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Going to the Pharmacy

Pronunciation 6

Pronunciation of Oral Diphthongs

First published . of audio. Culture talk: Going to the Pharmacy.

In this lesson Valdo and Michelle can’t figure out why it is so difficult to get medicine from a pharmacy in the United States. This whole idea of going to a doctor first to get a prescription seems to complicate things a lot. It took them a while to get used to it, but it doesn’t mean that they have to like it. As to pronunciation, today we look at diphthongs. It’s a fancy word, to be sure, but it basically means that we are talking about Portuguese vowel sounds that come one right after another.

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