro quilos e cem.KWAH-troo KEE-loos ee sayngFour kilos one hundred.
engordouayn-gor-DOHshe's put on weight
Ela engordou quase um quilo!EH-lah ayn-gor-DOH KWAH-zee oong KEE-looShe's put on almost a kilo!
crescendokreh-SAYN-doogrowing
Ela está crescendo muito bem.EH-lah ehs-TAH kreh-SAYN-doo MOOYN-too bayngShe's growing very well.
Eu tenho algumas perguntas.EH-oo TAYN-yoo ow-GOO-mahs per-GOON-tahsI've got a few questions.
Algumas? São quarenta.ow-GOO-mahs? sowng kwah-RAYN-tahA few? There are forty.
Pai de primeira viagem?py djee pree-MAY-rah vee-AH-zhayngA first-time father?
todo fim de tardeTOH-doo feeng djee TAR-djeeevery evening
Ela chora todo fim de tarde.EH-lah SHAW-rah TOH-doo feeng djee TAR-djeeShe cries every evening.

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