Brazilian Portuguese, by Semantica

Brazilian MPB – Semantica Musicas are online

jhall_3rd — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:05:10 +0000

The 3 popular Brazilian music videos — shot in the favela in Rio, Cantagalo…. are back online. All customers that have access to the online site can access them now. They will appear after you login, on your Account page.

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Juweet?

jhall_3rd — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:48:46 +0000

Advanced My wife just asked me to translate this from English to Portuguese. ‘What?’, I said. Turns out, ‘Juweet’ = ‘did you eat?’ Oh. And we say it all the time. True. It reminded me of the many, many confusing Portuguese language-transformations /convolutions that I hear everyday. If you’re trying to get to fluency, you [...]

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Video of the week

jhall_3rd — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:39:20 +0000

Intermediate 2013 – 8 – (English subtitles) from Dalson Carvalho on Vimeo.

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Adverbs of intensity

jhall_3rd — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:33:59 +0000

Intermediate You don’t need to actually know what an “adverb of intensity” is – you already use them everyday. You just need to know the vocabulary for expressing things like, ‘quite’, ‘almost’, ‘completely’ as in, ‘I kind of hope he wins’ or, ‘It hardly matters’. Get used to saying things like: Eu trabalho bastante. Eu [...]

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É muito pouco

jhall_3rd — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:43:40 +0000

Intermediate You already know that learning a Portuguese song helps your language learning. But, did you know that it in-fact, super-charges you? It does. Images & music set your brain in a highly stimulated state — and that makes it record what is happening in a uniquely powerful way. Here is a fantastic song by [...]

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Do you care?

jhall_3rd — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:57:12 +0000

Intermediate The whole idea of caring is more complicated in portuguese. Whereas we would say “I don’t care about that” & “I care deeply for her” & “He needs to be taken care of” are all accomplished in the same way: using the word CARE. To get these same meanings across you need firstly that [...]

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Você tem certeza?

jhall_3rd — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:22:37 +0000

Beginner Are you sure? That’s for sure… You’re right…That’s correct… These are called affirmations. The phrases that Brazilians use to express themselves are based mostly on RAZÃO and CERTEZA It goes like this: You can HAVE certeza and HAVE razão… You can BE certo (a) and BE correto (a). Você tem certeza disso? Eu tenho [...]

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Did you do it?

jhall_3rd — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:45:16 +0000

Beginner Have you ever asked yourself, why do we say ‘do & did & done’ all_the_time? In portuguese you can skip all the do-did-done nonsense and speak about what you do, did do and have done much easier! Let’s prove it. What did you do yesterday? > O que você fez ontem? How did you do [...]

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Dá para fazer?

jhall_3rd — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:52:41 +0000

Intermediate Oh the many, many ways to use the verb DAR. Look how it can be used to convey possibility: Dá para emagrecer só com dieta? Quando dá para descobrir o sexo do bebê? Não dá para ficar sem você. Não dá para viver sem beijo na boca. Nem dá para perceber que é sua [...]

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We’re out of it!

jhall_3rd — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:07:21 +0000

Intermediate When the preposition em is used together with the word falta (lack), the expression has the meaning of, to be out of, in short supply, hard to find, etc. Like this: Hey, do you have any carrots? No, we’re out. Você tem cenoura? Não, estamos em falta. Without the “em” the “a falta” just means “the lack [...]

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