At a Movie Theater in Brazil: Buy Tickets and Ask About Subtitles — Practice

Ask about movie times and ticket availability

A movie theater is a cinema. Sessão means screening or showtime. Ask what time the film starts and whether seats are available for your group. If you already know the title, saying it first helps the staff find the right listing.

Choose between dubbed and subtitled audio

Dublado means dubbed in Portuguese, while legendado means shown in the original audio with subtitles. Ask which version a session uses before buying a ticket. In movie listings, legendado does not mean the movie is spoken in Portuguese.

Confirm your seats and the theater room

Poltrona means seat or armchair, and sala means theater room. If the ticket assigns seats, confirm the row and numbers. Sala 4 is room 4, not the fourth showing.

Remember: Remember dublado for Portuguese audio and legendado for original audio with subtitles.

Check your understanding

Choose the English meaning of each Portuguese example. Answer before looking back at the tables. These questions check the written examples in this guide; they are not a listening or proficiency test.

Recall the Portuguese, then say it

Read the English prompt and say a Portuguese version before opening the answer. The answer shows the example from the lesson; other natural translations may also work. Compare the meaning and the situation rather than counting a different word as automatically wrong.

1. What time does the next screening of Dune start?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Que horas começa a próxima sessão de Duna?

2. Are two seats available for the seven o’clock show?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Tem dois lugares disponíveis para a sessão das sete?

3. Is this screening dubbed or subtitled?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Essa sessão é dublada ou legendada?

4. I’d like to watch the subtitled version, if there is one.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Quero assistir à versão legendada, se tiver.

5. Are our seats B12 and B13?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Nossos lugares são as poltronas B12 e B13?

6. Which theater room is showing the film?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Em qual sala vai passar o filme?

Make the phrase useful to you

Choose one example you could actually use. Say it once from memory, then change one detail that fits your life, such as the person, place, time, or object. Check whether your change also needs a different verb form, article, or adjective ending. If it does, compare it with the pattern in the explanation.

Remember dublado for Portuguese audio and legendado for original audio with subtitles.

Return to two prompts tomorrow without opening the answers first. If a phrase still feels difficult, shorten it to a useful chunk and build the complete sentence again.

Sources and your next lesson

This I Speak Portuguese practice guide builds on our At a Movie Theater in Brazil: Buy Tickets and Ask About Subtitles lesson on Real Life Portuguese, with written recall tasks and additional speaking practice. The explanations and examples are teaching material; the practice questions are exercises, not a transcript of a recording.

To add Brazilian audio to your routine, choose a lesson in the Real Life Portuguese app. The app offers its own lessons and practice; this page does not imply that every example here has an app recording.