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- Gaspar: Amanhã queres ir jogar basquetebol comigo e com os meus amigos? Gaspar: Do you want to play basketball with me and my friends tomorrow?
- Luísa: Eu vou à praia com o Ricardo, mas podes vir connosco se quiseres. Luísa: I'm going to the beach with Ricardo, but you can come with us if you want.
- Gaspar: Vocês não se importam? Gaspar: You don't mind?
- Luísa: Claro que não. Vai ser divertido! Luísa: Of course not. It'll be fun!
- Gaspar: Não vejo o Ricardo há muito tempo. Vai ser bom estar com ele novamente. Gaspar: I haven't seen Ricardo in a long time. It'll be good to be with him again.
- Luísa: Ele também vai gostar de estar contigo. Ele fala em ti muitas vezes. Luísa: He'll also like to be with you. He talks about you often.
- Gaspar: Temos muitas histórias para contar! Gaspar: We have many stories to tell!
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Expressions
Claro que nãoOf course not Se quiseresIf you want, If you'd like sing.,inf. Que exagerada!That's a stretch!, How exaggerated! Não se importam?You don't mind? Eu vi logoI knew it, That's what I thought Não tem piada!It's no fun!, It's not funny! Muitas vezesOften, many times Há muito tempoFor a long time, A long time ago 
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Comments
Love, love, love these Shorties! Just an idea… It would be great to have the recording for both the vocabulary at the end and the expressions. Yes, I can go back to the story, but if I really want to learn them separately, in a row at the end, it would be terrific to have the “Listen” button right there to click. Obrigada.
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying these. 🙂 We are working on some changes that will let us add audio to the vocab and expressions, so keep an eye out for this in the future!
Yes, I agree and was hoping for the same. Obrigada.
Is there difference between “: .. Não vejo o Ricardo há muito tempo.até muito tempo” and “Não vejo o Ricardo até muito tempo.” ?
Olá, Tom! You should only say “Não vejo o Ricardo há muito tempo”. “Não vejo o Ricardo até muito tempo” is not grammatically correct. “Até” means “until” (among other things), which doesn’t fit here.
In the sentence of Luísa ” nós também nos divertimos muito contigo”, is “nos” here reflexive pronoun? Is “também” a coordinating conjunction?
In the lesson on Reflexive pronoun, we put it before the verbs if it is subordinating conjunctionS, so I do not understand why we put “nos” before the verb “divertimos” here.
“Nos” is a reflexive pronoun, placed proclitically here due to the attraction of the word “também”. “Também” is not a conjunction here, but an adverb 🙂
(leading with English first to be clear about my question, then Portuguese just for practice – please don’t feel you have to answer in both too!)
In the latter half of the shorty, Luísa says, “Só eu sei!” in response to “Que exagerada!” Can you expand on what that means/what sort of connotation it has? Is it just meant to be like her going, “Well /I/ see it even if you don’t,” or a “it doesn’t matter what you think, I know it?”
Na última parte do shorty, Luísa disse, — Só eu sei! — Pode explicar-me as conotações desta frase? Em inglês, não faz sentido como resposta, para mim. Significa que ela vê o peso mesmo que ele não veja, ou qualquer outra coisa?
“Só eu sei” é uma expressão idiomática, mas que pode ser interpretada de forma relativamente literal (only I know). É comparável às expressões inglesas “if only you knew” ou “you have no idea”. Neste contexto, podemos presumir que a Luísa quer dizer que só ela sabe o quão pesada está – o Gaspar não faz ideia 🙂