SIMON & SCHUSTER S THE PIMSLEUR GUIDE. how the program works. Travel the world with Pimsleur!

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1 SIMON & SCHUSTER S PIMSLEUR THE PIMSLEUR GUIDE how the program works Travel the world with Pimsleur!

2 PIMSLEUR LANGUAGE PROGRAMS You have just purchased the most effective language program ever developed. As you probably know, learning a new language can be frustrating. Your first experience with a foreign language may have been in school. If the classes seemed difficult, or if your grades were poor, you probably believed you had no aptitude for languages. Even if you did well, you may have been surprised later to discover that what you learned was of little or no use when you tried to converse with native speakers. Perhaps you waited until later in life and tried adult education classes, language schools, or home training programs. There too you may have found the information hard to retain, the lessons tedious, and your progress slow. Many language students give up early in these programs, convinced they lack the natural ability to understand and use what they read and hear. The truth is that anyone can acquire a foreign language with the right teaching system. With the Pimsleur Method, you will benefit from the years of research and development that have helped create the world s most effective method for teaching foreign languages. The Pimsleur Language Programs, developed by Dr. Paul Pimsleur, fill an urgent need for selfinstructional materials in many languages.

3 HOW TO USE THE PROGRAM To get the full benefit of each lesson, choose a quiet place where you can practice without interruption and a time of day when your mind is most alert and your body least fatigued. The length of each lesson, just under 30 minutes, is that recommended by teaching specialists for a concentrated learning task. Once you ve started the program, simply follow the tutor s instructions. The most important instruction is to respond aloud when the tutor tells you to do so. There will be a pause after this instruction, giving you time to reply. It is essential to your progress that you speak out in a normal conversational voice when asked to respond. Your active participation in thinking and speaking is required for your success in mastering this course. The simple test for mastery is whether you are able to respond quickly and accurately when your tutor asks a question. If you are responding correctly about eighty percent of the time, then you re ready to proceed to the next lesson. It is important to keep moving forward, and also not to set unreasonable standards of perfection that will keep you from progressing, which is why we recommend using the eighty percent figure as a guide. You will notice that each lesson contains both new and familiar material, and just when you may be worrying about forgetting something, you will conveniently be reminded of it. Another helpful feature of the Pimsleur Language Program is its rate of saturation. You will be responding many times in the half-hour. This saturation enables you to make substantial progress within a short period of time. 2

4 GUIDELINES FOR SUCCESS Complete the lesson units in strict consecutive order (don t skip around), doing no more than one lesson per day, although the lesson unit for the day may be repeated more than once. Daily contact with the language is critical to successful learning. Listen carefully to each lesson unit. Always follow the directions of the instructor. Speak out loud when directed by the tutor and answer questions within the pauses provided. It is not enough to just silently think of the answer to the question asked. You need to speak the answer out loud to set up a circuit of the language you are learning to speak so that it is heard and identified through your ears, to help to establish the sounds of the target language. Do this prior to hearing the confirmation, which is provided as reinforcement, as well as additional speech training. Do all required activities according to the instructions, without reference to any outside persons, book, or course. Do not have a paper and pen nearby during the lessons, and do not refer to dictionaries or other books. The Pimsleur Method works with the language-learning portion of your brain, requiring language to be processed in its spoken form. Not only will you interrupt the learning process if you attempt to write the words that you hear, but you will also begin to speak the target language with an American accent. This is because the sounds represented by the American letters are different from the samelooking letters from the foreign language. 3

5 DR. PAUL PIMSLEUR AND HIS UNIQUE METHOD Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the world s leading experts in applied linguistics. He was fluent in French, good in German, and had a working knowledge of Italian, Russian, Modern Greek, and Mandarin Chinese. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French and a Masters in Psychology from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Linguistics at UCLA. He later became Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center (a state-wide language lab) at Ohio State University; Professor of Education and Romance Languages at the State University of New York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. He did research on the psychology of language learning and in 1969 was Section Head of Psychology of Second Language Learning at the International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language learning and teaching. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed a new method (The Pimsleur Method) that is based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs. 4

6 GRADUATED INTERVAL RECALL The term, Graduated Interval Recall is a complex name for a very simple theory about memory. No aspect of learning a foreign language is more important than memory, yet before Dr. Pimsleur, no one had explored more effective ways for building language memory. In his research, Dr. Pimsleur discovered how long students remembered new information and at what intervals they needed to be reminded of it. If reminded too soon or too late, they failed to retain the information. This discovery enabled him to create a schedule of exactly when and how the information should be reintroduced. Suppose you have learned a new word. You tell yourself to remember it. However, after five minutes you re unable to recall it. If you d been reminded of it after five seconds, you probably would have remembered it for maybe a minute, at which time you would have needed another reminder. Each time you are reminded, you remember the word longer than you did the time before. The intervals between reminders become longer and longer, until you eventually remember the word without being reminded at all. This program is carefully designed to remind you of new information at the exact intervals where maximum retention takes place. Each time your memory begins to fade, you will be asked to recall the word. 5

7 PRINCIPLE OF ANTICIPATION The Principle of Anticipation requires you to anticipate a correct answer. Practically, what this means is that you must retrieve the answer from what you have learned earlier in the course. It works by posing a question, asking you to provide a new sentence, using information you ve learned previously and putting it into a new combination. This provides novelty and excitement which accelerates learning. A possible scenario: Speaker s cue: Are you going to the movies today? (PAUSE) Drawing on information given previously, you respond (in the target language): No, I m going tomorrow. The instructor will then confirm your answer: No, I m going tomorrow. The Narrator then may cue: Is your sister going to Europe this year? (PAUSE) Response: No, she went last year. Before Dr. Pimsleur created his teaching method, language courses were based on the principle of mindless-repetition. Teachers drummed words into the students minds over and over, as if there were grooves in the mind that could be worn deeper with repetition. Neurophysiologists tell us however, that on the contrary, simple and unchallenging repetition has a hypnotic, even dulling effect on the learning process. Eventually, the words being repeated will lose their meaning. Dr. Pimsleur discovered that learning accelerates when there is an input/output system of interaction, in which students receive information and then are asked to retrieve and use it. 6

8 CORE VOCABULARY While Graduated Interval Recall and the Principle of Anticipation are the foundation of the Pimsleur Method, there are other aspects that contribute to its uniqueness and effectiveness. One involves vocabulary. We have all been intimidated, when approaching a new language, by the sheer immensity of the number of new words we must learn. But extensive research has shown that we actually need a comparatively limited number of words to be able to communicate effectively in any language. Language can be divided into two distinct categories: grammatical structures (function words) and concrete vocabulary (content words). By focusing on the former category and enabling the student to comprehend and employ the structure of the new language, Dr. Pimsleur found that language learners were able to more readily put new knowledge to use. There are few content words that must be known and used every day. The essential core of a language involves function words, which tend to relate to human activities. This course is designed to teach you to understand and to speak the essential elements of your new language in a relatively short time. During each half-hour lesson, you will actually converse with two native speakers, using the level of language spoken by educated citizens in their everyday business and social life. The program s unique method of presenting dialogue insituation relieves you of the most common learning problem, the problem of meaning. 7

9 ORGANIC LEARNING The Pimsleur Method centers on teaching functional mastery in understanding and speaking a language, in the most effective and efficient way possible. You will be working on your vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation in an integrated manner, as you are learning specific phrases that have practical use in everyday activities. There are several thousand languages in the world. Because fewer than five hundred of these languages have developed formal systems of writing, linguistic specialists accept that language is primarily speech. For this reason, it is also accepted that the human brain acquires language as speech. Therefore, when Dr. Pimsleur created his language programs, he began teaching with recorded materials, which enabled the learners to acquire the sounds, the rhythm, and the intonation of the target language. The learners did this more rapidly, more accurately, and with great enthusiasm because they found themselves capable of almost instant beginning communication skills. Dr. Pimsleur called this organic learning because it involves learning on several fronts at the same time. His system enables the learner to acquire grammatical usage, vocabulary, and the sounds of the language in an integrated, exciting way. In short, the learner gains the language as a living, expressive form of human culture. 8

10 COURSE CONTENT When you have mastered a Pimsleur Language Program, you will have a highly-practical, every-day vocabulary at your command. These basic words, phrases, and sentences have been carefully selected to be the most useful in everyday situations when you visit a foreign country. You will be able to handle social encounters graciously, converse with native speakers in travel situations, and use transportation systems with confidence. You ll be able to ask directions and to navigate your own way around the cities and countryside. The language skills you learn will enable you to participate in casual conversations, express facts, give instructions, and describe current, past, and future activities. You will be able to deal with everyday survival topics and courtesy requirements. You will be intelligible to native speakers of the language even to those who are not used to dealing with foreigners. What is equally important, you will know how to ask the kinds of questions that will further expand your knowledge of and facility with the language, because you will have been trained by the Pimsleur open-ended questioning technique. The Pimsleur Method becomes a springboard for further learning and growth to take place the ultimate purpose of any real educational system. This desire to learn will be apparent to the people with whom you speak. It will indicate sincere interest in and respect for their culture. 9

11 A NOTE ON REGIONAL LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES In any large country, and even in many smaller countries, regional differences in language are common. In the United States, for example, a person from Maine can sound very different than someone from Texas. Pronunciations ( accents ) vary, and there are also minor differences in vocabulary. For example, what is called a drinking fountain in New York or Arizona is known as a bubbler in Wisconsin, and a soft drink in one part of America will be called a soda elsewhere. The differences in English are even more distinct between North Americans and Britons, or between Britons and Australians. But all are native speakers of English; all can communicate with spoken English, read the same newspapers, and watch the same television programs, essentially without difficulty. Native speakers of a language can often tell where someone is from by listening to him or her speak. In addition to regional differences, there are social differences. Pimsleur Language Programs use a standard educated speech, which will generally carry you throughout the country without difficulty. 10

12 Reading in a Pimsleur Program A phonetic alphabet, such as the Latin alphabet and the Greek alphabet, is a list of symbols (letters) that are used to represent the sounds of the language in writing. And given that language is primarily speech, the spoken sounds of the language necessarily precede learning how to decode the written form, i.e., learning how to read just as a child first learns to speak and then eventually to read. This is the natural progression Dr. Pimsleur followed in his courses. After an initial introduction to the spoken language, reading is then integrated into the program and the new alphabet is systematically introduced, associating each letter with the sounds of the new language. Initially, you are sounding out words, mastering the different sounds associated with the new alphabet. You are not, at first, reading for meaning, but rather for sound/symbol correlation. Eventually, when the sound system is mastered, you will be able to look at known vocabulary and read for meaning. By the end of the first 30 lessons, you will be reading at the same level as you are speaking. 11

13 Pimsleur covers the world of languages. You can choose from over 60 language programs, many with multiple levels, ranging from the most popular to the exotic. Become a Pimsleur learner and travel the world! Programs available for these languages: Albanian Arabic (Eastern) Arabic (Egyptian) Arabic (Modern Standard) Armenian (Eastern) Armenian (Western) Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dari (Persian) Dutch Farsi (Persian) Finnish French German Greek (Modern) Haitian Creole Hebrew (Modern) Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Irish Italian ESL (English as a Second Language): Arabic Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) French German Haitian Hindi Japanese Korean Lithuanian Norwegian Ojibwe Pashto Polish Portuguese (Brazilian) Portuguese (European) Punjabi Romanian Russian Castilian Spanish Latin American Spanish Swahili Swedish Swiss German Tagalog Thai Turkish Twi Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Italian Korean Persian Portuguese Russian Spanish Vietnamese

14 SIMON & SCHUSTER S PIMSLEUR Pimsleur Language Programs are available in all of the commonly spoken languages. Many other languages are also available. For more information, call or visit us at Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pimsleur is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Mfg. in USA. All rights reserved. Pimsleur is a registered trademark of Beverly Pimsleur, used by Simon & Schuster under exclusive license.

15 SIMON & SCHUSTER S PIMSLEUR european PORTUGUESE level 1 READING BOOKLET

16 Travelers should always check with their nation s State Department for current advisories on local conditions before traveling abroad. Booklet Design: Maia Kennedy and Recorded Program 2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Reading Booklet 2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pimsleur is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Mfg. in USA. All rights reserved. ii

17 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Voices English-Speaking Instructor Ray Brown Portuguese-Speaking Instructor Francisco Beca Female Portuguese Speaker Cristina Lobato Male Portuguese Speaker André Toscano Peralta Course Writers Cristina Lobato Elisabeth B. Weir Editors Anne Cantú Beverly D. Heinle Executive Producer Beverly D. Heinle Producer Sarah H. McInnis Recording Engineer Peter S. Turpin Simon & Schuster Studios, Concord, MA iii

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19 Table of Contents Introduction Reading Lessons Lesson Eleven Lesson Twelve Lesson Thiteen Lesson Fourteen Lesson Fifteen Lesson Sixteen Lesson Seventeen Lesson Eighteen Lesson Nineteen Lesson Twenty Lesson Twenty-One Lesson Twenty-Two Lesson Twenty-Three Lesson Twenty-Four Lesson Twenty-Five Lesson Twenty-Six Lesson Twenty-Seven Lesson Twenty-Eight Lesson Twenty-Nine Lesson Thirty v

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21 Introduction 1. Portuguese (português or, in full, a língua portuguesa) is a 2. Romance language which is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São 3. Tomé and Príncipe, and Guinea-Bissau. It also has co-official 4. language status in Macau (China), Equatorial Guinea, and East Timor. As the result of Portugal s exploration and expansion during the 15 th and 16 th centuries, Por- 5. tuguese 6. speakers are also found in Goa, Daman, and Diu in India; 7. in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; and in Malacca in Malaysia. However, in the widespread former 8. Portuguese colonies, the language has transformed over time. 9. These variants of Portuguese are generally mutually intelligible 10. to native speakers; the difference between them is comparable to that between British English and American English. 11. There are grammatical differences word order and 12. forms of address, for example as well as differences in intonation and pronunciation. Pimsleur s European Portuguese teaches standardized European Portuguese as spoken 13. in 14. Portugal. 15. Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes once called 16. Portuguese the sweet and gracious language, while the Brazilian 17. writer Olavo Bilac poetically described it as a última 18. flor do Lácio, inculta e bela ( the last flower of Latium, rustic and beautiful ). Portuguese is also termed the 19. language of Camões, after one of the greatest Portuguese 20. literary figures, Luís Vaz de Camões.

22 Very few Portuguese words can be traced to the pre- Roman inhabitants of Portugal. Some notable examples are abóbora ( pumpkin ), bezerro ( year-old calf, from the Celtiberian language) and cerveja ( beer, from Celtic through Latin). The name of Portugal derives from Portus Cale or warm port an early Roman settlement. When the Romans arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 216 BC, they brought the Latin language with them, from which all Romance languages descend. Between AD 409 and 711, as the Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe, the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Germanic peoples. The occupiers quickly adopted late Roman culture and the Vulgar Latin dialects of the peninsula. As they adopted the Roman civilization and language, however, these people contributed some words to the lexicon, mostly related to warfare such as espora ( spur ), estaca ( stake ), and guerra ( war ). The Moorish invasion of 711 also influenced Portuguese. In turn, Portuguese influenced English. Here are just a few of the English words which come from Portuguese: albacore, albino, albatross, banana, baroque, breeze, buffalo, caravel, cobra, commando, dodo, embarrass, fetish, Labrador, mandarin, marmalade, molasses, monsoon, mosquito, palaver, Sargasso, savvy, tank, and veranda. Portugal became an independent kingdom in 1139, under King Afonso I of Portugal. In 1290, King Denis (Dinis) of 2

23 Portugal created the first Portuguese university in Coimbra, a city north of Lisbon, and decreed that what was then simply called the common language be known as the Portuguese language and used officially. With approximately 210 to 215 million native speakers and 260 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the sixth most spoken language in the world, the third most spoken European language, and the major language of the Southern Hemisphere. It is also an official language of the European Union and Mercosul. In this course, you will learn several ways to address people when you re speaking to them directly. Whereas English has only one word for you, Portuguese has several. The first pair of words you ll learn is the most formal: a senhora, literally, the lady, and o senhor, the gentleman. For example, you ll say, A senhora fala inglês? to ask a woman, Do you speak English? and O senhor é americano? to ask a man, Are you American? These two forms of you show respect. You should use them when you are first introduced to someone and also when you re addressing someone older than you or in a higher professional position. When you get to know someone better, you can switch to the more informal você. This word for you is used 3

24 for both a man and a woman. For now, take your cue from the Portuguese person with whom you re conversing as to when to say você as opposed to a senhora or o senhor. Alternatively, instead of você you can just use the person s first name. Portuguese also has an even more familiar word for you tu. It s used with friends, family members, and children. There s only one exception to this rule: people with very high social status will use você to address everybody, including friends, family members, and even their own children. Young people also use the familiar form among themselves, as do some co-workers. Tu is not taught in this course, but if you are in Portugal, you may hear it in conversation. Instead of formally addressing someone as a senhora or o senhor, as described above, you can use the person s name and title. In Portugal in certain settings work, for example correct use of a title is important. And, you should never use your own title. When you introduce yourself, just say your full name: I m Nina Jones, or I m Charles Smith. Your Portuguese counterpart will probably do the same, although in a very informal situation, a woman might use her first name only. When you formally address someone by name, however, you should also use that person s title. For a woman, you will 4

25 use her title plus her first name, for example: Dona Cristina ( Ms / Miss / Mrs. Cristina ). For a man, you ll use senhor plus his last name: Senhor Ferreira. While this may seem politically incorrect to Americans, it is common practice in Portugal, where it is a holdover from the days when all men served in the armed forces, where they were addressed by their last names. When addressing someone, you should also be careful to use the appropriate degree, if you know it. Doutor or Doutora applies to anyone with a college degree. For example, you would say Doutor Ferreira for a man or Doutora Cristina for a woman. Someone with an engineering degree is addressed as Senhor Engenheiro or Senhora Engenheira. Examples of other titles are: Senhor Arquitecto / Senhora Arquitecta; Senhor Professor / Senhora Professora, referring either to school teachers or to university professors; and Senhor General, for the military. Even when a woman has a title, you still use her first name with it. 5

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27 Reading Lessons After an initial introduction to the spoken language, reading is integrated into the program starting with Lesson Eleven. The Portuguese alphabet has five accents and the same twenty-six letters as the English alphabet since the Portuguese Orthographic Language Agreement went into effect in The sounds represented by the letters, however, are Portuguese and distinct from English. In these Reading Lessons you will learn to sound out the Portuguese alphabet, starting with short words, and then progress to longer words, word combinations, and short phrases, increasingly building in length until you will be reading complete sentences in context. The Portuguese alphabet is systematically introduced and you will learn to associate each letter with the sounds of European Portuguese. You will not, at first, be reading for meaning, but rather for sound/symbol correlation. Eventually, when the sound system is mastered, you will be able to look at known vocabulary and read for meaning. By the end of the course, you will be reading at the same level as you are speaking. The Reading items in the lessons have been selected especially to give you practice in the unique European Portuguese sounds and sound combinations. Your vocabulary acquisition will begin after you ve learned the new, different sound system. You should always read aloud, as directed. 7

28 The process of saying the words out loud will reinforce and enhance your language acquisition and will help lodge the sounds of Portuguese in your memory. In these Reading Lessons, you will learn to look at the Portuguese alphabet with Portuguese eyes. There are twenty Reading Lessons found at the end of the lessons, starting with Lesson Eleven. These lessons are also combined and provided at the end of the course. You may choose to do the Readings along with the lessons, or you may wait until you have completed the course and do them all together. Repeat the Reading Lessons as often as you wish. Instructions on how to proceed with the Readings are contained in the audio. 8

29 Lesson Eleven amigo comigo comida fica nada acaba chamo chocolate mas chamamos falamos marcha Marcos fomos perda minutos acho por livro charuto 9

30 Lesson Twelve chave chama cama copo cacau caneca cerveja cidade conhece acariciar ceifa ceifeira cabeceira caça cachaço licença Com licença, minha senhora. açúcar A caridade começa em casa. abarca / abraça 10

31 Lesson Thrirteen carta ligar holograma lá há desce uma ladeira acolá vira virá está esbarro esboço só nó / como dólares eles voz do povo do contado come o lobo usar rua cuido 11

32 Lesson Fourteen dueto pó escritório tem som com homem senhor senhora tenho dele chame fale bebe Adoro neve! eletricidade recente recebimento A remessa chega mais tarde. tédio 12

33 Lesson Fifteen se faz favor pinha comem comam não mão mãe canção De onde? De onde é que o senhor é? pé médico ébrio O vinho é bom. você por quê / porque á-bê-cê emergência Ele não é escocês. Você é o meu coração e a minha alma. 13

34 Lesson Sixteen chão recepção Essa é uma ótima ideia! Ele é doce. vinte sente dentista artista câmbio câmbio / cádmio tâmara / cabaça aba babar doado dedada gaguejar guiga guarda-napo Estoril Portugal 14

35 Lesson Seventeen papel canal câmera restaurante Roberto o Restaurante Roberto real teatro duas águas minerais canais mais rivais rato rápido É tempo demais. bananais O pão é bom. Eles perderam a pá. A rã é rápida. O senhor recomenda os doces? 15

36 Lesson Eighteen retrato meado tais eu eu não tenho os seus amigos A senhora tem euros? Sim, eu tenho euros. catálogo maracujá áureo fantástica O meu irmão vem à tarde. A Cecília é minha amiga. Água mole em pedra dura... tanto dá até que fura. dá saúde Parabéns! Guimarães Guimarães é mais longe. 16

37 Lesson Nineteen o meu pai É caro. É cedo. Eles foram dançar. o hotel lista nossa A senhora fala inglês? avô pode / pôde Alô! muito muito bem cuidadoso intuito Eu fui convidado. Vocês foram passear pela praça? O senhor consegue vê-la? Eu fico bem sózinho. Ele gosta de aprender línguas. 17

38 Lesson Twenty água gelada galante, gentil, e generoso bóia lençóis noite uma noite escura e tempestuosa remédio heróico outra roupa ouvidos cuidado com o lobo primeiro a obrigação depois a devoção coisa alguma coisa precisa Ele casou ontem. O senhor vai-se casar amanhã? A minha sobrinha mora na casa dos pais. Eu ofereço o anel. 18

39 Lesson Twenty-One a minha casa Onde é que fica a sua casa? açoite pouco pois bagageira junho o meu projeto o jornal de hoje Eu jogo futebol. quanto quantos quatro quarto Quanto é que custa uma cerveja? Uma não custa muito. Duas cervejas custam dois euros. Quanto é que custam cinco cervejas? Cinco cervejas? É demais! 19

40 Lesson Twenty-Two O jato é rápido. Quantos quartos tem o hotel? A viagem foi boa. A senhora estaciona o carro atrás? leite em janeiro Não há dinheiro. Eu sou brasileiro. pague chegue português O senhor fala português? perto daqui O Luis está aqui. se você quiser no dia seguinte O senhor é um bom guia. para as Às quinze para as oito. Queria uma cerveja, se faz favor. 20

41 Lesson Twenty-Three Não sei. Eu espero que ele chegue. Eu cantei a música. feixe peixe baixo xilofone exame êxito exercício máximo excepção Não há regra sem excepção. explicar táxi falha palha velho a filha da minha irmã O melhor trabalho é meu. 21

42 Lesson Twenty-Four O que é que o senhor quer fazer? Não sei... o que é que vou fazer. Mas quero... comprar alguma coisa. Porque tenho dólares... e euros também. Quanto é que custa? Quatrocentos? Não tenho muito dinheiro... para a comprar. Bom dia, Joaquim. Que horas são? É meio-dia. Não percebo muito bem. Onde é que está a sua esposa? A minha mulher está em Portimão. O que é que o senhor vai beber? Vou beber um café. Eu posso beber o café, mas não posso pagar. Hoje não tenho dinheiro. 22

43 Lesson Twenty-Five Que noite tão bonita! A semana que vem... eu vou chegar a Los Angeles. A porta está aberta. nós queremos Ela fica lá. Não há nada de novo. O tempo hoje está mau. Diga em seguida. O que o senhor quiser. Não, não são os nossos amigos. Nós vamos a Alcabideche? Não sei, talvez. Os meus amigos estão prontos. Xana, onde é que você está? Feche a porta. Carlos, onde é que está o carro? Hoje vou a Lisboa. Amanhã vou ao Algarve. Está uma pessoa na sala de estar. 23

44 Lesson Twenty-Six Nós estamos prontos, não estamos? O senhor Gonçalves é de Cascais. O filme é muito exagerado! No jardim zoológico há dezoito zebras. O meu sobrinho gosta de caçar. Onde vai mais fundo o rio... aí faz menos ruído. Amanhã vamos comer pão. olha os A cavalo dado não se olha os dentes. O senhor chama-se João? Roupa suja lava-se em casa. A união faz a força. Liberdade sem juízo... é pólvora na mão de menino. As paredes têm ouvidos. Águas passadas não movem moinhos. Amanhã você pode pagar. Antes tarde do que nunca. Agora vamos. 24

45 Lesson Twenty-Seven Dê-me um copo de leite. Com muito prazer. O que quer dizer essa palavra? Obrigado e boa noite. Onde fica o hotel Avenida Palace? Vá em frente, o hotel fica à esquerda. Qual é a morada do seu amigo? Eu disse-lhe. Não se lembra? Desculpe, mas não me lembrei. Não faz mal. Venha comigo a minha casa. Percebeu o que eu disse? Peço desculpa! Já o disse duas vezes. Mas vou dizê-lo mais uma vez. Receio não me lembrar do seu nome. Vamos a uma festa hoje à noite. Eu espero que chova. Amanhã eu tenho muito trabalho. pelo o mês inteiro 25

46 Lesson Twenty-Eight O meu pai é professor. Ele mora em Coimbra. A cidade de Coimbra fica em Portugal... perto do Oceano Atlântico. Nós não conseguimos falar com eles. Você sabe a morada dela? Vou apanhar o avião... para ir para o Porto. O meu amigo disse-me... que o Porto é muito bonito. Sim, é uma cidade maravilhosa. Dê-me a sua mão. Obrigada mas não quero... escorregar no gelo. A sua sobrinha casou-se? Sim, ela casou-se o mês passado. Como é se que chama o marido dela? Chama-se Tiago. Ele é muito simpatico. O tiago sabe cantar... dançar e é muito trabalhador. 26

47 Lesson Twenty-Nine Ele é de Espanha, não é? Sim, ele é espanhol... mas mora em Portugal há muitos anos. Você conhece a família dele? Não, os pais são idosos e não viajam. Eu não quero ir ao cinema. Você prefere ir a uma tasca? Ou você gostaria de ir a uma marisqueria? Não, preciso de ficar em casa. Esta tarde tenho... que ficar no meu quarto... porque estou com dores de cabeça. Preciso de papel. De quantas folhas é que precisa? De umas vinte e cinco folhas. São muitas! Só tenho vinte. O exame foi um desastre! O que é que aconteceu? Eu só respondi a oito perguntas. Meu Deus! Eu também não acabei uma parte. 27

48 Lesson Thirty Com licença, boa noite. Como está? Fala Inglês? Falo e percebo muito pouco. A senhora é Americana? Sim. Chamo-me Nina. Muito prazer. E o senhor é de Lisboa? Sou, sim. Sou o Diogo. Muito prazer. A senhora gostaria de conhecer a cidade? Claro! Gostaria também de ir a um restaurante comer comida portuguêsa mas não quero ir sozinha. Gostaria de jantar comigo? Há um bom restaurante ali, em frente. Nina, o que é que gostaria de comer? E de beber? Queria um vinho verde e lulas recheadas. E você? Eu gosto de peixe por isso vou comer bacalhau... e vou beber uma cerveja. E para sobremesa vou pedir um pastel-de-nata. Como é que se diz coffee with milk em português? Diz-se café com leite mas também pode pedir um galão. Eu prefiro leite créme e uma bica. Quanto é que custa um café? Só um euro? 28

49 Vamos! Vamos passear e dançar ao Bairro Alto com os meus amigos? Você vai gostar deles. Obrigada. Que bom! Lisboa é muito interessante e as pessoas são muito simpaticas. 29

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