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In Spanish, the word for "shark" is «tiburón». I cannot think of anything else. :)
I learned this word the first day i arrived at the beach in Recife. Yikes
don't we feel like more useful animals can be learned in the third lesson??
though, if i find myself in brazil/portugal on a beach next to a shark, i will be glad i learned this...
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Except some of the beaches in Brazil actually have shark warnings, like Receife, and people do travel to Brazil for the beaches, so this is a useful animal to know.
What don't you get about it? The stress is on the last syllable «rão», which contains a nasal diphthong. The first syllable is pronounced like "too."
Look for it on forvo.com. The word is pronounced something like too-buh-RÃO.
The same for me Ian. I'll be looking on some other sites to hear a clear pronunciation.
