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🇺🇸 English for Brazilians · Fluency Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Accessibility starts with the invitation

Joy asks about stair-free access and her father's hearing, and Ana learns to separate what she can already confirm from what she is still checking, and to ask what arrangements would help. Say my dad can't climb stairs is the main room on the ground floor, it is I can confirm there are no steps from the side door to the room, and will the side door be open, that I'm still checking Jordan decides which doors, he also doesn't hear well in a crowd, what access arrangements would help him, a table near the front far from the coffee machine, that I can do today, and the door, by Friday I'll call you either way.

Audio instruction: Brazilian Portuguese

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THE STORY

At the library door, Joy asks about the stairs and her father's hearing, and Ana confirms what she knows, checks on what she doesn't know, and reserves the table near the front.

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My father can't do stairs. Is the main room on the ground floor?mai FÁ-ther ként du stérz. iz tha mêin rum on tha gráund flórMy father can't do stairs. Is the main room on the ground floor?
It is. I can confirm there are no steps from the side door to the room.it iz. ai ken con-FÂRM thér ar nôu stéps from tha sáid dór tu tha rumIt is. I can confirm there are no steps from the side door to the room.
And the side door will be open?end tha sáid dór uíl bi ÔU-penAnd the side door will be open?
That I'm still checking. Jordan decides which doors.thét áim stil TCHÉ-king. DJÓR-dan di-SÁIDZ uítch dórzThat I'm still checking. Jordan decides which doors.
He also doesn't hear well in a crowd.ri ÓL-sou DÂ-zent rír uél in a kráudHe also doesn't hear well in a crowd.
What access arrangements would be helpful for him?uát ÉK-ses a-RÊINDJ-ments uud bi RÉLP-ful for rimWhat access arrangements would be helpful for him?
A table near the front, away from the coffee machine.a TÊI-bol nír tha frânt, a-UÊI from tha KÓ-fi ma-SHÍNA table near the front, away from the coffee machine.
That I can do today.thét ai ken du tu-DÊIThat I can do today.
And the door?end tha dórAnd the door?
By Friday. I'll call you either way.bai FRÁI-dei. áil kól iú Í-ther uêiBy Friday. I'll call you either way.