Learn pronunciation tips and transportation in Brazil
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| DIALOGUE |
| Dustin: Você sabe onde é o ponto mais perto de Botafogo? |
| Cobradora: Bem senhor, o Botafogo é um bairro aqui no Rio. Deve ter uns vinte pontos “perto” de Botafogo. |
| Dustin: Oh. |
| Cobradora: O senhor quer descer na praia de Botafogo? |
| Dustin: Isso! Vou encontrar com uns caras lá. |
| English Host: Let’s hear the conversation one time slowly. |
| Dustin: Você sabe onde é o ponto mais perto de Botafogo? |
| Cobradora: Bem senhor, o Botafogo é um bairro aqui no Rio. Deve ter uns vinte pontos “perto” de Botafogo. |
| Dustin: Oh. |
| Cobradora: O senhor quer descer na praia de Botafogo? |
| Dustin: Isso! Vou encontrar com uns caras lá. |
| English Host: Now let’s hear it with the English translation. |
| Dustin: Você sabe onde é o ponto mais perto de Botafogo? |
| Braden: Do you know where the closest bus stop to Botafogo is? |
| Cobradora: Bem senhor, o Botafogo é um bairro aqui no Rio. Deve ter uns vinte pontos “perto” de Botafogo. |
| Braden: Well, sir, Botafogo is a neighborhood here in Rio. There's probably about twenty stops "near" Botafogo. |
| Dustin: Oh. |
| Braden: Oh. |
| Cobradora: O senhor quer descer na praia de Botafogo? |
| Braden: Do you want to get off at the Botafogo beach, sir? |
| Dustin: Isso! Vou encontrar com uns caras lá. |
| Braden: Yes, please! I'm going to meet some guys there. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Braden: So, we wanted to talk a little bit about Transportation in Rio de Janeiro |
| Sandra-: Transportation in Rio de Janeiro has many forms. There are buses, Metros, trains, and biking paths as well as airports, helicopter ports, and of course the main shipping port. |
| Braden: By far the most used form transportation in Rio de Janeiro is the automobile. The most utilized public transportation is the bus. It is estimated that almost 4,000,000 cariocas take the bus everyday. |
| Sandra-: The Metro in Rio de Janeiro integrates many of the neighborhoods to the main city. |
| Braden: Mostly from the North zone to the southern zone having a total of 26 miles (42 km) of line with 38 stations and transports around 550,000 passengers per day. Rio de Janeiro has the third largest Metro in Brazil. |
| Sandra-: Rio de Janeiro also has 87 miles (140 km) of biking paths the vast majority of which are found within three blocks of the beach. |
| Braden: Let's take a look at the vocabulary. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Braden: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| : The first word we shall see is: |
| Sandra: botafogo [natural native speed] |
| Braden: a neighborhood in Rio |
| Sandra: botafogo [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: botafogo [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: ponto [natural native speed] |
| Braden: point |
| Sandra: ponto [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: ponto [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: perto [natural native speed] |
| Braden: close, near |
| Sandra: perto [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: perto [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: bairro [natural native speed] |
| Braden: neighborhood |
| Sandra: bairro [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: bairro [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: dever [natural native speed] |
| Braden: must |
| Sandra: dever [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: dever [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: descer [natural native speed] |
| Braden: to descend, to go down |
| Sandra: descer [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: descer [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: encontro [natural native speed] |
| Braden: encounter |
| Sandra: encontro [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: encontro [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: amigos [natural native speed] |
| Braden: friends |
| Sandra: amigos [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: amigos [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: senhor [natural native speed] |
| Braden: sir, mr., lord |
| Sandra: senhor [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: senhor [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: caras [natural native speed] |
| Braden: guys |
| Sandra: caras [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: caras [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Sandra: lá [natural native speed] |
| Braden: over there |
| Sandra: lá [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sandra: lá [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Braden: Let's have a closer look at the usuage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Braden: Let's take a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Sandra-: In the dialogue, we heard the phrase deve ter |
| Braden: The literal translation is “ should to have” |
| Sandra-: but a means, “should have.” The tips here is that when you have 2 words right next to each other, the 1st verb will be conjugated to whatever tends it needs and the 2nd verb will Be in its infinitive form. |
| Braden: Could you break this down? |
| Sandra-: (break down) |
| Braden: So what's our next phrase/word? |
| Sandra-: In the dialogue, we heard the phrase descer na praia |
| Braden: The literal translation is “descend on the beach” |
| Sandra-: But it means, “get off at the beach.” In Brazilian Portuguese, the verb for “to get off” is descer. |
| Braden: Could you break this down? |
| Sandra-: (break down) |
| Braden: So what's our next phrase/word? |
| Sandra-: In the dialogue, we heard the phrase uns amigos |
| Braden: The literal translation is “ones friends” |
| Sandra-: but it means, “some friends.” unsIs literally the plural form of one but it is also an indefinite article such as “a,” or “an.” |
| Braden: So in this case word is plural it is An indefinite article and not a plural form of the number one. |
| Braden: Could you break this down? |
| Sandra-: (break down) |
| Braden: Let's take a look at the grammar point. |
Lesson focus |
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| Braden: So Sandra-, what's the focus of this lesson? |
| Sandra-: The focus of this lesson is pronunciation tips using informal means of address |
| Braden: In the dialogue, we heard the phrase |
| Sandra-: O senhor quer descer na praia do Botafogo? |
| Braden: Which we translated as "Do you want to get off at the Botafogo beach, sir?" |
| The focus of this lesson is pronunciation tips using informal means of address |
| Sandra-: In this lesson, we're going to focus on pronunciation and hopefully explain a few things that you have doubts about. We're going to focus our lesson around informal means of address which means informal ways of talking to people or addressing people in conversation. |
| Braden: So, we're going to start out with the word você. Now você, which means you, isn't exactly informal but it isn't appropriate in all situations. |
| Sandra-: For example, you don't often address a man that is much older than you with você. To address men that are much older than you use the phrase o senhor and to address a woman is much older than you use the phrase a senhora. |
| Braden: So, to someone your own age, you could say something like - |
| Sandra-: Você está bem? |
| Braden: "Are you well?" But to someone much older than you, you would say something like - |
| Sandra-: O senhor está bem? |
| Braden: "Are you well, sir?" Or |
| Sandra-: A senhora está bem? |
| Braden: "Are you well, ma'am?" |
| Sandra-: Now the word você is special for two reasons. First, it has a circumflex accent. This circumflex alters the pronunciation of the “e” from an open "é" to a closed “ê." The second thing it does is pull the tonic syllable to the last syllable of the word. So, the correct way to say it is |
| Sandra-: vócê. It may help to imagine jumping from a high point to a low point as you say it. |
| Braden: So you start up top and fall down |
| Sandra-: vo-cê. |
| Braden: the same rules of pronunciation and tonic syllable applied to the plural form vocês as well. Let's look at that sentence again - |
| Sandra-: Você está bem? |
| Braden: "Are you well?" The next word will look at is |
| Sandra-: cara. Cara has two meanings; the first and most normal meaning is that of "face" the second meaning is a slang meaning you can call a man "o cara" that it has almost the exact same meaning as “the man.” |
| Braden: The pronunciation tip here is that even though there are two “a”s they are not pronounced the same. The first "a" is an open "a" |
| Sandra-: cara. |
| Braden: The second “a” is an “uh" sound. This applies not only to both to the singular and plural forms, but to any non-accented “a” at the end of any word in Portuguese. |
| Sandra-: E aí cara, como está? |
| Braden: "What's up man, how are you?" |
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