Today's story: Bank of America hires 1,000 external workers to fix software weaknesses. You will hear it in Portuguese first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Portuguese: Bank of America contrata mil trabalhadores externos para corrigir falhas informáticas
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:36) More stories today
(01:36) Today's headline, slowly
(02:28) Hiring people
(03:20) Still working together
(04:14) Less over time
(05:11) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/portuguese/a1/2026-10-15
TODAY'S PORTUGUESE TEXT
Bank of America contrata mil trabalhadores externos para corrigir falhas informáticas
No segundo trimestre, o banco contratou mil trabalhadores externos.
Modelos avançados de inteligência artificial revelaram problemas em programas antigos.
Os mil trabalhadores ainda trabalham com cerca de 3 000 pessoas nesta área.
No terceiro trimestre, o banco gastou mais de 200 milhões de dólares para reparar programas e cumprir regras.
O banco espera gastar menos com o tempo.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (contratar)
- vocabulary (revelaram)
- vocabulary (ainda)
- vocabulary (gastou)
- vocabulary (com o tempo)
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