"Você lê um livro e eu leio o jornal."
Translation:You read a book and I read the newspaper.
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I'm Brazilian and even I couldn't hear the "e" in the middle of the sentence.
I strongly recommend the re-doing of the portuguese audio. Many sentences are garbled, characterless and/or nearly incomprehensible. I feel the quality is lower than the other languages I've tried. I had to click the slow down button in order to make out the 'and (e)' and the difference between the 'a (um)' and 'the (o)', which was nonexistent in the normal speed audio. If a portuguese native speaker such as myself and other commenters here couldn't understand your audio, it's a sign that maybe you should consider revising it. Best Wishes
Can we say instead of newspaper news? It´s sounds like a better contemporary english to me...
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I usually say "paper" instead of "newspaper", and "newspaper" sounds strange to me. I guess it's time to re-educate the program.
The sound sample here is incomprehensible. At normal speed it sounds as though it's overlapping itself, or garbled somehow.
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Still impossible to understand. Are you folks actually working on this, or just saying you're working on it?
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It's not impossible to understand....it's not the program either, that's just how the language sounds....for it to be correct grammatically there has to be an "and" (or a comma) there.
Why is there "a" book and "the" newspaper? I believe both should be indefinite?
I don't know if this is a regional idiom, but I would never say "I read a newspaper;" it's always "the newspaper," "the paper," or "the news." The only exception I can think of is if there is an adjective or descriptive clause, such as in "I'm reading an old newspaper" or "I'm reading a paper that I bought on the way to work." But, like I said, this might be somewhat regional.
Is pretty wrong how does the woman´s voice, sometimes you don´t understand her properly.
Apparently putting & instead of 'and' is incorect, even though they are the same thing.
I always have an article wrong!! you really need to be careful with them... :(
open your ears and listen Escute! I am just learning and I heard everything in the slower version just keep repeating. it I heard the e and eu
The pronunciation of "o" in "o jornal" is wrong in the slow version. It is pronunced like "ó" (open, something like "aw") instead of the correct pronunciation "o" (closed, something like French "au").
