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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

It Was Supposed to Be Ready Yesterday

Three weeks into a two-week renovation, the kitchen is still bare concrete. Say "it was supposed to be ready" and "it should have been seen before", complain politely to the builder, hear his excuses, from rotten pipes to Carnival, and get a promise, without fail. The next morning, the tiles arrive, in the wrong colour.

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THE STORY

Thursday the fifteenth of March, in the flat in Botafogo. The kitchen has no floor, no sink and no tiles, just bare concrete, a pile of old pipes and a radio playing samba. Seu Valdir, the builder, a big man with plaster dust in his moustache, is drinking a coffee from a plastic cup. He started on the twenty-sixth of February, and said two weeks. The next morning, the tiles arrive. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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era paraEH-rah PAH-rahit was supposed to
Seu Valdir, a cozinha era para estar pronta ontem.say-oo vow-DJEER, ah koh-ZEEN-yah EH-rah PAH-rah ehs-TAR PROHN-tah OHN-tayngSeu Valdir, the kitchen was supposed to be ready yesterday.
atrasouah-trah-ZOHwas late
Era. Mas o azulejo atrasou.EH-rah. mahs oo ah-zoo-LAY-zhoo ah-trah-ZOHIt was. But the tiles were late.
a entregaah ayn-TREH-gahthe delivery
O senhor disse duas semanas. Já são três.oo sen-YOR DJEE-see DOO-ahs seh-MAH-nahs. zhah sowng traysYou said two weeks. It's already three.
o encanamentooo ayn-kah-nah-MAYN-toothe plumbing
podrePOH-dreerotten
O encanamento estava podre. Ninguém sabia.oo ayn-kah-nah-MAYN-too ehs-TAH-vah POH-dree. neeng-GAYNG sah-BEE-ahThe plumbing was rotten. Nobody knew.
deveriadeh-veh-REE-ahshould, ought to

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