Portuguese–English parallel text
Trinta Dias, Sem Dinheiro
Thirty Days, No Money
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A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
A aposta
The bet
Jonas mora em Berlim. Ele tem vinte e nove anos. Ele trabalha em uma loja de celulares.
Jonas lives in Berlin. He is twenty-nine. He works in a phone shop.
Jonas gosta de dinheiro. Mas o dinheiro não gosta de Jonas. Ele vai embora muito rápido.
Jonas likes money. But money does not like Jonas. It goes away very fast.
Toda manhã, ele compra um café por quatro euros. Todo dia no almoço, ele compra um hambúrguer. Toda noite, ele compra uma pizza no celular.
Every morning, he buys a coffee for four euros. Every day at lunch, he buys a burger. Every evening, he buys a pizza on his phone.
E à noite, ele compra coisas na internet. Meias com gatos nelas. Uma luminária no formato de banana.
And at night, he buys things on the internet. Socks with cats on them. A lamp in the shape of a banana.
Mia é colega de apartamento dele. Ela tem o quarto do lado do dele. A cozinha e o banheiro são para os dois.
Mia is his flatmate. She has the room next to his. The kitchen and the bathroom are for both of them.
Na segunda-feira de manhã, tem uma caixa grande na porta. Mia olha para a caixa.
On Monday morning, there is a big box at the door. Mia looks at it.
“Jonas! O que é isso?”
“Jonas! What is this?”
“Uma luminária”, diz Jonas. “É uma banana.”
“A lamp,” says Jonas. “It is a banana.”
“Uma luminária de banana?”
“A banana lamp?”
“É muito bonita. É amarela.”
“It is very nice. It is yellow.”
Mia abre a geladeira. Não tem nada nela. Só um limão muito velho.
Mia opens the fridge. There is nothing in it. Only a very old lemon.
“Jonas, onde está o seu dinheiro? É dia cinco do mês. E a geladeira está vazia.”
“Jonas, where is your money? It is the fifth of the month. And the fridge is empty.”
“Meu dinheiro está no meu café. E na minha pizza. E na minha banana.”
“My money is in my coffee. And in my pizza. And in my banana.”
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