{"id":5960,"date":"2015-02-28T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2015-02-02T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:02:24","slug":"telling-stories-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/telling-stories-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Stories in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marcellapurnama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/whispering-girls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"191\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via http:\/\/bit.ly\/1EO4Bsa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ol\u00e1, pessoal!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say goodbye to February with a conversational post. Oftentimes we study a foreign language, but when it comes to actually speaking it, we get stuck and don&#8217;t know what to say.<\/p>\n<p>So now when you want to tell a story in Portuguese, you can use the following sentences:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Contando Hist\u00f3rias em Portugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J\u00e1 te contei o que aconteceu&#8230; &#8211; Have I told you what happened&#8230;<br \/>\nN\u00e3o vou me esquecer de&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;m not going to forget to&#8230;<br \/>\nVoc\u00ea n\u00e3o vai acreditar no que aconteceu&#8230; &#8211; You&#8217;re not going to believe what happened&#8230;<br \/>\nTenho que te contar um neg\u00f3cio! &#8211; I have to tell you something!<br \/>\nVoc\u00ea deveria ter visto&#8230; &#8211; You should have seen&#8230;<br \/>\nQuer dizer&#8230; &#8211; I mean&#8230;<br \/>\nUm dia desses&#8230; &#8211; One of these days&#8230;<br \/>\nIsso aconteceu em&#8230; &#8211; This happened in&#8230;<br \/>\nEu estava em&#8230; &#8211; I was in&#8230;<br \/>\nEstaba indo para&#8230; &#8211; I was going to&#8230;<br \/>\nEstava votando de&#8230; &#8211; I was coming back from&#8230;<br \/>\nTinham me pedido para&#8230; &#8211; I&#8217;d been asked to&#8230;<br \/>\nEu me dei conta de que&#8230; &#8211; I realized&#8230;<br \/>\nEnt\u00e3o eu disse&#8230; &#8211; So I said&#8230;<br \/>\nEnt\u00e3o o cara disse&#8230; &#8211; So the guy said&#8230;<br \/>\nNesse momento&#8230; &#8211; At this moment&#8230;<br \/>\nE de repente&#8230; &#8211; And suddenly&#8230;<br \/>\nBom, quando isso aconteceu&#8230; &#8211; Well, when that happened&#8230;<br \/>\nSem mais nem menos. &#8211; For no reason at all.<br \/>\nTudo aconteceu t\u00e3o r\u00e1pido. &#8211; Everything happened so fast.<br \/>\nEu n\u00e3o soube o que dizer a ele\/ela. &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know what to tell him\/her.<br \/>\nNaquela \u00e9poca eu&#8230; &#8211; At that time I&#8230;<br \/>\nE ent\u00e3o eu me dei conta de que&#8230; &#8211; And then I realized that&#8230;<br \/>\nFiquei chocado. &#8211; I was shocked.<br \/>\nE pensei comigo mesmo&#8230; &#8211; And I thought to myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Voc\u00ea sabe como \u00e9 quando&#8230; &#8211; You know what it&#8217;s like when&#8230;<br \/>\nD\u00e1 pra acreditar?- Can you believe that?<br \/>\nD\u00e1 pra imaginar? &#8211; Can you imagine that?<br \/>\nImagina como eu me senti? &#8211; Can you imagina how I felt?<br \/>\nNo momento achei que era uma boa ideia. &#8211; At the moment I believed it was a good idea.<br \/>\nComo eu ia saber&#8230;? &#8211; How could I know&#8230;?<br \/>\nQuando eu me dei conta, estava no meio da rua. &#8211; When I realized, I was in the middle of the street.<br \/>\nN\u00e3o, espera, que ainda n\u00e3o terminou&#8230; &#8211; No, wait, it&#8217;s not over yet&#8230;<br \/>\nA pior parte foi&#8230; &#8211; The worst part was&#8230;<br \/>\nE pra piorar as coias&#8230; &#8211; And to make things worse&#8230;<br \/>\nN\u00e3o teria sido t\u00e3o ruim, mas&#8230; &#8211; It wouldn&#8217;t have been so bad, but&#8230;<br \/>\nPor sorte&#8230; &#8211; Luckily&#8230;<br \/>\nEstava come\u00e7ando a me sentir&#8230; &#8211; I was starting to feel&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00c9 claro que eu&#8230; &#8211; Of course I&#8230;<br \/>\nEnfim, eu resolvi&#8230; &#8211; Anyway, I decided to&#8230;<br \/>\nE ent\u00e3o, por um milagre&#8230; &#8211; And then, as a miracle&#8230;<br \/>\nSe n\u00e3o fosse por ela&#8230; &#8211; If it wasn&#8217;t for her&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; eu ter\u00eda&#8230; &#8211; &#8230;I would have&#8230;<br \/>\nJuro por Deus. &#8211; I swear to God.<br \/>\nSe eu n\u00e3o tivesse visto com meus pr\u00f3prios olhos, n\u00e3o teria acreditado. &#8211; If I hadn&#8217;t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed it.<br \/>\nParecia uma cena de novela &#8211; It was like a soap opera scene.<br \/>\nAprendi uma li\u00e7\u00e3o. &#8211; I learned from this lesson.<br \/>\nMoral da hist\u00f3ria&#8230; &#8211; The moral of the story is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more free resources to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-portuguese-brazilian\/\">learn Portuguese<\/a>? Check out the other goodies we offer to help make your language learning efforts a daily habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/02\/whispering-girls-350x244.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/02\/whispering-girls-350x244.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/02\/whispering-girls.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Ol\u00e1, pessoal! Let&#8217;s say goodbye to February with a conversational post. Oftentimes we study a foreign language, but when it comes to actually speaking it, we get stuck and don&#8217;t know what to say. 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