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Quer Praticar Comigo?

Do You Want To Practice With Me?

Olívia and Alberto are tourists who meet at a café in Porto. They are both learning Portuguese, so they decide to practice speaking.

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  • 00:00:03Olívia: Bom dia, como está?
  • 00:00:05Alberto: Bom dia! Estou bem, e a senhora?
  • 00:00:08Olívia: Também estou bem.
  • 00:00:10Alberto: Fala inglês?
  • 00:00:11Olívia: Sim, falo inglês, mas estou a aprender português e quero praticar.
  • 00:00:16Alberto: Eu também! Falo inglês e espanhol, e estou a aprender português.
  • 00:00:22Olívia: Que bom! Quer praticar comigo?
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Muito prazerVery nice to meet you Há quanto tempo...?How long...?, For how much time...? Que bomThat's good, How nice Ando a...I've been...
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Aprender uma Nova Língua
O Delicioso Pastel de Nata
Passeio De Domingo
O Diário da Beatriz
Gostos Semelhantes
Um Passeio Estragado
À Procura de um Apartamento
Queres Vir Cá Jantar?
Uma Série de Perguntas
Dois Pais à Conversa

Comments

  • Wow! Olívia and Alberto have a great level of Portuguese for only studying the language for such a short amount time. They must be using Practice Portuguese 😉

  • Wow. After a month on Duolingo, then switching to PP for about 3 weeks now (which is much more helpful and which I’m really enjoying!), I am still completely lost in this dialogue, which appears at the top of the A1 shorties when I sort by “Difficulty – Ascending,” meaning it should be the easiest, if I understand that right. I have found later dialogues to be much more accessible. Maybe the difficulty level on this one could be re-examined so it would appear later?

    • Thanks for the feedback on this! When you sort by difficulty, it just groups them in order of A1 up to C1, but within each of those levels, they are sorted randomly. Sorry, I know that’s not obvious at all when you use the filter!

      Don’t worry if you’re feeling lost at first. There are a lot of differences between the European Portuguese (us) and Brazilian Portuguese (Duolingo) dialects, so it will take time to get used to it, the pronunciation especially. Furthermore, we definitely don’t expect you to understand everything from these dialogues. They are a way to see how what you’re learning fits into a more realistic context, but they should be challenging. (That said, we don’t want to drive you crazy, so this feedback is always helpful. 🙂)

  • I really found this useful. I listened to it twice now a few days apart and noticed I understood or made a good guess about many more words the second time over the first, so I feel like I’m getting more familiar with the language even though I haven’t studied some of this vocabulary yet. I’m two weeks into this course with no prior Portuguese but some Spanish – which helps. Love this course!!

    • That’s great! This is exactly how it works — filling in the gaps little by little as you get more exposure to the language. 😊

  • One great feature is slowing down the speed. Portuguese swallow and compound a lot of the words and there are also silent letters which cannot be obvious to an English speaker. The big plus is also that you hear what they would sound like after a bottle of wine!

  • Thanks, Simon. Slowing down the speed is definitely a great feature that I often use.
    Maybe drinking some wine will help me speak better Portuguese!

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