- Dona Rosa: Nos meus tempos livres? Dona Rosa: In my spare time?
- Os meus tempos livres são ocupados em tudo... Eu, para além da agricultura e do trabalho que faço nas limpezas, My free time is taken up in all [sorts of things], in addition to farming and the work I do in cleaning,
- gosto de costurar, fazer roupa... Fazia também muita roupa: roupa nova – e fazia bordados, e fazia renda. I like to sew, make clothes... I used to make a lot of clothes: new clothes – and I did embroidery, and I made lace.
- Ocupava-me assim, em todas essas coisas. I used to busy myself like that, in all those things.
- Gostava muito de ter sido professora da escola primária. I would have liked very much to have been a primary school teacher.
- Eu sempre dizia à minha mãe que gostava, e a minha mãe assim "se um dia nós conseguirmos, tu vais estudar e pode ser" I always told my mother that I liked it, and my mother [would say] like this "if one day we make it, you'll study (go to school) and it could be"
- Mas, era se conseguíssemos, mas... But, it was if we could, but...
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Vocabulary
a agriculturaagriculture BordadosEmbroidery conseguirto get, reach, succeed, be able to costurarto sew a escolaschool estudarto study foraoutside, out, abroad LimpezasCleaning longefar OcupadosBusy, occupied, taken up professorateacher(female) Rendalace RendimentoIncome a roupaclothes sonhodream o terrenoland, terrain
Expressions
o fim de semanaweekend Para quê?What for?, Why?, What's the point? 'tarShortened version of "estar" É assim sóThat's it, It's just like that dar jeitoto be suitable, accommodate, come in handy às vezessometimes Para além deApart from, Besides, In addition to os tempos livresfree time
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Hello, I’m very disappointed that your audio is very bad. I can’t benefit for this video audio. I’m a filmmaker and recommend you use a Zoom to record your audio on a separate track. 😉
You’re right, The audio quality definitely makes this one challenging. This is footage that a friend of the project shared with us that we thought would be interesting to learn from, but don’t worry as we have lots of videos with high-quality audio coming up, recorded with a Zoom H6