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Leandro Nazar

Oi, pessoal!

I went to Belo Horizonte last month to attend an English club meetup. I was invited by the Real Life English guys and at the meetup I met Leandro Nazar, who’s an actor and has a very interesting Youtube channel. One of his latest videos is 11 Coisas que Não se Deve Falar no Primeiro Encontro (11 Things Not to Say on a First Date).

There is even a bonus at the end!

Check out his videos and the 11 things (in Portuguese) below. Make sure to pay attention to the current pronunciation. Sometimes (like in any other language) we drop syllables altogether, so keep practicing!

1. Não pede nada muito caro não, tá?
2. Se você quiser, perto da minha casa tem uma academia que eles fazem uma promoção pro seu tipo.
3. Tá bom, vamos parar de falar sobre você e falar sobre mim agora.
4. Quantos anos que você tem mesmo?
5. Sua mãe é bonita?
6. Você me lembra a Adele.
7. Ué, você veio de pochete?
8. Então, você joga Minecraft?
9. Você pode pagar dessa vez que eu tô desempregado, sabe como que é, né?
10. Quanto que você ganha por mês?
11. Essa comida tava boa, hein?

Bônus!

Quando que é sua operação mesmo?

Notes

- In sentence 2 he says that at this gym they fazem uma promoção. That means that the gym has special membership options, like a discount or a combo.

- In sentence 4 the word mesmo (same) is used to ask for repetition. In English we could translate it as “How old are you again?”

- In sentence 7 the word pochete means a fanny pack (in British English, a bum bag). In Brazil we joke that people with big bellies wear fanny packs.

- In sentence 9 the word que in “…que eu tô desempregado” is used to replace “porque” (because). This is highly used in informal speech.

- In sentences 4 and 10 the word que is used as a complement in spoken Portuguese. Grammatically it is not necessary, but people speak like that all the time.

- For the use of word hein, check out my blog post clicking here.

You can reach Leandro on his Youtube channel and his Facebook profile.

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Hi, there!

One of my favorite days of the week are Mondays and Thursdays because a new Porta dos Fundos (backdoor) video comes out. Porta dos Fundos is a video production company that makes short humor videos for Youtube and they have become a hit in Brazil, with millions and millions of access.

They bring more a more realistic and even raunchy kind of humor and personally, it cracks me up! If you’re sentive to cuss words or strong vocabulary this is not the channel for you.

One of my favorite videos is “Versão Brasileira”. Movies and TV series are dubbed in Portuguese in major broadcast channels in Brazil and after the opening credits we would always listen to someone saying “Versão brasileira + the dubbing studio name”. So Porta dos Fundos decided to make a video making fun of dubbed movies because obviously they don’t sound natural and use expressions and intonations that we don’t usually use in everyday conversation.

They even have a very cool smartphone app!

So here’s the video with the English subtitles. If you feel like it, subscribe to their channel on Facebook and practice real Portuguese!

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The Internet is a many splendored thing, right?

I friended these guys on Facebook, who live in Belo Horizonte (state of Minas Gerais) and have a group called Real Life English. Their group helps people from all over the world to learn English and one of them, Josh Plotkin, made a very cool video using Psy’s song, Gangnam Style, to tell people how cool it is to come and live in Brazil.

I asked Josh to make a little video telling how he came up with this idea:

Now, here’s his Brazilian Gringo Style video, enjoy!

Thanks, Josh, for sharing your experience with us!

About Josh

Josh Plotkin lives in Belo Horizonte Brazil.
He runs the website Braziliangringo.com to help people move to Brazil and teach English.
Like him on Facebook, follow on Twitter and subscribe to him on YouTube.