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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

As Soon As It's Signed

Two weeks after Carnival, Daniel and Bia sign the deed, pay the tax and the fees, initial forty pages, and get the keys from the owner. Say "as soon as it's signed" and "after it's registered", follow instructions at an office, meet Brazilian bureaucracy, and spend the first evening in the empty flat.

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THE STORY

Friday the twenty-third of February, two weeks after Carnival, at a registry office in Botafogo. The owner of the flat, a quiet retired engineer, is sitting at the end of the table in his reading glasses. The clerk puts down a document as thick as a book. That evening, Daniel and Bia open the door of the empty flat with their own key for the first time. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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a escrituraah ehs-kree-TOO-rahthe deed
Bom dia. Essa é a escritura do apartamento.bohng DJEE-ah. EH-sah eh ah ehs-kree-TOO-rah doo ah-par-tah-MAYN-tooGood morning. This is the deed of the flat.
leiamLAY-owngread, to more than one person
Leiam com atenção.LAY-owng kohng ah-tayn-SOWNGRead it carefully. To both of them.
o impostooo eem-POHS-toothe tax
as taxasahs TAH-shahsthe fees
transferênciatrahns-feh-RAYN-see-aha bank transfer
assinadaah-see-NAH-dahsigned, for the deed
Está. Assim que ela for assinada, o apartamento é de vocês.ehs-TAH. ah-SEENG kee EH-lah for ah-see-NAH-dah, oo ah-par-tah-MAYN-too eh djee voh-SAYSIt is. As soon as it's signed, the flat is yours.
foremFOH-rayngthey are, in that future form

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