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Fluency Level 2

Brazilian Portuguese

Daniel's tenth year: a campaign to save Rafael's first café, where his coffee has been free since 2024, a São João in the Bahian countryside with Luana and Thiago, and Carla's wedding at last, with Daniel giving the speech. Learn to tell a story well, persuade and give way gracefully, move from a lawyer's office to the street in one breath, and use the sayings Brazilians live by.

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Fluency Level 2 - Part 1

Lessons 1 to 10
1
A Letter from the Landlord

Rafael has had a letter about the lease of his first cafe, and he reads it to Daniel over a coffee that has been free for ten years.

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2
Soft Water on Hard Stone

In her office in the centre of Rio, the lawyer Dra.

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3
Grain by Grain

The regulars at Rafael's cafe hear the news, and Seu Jorge and Dona Marta have an idea older than crowdfunding.

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4
Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Bia films a video for the campaign to save the cafe, with Alice's drawing and Rafael, who hates cameras.

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5
It's Nothing Personal

The owner of the building, Dona Ivone, comes in for a coffee she didn't order, and the first negotiation happens at the counter.

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6
The Heart of the Street

A journalist from the neighbourhood paper comes to the cafe, and Daniel learns how to give a story a shape.

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7
Cheap Turns Out Expensive

Rafael asks the bank for a loan to keep the cafe, and Daniel does the arithmetic on the small installments.

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8
A Bird in the Hand

Dona Ivone comes back with her answer, and the cafe is saved over a coffee that was already free.

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9
Better Safe Than Sorry

The contract is on the table, Rafael wants to sign it without reading, and Dr Cecilia finds the one thing it doesn't say.

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10
Better Late Than Never

The cafe throws a party for its own survival, Rafael makes the first speech of his life, and a phone call from Bahia sets up the winter.

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Fluency Level 2 - Part 2

Lessons 11 to 20

Fluency Level 2 - Part 3

Lessons 21 to 30
21
A Friend Is One Who Warns

Back in Rio, Carla asks Daniel to be her padrinho and make the speech, and gives him one warning about the groom's mother.

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22
The Face, Not the Heart

Andre, the groom from Sao Paulo, comes to the cafe in a suit, and wins Rafael over in two sentences.

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23
Haste and Perfection

The wedding planner rehearses the entrance for the fourth time, and Daniel learns when he speaks and for how long.

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24
The Habit and the Monk

The night before the wedding, Daniel tries on Rafael's suit from ninety-eight, and Alice has an opinion.

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25
Half a Word

The morning of the wedding, Daniel has six pages of speech and Bia has a red pen.

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26
What Is Yours

Twenty minutes before the ceremony, the groom is late and the bride's hand is shaking.

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27
Crooked Lines

Two minutes into the ceremony the rings are missing, and the search goes through a brother, a six-year-old and Rafael's jacket.

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28
Whoever Marries

Daniel gives the speech, in Portuguese, in front of a hundred and eighty people, in four minutes.

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29
All Good Things

The party at two in the morning, with the band packing up, the planner calling last dance, and Rafael proposing a forro.

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30
You Reap What You Sow

The morning after the wedding, at the cafe that was going to be a bank, Dona Ivone wants her coffee and Carla comes to say goodbye.

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