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Pronunciation video: the sound NH Posted by Adir on Jul 20, 2011
Olá, tudo bem com você? Let’s kick off this Wednesday with a pronunciation video about the sound NH in Portuguese. It’s kind of difficult for English speakers to pronounce it but with practice you’ll be able to do it! The key to mastering difficult sounds is to listen to them many times then trying to…
Vídeo: Brazilian idioms Posted by Adir on Jul 1, 2011
Oi, tudo bem? This week’s video is for intermediate and advanced students of Portuguese and it brings six very common idioms used here in Brazil. They are: – cair aos pedaços (to be run down, to fall apart) – colocar em dia (to catch up on something) – encontrar alguém por acaso (to run into…
Say what you’re doing! In Portuguese! Posted by Adir on Jun 24, 2011
Oi, tudo bem com vocês? Our video today will show you how to say that you are doing something now. In Portuguese we do this by using the verb estar (to be) in the present + the present participle of the main verb. Check out the video below and you can download the audio to…
Brazilian dish: Costela de Ripa Posted by Adir on Jun 9, 2011
E aí, pessoal? Tudo bem com vocês? Last week I went to dinner with a couple of friends and we were dying to eat costela de ripa. Costela de ripa is spare ribs and it’s called de ripa because it’s roasted with its bones. So I made this video, subtitled it in English so you…
The pronunciation of the ending -ão Posted by Adir on Jun 3, 2011
Hi, there! I’m Adir Ferreira, your new video blogger from Brazil. We’re going to have one video every week and we kick things off by practicing the sound of the ending -ão in Portuguese. This sound gives English speakers a really hard time so I decided to make a video about it. For the video…