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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 14 OF 30 · 32 MINUTES

She Offered Me the Department

Saturday the seventh of June, twenty thirty-one, eight in the morning, the kitchen in Botafogo, both parents home and the fridge calendar a year long. On Friday at four, Regina, her director in Sao Paulo, offered Alice's mother the head of her department, two weeks a month in Sao Paulo from January, and she kept the news for the breakfast table. This time Daniel is the one who is asked, and he hears himself start to say what his wife said in May of last year. Two careers at one table, a calendar that can't hold ten days plus ten days, and Alice, eighteen months, saying no to the banana. Say "she offered me the head of the department", "the head of the department retires in December", "this time, the one being asked is me", "even if I want to, you're the one who decides" and "even if I say no, I liked being asked".

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THE STORY

Friday the sixth of June, twenty thirty-one, four in the afternoon, the kitchen table in Botafogo, laptop and headphones. Regina, the director in Sao Paulo, has a proposal and little time. Saturday, eight in the morning, the same kitchen. Daniel landed at nine last night and slept at ten, by doctor's orders. Alice, eighteen months, is in her chair with a banana, the dog is under it, and the calendar on the fridge is a year long. His wife has had the news since Friday and kept it for the table, and this time Daniel is the one who is asked. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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direto ao assuntodjee-REH-too ow ah-SOON-toostraight to the point
a Reginaah heh-ZHEE-nahRegina, the director in Sao Paulo
Boa tarde, Beatriz. Eu vou direto ao assunto.BOH-ah TAR-djee, bee-ah-TREES. EH-oo voh djee-REH-too ow ah-SOON-tooGood afternoon, Beatriz. I'll get straight to the point.
se aposentasee ah-poh-ZAYN-tahshe retires
a chefe do departamentoah SHEH-fee doo deh-par-tah-MAYN-toothe head of the department
A chefe do departamento se aposenta em dezembro.ah SHEH-fee doo deh-par-tah-MAYN-too see ah-poh-ZAYN-tah ayng deh-ZAYM-brooThe head of the department retires in December.
a chefiaah sheh-FEE-ahthe headship, the top job of a department
a partir de janeiroah par-TCHEER djee zhah-NAY-roofrom January
Duas semanas por mês em São Paulo, a partir de janeiro.DOO-ahs seh-MAH-nahs por mays ayng sowng POW-loo, ah par-TCHEER djee zhah-NAY-rooTwo weeks a month in Sao Paulo, from January.
Eu preciso conversar com o meu marido.EH-oo preh-SEE-zoo kohn-vehr-SAR kohng oo MAY-oo mah-REE-dooI need to talk to my husband.

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