How to Make Small Talk in Portuguese
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A few months after my wife and I moved here, I was at my local Continente paying for groceries. The cashier finished scanning, looked up, and said something to me in Portuguese. I had no idea what she'd asked. I just handed her my card, awkwardly avoided her question and said "obrigado" when she gave it back, then walked out.
It was probably a "tem cartão Continente?" (do you have a Continente card?) or something simple like that, but I'd been so focused on getting through the bom dia and the obrigado that anything off script broke me.
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