{"id":3517,"date":"2012-05-11T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2012-05-11T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T01:16:08","slug":"the-ugly-duckling-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-ugly-duckling-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Duckling in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great way to practice your Portuguese is to watch videos based on stories or plots you already know so it is easier to follow the dialogue. Today we&#8217;re going to practice with a popular children&#8217;s story, The Ugly Duckling, or in Portuguese, <em>O Patinho Feio<\/em>. There&#8217;s a video to watch, a story to read, and a song to listen to in order to practice different skills.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"O Patinho Feio (Todolivro)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/liWISgGDr9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>A mam\u00e3e pata tinha escolhido um lugar ideal para fazer seu ninho: um cantinho bem protegido, no meio da folhagem, perto do rio que contornava o velho castelo. Mais adiante estendiam-se o bosque e um lindo jardim florido. Naquele lugar sossegado, a pata agora aquecia pacientemente seus ovos. Por fim, ap\u00f3s a longa espera, os ovos se abriram um ap\u00f3s o outro, e das cascas rompidas surgiram, engra\u00e7adinhos e mi\u00fados, os patinhas amarelos que, imediatamente, saltaram do ninho. Por\u00e9m um dos ovos ainda n\u00e3o se abrira; era um ovo grande, e a pata pensou que n\u00e3o o chocara o suficiente. Impaciente, deu umas bicadas no ov\u00e3o e ele come\u00e7ou a se romper. No entanto, em vez de um patinho amarelinho saiu uma ave cinzenta e desajeitada. Nem parecia um patinho.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qdivertido.com.br\/verconto.php?codigo=8\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oYi6Q7YTWzU\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/oYi6Q7YTWzU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(For the song, hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/deepbrazil.com\/2012\/04\/29\/7-classic-childrens-stories-in-their-full-brazilian-versions\/#more-17247\" target=\"_blank\">Deep Brazil<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great way to practice your Portuguese is to watch videos based on stories or plots you already know so it is easier to follow the dialogue. Today we&#8217;re going to practice with a popular children&#8217;s story, The Ugly Duckling, or in Portuguese, O Patinho Feio. There&#8217;s a video to watch, a story to read&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-ugly-duckling-in-portuguese\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}