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Side by Side Lyrics Translation: Maria Rita Posted by on Apr 6, 2010

Today we’re going to listen to a Maria Rita song with an adjacent translation in English! In this song, the singer compares her life to a busy train station. She uses fairly simple language, so hopefully it won’t be too difficult to follow along with the English to help. Lyrics – Encontros e despedidas Mande…

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Lyrics Practice: Maria Rita Posted by on Nov 24, 2009

Today, we’re going to do a listening practice with Maria Rita‘s song “Estrela, estrela.” This particular video has (imperfect) subtitles in English, but I’m going to include the original Portuguese lyrics so you can practice twice: one, matching the English translations to the song, and the second, following along with the Portuguese words. Though the…

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