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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Bigger and Bigger

The new pipe leaks, and the neighbour downstairs rings the bell at last. Say "as the day goes by" and "bigger and bigger", "less and less", apologise properly for the trouble, offer to pay, and make peace with a cornmeal cake. Then, one floor down, meet Dona Marta and hear her story.

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THE STORY

Saturday the twenty-fourth of March, at the door of the flat in Botafogo. The white tiles came on Monday, as promised, and the new sink went in on Friday. Bia has brought a tin with something she baked last night. The doorbell rings. On the mat stands a small woman of seventy, with grey hair in a bun, reading glasses on a chain, and a face like thunder. She lives on the seventh floor, right underneath them. Then, one floor down, the stain on her kitchen ceiling. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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de baixodjee BY-shoodownstairs, word for word from below
Bom dia. Eu sou a vizinha de baixo.bohng DJEE-ah. EH-oo soh ah vee-ZEEN-yah djee BY-shooGood morning. I'm the neighbour downstairs.
o tetooo TEH-toothe ceiling
Tem água pingando do meu teto.tayng AH-gwah peeng-GAHN-doo doo MEH-oo TEH-tooThere's water dripping from my ceiling.
à medida queah meh-DJEE-dah keeas, while something changes
cada vez maisKAH-dah vays mysmore and more
maiormy-AWRbigger
manchaMAHN-shaha stain
Desde ontem. E à medida que o dia passa, a mancha fica cada vez maior.DAYZ-djee OHN-tayng. ee ah meh-DJEE-dah kee oo DJEE-ah PAH-sah, ah MAHN-shah FEE-kah KAH-dah vays my-AWRSince yesterday. And as the day goes by, the stain gets bigger and bigger.
passamPAH-sownggo by, for several things

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