Catching up with friends: How to say What You Have Been Doing in Portuguese Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Brazilian - Other languages

way to the bay this is Luciana from
street-smart Brazil
so how has 2016 been treating you what
have you been thinking about how have
you been feeling today I will show you
this language structure that we tend to
use when we are catching up with friends
I will show you how to say what you have
been doing or how you have been feeling
and I will explain the structure in a
simple way you will get this even if
you're not crazy about grammar and verb
tenses observe this dialogue follow
along with the blog post there I have
these examples and additional examples
along with the English translation and
on the blog post I also have links to
additional resources to go to the blog
post click the little I that you see on
the top right corner of the video and
their link to the post is also in the
video description
okay let's do this so this woman Swilley
is saying yayyy Oh give us a safe a -
coochie momentum here give a setting
fail - oh gee mom ng her friend Vanya
answers they new trabajado bastante de
new trabajado based on G so in blue
there you have the structure that you're
going to learn today in English you call
this tense the present perfect continues
in Portuguese we call it prepare to
buffet to compulsion in the cattivo
but let's not get all hung up on this
complicated test names let's look at
these in a practical way and you will
see that it's easy to say what you have
been doing in Portuguese so compare the
X structures in English you say I write
in Portuguese you have LLL have been in
Portuguese I say pinyin working in
Portuguese I say trabajado a lot
bastante
so see you have a parallel it's not a
direct translation we're not using the
corresponding tenses in the two
languages but you do have two structures
that have a perfect parallel that you
just have to learn how to use it
here's another example Paola has been
Paul acting she has been travelling
paying via jadoo
to different places allegories
differentials so basically what you have
is that in Portuguese you use the
present tense of verb T in place of the
have been part in English and I do have
a lesson with the present tense of the
verb take so click the little I on the
top right corner and find the link to
that lesson and in Portuguese you use
the past participle of the main verb
instead of the present continues the ing
in English that's it it's really simple
make sure you visit the blog post I have
several additional examples there and I
have the translation for all the
examples now imagine how wonderful it
will feel to speak Portuguese with
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moving to obrigada for watching I will
see you soon ciao ciao