Portuguese · Beginner
Adapted from The Red Shoes
A girl’s beautiful red shoes lead her into a troubling chain of events.
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Scene 1 · Beginner
Era uma vez uma menina chamada Karen. Ela era bonita, mas muito pobre. No verão, andava descalça. No inverno, usava grandes sapatos de madeira, que deixavam seus pés vermelhos.
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Karen. She was beautiful, but very poor. In summer, she went barefoot. In winter, she wore large wooden shoes that made her feet red.
A mulher de um sapateiro da aldeia quis ajudá-la. Com pedaços velhos de tecido vermelho, fez um par de sapatos para Karen. Não ficaram muito bonitos, mas foram feitos com carinho.
A village shoemaker’s wife wanted to help her. She made a pair of shoes for Karen out of old pieces of red fabric. They weren’t very beautiful, but they were made with care.
Karen usou os sapatos pela primeira vez no enterro de sua mãe. Sapatos vermelhos não eram adequados para aquele momento triste, mas ela não tinha outros. Com eles nos pés, caminhou atrás do caixão simples de sua mãe.
Karen wore the shoes for the first time at her mother’s funeral. Red shoes weren’t right for such a sad occasion, but she had no others. With them on her feet, she walked behind her mother’s simple coffin.
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