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- Maria: Este ano, dois feriados do mês de dezembro são à sexta-feira. Maria: This year, two holidays of the month of December are on Friday.
- Dois fins de semana prolongados! Two long weekends!
- Pedro: E o dia de Natal? Pedro: What about Christmas Day?
- Maria: É na segunda-feira. Maria: It's on a Monday.
- Mas nós temos as férias de Natal, But we have Christmas break,
- por isso, esse não é relevante. so that's not relevant.
- Pedro: Pois. Pedro: Yeah.
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acabarto end, finish o almoçolunch amanhãtomorrow o aniversárioanniversary, birthday antesbefore a aulaclass, lesson, lecture bemwell o calendáriocalendar CarnavalCarnival (holiday) caçahunt noun curtoshort, low masc. sing. descansarto rest dezembroDecember o diaday o feriadoholiday usually official, statutory as festasparties fevereiroFebruary horahour inteirowhole, entire, complete junhoJune o mundoworld o mêsthe month o NatalChristmas ouor a pausabreak, pause perdidolost sing.,masc. ProlongadosExtended, prolonged pl. masc. segunda-feiraMonday sexta-feiraFriday sábadoSaturday VêLook (informal command)
Expressions
Fazer anosto have a birthday Dia de PortugalPortugal Day, a national holiday commemorating the death of poet Luís de Camões Que penaToo bad, What a shame o fim de semanaweekend 
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Thank you for the short dialogues, great way to hear new words used in everyday conversation.
Com um dia de atraso, quero desejar um feliz aniversário à Maria =) !
Parabens !
Hoje é o último dia do junho.
É verdade. Parabéns Pedro!
Hi, I found it very difficult to catch what they are saying… as I findthat they speak very quickly but I know that’s the normal speed of conversation.I guess I’ll just ha etc keep listening and get used to it.
Thank you,
Stella
Yes unfortunately most real speech is quite fast! But you’re right. If you keep listening it will get easier over time. One thing that can help is to click the speedometer icon and change the speed to 0.8x or 0.9x. That will slow it down slightly for you without distorting the sound too much.
As much as the speed is a factor, not really knowing all the words being used is for me the bigger issue. I catch bits and pieces of dialog, but the meaning is lost because I just don’t recognize many of the words. That will hopefully improve with time.
It should improve over time as you gradually pick up more vocabulary. And learning vocabulary in context like this can be very effective. With some of the more specific episodes, sometimes it’s a good idea to review the vocabulary/expressions sections for a bit before playing the episode.
Perhaps you could click the “Vocabulary” and “Expressions” icons before listening to the audio? 😉
That was a nice dialogue, very clearly spoken, well articulated. Got 8/8 at 1.0x speed.
Was just reading through the vocabulary list now before listening to the shorty. I think it would probably be easier for us to be cued on which words are infinitive verbs (as opposed to the nouns in the list) if instead of saying only the main word, you could add “to” as in, “to rest” for descansar or “to finish” for acabar.
Just a suggestion. Really enjoying my Portuguese language learning journey with you and your platform!
I think it would be helpful for North Americans to explain that statutory holidays aren’t always taken on Fridays or Mondays in Europe, so if a day lands on a Saturday you don’t actually get a day off at all. Do people take “the bridge” in Portugal (Friday off if Thursday was the holiday)?
I’m not understanding the logic behind Christmas being on a Monday being irrelevant. Can someone clarify?
Yes, that’s true for Portugal – statutory holidays aren’t moved to a business day when they land on a weekend, so at best, they’ll only benefit people who work weekends, or at worst, no one. But those shifts do happen in some other countries in Europe. “Pontes” (the so-called bridges) are definitely very common. If not granted by companies or by the government (for public sector employees), many people will book them off of their annual leave.
About Christmas day being irrelevant on a Monday, that’s only in the context of this dialogue. Since these school kids will be on holidays for the whole second half of December, Christmas day doesn’t count as an extra day off for them, regardless of where it lands. The other two holidays they’re talking about (December 1st and 8th) still happen during the school term, which is why they’re excited about them 🙂