Eliana
Rui- Sofia: Olá, senhor Agostinho. Obrigada por aceitar esta entrevista. Sofia: Hello, Mr. Agostinho. Thank you for accepting this interview.
- Gosto imenso do que fez com este espaço. I really like what you did with this space.
- Agostinho: Obrigado, Sofia. Isto vai ser a melhor associação cultural do Porto. Agostinho: Thank you, Sofia. This will be the best cultural association in Porto.
- Sofia: Já tem alguma atividade planeada? Sofia: Do you already have any activit[ies] planned?
- Agostinho: Com certeza. Vamos inaugurar este espaço com uma exibição de artes plásticas. Agostinho: Of course. We are going to inaugurate this space with a plastic arts (visual arts) exhibition.
- Sofia: Pode dar-me um exemplo? Sofia: Can you give me an example?
- Agostinho: Posso dar vários! Agostinho: I can give you several!
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Vocabulary
o anjoangel a arteart AtoAct a cantorasinger fem. o cinemamovie theatre ComissionadaCommissioned o conjuntoset DramaturgoPlaywright a entrevistainterview EscultoraSculptor a esculturasculpture ExibiçãoExhibition a instalaçãoinstallation melhorbetter, best MontadoSet up, mounted mostrarto show o palcostage a peçapiece, play theatre PintorPainter PlaneadaPlanned RetratosPortraits SubtilSubtle o teatrotheatre a vozvoice A óperaOpera
Expressions
as artes plásticasthe plastic arts Com certezaCertainly, Of course, Absolutely, Sure aquecimento globalglobal warming Por fimFinally, lastly
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Comments
Queria só dizer aqui que este sotaque do Porto está terrivelmente exagerado. De resto, áudio ótimo
What are the main characteristics of the Porto accent? It does sound quite strange!
The accent is exaggerated here, but broadly speaking, the Porto accent can be distinguished from the Lisbon one by the extra openness of the vowels, by the Vs that many people tend to pronounce like Bs (e.g. pronouncing “vaca”, cow, as “baca”), and a certain tendency to pronounce some single vowels almost like diphthongs. For example, some people pronounce “Porto” like “Puorto”. By the way, there’s a variety of accents up North (and across the rest of the country), of which Porto is just one 🙂
Do people in Porto roll their r a lot like in this dialogue?
Estou a gostar muito desses diálogos.
Obrigado!
Yes, many people in Porto tend to pronounce their Rs more or less as heard here 🙂
Great fun.
This commentary has nothing to do with learning Portuguese, per se.
I’d only like to point out that global climate disruption and environmental breakdown is clearly happening, and is no joke.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind Regards,
Andrew Grover
New York
Re O museu está fechado ao domingo
Would “ no “ domingo work or are do you mean on days ie. Aos domingos. Does nos domingos also work?
In the context of the sentence “O museu está fechado ao domingo”, the preposition “ao” is used to indicate a specific day of the week, every week. “No domingo” would not be correct in this case, as it would imply “on Sunday” = “next Sunday”.
“Aos domingos” is another correct way to express a recurring event, such as “on Sundays” in English. “Nos domingos” is not used, even though people would understand your intention, according to context. 🙂
Velocidade furiousa… Bem escolha!