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O Sonho do Raul

Raul's Dream

Raul tells Soraia about his love of football (i.e. soccer for you Americans)! Use the dialogue to help familiarize yourself with a variety of conjunctions.

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  • 00:00:03Soraia: Raul, qual é o teu desporto favorito?
  • 00:00:06Raul: O meu desporto favorito é o futebol. Sempre que posso, jogo futebol com os meus amigos.
  • 00:00:12Soraia: E qual é a tua posição no futebol?
  • 00:00:14Raul: Normalmente, jogo ao ataque, como ponta de lança,
  • 00:00:18porque o que eu gosto mesmo é de finalizar as jogadas e marcar golos.
  • 00:00:23Soraia: Gostavas de ter uma carreira no futebol?
  • 00:00:26Raul: Quando era mais novo queria ser o melhor do mundo, como o Cristiano Ronaldo.
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visto queSince, As long as, Seeing as Sempre que possoWhenever I can Tomar a decisãoMake the decision, Literal - Take the decision Em vez dissoInstead Para conseguir entrar na faculdadeTo get into college Para issoFor that, In order to do so
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  • I’ve listened to “O meu desporto favorito é o futebol” 30 times and still can’t hear him say the word desporto. Is a lot of it silent?

    • It’s not silent, but vowels do tend to get “swallowed up” in connected speech. So it almost sounds like ‘meu dshport favorit’

      ​This video might help explain how/when this happens: Mystery of the Disappearing Sounds

      ​It’s confusing at first, but over time with more listening practice you’ll start to hear the words more clearly.

    • “Visto que” means “since” in the sense of “because”. “Desde” means “since” in the sense of “from the moment when”. So, even though the English translation is the same, they actually don’t overlap at all 🙂

  • Am I getting my tenses wrong

    Is “Era o meu sonho!” It was my dream rather that will be my dream

    Also “Gostavas de ter uma carreira no futebol? Is that not you wanted in the past a career in football?

    Maybe I’m being too picky

    • Olá, Diarmuid. Good question! In those cases, you are looking at imperfect tense conjugations, but they are actually acting as de facto conditional forms. So, instead of referring to the past, both of those sentences are describing hypothetical situations. “Era o meu sonho” corresponds to “Seria o meu sonho”; “Gostavas de ter uma carreira no futebol?” corresponds to “Gostarias de ter uma carreira no futebol?” This is one of the ways in which the imperfect tense can be used, and you always have to pay attention to context to know when it’s being used like that. Of course, the English subtitles in the Shorties also help 🙂

      This Learning Note talks about this towards the end: The Conditional

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