📝 Lição 38 — Em primeiro lugar

What Lição 38 teaches

The dissertação argumentativa — thesis, argument, counter-argument, conclusion — plus the formal connectors and how to hedge a claim.

Like every Rumo lesson it runs in eight steps — review of the previous lesson, new words with audio, the grammar properly explained, flashcards and typing drills, a dialogue with comprehension questions, a one-page summary, a test you pass at 70%, and your results. About 40 minutes.

Grammar in this lesson

• A dissertação — em primeiro lugar — The four-part argument skeleton and its formal connector inventory.

Read the story for this lesson first — it is free: Diante disso (~level B2, sentence-by-sentence translation and audio).

After level B2 you can…

talk about the past that didn\'t happen — regrets, should-haves, near-misses · survive Brazilian bureaucracy and read every official sign · switch between street slang and formal writing · argue a full opinion with structure and irony. In practice: you live in Brazil — renting, banking, joking, belonging — with Portuguese that surprises even the locals.

Level B2 is 10 lessons plus the Revisão B2 exam. This is lesson 8 of 10. The other lessons: Se eu tivesse sabido… · Para a gente se entender · À beira-mar · Um cafezinho? · Depende de quê? · Prezado senhor · Tá ligado? · Sei… · Viver em português.

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