Maria catarina's Meeting Notes Wed, Apr 01, 2026 6:37PM • 11:36 SUMMARY KEYWORDS workload, project discovery, client schedule, team burnout, technical difficulties, internet connection, presentation issues, holiday request, language practice, vocabulary growth, phrasal verbs, confidence building, gym routine, meditation, communication skills SPEAKERS Maria Correag, Kai Freudenthal Maria Correag 00:20 Desert Good morning. Juan, How's everything going today? Tudo employee, conseguir descansar un pouco desde nossa. Maria Correag 01:06 Ltima sesso, Hello, Mark, good morning. I'm fine. Thank you my processing serum and pouco. Tare, Father, you know it's been a long morning already. Comece at trabalhar as such, the momento per kitchen, I can Maria Correag 01:21 imagine a tele is a good word measurement in English, we'd say busy. Or, if you want to sound more idiomatic, swamped, like I'm swamped with work, swamped Kai Freudenthal 01:35 Chipo non pouco. That is exactly how I feel swamped anyway. How's your week going? Maria Correag 01:42 Not bad. Aproveitarist sold the Lisboa entrega, chuva, volte. But tell me, How's the new project going? Aquele, concessionist, meno passado qui keep it Londres. Kai Freudenthal 01:53 It's going well, actually, wait, actually, or currently, your confundo missing the coisas, duas, I want to say atualmente. Kai Freudenthal 02:03 Projeto sta Maria Correag 02:06 bem pergunta Isso chamamos de false friend actually means, never that. Or fact, if you want to say atualment, you should use currently or even nowadays. Kai Freudenthal 02:19 Right, right Maria Correag 02:21 tenant is tuna Cabe. So currently we are in the discovery sets, but we have a problem come with schedule a client, quer Tudo, projeto as usual as sempre mesma, coisa, they never give us enough time. Para testarco, Maria Correag 02:40 tell me about it. Clients are the same everywhere as sempre mesma coisa is. It's always the same thing. And How's your team handling it? Was essential, burnout. Kai Freudenthal 02:53 We're trying to Montera conta, yesterday, I took my own young with the developers. I pretended to explain the new features, but it was difficult because they are very technical. Maria Correag 03:07 Wait, Joan pretended Londres took for lunch if you pretend status, click, accomplish. Mesma, trick, coisa. Maria Correag 03:18 Oh, no, every time I meant intended, your pretendia explicar ele meu objetivo, or may be tried, Maria Correag 03:28 tried or intended works much better. Sess, I pretended to explain auto chef, ele shark, Tudo physis, not anio Pois is Kai Freudenthal 03:38 that I intended to explain the features, but the internet connection was porcaria. It kept dropping. Is that a word? Quando? Liga, son, Kai, Maria Correag 03:50 yes, the connection kept dropping, or it was unstable. Caiu vai desde. It's frustrating, especially in the middle of a demo. Kai Freudenthal 03:59 Exactly, I was sharing my screen in the repente Kai Freudenthal 04:03 PUF silence. Kai Freudenthal 04:05 I was talking alone for two minutes. Maria Correag 04:07 Quando, percebique, vermel comum tomate. It was so embarrassing. Maria Correag 04:12 It happens to the best of us. And did you manage to finish the presentation after the connection came back? Maria Correag 04:19 No, I didn't finish it. Wait, I didn't finish seeing you with the cert. Porque Japan, you did as a rescu, ms, conseguir, roses, Christmas, sempre, Maria Correag 04:31 spot on. You got it? Comum, chatting is well, CIL, we are. Did a marcar passada vai principal volta, infinitivo. I didn't finish and we went more prequel, sess dizemina over Muda, sempre, Kai Freudenthal 04:47 thanks, education, million. RIAs conta falar happened. I finished it this morning, though I got to my descansado. I also asked to my boss for a holiday in Agosto. Precisa, de facto Maria Correag 05:01 arrangement, almost perfect. But remember, we don't say asked to my boss. We just say, I asked my boss verbo, ask nossa de preposition to Quando objetivo, Sua quem page. Kai Freudenthal 05:15 Ah, okay. I asked my boss for a holiday. Kai Freudenthal 05:19 I want to go to the algorithm. Maria Correag 05:21 Bocado. I really need to disseguar, how do you say that? Like, stop thinking about computer screens. Maria Correag 05:29 We say to disconnect or to unplug like a cable. Maria Correag 05:33 I love that. I need to unplug. Algum in August is Kai Freudenthal 05:37 great, but it's so crowded, Kai Freudenthal 05:39 isn't it? Muita gente, know, Ficas all, no, Maria Correag 05:44 that's true, Mr. Vice President, Maria Correag 05:49 I go to a place nice a conta, a very quiet village near Sagres. There are no tourists. There only locals. El me refer you every year I stayed there for 10 days a comum pecial. Ler, livros, no emails, no slack, no Jira, Maria Correag 06:06 that sounds like heaven. I need to find a place like that too. Lisboa in the summer is getting too crazy. Essa RIAs, portugu, lado distuk, tuktuks non para. Kai Freudenthal 06:18 It's true even my neighborhood, zonas, consegues descanar, it's annoying anyway. Mark, I had a doubt Estava that we may always demand. Dizia Regarding our last meeting, okay, regarding our message about Maria Correag 06:33 exactly regarding is just a bit more formal among comum of proficiene envej dizer about the meeting. This regarding the meeting. Download, my profissional need to call Kai Freudenthal 06:46 intendi Regarding the meeting. Kai Freudenthal 06:49 Vou comer ingl remains simple. Ingl, same for me to basically. You know, I always use the same words, good, bad, happy problem. Don't be so Kai Freudenthal 07:03 hard on yourself. Well, your vocabulary is growing in normal usage, palavras, machine plus constata, confianza, the fact that your code, switching your fazer, estas, perguntas, shows your thinking in the language. Star, November, Kai Freudenthal 07:19 I hope so. Sometimes I feel frustrado in my head. I have all these complex ideas in portuguise, software, complicadas, misconduct, Abro, Abro, King grace, I sound like a child and bocado desperante, Sinto mi limito. Maria Correag 07:37 I feel the same when I try to speak Portuguese at the SEF or the finances, your cash. Click on me the toda, you cave, dizer you create papel prefer. We just have to keep practicing. Us create an on term med de. Let's try a small exercise to boost your confidence. Tell me three things you managed to do this week. Managed no sentence, conseguir, fazer algo. Kai Freudenthal 08:02 Okay, let me see. First, I managed to finish the report on time, even with the internet problems. Second, I managed to convince ser meu colega ajudar con bug. How do you say convencer? Is it convince? Kai Freudenthal 08:19 Yes, to convince very good Maria Correag 08:23 I managed to convince my colleague to help me with the database. He's very busy, so it was a victory. And third, I managed to ele three times this week. Final range depois you. Mez parado, Maria Correag 08:36 conseguir Correag, Maria Correag 08:38 nice, that's a real achievement. Going to the gym is the hardest part. Who has the fazer poisar, la meditation, vai treinar sio fin, Kai Freudenthal 08:49 I prefer in the morning. Kai Freudenthal 08:50 Mesma frio, dama, precisa, especially with this cold weather, I would want to stay on Maria Correag 08:56 the sofa with a blanket. Kai Freudenthal 08:59 Precisa is laziness. But when you feel like that, we usually say, I'm feeling lazy, or, more naturally, I can't be bothered. Like I can't be bothered to go to the gym. Kai Freudenthal 09:11 I can't be bothered I like that expression. Volz, are esse comum, Muda, condo, palavra, lo es, algo, noite. Sorry, dear. Maria Correag 09:19 I can't be bothered. Kai Freudenthal 09:21 Careful with that. Well, it might start a fight. It Pois, anyway, anyways. Well, you mentioned you feel limited. Recommended is phrasal verbs, the trabalhar Eles issue, the Muita swarm, ing basi, Kai Freudenthal 09:38 most phrasal verbs, no peasade deal and Tudo, get up, Kai Freudenthal 09:42 get down, get across. Maria Correag 09:46 Comic position, go over. Follow up, you break down. Kai Freudenthal 09:53 Follow up. Air queens, dizement, Maria Correag 09:59 you go over. Sete said, let's go over the details. Kai, you perceive. Kai Freudenthal 10:04 Man, no, maybe even Kai Freudenthal 10:07 is that. Let's go over a measurement. Let's review and winter you break down a DVD, algum grant and partic finish. Let's break down the budget, Kai Freudenthal 10:19 ah, to produce tinha or something to fasto Institute, go over the details, follow up with the client and break down the tasks. Kai Freudenthal 10:28 Perfect. Ves comers, intendificio, status for next time I want you to look at these three it, and that results NUMA frase, over to the trabalhar partic. Fazer is, Kai Freudenthal 10:40 yes, I will do it. Voiced that is nothing semana inter passo volte is perkino Station. Maria Correag 10:51 Don't let the precisa win. Great session today is one. Your pronunciation is much clearer, especially the th sounds. Kai Freudenthal 11:00 Thank you, Mark, see you next Thursday. Then I miss my thing. Maria Correag 11:06 Okay, same time works for me. If anything changes, just send me a message. New WhatsApp. Have a nice weekend. Bon fins, man, aprove dot chance Kai Freudenthal 11:19 you too, Mark, have a good one. Kai Freudenthal 11:21 Bye, bye, bye, bye, take care. You. Transcribed by https://otter.ai