Video Dialogs of Real-Life Situations

Filmed on-location in Rio de Janeiro by an all Brazilian cast, we’ve slowed things down a bit so it’s much easier to pick up.

Everything is clear, crisp, understandable.

Our videos series’ are designed to train your ear. You will find your self literally absorbing new phrases and vocabulary as you get into the story.

If you’re learning a language to communicate in real life, expose yourself to real language and real situations.
Your brain figures out a new language in two parts: rules analysis, and training (practice).

We’re the training part.

Se•man•ti•ca | Sə’mantikə

Training wheels for your portuguese.

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Series 1

Series 1 is 36 chapters of hands-on Portuguese. each followed by instruction and vocabulary review. Each chapter is 5-8 minutes and are part of a highly addictive continuous story.

Grammar : present indicative, future immediate, the gerund, conditional (gostaria de), relative pronouns, ser vs. estar, haver, expressions of opinion, possessive pronouns, a gente, demonstrative pronouns, prepositions of place, past participles, singular vs. plural, indefinite pronouns, expressions of time, numbers, the seasons, time.

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Advanced Dialogs

14 dialogs with teaching, narration and vocabulary practice. These are not a continuous story like Series 1, but rather a wide range of situational dialogs developed for advanced beginners and intermediate learners. Some of the dialogs contain adult situations.

Grammar : preterite indicative, the conditional, imperfect indicative, estar+com, temporal prepositions, comparatives, possessive pronouns, agente vs nós, prepositions of place, indefinite pronouns, past participles, expressions of time (haver, acabar de) superlatives.

Intensivo

Intensivo

* Now taking early sign-ups: details.

The new series called ‘a Virada’ is in production as we speak and should be our in May/June.

This will be a very big series of dialogs that is one continuous story. We are picking up right where Series 1 left off. The story is new, but the language level is adjusted so that anyone that can understand the Raquel & Paul story will be able to jump right in and start learning to a much higher level eventually.

Add your name to the list below and receive *special pricing* when it’s released (no payment required)

Tell me when it’s ready!

17 thoughts on “Video Dialogs of Real-Life Situations”

    1. jhall_3rd Post author

      Download, or online streaming. We’ll do a special sync with itunes after the launch so you can easily watch all episodes on your computer.

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  2. jhall_3rd Post author

    Matt — others have seen this also. Do you have a DVD player bought in the US or is somewhere else?

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    1. Matt

      Hello sir, I used the DVD player on my Apple laptop, a MacBook Pro, bought in 2009. And I might have bought the CDs in 2010, so it’s been a while! Hey on an unrelated note… is there anywhere online where you describe your “story”? You know, like how you came to live in Brazil, and make videos there, etc.? To an outsider, it would seem you are “living the dream”! :)

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  6. Robert Del Pazzo

    Semantica 1 is amazing- REALLY looking forward to Intensivo!!!!
    wow- that HUGE email of downloads I got for advanced dialogues did not work- too large to download and what I could download was way too difficult.
    I cannot wait for Intensivo!!!

    thanks

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    1. jhall_3rd Post author

      …. it’s coming — estamos atrasados mas, vai chegar logo.. e se você gostou da series 1, você vai adorar a Virada.

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      1. Jamal

        vai estar pronto esse novo seriado em Maio? Adoraria começar logo, para practicar o que eu aprender no Brasil.

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        1. jhall_3rd Post author

          We’re thinking of opening it up to those that would be happy to just have access to the dialogs (100). The instruction part is still w/o a release date. If you would like early access just drop an email to sales@semantica-portuguese.com and work out a deal.

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          1. Matt

            I just finished watching the Semantica 1 CDs yesterday. Speaking of the instruction part mentioned above, has anyone commented on the instruction part of episode 25? It had English and Portuguese subtitles, but the instruction was spoken in Italian! I enjoyed the series of episodes! But I was surprised that Paul and Raquel stayed platonic at the end! What’s up with that?! Haha!
            Looking forward to this upcoming material!