What’s up, everyone?
Hoje tem mais um post baseado em conversa do Twitter (veja o Inglês Online no Twitter). Umas três semanas atrás eu perguntei lá:
Who do you look like the most: your father or your mother? Com quem você se parece mais: seu pai ou sua mãe?
As respostas foram ótimas porque ilustraram 3 situações diferentes:
- I look nothing like my family Eu não pareço nada com a minha família
- I’m a celebrity look-alike Eu sou sósia de uma celebridade
- I am the spitting image of my father Eu sou a cara do meu pai
Então, resolvi aproveitar os exemplos e falar disso em áudio. O mp3 e o PDF com a transcrição estão logo aqui para quem quiser baixar:
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Transcrição
Hi everyone, this is Ana Luiza of Inglesonline.com.br and today I am going to talk a little bit about ‘looking like someone else’. This audio is part of a post published on December 1st, 2009 so to see all the contents of this post, including a transcript, please go to inglesonline.com.br .
So I wanted to post about this because about three weeks ago, I think, I asked this question on Twitter: Who do you look like the most: your mother or your father?
And I actually got a few answers to this question and I wanted to share them with you. One person said something like I look nothing like my family. So, it can happen. People look at you and at your biological parents, and no one can tell that you’re all related because you look nothing like them. It happens.
Another person said something like I am the spitting image of my father. This expression, spitting image, or spitting image – there’s a double ‘t’ in there – means that someone looks very much like someone else. So in the case of this person – it was a guy who said that -he looks a lot like his father, he looks very much like his father, or… you could say he and his father look very much alike, they look very much alike. So we can use this expression, he is the spitting image of his father.
And then a third person, and this was a woman… She said People tell me that I look a lot like Ivete Sangalo. So Ivete Sangalo is a celebrity, she’s a Brazilian celebrity and there’s an expression that is very common, especially when you look a lot like a celebrity, and this expression is look-alike. So we can say, this person is an Ivete Sangalo look-alike. In Portuguese we would say ‘sósia’, ‘Ela é sósia da Ivete Sangalo’. So we could say, she’s an Ivete Sangalo look-alike.
In my case I look more like my mother. Yeah, we are, we are both brunettes. So what about you, who do you look like? Are you a celebrity look-alike? Are you the spitting image of your father, are you the spitting image of your mother? Please tell us in the comment section, and talk to you next time.
This is Ana Luiza of inglesonline.com.br .
Key expressions
- look like someone
- look nothing like someone
- someone is the spitting image of (someone else)
- they look alike
- celebrity look-alike
Glossário
to share them with you = compartilhar (as respostas) com você
no one can tell = não dá para dizer (literalmente, ninguém consegue dizer)
you’re all related = vocês todos são parentes ou da mesma família
brunette = morena ou que tem cabelo escuro
Estou esperando as respostas de vocês! Who do you look like the most?
I’m the spitting image of my aunt.
HAHA
I look like my father. :p
Really, I’m the spitting image of my father!My best regards to Ana Luíza.
I loved your pronunciation and the way you read the post. I really need to improve my intonation.Well, I look like my father. Since I’m the only brunette of my mother’s four children, and that’s because of my father’s skin color, so I’d say that I’m the black sheep of my family. I’m kidding!
Thanks for the post,
Hi Thais: your aunt must be proud
Hi Gilberto – now go tell that to your father in English!
Hi Ira, I think you’re on the right track to better intonation
And of course you know you’re the look-alike I’m talking about right?
Wow!! I loved your voice!! Your pronunciation is almost perfect!! Well, I look like my father and my ants.
There is an expression for “I’m a mix of my parents, but I’m not the spitting image of no one of them”?
Thank you ana!
Keici: yes, you can say I’m a mix of my father and mother as far as looks are concerned, or I look like a mixture of my father and mother.
I loved this post!! it was nice to hear your voice Ana..you have a great intonation…
So, everybody tell me that i’m look alike my mother very much!!
continue…
and i have “os olhos do meu pai”,
how can i say that in english?
c-ya
Hi Drica!! Great to see you here. So you look a lot like your mother and you have your father’s eyes.
thanks Ana..
I loved read yours posts. I always learn a good lesson. I look like with my father, and i´m brunette to,but my hair look like with my mother.
Hi Paula! You look like your father and have your mother’s hair? Interesting combination…
Hi Ana! I’m the spitting image of my deceased mother. So, sometimes I feel uncomfortable with that, because everybody who liked her a lot, when looks at me, be instantly moved and get weepy.
Hi Patricia! Wow, that must be uncomfortable sometimes… Good for you for being able to tell this story in English!
I look a lot like Alannis Morissete! Rs My friends always tell me about this, but I don´t agree with them.
I look like my father, in personality, skin, we are brunette too.
Helo, Ana Luiza!
I’ve been studying english in Dublin for 6 months( August 2009 till Feb. 2010), I would be very happy if the Irish accent was like your accent.Your voice is beatifull.
So, I think that I look like my father, but I would not want to have the white hair that he has!!!
by,
Haa, Valesca you’re an Alanis Morrissette look-alike!
Hi Denise, so you’re a brunette and he’s darked-haired as well (brunette is more frequently used for women)
Cristiano – I LOVE the Irish accent, but it can be hard to understand sometimes! Thank you. If you’d like to write about your experience learning English in Ireland (em PT mesmo), please let me know. I could publish it on the blog.
My mother said that I look like with my father but even my hasband saw one picture of the my grandmother. He thought the I am very look with her(gandm).
My grandmam had curly hair and brown eyes. She was beaultiful brunette.
kisses Ana Luiza I love your all post
I’m the spitting image of my father.
Hi Ana, I look like with my mother…
“I’m the face of the my father”.
Estou satisfeito fazer parte deste curso de lingua estrageira.
I look like nothing like my family. Actually, i don’t even think i’m my parents’ son haha just kidding.
hi i love speak english because is very important to me. in my job i need know very words to say for any peaple.
yeahhh ! i look like my father !!
I can not have my father`s face,lol. I have my won face. My face looks like my father`s face, it is commonly said among teens. In addition, someone say, “Yes, you look like your father”. In conclusion, “I look like my father”.
I am the spitting image of my mother.
I look like my sister.
I’m the spitting image of my pather
Some people say that i’m the spitting image of my father.
Hi everyone, great comments!! Thank you.
I’m the spitting image of my father
I love when you speak english,its fantastic
Great Simone… and thanks
Hi Ana!
I’m very happy in see that you are using your ability for help us with English secrets! Thankyou! Well, I’m spitting image of my dad! Everybody who doesn’t know him, when meet him, knows immediately he is my father!
Thank you, Ana Luiza, for your classes I”m learning very much with you.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!
KISSESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your lessons. They’re very good. Talking me that I’m look alike Caetano Veloso.
Hi Rosiany, you’re welcome… Wow, people can tell he’s your father pretty quickly, huh? Yep, spitting image is the right expression for you.
wantuir and vimu, no problem… Be on the lookout for more podcasts (be on the lookout = fique de olho)
Hi Ana Luiza! You have a great voice, it remembers me Fernanda Abreu’s voice…hehe
well,Is the literal translation of spitting image something like “a imagem cuspida”? It sounds funny for me. Thanks teacher and please, if i’m not requiring too much, correct my comment if it is wrong!hugs
Thanks Ana!
I’m the spitting image of my mother.
Hi Ana! Não consigo baixar o mp3.
Hi solange,
Clique com o botão direito do mouse e escolha “Salvar link” ou “salvar destino” OK?
Hi Vini! haha… that’s nice that my voice reminds you of Fernanda’s voice.
Yup, isn’t that funny! That happens sometimes with idioms (not often but it does)
Hi Ana Luiza, tanks a lot.
You were change my learning in english.
Well, i’m look like my father.
By
Great Humberto. Enjoy the lessons…
Boa tarde Ana, adorei entrar no seu site. Estou iniciando no curso de ingles
e suas dicas me deu mais vontade de aprender.
Um grande abraço.
Att,
Gilberto André
well i wil be so happy with this site to hi are be so good to me i need know learn more about gramar your could help me friends tankio for all no more see you later bay.
Gilberto, que bom!! Assine e siga as dicas gratuitas COmo Falar Ingles (lá na homepage), vai te ajudar MUITO na parte da fala.
Hello Ana, I loved ur site, and it’s an excelent way to increase my english skill, I will become a frequently visitant.
Farewell
hi, i enjoy muito das pronuncias, por favor eu estou aprendendo inglês, o que poderem me ensinar eu fico muito agradeçida.
kisses.
Hi Jeymson, see you around…
Tabata – tem várias liçoes de pronuncia por aqui.
Some people say that I am a Jhonny Depp look-alike. But not only nowadays:it is since the times of “Anjos da Lei”.
I think it’s the best site that I’ve already found in my life!!!! Thank you
Ana
I’m starting to love English thanks to you.
I look like my mother
kisses
I’m spitting image of Tiger Woods…rs
Hi Ana,
I was looking for a good site, for a long time, in order to improve my English. So, I found this one and it seems to be a great site.
Answer your question: I look like a mixture of my father and mother. I have my grampa’s eyes.
Kisses, Karla
Hello Ana,
I look more like my mother. (My hair and my mouth) – Thiago.
I am the spitting image of my mother(My body, my face, my hair so everthing. – Renata.
Thanks for Podcast. It is very good.
Hi!!!
You have doing a woanderful job with your podcast, I´m learning a lot. Please never stop it.
I look nothing like my father, but my sister look very much like him, I look more lime my mother
I’m spitting image of my brother. Sometimes, people ask us, Are you twins?
hehehe, No, we are not.
And my daughter is spitting image of me. She is beautiful.
Hello Ana. Let me ask you… what does “bruenette” means?
Oh, forget about it. It’s on the “glossário”.
Thank you.
Hi Ana!
My family says that I’m the spitting image of my father, but thank God I have my mother’s personality.
Kisses!
Uma das formas mais polidas de se dizer é ” You have your father’s assemblance”. Dizer que você é “the spitting image” of someone pode soar um pouco rude para ouvidos mais sensíveis ( ser a imagem “cuspida” de alguém)
Hi,, Ana how have you been ?
It’s my first time here and I wanna say for you Thank you so much
because I finally got to understand this episodio my first episodio
so thank you so much again and
I look like my mother not the most but a little.
and this expression ” the spitting image of someone else ” dosen’t it sound stranger?
because spitting means ” cuspido ” will be as the guy above said ” ser a imagem cúspida de alguém .. ( não seria rúde de se dizer )
Hi Cayo,
Yes, it’s casual and informal.
Esse foi o 1o episódio que vc ouviu, ou o 1o que vc compreendeu? Parabéns!!
É o primeiro episódio que eu ouvi e compreendi perfeitamente, e já no outro dia eu compreendi melhor sem precisar do textinho. .. To feliz hahahah
Hi Ana,
I am a spitting image of my parents, I have two sister a blond, and a brunet, I am more younger my sisters know how to speak Englisch they are very inteligent woman. I start to study Englisch about two years ago, but when I discover this sait I improve my Englisch so much fast, every day I listen a couple of podcasts. I wish post a comment in all yours podcast it’s are my goal, I have a long journey, but I will manage, I know that!!!!!
Thanks Ana!
Francisco Sant’Anna your dedicate student.
Thanks, Francisco!! Welcome ;)