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Estou um falante nativo de inglês. Estou aposentado e moro no nordeste das EUA. Estou aprendendo português para um passatempo. Tenho interesse em lendo livros em português.
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Beatriz Mendonça
Portuguese
Jul 15, 2024
Mais uma boa conversa com o Dan! Sempre conseguimos conversar sobre diferentes assuntos e isso é o mais legal das nossas aulas. O Dan é muito dedicado e isso faz com que nossas aulas sejam sempre proveitosas! Parabéns, Dan!
yherlin
Spanish
Sep 23, 2023
an excellent conversation, I really enjoyed talking, I hope to see you soon, it's a pleasure to meet you
Rosana De Matos
Portuguese
Sep 20, 2021
Comunicação está cada dia mais fluida. Avanzando!!
Rosana De Matos
Portuguese
Jul 14, 2021
Nesta aula vimos a diferença entre "ser" e "estar". Dan "é" um aluno muito esforçado e "está" evoluindo no idioma português cada dia mais!
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    June 25, 2025
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    "About" is OK, and "of" is OK. "Of" sounds a little bit old-fashioned, though. "For" is wrong. The most natural preposition for a _warning_ would be "against:" "They warned me against pickpockets in the train station."
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    June 25, 2025
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    Yes. They are close synonyms. The American Heritage dictionary lists "calm, peaceful, placid, serene, tranquil" as synonyms, and doesn't mention any differences in meaning. "Peaceful" is a more common, more everyday word. "Tranquil" is slightly fancier, more literary.
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    June 25, 2025
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    If you are using a Mac, you can turn on PhotoBooth, and it will show your image back to you, as if in a mirror. On any platform, you can go to Google Meet, New Meeting, Instant Meeting, and it will show you image back to you, as if in a mirror. This will confirm that your camera is working, powered on, and not blocked or muted by your laptop itself. If that works, but someone on a video call can only hear you and not see you, it gets complicated. It's possible that you could have blocked your camera in your video calling tool. Just as you can mute your microphone, you can usually block your camera; there's usually a little camera button and it may have a line across it if you've blocked it. If the internet connection isn't good, your calling tool may automatically block video in order to save bandwidth. You should suspect this if your audio isn't clear, especially if it stutters or has gaps in it.
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    June 25, 2025
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    If you translate this literally into English, the result is an English idiom that means exactly the same thing. "I know it like the palm of my hand." I wonder which came first? It wouldn't surprise me if it came from Latin...
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    June 8, 2025
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    "Possible" and "probable" are everyday English. "Possibility" has a broad meaning. Oddly, "probability" has a narrow, almost technical meaning, and often refers to a specific percentage estimate. This is probably because of the mathematical theories of probability and statistics. Suppose you flip a fair coin ten times in a row. The two sides of a coin are called the "head" and the "tail." You can say: "It is possible that you could get 'heads' ten times in a row." "However, is probable that you would get 'tails' at least once." "Getting ten 'heads' in a row is a possibility.." You could NOT say "Getting 'tails' at least once is a probability." You COULD say "The is a 99.9% probability of getting 'tails' at least once."
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    May 19, 2025
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    En el contexto de ropa, creo que podemos decir "llevar" para "usar." La temperatura esta alta, hoy yo llevará una camisa de mangas cortas. ¿Asi es?
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    May 19, 2025
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    I don't think it has anything to do with the presence of adjective. If you left out the word "terrible," the proper phrasing would still be "a sin and an immorality." (The indefinite article changes from "a" to "an" for euphony, when preceding a word that begins with a vowel sound). You could avoid the indefinite article by changing "sin" and "immorality" to their adjectival forms, though: "it is also sinful and immoral."
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    May 19, 2025
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    No. The sentence is in the present tense. It telling about present possibilities. It is talking about things they can do now. "Pursued" would refer to something they did in the past. If the facility had closed, you could say it's sad, because it had been a place where they pursued knowledge. "To pursue" is the natural choice, but here are some other possibilities: ...a place for pursuing knowledge... ...a place where they can pursue knowledge... ...a place for the pursuit of knowledge...
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    May 19, 2025
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    Sometimes, when a writer is trying to show clearly that "and" is being pronounced in this way, they will write it with apostrophes for the "a" and the "d:" "ham 'n' eggs" for "ham and eggs." That is, apostrophes are used to show that neither the "a" nor the "d" in "and" is being pronounced, but just as if it were a isolated little grunted "n." For example, Mark Twain, in "Roughing It," has a character say: "But if the ground suited him, he would lay low 'n' keep dark till the first pan was washed, 'n' then he would sidle up 'n' take a look..." meaning "But if the ground suited him, he would lay low and keep dark till the first pan was washed, and then he would sidle up and take a look..."
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    May 19, 2025
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