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Estou a lembrar-me.
I am remembering.
Faça o seu pedido, por favor.
Place your order, please.
Neste momento não posso conversar, que eu estou a trabalhar.
At the moment I can't talk, as I am working.
Por acaso, neste momento, estamos a contratar.
As it so happens, at the moment, we are hiring.
Não são só essas qualificações de que eu estou a falar.
Those aren't the only qualifications I'm talking about.
Muito obrigado, mas não preciso que reze por mim.
Thanks very much, but I don't need you to pray for me.
Tem que saber fazer as pizzas que nós fazemos.
You have to know how to do the pizzas that we do.
Pelo menos concordamos numa coisa.
At least we agree on something.
Afinal de contas, porque é que quer trabalhar numa pizzaria?
So anyway, why is it that you want to work in a pizzaria?
É capaz de ser a mesma coisa.
It's possible that it's the same thing.
Estou a gozar consigo.
I'm kidding with you.
Isso são outros assuntos que depois falaremos mais tarde.
Those are other topics (that after) we will talk about later.
Agora, vamos despachar esta conversa que eu tenho mais clientes para atender.
Now, let's speed this conversation along, as I have other clients to attend to.
Ai, homem, peça lá, então, mas rápido
Aw man, just order, then, but fast
Cuecas lavadas todos os dias, de preferência, para não termos queixas dos nossos clientes.
Clean underwear, every day, preferably, so we don't have complaints from our clients.
Hoje temos milho.
Today we have corn.
Homem, então, se sabe, faça-se entender!
Man, so, if you know, then make yourself understood!
Não sei o que isso é.
I don't know what that is.
Ora bem, com todos estes ingredientes, será um total de 48 euros.
Alright, with all these ingredients, it will be a total of 48 euros.
É preciso ter lata!
It takes a lot of nerve!
We respect your privacy and have a ZERO TOLERANCE for spam.
LOL love it.
Just love Julie’s website
and impressed she’s using your program.
Bit of a worry that even after all her years in Portugal
she’s still learning.
Dunno where that leaves me as a newbie:-)
Better get used to it, feeling like a newbie For us estrangeiros not born in the country, we’ll be learning for the rest of our lives… The best we can do is become less “newbie” with slow and steady progress. We can learn the 80% of most commonly-used vocabulary in a relatively short time as adults, but it’s the remaining 20% that will take the rest of our lives! (Not real stats, just applying Pareto’s principle 🙂
There’s always something to learn, Stan 🙂 One of the things I find really helpful about Practice Portuguese is the way they help you understand how Portuguese is actually used and spoken in real life, not just the way it’s presented in course books.
Delicioso !
Pensei que ser honesto – o diálogo era falado bastante rápido. Mas o tema é perfeito, e tem graça. Desculpe – uma pequeninha reclamação só. (ou talvez esteja o meu ‘sound card’, não sei)
Cumprimentos,
Chris
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