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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 9 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

It's Probably Just a Virus

Three in the morning, and Alice has her first fever. Bruno on the phone, a taxi to the children's emergency department, a doctor on duty who has seen it all, and Daniel, who has read everything on the internet. Say that something may be so without saying that it is, "it may just be a virus", "by all accounts, it's nothing serious", "everything suggests it's a virus", and get through a night at the emergency department.

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THE STORY

Thursday the fourteenth of March, twenty thirty, three in the morning. Alice, three months old, wakes up crying, and she's hot. Bia takes her temperature, and Daniel calls Bruno, who isn't on duty tonight. Half an hour later, a taxi takes them to the children's emergency department. At half past four, the doctor on duty has examined Alice from head to toe, and Daniel, who read the whole internet in the taxi, has a question. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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quenteKAYN-tcheehot
Daniel, acorda! A Alice está quente.dah-nee-EW, ah-KAWR-dah! ah ah-LEE-see ehs-TAH KAYN-tcheeDaniel, wake up! Alice is hot.
o termômetrooo tehr-MOH-meh-troothe thermometer
Cadê o termômetro?kah-DAY oo tehr-MOH-meh-trooWhere's the thermometer?
Trinta e oito e nove. Ela está com febre.TREEN-tah ee OY-too ee NAW-vee. EH-lah ehs-TAH kohng FEH-breeThirty-eight point nine. She's got a fever.
não para denowng PAH-rah djeewon't stop, keeps on
Pouco. E não para de chorar.POH-koo. ee nowng PAH-rah djee shoh-RARA little. And she won't stop crying.
uma viroseOO-mah vee-RAW-zeea virus, a viral infection
pode ser que sejaPAW-djee sehr kee SAY-zhahit may be that it's
Pode ser que seja só uma virose.PAW-djee sehr kee SAY-zhah SAW OO-mah vee-RAW-zeeIt may just be a virus.

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