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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 32 MINUTES

Carnival Here Is Frevo

Saturday the twenty-second of February, twenty thirty-one, Carnival Saturday, downtown in the Northeast, from the pavement. Alice and her mother landed the night before on the company's first ticket, and Edson and Larissa take the family to the fastest dance in Brazil, the one with the little umbrellas. Edson has a rule for people from Rio in a crowd, Alice wants an umbrella, a street vendor has two kinds, and Edson makes a promise for the end of the year. On Sunday, the steep streets of Olinda, the giant puppets, which Alice takes for people, and three steps of frevo. Say "stay on the pavement, or you'll get lost in the crowd", "Carnival here is frevo, samba is a Rio thing" and "I don't like crowds, but Carnival is Carnival".

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THE STORY

Saturday the twenty-second of February, twenty thirty-one, Carnival Saturday, ten in the morning, downtown in the Northeast. Alice and her mother landed last night on the company's first ticket, with Daniel at the gate with flowers. Edson and Larissa have brought the family to the pavement, where the fastest dance in Brazil comes up the street under a thousand little umbrellas, and Daniel is wearing the pirate hat from his first Carnival. Alice, fourteen and a half months and walking everywhere, wants an umbrella. On Sunday, the steep streets of Olinda, the giant puppets, and three steps of frevo. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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senãosee-NOWNGor else, otherwise, in speech
você se perdevoh-SAY see PEHR-djeeyou get lost
Fica na calçada, senão você se perde na multidão.FEE-kah nah kow-SAH-dah, see-NOWNG voh-SAY see PEHR-djee nah mool-tchee-DOWNGStay on the pavement, or you'll get lost in the crowd.
frevoFREH-voothe umbrella dance, the fast dance of the Northeast
coisa do RioKOY-zah doo HEE-ooa Rio thing, word for word thing of the Rio
Carnaval aqui é frevo. Samba é coisa do Rio.kar-nah-VOW ah-KEE eh FREH-voo. SAHM-bah eh KOY-zah doo HEE-ooCarnival here is the umbrella dance. Samba is a thing of Rio.
uma sombrinhaOO-mah sohm-BREEN-yaha little umbrella, word for word a little shade
Ela quer uma sombrinha. Olha a mão dela.EH-lah kehr OO-mah sohm-BREEN-yah. AW-lyah ah mowng DEH-lahShe wants a little umbrella. Look at her hand.
a de papelah djee pah-PEHWthe paper one
A de papel é dez. A de verdade, cinquenta.ah djee pah-PEHW eh dehs. ah djee vehr-DAH-djee, seen-KWAYN-tahThe paper one is ten. The real one, fifty.

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