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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Slowly One Goes Far

Thiago drives the way he drives, and the road to Amargosa has a corn stand on it. Say you're doing sixty on the highway, slowly one goes far, with him slowly one arrives tomorrow, look a corn stand stop there, that's Sao Joao beginning, the girls want pamonha, how much further, and then give me two pamonhas.

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THE STORY

In Thiago's car on the road from Salvador to Amargosa, in the Bahian countryside, Luana, Daniel, Bia, Carla and the two girls stop at a roadside corn stand.

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Thiago, você está a sessenta na estrada.chee-AH-goo, voh-SEH ees-TAH ah seh-SEN-tah nah ees-TRAH-dahThiago, you're doing sixty on the highway.
Devagar se vai ao longe.deh-vah-GAHR see VIGH ow LOHN-zheeSlowly one goes far.
Com ele, devagar se chega amanhã.kohng EH-lee, deh-vah-GAHR see SHEH-gah ah-mah-NYAHNGWith him, slowly one arrives tomorrow.
Olha, uma barraca de milho. Para aí!OH-lyah, OO-mah bah-HAH-kah djee MEE-lyoo. PAH-rah ah-EELook, a corn stand. Stop there!
Milho verde, pamonha, canjica. Isso é o São João começando.MEE-lyoo VEHR-djee, pah-MOH-nyah, kahn-ZHEE-kah. EE-soo eh oo sowng zhoh-OWNG koh-meh-SAHN-dooGreen corn, pamonha, canjica. That's Sao Joao beginning.
As meninas querem pamonha.ahz meh-NEE-nahs KEH-rayng pah-MOH-nyahThe girls want pamonha.
Quanto falta para Amargosa?KWAHN-too FAHL-tah PAH-rah ah-mahr-GOH-zahHow much further to Amargosa?
Uma hora.OO-mah OH-rahOne hour.
Duas, do jeito que ele dirige.DOO-ahs, doo ZHAY-too kee EH-lee djee-REE-zheeTwo, the way he drives.
Então me dá duas pamonhas.en-TOWNG mee DAH DOO-ahs pah-MOH-nyahsThen give me two pamonhas.