Diálogo · Bilingual transcript
| A | Andréia, você viu? O novo iPad saiu. Você não quer passar na loja comigo para ver ele? | Andréia, did you see that the new iPad came out? Do you want to go with me to the store to check it out? |
| B | Obrigada, o iPad é só um iPhone grande. Não me interessa tanto. | No thanks, the iPad is just a big iPhone. I'm not very interested. |
| A | Não é verdade, não. Com o iPad você pode baixar filmes, compartilhar fotos e documentos, ler livros, e mandar e-mail. É muito mais conveniente, e muito mais rápido. | That is not true. With the iPad you can download movies, share photos and documents, read books, and send e-mail. It's much more convenient, and a lot quicker. |
| B | Tá bom, como eu disse, é um iPhone grande... e caro! | OK, it's like I said, it's a big, and expensive, iPhone. |
| A | Não, não é tão caro assim. E a duração da bateria do novo iPad é ótima. E a nova tela tem uma resolução impressionante, milhões de pixels. | No, it's really not all that expensive. The battery life of the new iPad is great. The new screen has impressive resolution, with millions of pixels. |
| B | Já sei. Hoje você diz que só vai para ver. E amanhã, já vem dizendo que precisa comprar. "É mais leve. É mais rápido. Tem um novo design e novos apps." Chega, Antônio, a gente não precisa comprar mais uma maquininha. | I know. Today you come saying that you just want to see it. And tomorrow you come saying that you need to buy it. "It's lighter. It's quicker. It has a new design and new apps." Knock it off Antonio, we don't need another machine. |
| A | Mas Andréia, eu não disse que vou comprar. Quem disse que eu vou comprar? Eu só queria ver o novo modelo. | But Andréia, I never said that I am going to buy it. Who said that I am going to buy it? I just want to see the new model. |
| B | Tá bom, mas se você voltar falando do novo chip, do novo coprocessador, touch screen, com todos os apps, eu vou ficar louca, viu? Muito louca! | OK, but if you come back talking about the new chip, the new coprocessor, touch screen, and all of the apps, I will go crazy, you know? Completely crazy! |
| A | Ah, mas escuta só isso, olha, você sabia que agora podia fazer chamadas FaceTime com sua mãe, falar diretamente cara a cara com ela? | Ah, but listen to just one thing. Did you know that now you can make FaceTime calls with your mother, you can talk face-to-face directly with her? |
| B | Perái, nesse caso, bom, me fala mais disso. Isso seria muito legal. | Wait a second, in that case, great, tell me more about this. That would be really cool. |
Futuro do Subjuntivo com "se"
When Andréia says "se você voltar falando do novo chip… eu vou ficar louca," she's using the futuro do subjuntivo — the tense Brazilians use for hypothetical future conditions with se (if).
| Structure | Example |
|---|---|
| se + futuro do subjuntivo + , + futuro simples | Se você voltar falando do chip, eu vou ficar louca. |
| se + futuro do subjuntivo + , + presente | Se ele comprar o iPad, a gente pode compartilhar fotos e vídeos. |
| se + futuro do subjuntivo + , + imperativo | Se quiser ir à loja, me avisa antes! |
How to form it: there are no irregular verbs in the futuro do subjuntivo — one rule works for every verb: take the eles form of the pretérito perfeito and drop the final -am. With regular verbs, the result happens to look identical to the infinitive. When the pretérito perfeito itself is irregular, the same rule produces the forms below.
falareles voltaram →
voltareles compraram →
comprareles precisaram →
precisar
for (ser / ir)eles tiveram →
tiver (ter)eles fizeram →
fizer (fazer)eles estiveram →
estiver (estar)eles quiseram →
quiser (querer)eles puderam →
puder (poder)eles vieram →
vier (vir)
Anglicismos — palavras inglesas no português brasileiro
The podcast episode is explicitly about this: "how much Brazilians adopt new foreign words into their everyday speech." This dialogue is packed with tech loanwords from English. Notice how they get used naturally, with Portuguese articles and grammar:
| Anglicismo | Used in Portuguese as… | Example from dialogue |
|---|---|---|
| o chip | masculine noun + Portuguese article | do novo chip |
| os pixels | plural with -s, Portuguese article | milhões de pixels |
| os apps | plural with -s, Portuguese article | com todos os apps |
| o design | masculine noun — pronounced /deˈzajn/ | tem um novo design |
| touch screen | invariable compound noun | touch screen |
| o FaceTime | proper noun treated as masculine | fazer chamadas FaceTime |
Como o português adapta palavras inglesas
Portuguese syllables strongly prefer ending in vowels (CV structure). When English words end in consonants, Brazilian speakers often add a final vowel — especially an unstressed -i. Listen carefully to native speakers say these words from the episode:
chip → often /ˈtʃi.pi/ ✦ apps → often /ˈa.pis/ ✦ touch → often /ˈto.tʃi/
This isn't "wrong" pronunciation — it's the natural phonological adaptation of borrowed words. The same process happened centuries ago with French loanwords: futebol (football), bife (beef), clube (club).
Notice also that design is pronounced /deˈzajn/ — the final -n disappears and the word gets Brazilian stress on the second syllable, just like Portuguese words ending in a nasal diphthong.
Verdadeiro ou Falso?
Based on the dialogue, mark each statement True (V) or False (F). Then check your answers.
Anglicismos — complete with the right word
Fill in each blank with the correct anglicismo from the word bank. Each word is used once.
What do they mean?
Choose the best meaning or explanation for each expression from the dialogue.
Futuro do Subjuntivo — complete with "se"
Fill in each blank with the correct futuro do subjuntivo form of the verb in parentheses.
Free production — Persuadir e ceder
Think of a gadget or purchase you (or someone you know) really wanted, but a partner, parent, or friend was skeptical. Write a short dialogue of 5–6 lines in Portuguese. Include: at least one comparative (é muito mais… / não é tão… assim), at least one se + futuro do subjuntivo sentence, and at least one expression from the lesson (Chega! / Tá bom / Perái / maquininha…).