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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 18 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

It's the Dog That Chooses You

Daniel and Bia go up to a dog shelter, just to look, and a mutt called Pipoca chooses them. Say "as soon as he saw you", "to look after", "someone to look after him" and "I mean", describe a dog, and find a way home with him when you have no car.

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THE STORY

Sunday the twenty-fifth of March, at a dog shelter on the edge of the Tijuca forest, up a long road through the trees. Daniel and Bia came up by Uber, just to look. Sixty dogs live here, in pens under the mango trees, and they all start barking when a car arrives. A volunteer in green boots walks them along the pens. Then, with a dog and no car, they have to find a way home. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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todo mundo diz issoTOH-doo MOON-doo djeez EE-sooeveryone says that
Vocês vieram só olhar, né? Todo mundo diz isso.voh-SAYS vee-EH-rowng saw ohl-YAR, neh? TOH-doo MOON-doo djeez EE-sooYou've come just to look, right? Everyone says that.
vira-lataVEE-rah LAH-taha mutt, word for word turn-the-bin
de uns oito mesesdjee oongs OY-too MAY-zeesabout eight months
Esse aqui é o Pipoca. Um vira-lata de uns oito meses.AY-see ah-KEE eh oo pee-PAW-kah. oong VEE-rah LAH-tah djee oongs OY-too MAY-zeesThis one here is Pipoca. A mutt, about eight months old.
o cartazoo kar-TAHSthe poster
Pipoca? Igual ao cachorro do cartaz!pee-PAW-kah? ee-GWOW ow kah-SHOH-hoo doo kar-TAHSPipoca? Like the dog on the poster!
ele pulaAY-lee POO-lahhe jumps
diretodjee-REH-toostraight
Ele veio direto para mim.AY-lee VAY-oo djee-REH-too PAH-rah meengHe came straight to me.

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