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- Tiago: Uau, olha o Bruno. Tiago: Wow, look at Bruno.
- Que bebé bonito! What a beautiful baby!
- Hugo: Muitos parabéns, Sara! Hugo: Congratulations, Sara!
- Sara: Obrigada! Sara: Thank you!
- Eu e o Fernando estamos muito felizes. Fernando and I are very happy.
- Ele agora está a comprar mais comida, mas está a chegar. He is buying more food now, but he is coming.
- Tiago: O Bruno é parecido com quem? Tiago: Who does Bruno look like?
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Expressions
ParabénsCongratulations ObrigadaThank you female speaker em casaat home Fica-te bemIt looks good on you, It suits you Não faz malNo problem, That's okay, No harm done Que giroHow cool, How cute, How nice 
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Comments
I had to go through this 3 or 4 times to work out who was who (even with translation) but that’s all to the good for learning Portuguese.
Initially I thought Tiago was a girl (I know his name ends in ‘o’).
Think of Santiago!
I have a question, why does cor-de-rosa have dashes and cor de laranga does not? Thank you 🙂
Olá Melissa. There’s no super logical explanation for that! Our recent spelling reform (Acordo Ortográfico) did away with lots of hyphens, but “cor-de-rosa” is considered an exception and was allowed to keep them in its spelling. You can confirm it here (in Portuguese): Acordo Ortográfico – Portal da Língua Portuguesa
Is “encarnado” also red? Is It the same as “vermelho”?
Yes, ‘encarnado’ and ‘vermelho’ both mean red, they’re synonyms 🙂
Very good practice for me
“Queres pegar NELE ”
Olá,
Could you please explain the use of “nele”. This is the first time I have seen this contraction (?)
Olá Marian. Nele is a contraction of em (in/on/at) + ele (him). The preposition em is typically paired with the verb pegar, but when followed by a personal pronoun, it needs to be contracted for the sentence to sound natural. Here’s more about the preposition em and its contractions: The Preposition “Em” 🙂
The download for Um Linda Bebe A1 shortie retrieves the mp3 ‘Is-17-cores.mp3’ rather than ‘Um-Linda-bebe.mp3.’
Others are also incorrect.
This is the correct audio – it just has a different file name than the title of the Shorty. LS stands for Learning Studio and this is the Shorty that is associated with the Colours unit (“cores” in Portuguese). Sorry for the confusion!
Eu tinha uma outra confusão com “queres pegar nele”. Onde é que é a diferença entre “pegar a.c.” e “pegar em a.c.”? Obrigado!
Olá, Andreas. Se percebi bem a pergunta, queres saber a diferença entre usar ou não usar a preposição “em”? Em português europeu, quando usamos o verbo pegar no sentido de segurar alguma coisa, geralmente usamos sempre a preposição. Por outro lado, no português do Brasil, ela é omitida com mais frequência, por isso a principal diferença está aí, nos padrões de uso de cada variante 🙂
Muito obrigado pela resposta tão rápida.
Sim, perguntava-me quando “pegaria na colher” e quando “pegaria a colher”.
Hi! Love the lessons but find the voices of the children difficult to understand because they are often strained and pitched too high. I do VO professionally, and this is not only unpleasant to listen to, but it is also bad for the voice actor. We can understand he is a child without having to pitch so high!
Thank you for the feedback and sorry about that! This is one of our earlier episodes which was recorded when Rui was basically our only available voice (i.e. when Practice Portuguese was still a bebé 🙂). At that time, we used these different voice effects to differentiate the characters. Thanks to support from our members 😉 , we have more voice actors now, so we don’t do that anymore. I hope you understand!
Thank you for explaining! I really look forward to the lessons and especially the conversations. I’m glad there is more variety to look forward to!
Unfortunately the digitised child’s voice is very hard to listen too, quite off putting. It also comes out a bit distorted depending on what speakers are used. I have noticed it in a few of the audios. But I do like the course other than that. Thank you
Thanks for your feedback and sorry about that! We used to use this to create different voices in some of our older episodes. In our newer episodes, we no longer use the voice distortion, so you’ll find there are fewer of these as you go along. 🙂
Yes, I’m having the same problem. It’s not only grating, it’s really hard to understand what the child is supposed to be saying. I just gave up on trying to understand their lines.
Óla!
Posso dizer “Hoje está quente, não está?” em Portugal? Google Translate não gosta de calor.
Olá! sim, claro que sim! Hoje é que é melhor não dizer isso, que o frio está a chegar… 😀
I agree with previous comments. Very hard to understand. I suggest re recording this shortie to make it clearer for us learners. It’s labeled as level 1a yet hard to understand and I have been working through Practice Portuguese for many months now!