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O Corpo Perfeito

The Perfect Body

Pedro wants to hit the gym to get a bit more pumped up, but João has reservations…

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  • 00:00:01Pedro: Tenho de começar a ir ao ginásio.
  • 00:00:04Eu sou só pele e osso,
  • 00:00:06preciso de ganhar músculo.
  • 00:00:08E tu também, João!
  • 00:00:10João: Tu ainda não tens pelos no peito
  • 00:00:12e estás preocupado com músculos.
  • 00:00:14Queres impressionar alguém?
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agoranow aindastill, yet, even AlgoSomething alguémsomebody, someone ArticulaçõesJoints barulhonoise baterto hit, beat, whip, knock as chaveskeys a cinturawaist a colunaspine, column, file chess term o coraçãoheart o corpobody correrto run O cotoveloThe elbow o cérebrobrain as desculpasexcuses dorpain enquantowhile, as long as, whereas entrebetween, among o equilíbriobalance escolherto choose o estômagostomach exercícioexercise ganharTo win, to earn o ginásiogym, gymnasium a gordurafat noun impressionarto impress JoelhosKnees. levantarto raise, lift o músculomuscle nadarto swim oferecerTo offer, give O ossoThe bone o peitochest body part A peleThe skin PreocupadoConcerned, worried os pulmõeslungs O pulsoThe wrist queimarto burn RápidoQuick, fast O sangueThe blood As semanasThe weeks A sobrancelhaThe eyebrow sozinhoalone sing.,masc. only, just o telemóvelmobile phone os tornozelosankles O umbigoThe navel
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AdeusGoodbye Dor de cotoveloJealousy (idiomatic) Vou para casaI'm going home Em breveSoon Com falta de arShort of breath Todo o corpoWhole body Estás a dar desculpas!You're making excuses! Está bemAll right, Okay, It’s fine Tudo bemOkay, All right, Fine
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A Nova Paixão Da Anabela
Um Patê Muito Bom
O Aquecimento Global
Padrão dos Descobrimentos
A Mulher que Adormece em Todo o Lado
Operação Stop
Até que a Tempestade Passe
Ana Vai ao Médico
O “Mestre” do Engate
Ao Telefone Com a Mãe

Comments

    • Glad you like, because we will more than double the number of these “Shorties” within the next few weeks! 🙂 Thanks for your support and feedback

  • As usual, challenging for me. I missed one question and was amazed that I did that well because, after just listening twice and then listening again with the transcript, there was a lot I felt like I still wasn’t getting. Maybe I should have run it through again, slowing it down a notch. And to me, these are seeming long. But what you’re doing is working. Doing a couple of lessons every night and doing my best to use them, I seem to now have my neighbors believing I can suddenly understand everything they say. I can’t but I’m not about to correct them on that except when I have to.

  • I understood 95% of it at normal and faster speeds. Please explain “consigo” in the phrase nao consigo fazer exercicio muito tempo, how does it belong?
    Does demoras (demora) mais tempo mean it or you will take longer? I’m glad to hear you will be adding more shorties.
    Thanks,
    Anthony

    • Congrats Anthony! That’s great that you were able to understand so much, even at faster speeds. “Consigo” comes from the verb “conseguir”, which in this context basically means “to be able to” or the idea of “managing” to do something. So the translation is “I can’t exercise for very long” or “I’m not able to exercise for very long”.

      It’s similar to “não posso”, but “não consigo” implies that it’s more related to not having the ability to do something, whereas “não posso” is more similar to not being allowed to do something.

      In other contexts, the word “consigo” means “with you”, as a combination of “com” + “si”, so that may have also been a source of confusion.

      “Demoras” is conjugated in the second person (informal) here, so technically you’re right that it’s “you take longer”. I think we decided to go with “it will take longer for you…” for the translation just because it sounds more natural in English to say it that way. Both ways are fine, though, so I’ll update the transcript to be more clear. Thanks for the good questions!

  • Agree. I like theses shorties . Having just some the body Unit was able to follow it a little easier . I need to do lots of these

  • “O cérebro está na cabeça”; shouldn’t the verb be “é “? Does the “está” provide for the fact that there is not always a cérebro inside the cabeça?

    • Good question! While we often make a distinction between the verbs estar and ser by talking about temporary vs. permanent conditions, this is just a general rule of thumb that doesn’t necessarily apply when we’re using these verbs to indicate a location/position in space or time. In that context, both verbs are often interchangeable. That’s the case in this sentence. A third verb you could also use here is ficar. So:

      O cérebro está na cabeça. = O cérebro é na cabeça. = O cérebro fica na cabeça.

  • Thanks Molly; Good tip about the general rule of thumb not always applying. One just needs to gradually build up experience and confidence in the language over time!

  • i find these fairly easy even without reading the transcript but find i get super distracted and end up missing parts of it. Other than that these are great to pull together all you’ve learnt from the previous lessons.

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