Intermediate 28: Men and Women Shopping

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Do you love or hate shopping? People seem to fall into one of those camps. And how does your love/hate of shopping change when you get to do it online? Or does it change when you are shopping for cloths or for tools? All of this goes into our shopping patterns, and in this lesson we do it in Portuguese.

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 A: Ô Sueli, você aceita esse estereótipo de que o homem não gosta de fazer compras?
Sueli, do you accept the stereotype that men don’t like to go shopping?
  B: Não sei viu, no caso do Ronaldo, meu marido, o que ele não gosta e olhar tudo e não comprar nada.
I don’t know, you know, in the case of Ronaldo, what he doesn’t like it to looking and end up not buying anything.
  A: É, meu irmão o Luizão diz que não gosta de compras, mas ele passa horas e horas na internet buscando as promoções, comparando preços e lendo os detalhes.
Yes, Luizão says that he doesn’t like shopping, but he spends hours and hours on the internet looking for sales, comparing prices, and reading about details.
  B: Essa é a diferença, eu prefiro ver a vitrine, rodar o local inteiro, ver o que têm, descobrir uma coisa nova. É muito mais agradável do que esse tal de “estudar as opções” na internet.
That’s the difference, I prefer to window shop, walk around the whole place, seeing what they have, and finding something new. This is much more enjoyable than this thing of “studying the options” on the internet.
  A: Mas Luizão entra na loja, faz a compra em dois minutos, e já quer voltar para a casa.
But Luizão enters the store, buy something in two minutes, and then he already wants to go home.
  B: Mas sabe, outro dia eu estive na Sodimac com Ronaldo. Ele disse que precisava de uma nova chave inglesa...
But you know, the other day I was at Sodimac with Ronaldo. He said he needed another wrench…
  A: E já sei, ele ficou lá horas e horas, feliz da vida comparando tudo, né?
And I already know, he spent hours and hours, happy as can be comparing everything, right?
  B: Exato, depois de dez minutos eu que não aguentava mais, eu me despedi dele, e fui para outro departamento sozinha.
Exactly, after ten minutes I couldn’t take it anymore and I said good bye to him and when to another department all by myself.
  A: Tá vendo? Esse estereótipo não é verdadeiro, os homens também gostam de fazer compras, só depende do produto.
You see? The stereotype isn’t true, men also like to go shopping, it just depends on the product.

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