Natacha
Pedro- Diogo: Estou, Sandra? Consegues ouvir-me? Diogo: Hello, Sandra? Can you hear me?
- Sandra: Oi, Diogo. Sim, consigo ouvir-te. Mas não te consigo ver, está tudo preto. Tens a webcam desligada? Sandra: Hi, Diogo. Yes, I can hear you. But I can't see you, everything is black. Do you have your webcam turned off?
- Diogo: Não, está ligada. Não sei o que se passa. Espera aí, deixa ver os cabos. Consegues ver-me agora? Diogo: No, it's on. I don't know what's happening. Wait a minute, let me check the cables. Can you see me now?
- Sandra: Mais ou menos. A imagem está muito tremida e está sempre a parar. Sandra: More or less. The image is very blurred and is always freezing.
- Diogo: Não sei o que raio se passa. Eu tenho uma ligação de 300 megabytes. Devia estar a funcionar tudo bem. Diogo: I don't know what the hell is going on. I have a 300 megabit connection. It should be working fine.
- Sandra: Faz um teste de velocidade. Escreve “teste de velocidade” no Google e é o primeiro resultado. Sandra: Do a speed test. Write “speed test” in Google and it's the first result.
- Diogo: Ok, já fiz. Estou com 120 megabytes de download. Diogo: Ok, I just did. I have 120 megabytes of download.
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Vocabulary
AuricularesHeadphones o barulhonoise os caboscables, boat ropes a chaticehassle, nuisance, drag, annoyance, bummer desligadaTurned off, disconnected LigadaTurned on, Connected a ligaçãoconnection MicrofoneMicrophone morderto bite o pijamapajamas, pyjamas porreirocool, awesome (masc) a programadoraprogrammer, software developer fem. QuebrasBreaks reiniciarto restart, reboot a roupaclothes TremidaBlurry, shaky a videochamadavideo call
Expressions
XauBye Estou?Hello? in the context of answering the phone Espera aíWait a minute, Hang on, Hold on there Passar músicaPlay music Como é que tens andado?How have you been? A chamada caiuThe call dropped Bem vistoGood point Até jáSee you soon (implying you'll be right back)
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Comments
Thank you for this. As I am having to do lots of Zoom sessions now,the vocab is very useful.
I’m a little confused. I’d read somewhere that when a verb ends in ‘r’ (as in the infinitive form), the letter ‘r’ is dropped and the preceding letter gets a ^. As in ‘Prazer em conhecê-lo’. Is this Brazilian? Why does the rule not apply to ‘ouvir-me’ and ‘ver-me’?
Olá! That’s correct, but only applicable to third-person direct object pronouns (o & a). With these pronouns, if the verb ends in any consonant (not just R), the final consonant is dropped and an L is added to the object pronoun. Accents are only added to infinitive forms, and it can be ^ or ´.
‘Ouvir-me’ and ‘ver-me’ have first-person object pronouns, so this rule does not apply to them.