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🇺🇸 English for Brazilians · Fluency Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 3 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

An invitation without pressure

Ana invites Rosa, a library regular with a good story, to tell it at a circle, and learns to check willingness without assuming and make it explicit that there is no pressure. Say Rosa your story about the bakery would you feel comfortable telling it to a group, how big a group, twelve people maybe fifteen neighbors, I've never spoken in front of people, there's no pressure to decide today, and if I start and can't finish, then I ask the next question and nobody minds, you'd be sitting next to me, the whole time, then ask me again on Monday.

Audio instruction: Brazilian Portuguese

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THE STORY

At the neighborhood bakery, Ana invites Rosa, the owner, to tell at the first circle how she arrived in the neighborhood, and Rosa asks to think about it until Monday.

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Rosa, your story about the bakery. Would you feel comfortable telling it to a group?RÔU-za, iór STÓ-ri a-BÁUT tha BÊI-ke-ri. uud iú fíl KÂM-fter-bol TÉ-ling it tu a grúpRosa, your story about the bakery. Would you feel comfortable telling it to a group?
How big a group?ráu big a grúpHow big a group?
Twelve people, maybe fifteen. Neighbors.tuélv PÍ-pol, MÊI-bi fif-TÍN. NÊI-berzTwelve people, maybe fifteen. Neighbors.
I've never spoken in front of people.aiv NÉ-ver SPÔU-ken in frânt ov PÍ-polI've never spoken in front of people.
There's no pressure to decide today.thérz nôu PRÉ-sher tu di-SÁID tu-DÊIThere's no pressure to decide today.
And if I start and can't finish?end if ai start end ként FÍ-nishAnd if I start and can't finish?
Then I ask the next question, and nobody minds.then ai ésk tha nékst KUÉS-tchan, end NÔU-bâ-di máindzThen I ask the next question, and nobody minds.
You'd be sitting next to me?iúd bi SÍ-ting nékst tu miYou'd be sitting next to me?
The whole time.tha rôul táimThe whole time.
Then ask me again on Monday.then ésk mi a-GUÉN on MÂN-deiThen ask me again on Monday.