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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 21 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

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. Say I have a request, ask, I want you to be my padrinho and to make the speech, me in Portuguese in front of a hundred people, a hundred and eighty, I can make the speech, not you, Andre's mother is a judge no jokes about Sao Paulo, understood, and a friend is one who warns.

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THE STORY

At Rafael's cafe in Botafogo, in Rio, in October, Carla asks Daniel to be her padrinho at the December wedding and to give the speech, while Rafael offers himself instead.

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Daniel, eu tenho um pedido.dah-nee-EW, eh-oo TEH-nyoo oong peh-DJEE-dooDaniel, I have a request.
Pede.PEH-djeeAsk.
Quero que você seja meu padrinho. E que faça o discurso.KEH-roo kee voh-SEH SEH-zhah may-oo pah-DREE-nyoo. ee kee FAH-sah oo djees-KOOR-sooI want you to be my padrinho. And to make the speech.
Eu? Em português? Na frente de cem pessoas?EH-oo. ayng pohr-too-GEHS. nah FREN-chee djee SAYNG peh-SOH-ahsMe? In Portuguese? In front of a hundred people?
Cento e oitenta.SEN-too ee oy-TEN-tahA hundred and eighty.
Eu posso fazer o discurso.eh-oo POH-soo fah-ZEHR oo djees-KOOR-sooI can make the speech.
Você não.voh-SEH NOWNGNot you.
E um aviso: a mãe do André é juíza. Nada de piada sobre São Paulo.ee oong ah-VEE-zoo: ah MAYNG doo ahn-DREH eh zhoo-EE-zah. NAH-dah djee pee-AH-dah SOH-bree sowng POW-looAnd a warning: Andre's mother is a judge. No jokes about Sao Paulo.
Entendi.en-ten-DJEEUnderstood.
Quem avisa amigo é.kayng ah-VEE-zah ah-MEE-goo EHA friend is one who warns.