Uma piada em português

Hi, Amanda! It's me again. :)

》Uma curiosidade (1) em português

》Observações

1) "Piada" is a short or median story told to make someone laugh a lot, generally is a fiction. You wrote a funny curiosity about your day or, as we use to call in Brazilian Northeast, a "causo" (short, median or large story also told to make laugh, but it happened or it can happen with somebody). It would be a "piada" if you had been insistent and you had asked for "pasta" with tomato in Brazil, for example, and the waitress had brought you a "pasta" (used to put documents) with this fruit above... Ah, other meaning to "pasta" in portuguese is "toothpaste".

2) At first, a comma is generally necessary after "hoje", because this word was written in indirect order (its place is at the final of the phrase). And now: "uma" is a female indefinite article or a number (1). Just for this, you must have careful. Let me explain: imagine that your teacher offers to you two hours of portuguese lecture. In Brazil, this can be understood like "duas aulas" (two periods with lessons). If you say "Eu tive uma aula", you're saying you had an entire class (two hours, without division) or you're saying you had just one part of lessons' period (just an hour). The both depend of the context, but the reader can't know about the class organization, maybe.

3) Sometimes, we need to change the order of the phrase. This is an example. If you say "comi no jantar antes da aula", we can have a doubt: would you have a dinner after the class, too? 'Cause "antes da aula" may be a complement to "jantar". One more observation: in this context, "falar", "dizer" and "contar" have the same meaning.

4) I omitted "eu" and other words, and I changed a word and an expression for similars.

5) Put the definite article "o" before "meu professor" is an option. Everyone who will read your text will know that he is your unique portuguese teacher, by the context. For the same reason, we don't need to use definite articles before persons' names, indiscriminately (even this is the usual in Southeast).

6) In this context, he showed you just one picture, an unique picture, so, you may use "a foto". However, the photo has an exemplar of a lot of "pastas" which exist in the world, so, you may use "uma pasta".

7) The same tip that I gave to you on a note before: we can change words and expressions to turn rich our texts... And another tip now: there is a division between the phrases with a comma, 'cause there are two subjects (a single (este) and a compound (o macarrão e a massa)).

8) The exactly translation of "gente" is folk. Brazilians use it reffering to "we", too. This way, you can use in informal texts.

Uma piada em português

Obs:

1)Eu queria dizer a ele o que eu tinha comido no jantar, antes da nossa aula.

I wanted to tell him what I had eaten for dinner before our lesson.

2)Eu disse que eu tinha comido "pasta" com frango e pão.

I said (that) I had eaten pasta with chicken and bread.

(Em ambas as frase acima, deve-se usar o pretérito-mais-que-perfeito composto (past perfect), pois expressa um fato ocorrido antes de outro fato já terminado; você está nos contando um acontecimento no passado, portanto, você está relatando [reported speech] )

●"A gente" é muito informal e, por isso, deve-se usá-lo apenas no português falado e em escritas informais. "Nós" é o mais adequado para textos escritos de acordo com a norma padrão culta da língua portuguesa. No português do dia a dia, os brasileiros usam mais "a gente", embora "nós" também seja usado.Tanto "nós" quanto "a gente" podem ser usados em conversas ou escritas informais.

Great job!

Uma piada em português