Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With Eli

For more, visit our site: https://portuguesewitheli.com And here's the monologue transcript for your benefit: Ser Careta Meus filhos vivem me dizendo que sou careta . Veja só você : comecei a trabalhar na década de 1960. Isso dá... deixa eu ver... sessenta anos. Naquele tempo, a gente tinha uma boa e velha máquina de datilografar , uma belezura que durava para caramba. Para falar a verdade, ainda...

An “improbable” writer, Carolina de Jesus went against everything the elite believes when it comes to becoming important and relevant for society. In this episode, you’ll get to know Carolina de Jesus, how important she was, and some things that her life and the life in the favelas have in common. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers...

When you don’t know the name of something, you might actually know it but you forgot what it was. A pity, right? And how do you speak about memory and remembering in Portuguese? Here’s how. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here: https://IntermediatePortuguese.com/portuguese-assessment ==========================...

With a deep dive into Latin and how it can help you speak Portuguese better and more naturally, we take a look at the words “chama” and “fogo” and their associations with desire in informal Brazilian Portuguese. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here: https://IntermediatePortuguese.com/portuguese-assessment ====...

My favorite drink, coffee, shows up today in our Brazilian Portuguese podcast. Enjoy! >>> Shall we meet? Follow this link: https://social.portuguesewitheli.com/meetngreet >>> Hey, wise person! Not everybody wants to read the whole description up to this point. And since you have, I've got a small gift for you to show my appreciation. It's a special report that will help you get r...

The year of 1996 started off with a big, otherworldly surprise: the sightings of UFOs and creatures in a small city in Minas Gerais – that episode went on to become internationally famous. But even though many years have passed since then, not many details were clarified. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here:...

In Brazil, we have different kinds of bank accounts. After you are hired by a company, you also must open your bank account. Do you know what terms you should use when doing so? After listening to this podcast, you'll know some vocabulary to describe this situation. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here: https:...

They’re evil… but we love them. The villains are the most important characters in a telenovela — weak villains make for weak protagonists, and weak protagonists don’t hold the audience’s attention. Discover why we love villains and get to know some of the most iconic villains of Brazilian telenovelas. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important poin...

Action movies are wildly popular in Brazil (not more than comedy, though). And in today’s episode, the narrator doesn’t like this kind of movie that much. His girlfriend loves the Die Hard series. After you listen to this episode, you’ll have some everyday vocabulary to discuss this topic. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to impr...

The telenovelas shaped our society more than anything – most of the population can’t read a book a year, but we do watch 5, 6, 7 telenovelas. In this episode, you can find out more about this culture, the basic vocabulary you’ll need, and much more. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here: https://IntermediatePor...

One can be kind and rude at once: and Brazilians are like that. In today’s episode, you’ll learn more about how to describe rudeness in Portuguese. And be attentive to one very informal and advanced structure of Portuguese that I included. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here: https://IntermediatePortuguese.co...

She was independent, she created a whole new concept of popular music in Brazil, she was wildly popular among the “masses” in Brazil and for some time in Europe… yet the Brazilian high society despised her, the politicians were contemptuous of her, and in general, critics were resistant to her influence. Today we’re talking about Chiquinha Gonzaga, the Godmother of the all-time famous carnival son...

Clinical and psychological vocabulary has crept up into everyday language and changed our perception of the disorders they originally described. In this podcast, we’ll go way beyond the simple vocabulary you probably know and get more specialized… And get to understand how Carla diagnosed so many health conditions in her life. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and g...

It was one of the most influential works of art of its time. It did shape how our society saw slavery. and it's an important book that became two TV adaptations and a movie. =============================== Find out your level of Portuguese and get the most important pointers to improve quickly here: https://IntermediatePortuguese.com/portuguese-assessment =============================== Eli Sousa...

A Bizarre Magic Trick Ever been to a circus? What was your experience like? In today’s episode, you’ll have a quick taste of having a bizarre experience at the circus. After listening to this episode, you'll be able to talk about common magic tricks and you'll see one episode that didn’t happen, but that could have. Support this show (with books, they also nurture me): https://www.buymeacoffee.com...

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Would you buy me a *coffee*? (*wink* it's a beer): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elisousa Do you ever accept the first price that is quoted? In Brazil, we don’t like that – we like haggling and getting the steepest discount even if the thing we buy is really cheap. In today’s episode, you’ll discover expressions to do just that – haggle – and one good way of getting rid of that in your business. ==...

To speak with more confidence, go to https://portuguesewitheli.com/verbs Oopsie-doopsie note : in the episode, I use a French word, "superbe", but I forgot that in Portuguese it's "soberba" :-) Other than that single word, all the rest is in good and understandable Portuguese. Summary of the Episode — Turma da Mônica História em quadrinhos criada por Maurício de Sousa. Originalmente, tirinhas de j...

Cambridge-based teacher Katrina has started learning Portuguese after visiting Portugal. And in this interview, she reveals what she does to keep her Portuguese at such a high level (spoiler alert: she speaks with friends in Portuguese!) and what you can do to learn it better. =============================== And if you want to speak Portuguese with confidence, go to https://portuguesewitheli.com/v...

Brazilians like parties — fact. But how do they talk about that? And what are some important words you need to use to talk about that? Find out more about the new year season in Portuguese in this episode. =============================== And if you want to speak with confidence using the right Portuguese verb tenses, grab your free report at https://IntermediatePortuguese.com/verbs ===============...

Usually, children write Santa Claus a letter. But this time at someone different who writes him a letter. Let's find out why an adult would write Santa Claus a heartfelt letter. =============================== To end the frustration with the Portuguese tenses: https://portuguesewitheli.com/verbs =============================== Eli Sousa is a Portuguese teacher who provides one on one lessons onlin...

To speak with more confidence, go to https://portuguesewitheli.com/verbs Support this show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elisousa And the song I talk about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K1RNYfYI-Y Here's the transcript for your benefit! Saldão de Natal Todos os anos temos Black Friday e todos os anos é sempre black fraude : os varejistas dobram o preço uma semana antes e depois cortam os preço...

Hey you! Thank you for your continued support! Until January, I'll be posting only one episode per week, always on Wednesday. I'm restructuring some things and should be back to our old schedule in January. Thank you for your continued support! Eli

In your work life, have you ever worked with younger or older people who behaved like a child? I certainly have. And in today's episode, you'll learn some expressions to describe such a person and their behavior. And they are highly informal. So, be ready for lots and lots of expressions for you to write down. =============================== And for the remainder of November, I’ll be offering a 15...

Even as adults, we like playing knock-knock games. They are silly but so entertaining. And in today's episode, you will see the two most common structures for knock-knock games and Brazilian Portuguese. And you will also discover a dirty knock knock question that has become famous on Brazilian TV. I'll not give you the answer, and when you hear it, avoid answering it. People will ask. Believe me....