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No quarto andar!

Episódio 4 Língua da Gente Pedir informações e localização
Orlando R. Kelm · COERLL / University of Texas at Austin · CC BY 4.0

Step 1 — Listen

🎧 Listen to the podcast episode
First listen: Where are the children's clothes? How does person A get there?
Língua da Gente · Episode 04
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Step 2 — Read the Dialogue

💬 The Conversation
Listen again while reading. Notice how person A asks a follow-up question.
A
Com licença, onde ficam as roupas de criança?
Excuse me, where are the children's clothes?
B
No quarto andar.
On the fourth floor.
A
E como que eu chego até lá?
And how do I get there?
B
O elevador está ali, ó.
The elevator is right over there.

Step 3 — Language Focus

📖 Floors, Directions & Key Expressions

This episode builds on episode 03 with a new location verb and an essential follow-up question.

PortugueseEnglishNotes
Onde ficam as roupas?Where are the clothes?ficar = to be located (for places/things)
Onde fica o banheiro?Where is the bathroom?singular: fica · plural: ficam
Como que eu chego até lá?How do I get there?very colloquial Brazilian — "como que" = how
No quarto andarOn the fourth floorno = em + o (contraction)
O elevador está aliThe elevator is over thereali = nearby; lá = farther away
ó(emphasis marker)informal Brazilian filler — "right there, you know"
🔢 Floor numbers (andares)
OrdinalPortugueseExample
1stprimeiro/a andarno primeiro andar
2ndsegundo/a andarno segundo andar
3rdterceiro/a andarno terceiro andar
4thquarto/a andarno quarto andar ← dialogue
5thquinto/a andarno quinto andar
🇧🇷 Culture note — O shopping
Brazilians call shopping malls o shopping — a borrowed English word that became fully Portuguese, complete with its own article. You'll hear: "Vou ao shopping." (I'm going to the mall.) Brazilian shoppings are large, air-conditioned, and a major social space — especially in big cities like São Paulo and Rio.
🔊 Phonology Note — "ch" = SH In Brazilian Portuguese, ch is always pronounced like the English sh — never like "ch" in "cheese." So chego sounds like shego, and chá (tea) sounds like shá. This is consistent throughout Brazilian Portuguese. Practice: che-go, cha-mar, cho-co-la-te.

Step 4 — Practice

1 Fill in the blanks
Complete the sentences. Use the word bank below.
Word bank: ficam  quarto  chego  elevador  andar  fica  até lá
— Onde as roupas de criança?
— No andar.
— E como que eu chego ?
— O está ali.
— Onde o restaurante? — No primeiro .
2 Your turn — At the shopping
Answer in Portuguese.
Write your own answers. There are no right or wrong responses — this activity is about expressing your own ideas and experiences.

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