Portuguese–English parallel text
O Número Errado
The Wrong Number
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A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Um pequeno erro
One small mistake
Wanjiru morava em Nairóbi. Ela tinha vinte e nove anos e era cabeleireira.
Wanjiru lived in Nairobi. She was twenty-nine, and she was a hairdresser.
Ela trabalhava em um salão movimentado no centro da cidade. Mas o salão não era dela. O dono ficava com a maior parte do dinheiro.
She worked in a busy salon in the city centre. But the salon was not hers. The owner kept most of the money.
Todo mês, Wanjiru guardava um pouco. Ela tinha um plano. Um dia, ela queria seu próprio salão.
Every month, Wanjiru saved a little. She had a plan. One day, she wanted her own salon.
Na sexta-feira à noite, ela se sentou no ônibus para casa e abriu o aplicativo do banco. Tinha 210.000 xelins na conta dela.
On Friday evening, she sat on the bus home and opened her bank app. There were 210,000 shillings in her account.
“Duzentos e dez mil”, ela disse baixinho. “Mais noventa mil e eu posso começar.”
“Two hundred and ten thousand,” she said quietly. “Ninety thousand more, and I can start.”
Então o celular dela tocou. Era a mãe dela.
Then her phone rang. It was her mother.
“Wanjiru? É a mamãe. Como você está, minha filha?”
“Wanjiru? It’s Mama. How are you, my child?”
“Estou bem, mamãe. Estou no ônibus. Está tudo bem?”
“I’m fine, Mama. I’m on the bus. Is everything OK?”
“Está tudo bem. Bem, quase. É o telhado de novo. Choveu muito ontem à noite e a água entrou na cozinha.”
“Everything is fine. Well, almost. It’s the roof again. There was a lot of rain last night, and the water came into the kitchen.”
“De novo? Você chamou o homem da vila?”
“Again? Did you call the man from the village?”
“Sim. Ele veio hoje de manhã e olhou o telhado. ‘Cinquenta mil’, ele disse. ‘Posso começar na segunda-feira.’”
“Yes. He came this morning and looked at it. ‘Fifty thousand,’ he said. ‘I can start on Monday.’”
Wanjiru olhou para o número no aplicativo do banco. Cinquenta mil xelins eram cinco meses de economia.
Wanjiru looked at the number in her bank app. Fifty thousand shillings was five months of saving.
“Sinto muito, minha filha”, disse a mãe dela. “Eu sei do seu salão. Não gosto de pedir para você.”
“I’m sorry, my child,” said her mother. “I know about your salon. I don’t like asking you.”
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