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- Uma festividade muito importante para os portugueses é, sem dúvida, a Páscoa.
- O dia em que as famílias se reúnem e comemoram a ressurreição de Jesus Cristo
- e a sua passagem para os céus após a sua crucificação.
- Celebra-se este dia com comida que não acaba,
- juntamente com a busca dos famosos Ovos da Páscoa.
- Se passar a Páscoa em Portugal, será o momento perfeito para provar
- iguarias como o borrego, o leitão, e o cabrito assado, o folar de carne, de ovos e de erva-doce.
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Que não acabaNever-ending, endless, "that does not end" Mas não é sóBut that's not all Alem deBesides, in addition to PortantoTherefore, so Apesar deAlthough, even though, despite
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Como fazer-se empanadilhas da Pascoa?
Hmm, something like this: “Empanadilhas” Recipe
Happy Easter, my friends.
I am used to learning every day, but today ’s question are so difficult, although it was all done right, I cheated, i got answer from Google.
But its another learning way.
Thanks you guys make learning became a happy thing.
Thank you so much for the kind words! 🙂 You’re right, as long as you’re learning, it’s okay if you had to find the answer another way. In fact, sometimes things will stick in your memory more when you have to struggle to find the answer. We appreciate the feedback though. We want the quizzes to be challenging, but we’ll make sure to modify if they are consistently frustrating. We hope you had a good Easter!
I’m sorry to say I’m not impressed with this. Why is he speaking so slowly? It isn’t “Portuguese, as it is spoken” and the speeded up version just degenerates into rubbish. It doesn’t seem to be speeding it up so that it sounds like natural speech.
I cannot see the point of this – surely people need to hear speech at normal speaking speed? No?
Are all the shorties like this?
I’m sorry to disappoint you with this one. Many of our Shorties are recorded at full speed, some are recorded more like this, and most are somewhere in between. We try to include different speeds to support a wide variety of users who are at different levels. This way, the slower Shorties can act as a sort of bridge between what you learn in the Units and what you hear in real life. We really appreciate your feedback though, as we’re always working on striking the right balance. I’ll assign this one to the “Easier” level to help set it apart.
This is really helpful – I have been struggling with the listening and responding side of Portuguese so am really enjoying using the Shorties to improve on this area. I love that I can download the trancription and print off, and the vocab/expressions really help too 🙂 Nice one !
One question though – what is the mode & tense for ‘celebrado’? So far I thought it could be the Indicative present continuous as it is something that is happening all the time? if someone could clear that up, obrigada!
Hi Juliet 🙂 Celebrado is actually a past participle form which is part of what we call a passive voice structure, with the auxiliary verb ser (to be). When in doubt about the mode or tense, you can turn the passive voice into active voice. Here, you’d get: “para ser celebrado” -> “para celebrar”. Not much of a mode/tense, just the infinitive! Looking at the auxiliary verb in the passive voice, you also see that it’s in the infinitive.
Hi Molly. Thankyou for this short, I am relatively new to speaking Portuguese, and this speed of word is very helpful, regardless of what some others might think! I’m quite sure there are some more advanced shorties for those who have been practising longer!
The vocabulary us very helpful as I often spend Easter in Portugal, and know it is an important festival for them.
Thanks, Robert.
**As always, I loved this shortie.
When the transcript says, “os judeus já comemoravam a Páscoa antes do nascimento de Jesus…sem significado religioso,” it’s a little bit misleading (unintentional, of course).
Jews have been celebrating Passover at roughly the same time as Easter (the Jewish calendar is lunar-based, the Gregorian calendar is sun-based, so the exact dates of Jewish holidays in the Gregorian calendar vary from year to year) dating from well before the time of Christ. For Jews, Passover has enormous religious significance: central to the holiday is the retelling of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt as told in the Bible. In fact, Passover is generally acknowledged by Jews as one of their significant religious holidays.
There is a strong link between Easter and Passover. Most historians and scholars agree that the Last Supper was a Seder, the traditional Jewish meal served on the first two nights of Passover.
Now it is also true that the Passover seder includes some rituals honoring the onset of spring that the ancient Israelites probably picked up from their pagan neighbors. So when the shortie refers to Jews celebrating “Easter” well before Christ without any religious significance, there is a kernel of truth.
But it would be closer to the truth to say something like “Jews celebrate Passover at the same time, a holiday with great religious significance and a close historical connection to Easter.”
Of course, this may be way more information than you want to include in a shortie. The shortie overall is a great and concise description of what is obviously a very important annual event in Portugal.
Hi Jay, thank you so much for correcting and clarifying this! We apologize for the misrepresentation here. I think in our attempts to keep it short, we way over-simplified to the point where it became inaccurate. I’ll add an asterisk to the transcript that refers readers here so they can get a better history lesson from your comment. 😊