Time to understand Portuguese! | European Portuguese listening exercise

[@thelanguageunschool]

How do you evaluate your understanding of the 3 stories? A. understand the very general topic B. understand some details, including emotions C. understand the words, but miss the jokes D. understand the nuances, expressions, jokes

[@ineswecker9187]

A. Phew, long way to go...🙂

[@thelanguageunschool]

there's no way but up from where you are, Ines. You are doing great!

[@msimon976]

I would say I was at Level A for the second two stories, and moments of getting details, including emotions. First dialogue was hard to understand much beyond a word here and there.

[@charliebc6538]

Que fixe! Gosto deste tipo de aprendizagem. Tive dificuldade em perceber a primeira história mas as outras duas consegui seguir mais ou menos bem 😀 Vou tentar voltar a ouvir este vídeo outra vez no futuro talvez daqui a uns meses e ver se consigo perceber mais. Obrigada professora 🥰

[@thelanguageunschool]

Boa, Charlie. Podes também tentar ouvir a primeira história mais vezes agora, tentando transcrevê-la. Pensa no tópico geral, depois palavras que apanhas, até perceberes detalhes mais pequenos. Às vezes é só uma questão de foco. Enjoy!

[@ojmanoo]

Perfect 😄🙏

[@vickimuhammad4762]

The first thing I wanted to do was pull out my notepad and start writing down the words I heard😅. Unfortunately, I was at the bus stop and my bus had arrived. I think I understood it was about a house. It needed to be cleaned. You lived in other houses before. All houses have some problems. Something having to do with windows. I am actively working on my listening skills. I look forward to your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@thelanguageunschool]

Boa, Vicki! You got a lot. When you get off the bus ;) try to listen to one story at a time and I'm sure you'll pick up a lot more. Perhaps the auto-generated subtitles will give you important clues also.

[@pedrapioan4201]

House & Thank you 🙈😃 I have no problem understanding you, my problem is I don't yet have enough Portuguese vocabulary , I am and will keep working on it. Obrigado for the listening practice video❤👍

[@thelanguageunschool]

It took me a while to understand "house". 😂 Ok, I'm a bit confused how you manage to understand me if you don't have enough vocabulary. You must have some already! Try this free sample of the first phase of my program. One of the ideas is to help my Unschoolers acquire their first 600 words (less here because it's just 3 stories): thelanguageunschool.com/course/ministart

[@lisawhitfeld8624]

Oh my!! Positives - I recognised what you were saying was Portuguese!! That's a start !! There was a bit more. General topic - your house and house mates? The others made noise and a window was mentioned in the #3. I have a loooooong way to go...... oh my!!

[@thelanguageunschool]

Great that you started with the positives, Lisa, and that you recognize that understanding I was speaking Portuguese is one. That is good mindset-wise. And then you got the general topic and some details. You can focus on one story and watch it a few more times; or another video of mine that has subtitles and notice the patterns. That's all language is about ;) Enjoy!

[@janegoodwin5954]

I would say I'm about a B. Will listen again romorrow though, thanks!! 😊

[@thelanguageunschool]

Nada mau! Aposto que vai perceber mais "amanhã". Let em know how the second try goes/went.

[@damienobuachalla7616]

Hi Catarina, who exactly is this lesson targeted at..... I ask because, there are a lot colloquial phrases etc..... what level is this aimed at etc... Also could you explain what sounded like..."ou lugar comprar o que for " ?

[@alessandrot.449]

Percebi bastante, não exatamente tudo, mas está bem.

[@thelanguageunschool]

Que bom! Fantástico, mesmo! De onde és? E como andas a aprender português?

[@KeithAmery]

Somewhere between C and D

[@thelanguageunschool]

You're kidding? That's amazing, Keith!! Estou muito orgulhosa!

[@julierichards2639]

I think I understood very little since it’s fast and I’m a beginner:) About your house and the houses you’ve lived in and some of the problems with them?

[@thelanguageunschool]

I'd say that's amazing for a beginner. Boa, Julie!! It's definitely worth coming back to this video in a couple months' time. It's a great way for you to recognize progress.

[@nikolaigrut]

Percebi muito. Mas houve algumas palavras - talvez cuatro - que não ouvi bem e não consegui de escrever corretamente para procurar num dicionário.

[@thelanguageunschool]

isso é muito bom. Parabéns! Mesmo sem essas quatro palavras, não perdeu pitada do que eu disse. E isso é o que interessa.

[@nikolaigrut]

@@thelanguageunschool tu és tão amável.

[@Jess-rj3qd]

And here I was thinking my Portuguese was progressing🤣🤣🤣 Hmm...recognized many words and I think I know the gist but not much more.

[@thelanguageunschool]

Maybe you simply need to focus on one of the stories and watch it a few times; change the speed; go back and forth... and good that you understood some things, right?

[@elBuho774]

eheheh with Portuguese subtitles a B or C. but without, an A. Nada pior do que xixi de gato! uma nova palavra! I have never heard of a crying house :) . Without the subtitles I chase to catch a word I understand, but by then I miss the next 5 words. Was one of the three versions "easier" to understand? I felt like #3 was clearer to me, but perhaps I had some ideas after the first two. It would be an interesting thought experiment to put the easiest one first, and #2 and #3 get more complicated... Great stuff though!!

[@thelanguageunschool]

So funny you got THAT detail!! In normal conversation it'd be very annoying to miss the next 5 words, but since this is recorded, you can take advantage of it and rewind as often as you need and put the puzzle together.

[@RosWarmington-df2gw]

Really hard and frustrating for me - this is exactly how I feel in conversation with Portuguese people, I can pick out a few words but have very little idea of the context or points they're making.. I understood the general theme and maybe a few details so maybe a B - you seemed to be talking about different houses, #1 I got a big house, 10 years or more, next to the beach, with a swimming pool. #2 honestly didn't get much. #3 something about a house on the main road, lots of pollution, things turning black with pollution, a room with no windows. How you couldn't live there again, maybe? I guess that's something! More than I thought actually!

[@thelanguageunschool]

That is quite a lot of details, so Parabéns!! You can now focus on one of the stories and listen a few times, a few seconds at a time. In the first phase of my program, I slow down to get people time to recognize the patterns of how we speak. Maybe try this sample and see how it goes: thelanguageunschool.com/course/ministart

[@ingermacrae]

1 - talking about your perfect house? That it needs to be small so you don’t have too much to clean? 2 - talking about houses you have lived in? 3 - talking about problems with the houses. Didn’t get more than maybe the idea? Or I might be far out. 😂

[@thelanguageunschool]

Boa! You got the general idea of each story and even a detail. If you listen more times you will definitely get more meaning.

[@ingermacrae]

@@thelanguageunschool isso faz-me feliz! Obrigada!

[@sarahfazakerley8826]

Didn't get much, about the same as Lisa. I'm guessing I'd probably know half or more if written. Not sure this approach does much for me. I'm focusing on connected speech and pronunciation and vocabulary, but it's not made much difference so far

[@thelanguageunschool]

Sarah, this video is not good for connected speech because there's no text alongside it. It's more to relax and see how much you pick up based on vocab you already know, your exposure to spoken Portuguese, and the big percentage human communication is based on: body language and intonation.

[@HiszpańskiPodstawy]

Não tenho a certeza quales são as piadas. Sala sem janelas, por exemplo, não pode ser uma piada, é um horror! Ps. Pozdrowienia z Wrocławia.

[@HiszpańskiPodstawy]

Em geral, acho que estou no meio entre B e C.

[@thelanguageunschool]

e percebeste o que disse da minha kawalerka em Wroclaw? Smiesne, ze tez we Wroclawiu mieszkasz!

[@thelanguageunschool]

@@HiszpańskiPodstawy isso é muito bom! podes rever cada história com mais calma para tentar apanhar os detalhes.

[@HiszpańskiPodstawy]

Percebi,sim: pequena, confortável, com vista (em que andar?). Mais o vizinho, por assim dizer. Tak, co za zbieg okoliczności :)