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Podcast: Tá Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish
Episode: Grammar Lesson 2: Contractions, Getting Change From A Machine
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asset title: Grammar Lesson 2: Contractions, Getting Change From A Machine
filename: tafalado_gra_02.mp3
track number: 28/46
time: 12:20
size: 8.67 MB
bitrate: 96 kbps
Can you believe how many contractions Portuguese has? : nesse, num, do, naquele, aos, pelo, etc. The list goes on and on. When speakers of Spanish catch on to these contractions, sentences become instantly easier to understand. And that, of course, is what Orlando, Michelle, Valdo, and Jose LuÃs hope to do with today's lesson on contractions. At the same time, culturally, Valdo and Michelle found it hard to find their change that automatically fell out of a machine a...