Portuguese–English parallel text
Bolinhos de arroz para Ken
Rice Balls for Ken
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A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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Yuki tem sete anos. Ela mora com a mamãe, o papai e a vovó em Osaka. Osaka é uma cidade grande no Japão.
Yuki is seven years old. She lives with Mum, Dad and Grandma in Osaka. Osaka is a big city in Japan.
Amanhã a turma da Yuki vai fazer um passeio no parque. Todas as crianças levam comida. A mamãe sempre faz a comida da Yuki. Mas amanhã a Yuki quer fazer a comida dela sozinha.
Tomorrow Yuki’s class goes on a trip to the park. All the children bring some food. Mum always makes the food for Yuki. But tomorrow Yuki wants to make her food herself.
“Eu vou fazer bolinhos de arroz”, diz Yuki. A mamãe ri. “Muito bem. Eu ajudo você.” “Não!”, grita Yuki. “Eu faço tudo sozinha!”
“I’m making rice balls,” says Yuki. Mum laughs. “Good. I’ll help you.” “No!” shouts Yuki. “I do everything by myself!”
Yuki cozinha o arroz. Ele está quente e macio. Ela pega o arroz nas mãos. Ai! Ele está quente demais. Ela espera. Depois ela aperta o arroz em forma de bolinho.
Yuki cooks the rice. It is hot and soft. She takes the rice in her hands. Ouch! It is too hot. She waits. Then she presses it into a ball.
O bolinho se desmancha. O arroz gruda nas mãos, na mesa e no nariz. Yuki faz outro bolinho. Ele se desmancha também. E mais um. Se desmancha!
The ball falls apart. The rice sticks to her hands, to the table and to her nose. Yuki makes another ball. It falls apart, too. And another one. Apart!
Yuki fica triste. “Eu não consigo”, diz ela. A mamãe não diz nada. Ela só sorri e sai da cozinha.
Yuki is sad. “I can’t do this,” she says. Mum says nothing. She only smiles and goes out of the kitchen.
A vovó entra na cozinha. Ela vê arroz por todo lado. “Hmm”, diz ela. Yuki olha para a vovó. “Vovó, por favor, me mostra o truque. Mas eu faço sozinha.” A vovó ri. “Está bem.”
Grandma comes into the kitchen. She sees rice everywhere. “Hmm,” she says. Yuki looks at Grandma. “Grandma, please show me the trick. But I do it myself.” Grandma laughs. “That is good.”
“Mãos molhadas”, diz a vovó. “Um pouco de sal. E não aperta muito forte. Macio! O arroz é como um bebê.” Yuki molha as mãos. Ela pega um pouco de sal. Ela aperta macio.
“Wet hands,” says Grandma. “A little salt. And don’t press too hard. Softly! The rice is like a baby.” Yuki wets her hands. She takes a little salt. She presses softly.
O bolinho segura! Yuki faz três bolinhos de arroz. Em cada bolinho tem um pedaço de peixe. Os bolinhos não são bonitos. Um é quadrado, um é achatado, um é um pouco torto. Mas eles seguram.
The ball holds! Yuki makes three rice balls. In every ball there is a piece of fish. The balls are not pretty. One is square, one is flat, one is a little bent. But they hold.
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