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🇺🇸 English for Brazilians · Fluency Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 20 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The dress rehearsal reveals a gap

In rehearsal, Emma doesn't follow the story in Portuguese and is sent to a table without context, and Ana learns to offer the heart of the story without assuming no one understood, and to name the point that connects the story to the conversation. Say Stop I didn't follow the story and now you're sending me to a table to talk about it, you heard the summary, I heard facts I don't know what the story was about, fair let me try the bridge again, go ahead, for anyone who didn't follow every detail here is the heart of the story she sold fabric for thirty years and the customers learned her language not the other way around, better, the point we take into the next conversation is this who learned your language and who made you learn theirs, now I want to go to a table, that's the bridge.

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THE STORY

At the dress rehearsal, Emma plays the role of someone who didn't follow along, and Ana rebuilds the bridge between Lena's story and the table conversation until Sam wants to go to a table.

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Stop. I didn't follow the story, and now you're sending me to a table to talk about it.stóp. ai DÍ-dent FÓ-lou tha STÓ-ri, end náu iór SÉN-ding mi tu a TÊI-bol tu tók a-BÁUT itStop. I didn't follow the story, and now you're sending me to a table to talk about it.
You got the summary.iú gót tha SÂ-ma-riYou heard the summary.
I got facts. I don't know what the story was about.ai gót fékts. ai dôunt nôu uát tha STÓ-ri uóz a-BÁUTI heard facts. I don't know what the story was about.
Fair. Let me try the bridge again.fér. lét mi trái tha bridj a-GUÉNFair. Let me try the bridge again.
Go.gôuGo.
For those who didn't follow every detail, here's the heart of it. She sold fabric for thirty years, and her customers learned her language, not the other way around.for thôuz rú DÍ-dent FÓ-lou É-vri DÍ-teil, ríarz tha rart ov it. shi sôuld FÉ-brik for THÂR-ti íerz, end râr KÂS-to-merz lârnd râr LÉN-guidj, nót thi Â-ther uêi a-RÁUNDFor those who didn't follow every detail, here is the heart of the story. She sold fabric for thirty years, and her customers learned her language, not the other way around.
Better.BÉ-terBetter.
The point we'll carry into the next conversation is this. Who learned your language, and who made you learn theirs?tha póint uíl KÉ-ri ÍN-tu tha nékst con-ver-SÊI-shan iz this. rú lârnd iór LÉN-guidj, end rú mêid iú lârn thérzThe point we take into the next conversation is this. Who learned your language, and who made you learn theirs?
Now I want to go to a table.náu ai uânt tu gôu tu a TÊI-bolNow I want to go to a table.
That's the bridge.théts tha bridjThat's the bridge.