Joel
Rui- Rui: Queres começar por dizer em que zona estamos? Rui: Do you want to start by saying what area we're in?
- Joel: Estamos na zona do Areeiro, em Lisboa. Joel: We're in the Areeiro area in Lisbon.
- Rui: Estamos a caminhar na Avenida de... Rui: We're walking along Avenida de...
- Joel: Roma. Joel: Roma.
- Rui: Roma. Rui: Roma.
- Joel: Avenida de Roma. E parecemos malucos a falar para a câmara. Joel: Avenida de Roma. And we seem crazy talking to the camera.
- E vamos tentar falar lentamente, devagar. Porquê? And let's try to speak slowly, slowly. Why?
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Vocabulary
a agência imobiliáriareal estate agency alfarrabistabook dealer a alfarrobacarob o algoritmoalgorithm o anúncioannouncement, ad atropeladorun over sing.,masc. a calçada portuguesatraditional Portuguese pavement, sidewalk o corrimãohandrail o código QRQR code a esplanadaterrace, outdoor seating area of a café or restaurant a gradegrid a joalhariajewellery store joalheirojeweller masc. o joelhoknee as jóiasjewelry ligarto call on the phone, connect, turn on malucocrazy sing.,masc. a moedacoin o multibancoPortugal's multibank payment network, ATM a paragem de autocarrobus stop o parquímetroparking meter passadeiratreadmill, crosswalk, walkway o passeiosidewalk a ranhuraslot, slit semáforotraffic light o toldoawning
Expressions
dar parato allow for, to be enough for, to give value to Não faz malNo problem, That's okay, No harm done fazer zoomto zoom in
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Comments
Trabalhei / Trabalhava
Fun to see this “error” crop up. Through the course you use the form “used to do x” to make it clear that you want the imperfect in the response, and in this context the English could easily be: did you know that I used to work in an estate agency? I don’t think that we would really distinguish between “worked” and “used to work” regardless of which might be technically correct.
In the flow of the conversation in this video, could the imperfect/trabalhava ever be appropriate? I struggle with the idea of continuity for events which are distinctly in the past.
This one might be hard to explain/understand, but what impedes the use of the imperfect here is the additional context “depois da escola secundária”. One of the cases where the imperfect works well (sometimes along with the simple past) is when you’re referring to things that happened during a certain period of time in the past (e.g. “while X happened, I was doing Y”). Some examples:
– Quando eu era novo, eu lia muito.
– Quando eu tinha 20 anos, trabalhava para uma agência imobiliária. (the simple past “trabalhei” is also fine here)
Here, our time reference is not framed as a *when* or *while* or even *before/in the past*, but as an *after*, which somehow makes the simple past the only idiomatic option.