Live Class — September 25, 2026

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00:00 Abertura e reencontro depois do verão 01:13 Casamento, família da China e da Colômbia 05:14 Lua de mel no País Basco e a língua basca 07:22 ETA e a palavra "sigla" 10:31 A pausa de agosto 11:07 Ferro, ferritina e ferro na veia 16:02 Falta de ferro x anemia 17:46 França, Grécia e horários americanos 20:52 12 graus na Carolina do Sul 23:37 Voltar para os EUA é um choque? 24:32 Seguro para tudo e o lustre que caiu 29:32 Nova York: Six, Harry Styles e US Open 34:24 O documentário do Djokovic 37:02 Jardim de infância e fantasias de Halloween 39:11 Bruxas e os julgamentos de Salém 45:00 Lendas urbanas e teorias da conspiração 45:56 Jacarés nos esgotos de Nova York 47:16 Algo que você só aprendeu tarde demais: Papai Noel 50:48 Contar ou não contar para os filhos? 53:11 Natal é uma operação militar 55:48 Coisas que são top (e que não são) 58:45 Aeromoça ou comissário de bordo? 01:01:32 Self-checkout: top ou não é top? 01:02:48 Atendimento nos EUA e na Europa 01:04:52 Gorjetas e despedida

🗣️ Expressões do dia a dia

#Sextou — "It's Friday!" The celebration word for the end of the work week, from sexta-feira sumida / sumido — someone who has disappeared for a while. Oi, sumida! is a warm, teasing hello Quanto tempo! — Long time no see! Nem acredito — I can't believe it Que máximo! — How great! Conte-me tudo / Me conta tudo — Tell me everything. The second is how it sounds in everyday Brazilian speech Cadê? Mostra! — Where is it? Show me! Deu tudo certo — It all worked out vale a pena — it's worth it aproveitar — to make the most of something, to enjoy it deixar rolar — to let things flow, go with it tadinha / tadinho — poor thing (short for coitadinha) fofo / fofinho — cute, sweet Nem vem — Don't even start, don't give me that por incrível que pareça — believe it or not, incredibly enough ligando os pontos — connecting the dots. In Spanish, atar cabos É uma operação militar — it's a military operation, meaning a huge logistical production. Alexia's description of Christmas with the family mordendo a língua — biting her tongue, holding back what she wants to say lá em cima — up there, at the top

🔝 Coisas que são top

top — great, awesome. Borrowed from English and used everywhere in Brazil topíssimo / topíssima — the absolute best, with the superlative ending -íssimo É top ou não é top? — Is it top or not? The question behind our Coisas que são top episodes. Send your suggestions in the WhatsApp group, and coisas que não são top are coming next self-checkout — used as is in Portuguese gorjeta — tip (at a restaurant). A cultura da gorjeta is tipping culture

💍 Casamento e família

Parabéns! — Congratulations! estar casada / casado — to be married. Estou casada, finalmente! lua de mel — honeymoon os convidados — the guests tradutor — translator, the app or the person sobrinho / sobrinha — nephew / niece jardim de infância — kindergarten

🩺 Saúde

exame de sangue — blood test. Alexia also said análises, the usual word in Portugal ferro — iron ferritina — ferritin, the protein that stores iron in the body and the number doctors check in a blood test com falta de ferro / com deficiência de ferro — iron deficient ferro na veia — IV iron, the everyday way to say it. The technical term is infusão de ferro intravenosa anêmico / anêmica — anemic. Iron deficiency and anemia are not the same thing: anemia is when the lack of iron (or another cause) brings hemoglobin down hemoglobina — hemoglobin fígado — liver carne vermelha — red meat vegetariano / vegetariana — vegetarian agulha — needle

🌦️ Tempo, casa e a tempestade

12 graus — 12°C, about 53.6°F suéterzinho — a little sweater. The diminutive -zinho makes things small or affectionate tempestade — storm árvores caídas — fallen trees no meio da noite — in the middle of the night lustre — chandelier. Memory hook: Sia's song "Chandelier" Um lustre enorme caiu no meio da noite — A huge chandelier fell in the middle of the night corrimão — banister, handrail tapete — rug travesseiro — pillow seguro — insurance. Seguro da casa, seguro do carro, seguro de vida

🧙 Bruxas, lendas e teorias

bruxa — witch. Bruxa boa is a good witch fantasia — costume. A false friend: it doesn't mean fantasy here os julgamentos das bruxas de Salém — the Salem witch trials, 1692 histeria coletiva — mass hysteria Inquisição — the Inquisition enforcado / enforcada — hanged esmagar — to crush lenda urbana — urban legend teoria da conspiração — conspiracy theory Vocês acreditam em alguma lenda urbana ou teoria da conspiração? — Do you believe in any urban legend or conspiracy theory? esgoto — sewer jacaré — alligator tartaruga — turtle Papai Noel — Santa Claus O que é algo que você só foi aprender bem mais tarde do que devia? — What's something you learned embarrassingly late in life?

✈️ No avião

aeromoça — flight attendant (woman), the everyday word comissário / comissária de bordo — flight attendant, the professional term and the usual one for men. Aeromoço is basically never used

✏️ Correções e gramática

Chegaram da China. Chegou da Colômbia. — They arrived from China. He arrived from Colombia. Use de + article (da, do), not desde, which means "since" presos — prisoners. The s between two vowels sounds like a z sigla — acronym or initials. ETA is a sigla; acrônimo also exists for ones read as a word Atenas — Athens (not Atena) julgamento — trial. Juízo means judgment or good sense (ter juízo, to be sensible) esmagar — to crush. Aplastar is Spanish and doesn't exist in Portuguese começou — it started (Spanish: empezó) os homens maus — bad men. Mau / má is the adjective, mal is the adverb, and malo / mala is Spanish tartarugas — turtles (Spanish: tortugas) de jeito nenhum / nem um pouco — not at all. Não de tudo doesn't work in Portuguese quando, operação, turbulência — when, operation, turbulence. Watch the Spanish forms cuando, operación, turbulencia É uma operação militar — It's a military operation. É (it is) takes the accent; e without it means "and" Se eles descobrirem... — If they find out... The future subjunctive, used after se and quando for things that may happen

🎭 Referências culturais

País Basco — the Basque Country, between northern Spain and southwestern France. País Vasco is the Spanish name basco — Basque, a language isolate with no proven relation to any other known language ETA — Basque separatist group (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), officially dissolved in 2018 Pátria — the Fernando Aramburu novel about Basque families divided by ETA, also an HBO series Six — the musical about the six wives of Henry VIII (Henrique VIII, read "Henrique oitavo") Djoko — nickname for Novak Djokovic US Open — the New York tennis Grand Slam As Bruxas de Salém (The Crucible) — Arthur Miller's play dramatizing the trials. John Proctor, its central figure, was hanged in 1692 Giles Corey — the Salem man crushed under stones for refusing to enter a plea. The famous last words "more weight" are his, not John Proctor's Tituba — the enslaved woman who was among the first accused in Salem candomblé e umbanda — Afro-Brazilian religions whose rituals were long misread as witchcraft. Alexia raised the comparison with Salem língua do diabo — "the devil's language," an old way of describing a language people didn't understand Tartarugas Ninja — the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who live in the sewers

📍 Lugares mencionados

Hamburgo — Hamburg, Germany País Basco — the Basque Country Atenas, Grécia — Athens, Greece Normandia — Normandy sul da França — the south of France Carolina do Sul — South Carolina Charleston — the South Carolina city where the shop story at the end of class took place Salém, Massachusetts — the town of the 1692 witch trials Nova York — New York

Tituba and the Salem witch trials, shared in class: