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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

I Missed Her First Steps

Tuesday the fourteenth of January, twenty thirty-one, eleven in the morning, the kitchen in Botafogo, Daniel's second week away. The night before, on video, Alice's mother said she was about to walk. Now she is at the kitchen table with her headphones on, and Alice lets go of the sofa and walks three steps to Pipoca, who doesn't move. Five minutes later Daniel watches it in the office by the river, with Edson behind him, and watches it again. Grandma Nena says what she always says, Dona Marta hears the news through her ceiling, and that night Daniel says he missed it, and his wife tells him what he did instead. Say "she's about to walk", "I missed her first steps" and "you didn't miss them, you saw them".

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THE STORY

Tuesday the fourteenth of January, twenty thirty-one, eleven in the morning, the kitchen in Botafogo. Daniel has been in the office by the river since Monday, his second week of the year. The daycare is closed for the day, so Alice, thirteen months and ten days old, is at home, holding on to the sofa, and her mother is at the kitchen table with her headphones on, in a meeting. Pipoca is asleep at the other end of the sofa. At the birthday party, Grandma Nena said that Alice would walk when her father wasn't at home. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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a ponto deah POHN-too djeeabout to, word for word at point of
Ela está a ponto de andar.EH-lah ehs-TAH ah POHN-too djee ahn-DARShe's about to walk.
soltousohl-TOHlet go, in the past
Ela soltou o sofá duas vezes.EH-lah sohl-TOH oo soh-FAH DOO-ahs VAY-zeesShe let go of the sofa twice.
não se mexenowng see MEH-sheedon't move
Pipoca, não se mexe. Fica aí.pee-PAW-kah, nowng see MEH-shee. FEE-kah ah-EEPipoca, don't move. Stay there.
filmeifeew-MAYI filmed
Eu filmei tudo. Já mandei para o pai.EH-oo feew-MAY TOO-doo. zhah mahn-DAY PAH-rah oo pyI filmed everything. I've already sent it to her father.
andandoahn-DAHN-doowalking
Oxe! Ela está andando!OH-shee! EH-lah ehs-TAH ahn-DAHN-dooWell! She's walking!

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