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Ponte 516 Arouca

516 Arouca Bridge

Ponte 516 Arouca

516 Arouca Bridge

Did you know that Portugal is home to one of the world’s longest suspension bridges?

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  • 00:00:00PracticePortuguese.com
  • 00:00:02No distrito de Aveiro, a uma hora do Porto, é possível caminhar numa das mais longas pontes pedonais do mundo. In the district of Aveiro, an hour from Porto, you can walk on one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.
  • 00:00:11Sobre o desfiladeiro do rio Paiva, paira a 516 Arouca. Porquê "516 Arouca"? Over the gorge of the Paiva River, hovers the 516 Arouca. Why '516 Arouca'?
  • 00:00:18Simples! Fica no concelho de Arouca e tem 516 metros de comprimento. Simple! It's in the municipality of Arouca and it's 516 meters long.
  • 00:00:24Inaugurada em 2020, já deteve o recorde mundial da ponte pedonal suspensa mais longa. Inaugurated (opened) in 2020, it once held the world record for the longest suspension pedestrian bridge.
  • 00:00:31Ainda que o tenha perdido, não deixa de ser uma fantástica obra de arquitetura e engenharia. Although it lost it, it's still a fantastic work of architecture and engineering.
  • 00:00:36A estrutura é composta por duas torres em forma de 'V' que, The structure is made up of two V-shaped towers which,
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a arquiteturaarchitecture atravessarto cross o açosteel bravabrave, wild sing.,fem. o cabocable, handle comprimentolength demorarto take time, last, linger o desfiladeirothe gorge a engenhariaengineering pairarto hover, float, loom pedonaispedestrian adj., pl. a pontebridge o tabuleirotray, board, deck a torretower, turret, rook usufruirto enjoy, benefit from vertiginosodizzying
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Mesmo ao péRight at the foot of, Really close to Lá em baixoDown there, Below Ainda queEven if, Although, Even though deter o recorde mundial deto hold the world record for
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  • There’s a few words here that I didn’t know, that didn’t appear in the vocabulary or expressions
    The bit about having already lost the record for being the longest bridge
    Devido
    Espalhadas
    Ali mesmo ao pé

    I felt I was missing a little bit of the text, which is unusual in the shorties because as a rule everything is explained, maybe I’m having one of those learning days where nothing makes sense, ha ha!!

    • If you toggle on Translate for the full translation, but it’s still not clicking, you can toggle on Look Up mode and then search individual words that aren’t in the Vocab. This will open them in the Translator pop up window. You can also type in longer phrases there. (I went ahead and added ‘mesmo ao pé’ and ‘deter o recorde…’ to the Expressions.) Let us know if we can clarify anything! 🙂

  • This word seems to be a plural….what is there in the sentence structures in the Arouca bridge podcast that mandates a plural instead of a singular form?

      • Sorry,…I think it got cut off from my original question. Word is « simples. ». Isn’t this plural? Why?

        • The word “simples” can indeed be confusing as it looks plural but is both the singular and plural form of the word. There’s no such word as “simple” in Portuguese! Only “simples”. I hope this clears up the confusion. 🙂

          • Exactly! “Simples” is always “simples”, regardless number or gender. “Simples” as that! 😉
            Examples:
            – A pergunta é simples.
            – O assunto é simples.
            – As questões são simples.
            – Os jogos são simples.
            🙂

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