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Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With Eli
If you've struggled to find an easy way to improve your listening skills in Portuguese, here you'll have it and much more. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider buying us a coffee through https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elisousa :-)
Episodes
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliTalking about Action Movies in Portuguese
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliBrazilian Telenovelas | Modern Brazilian Culture
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliDescribing Rudeness in Portuguese
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliThe Woman who Changed the Brazilian Music | Modern Brazilian Culture
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliTalking about Psychological Disorders
Clinical and psychological vocabulary has crept up into everyday language and changed our perception of the disorders they originally described. In this…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliMBC 003: Isaura, the White Slave | Modern Brazilian Culture
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliA Bizarre Magic Show
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliMBC 002: Iracema, the Honey Lips | Modern Brazilian Culture
Do Yourself a Favor, Portuguese-wise: https://portuguesewitheli.com/verbs Say hello: https://www.facebook.com/portuguesewitheli Full transcript…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliHaggling in Portuguese
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…
Intermediate Portuguese With Portuguese With EliMBC 001: Monica's Gang | Modern Brazilian Culture
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…
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A Portuguese Interview with Katrina about Learning Portuguese
Cambridge-based teacher Katrina has started learning Portuguese after visiting Portugal. And in this interview, she reveals what she does to keep her…
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Talking about the New Year Season in Portuguese
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…
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Sending Santa a Different Letter
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…
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End-Of-Year Shopping Strategies (Saldão)
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…
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Quick announcement
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…
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A very immature coworker
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…
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Knock-knock games, and one not so nice knock-knock
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…
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What smell is that?
Sensory words — words that describe smell, appearance, and texture — tend to be among the hardest to learn in Portuguese. Simply because they don't correspond…
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Buying new glasses
You won't probably need to buy new glasses in Brazil. But chances are you will need glasses in your lifetime. And you will probably talk about them in…
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Describing Physical Build
Time passes and we change… but do we change a lot? In today’s episode, you’ll see some good Portuguese expressions to describe physical build…
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Problems with a Car
Now, cars are indispensable. You simply can’t do without. And when having problems with it, Brazilians resort to very colorful Portuguese expressions. Learn…
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Taking a Friend for Granted
Everybody knows that person whose friends love, but who doesn’t love them back. Or someone who is always on the giving end of a relationship. What to do in…
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Meeting Her Family for the First Time
This might sound a bit outdated, but in some towns in Brazil people still ask their significant other’s parents’ permission to date. Incredible, right? Not…
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Down on Your Luck? Just listen to his story!
Brazilians are terribly superstitious — even those who state not to believe in it will knock the wood three times when saying azar. And in today’s episode…
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Being Hacked... and Having to Deal with It
With the pandemic, we were forced to move online. I’ve been there for some time, but not many people have – and that has allowed oh so many problems to sprout!…
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Scraping for Money
Being in a tight corner money-wise is never good, but it’s an experience that many people share. You’ll learn how to talk about this situation in today’s…
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Piracy and Saving Money
If you’ve never heard that, Brazil is one of the countries that most have piracy and the like (especially for video games). In today’s episode, you’ll learn…
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The Night after the Barbecue
Binge eating is a must in Brazilian barbecues: sausage, meat, farofa, cachaça… that’s the dangerous mix which – more often than not – causes heartburn to be…
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Picking Up a Fight with a Neighbor, But…
Annoying neighbors aren't a Brazilian specialty, but because of its sheer frequency, it makes us wonder. In today's episode, you'll see Hello Neighbor goes…
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Living Alone, Preparing Food
Differently from what happens in other countries, Brazilians tend to live with their parents for a long time — men don't cook, but women do. When women go live…
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A Language-Learning Expert on Learning Languages
In today's episode, I decided to interview one of my students, James Davis-Ford. James is a teacher of Arabic in the United States and has been learning…
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Voting in the Elections
This year, Brazil and many other countries are holding elections. Having the relevant vocabulary to talk about the most mundane part of this huge process can…
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Talking about a distant place
If you live in a faraway place or have ever had to go to a hard to find a town, you probably don't like this experience. Learn how you can describe it in…
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Describing Music and Bad Taste in Music
Do your friends like that loud music you hate? Do you wish sometimes you could just turn off the radio when you’re visiting a friend? That’s what we have for…
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Being Highly Indirect, that is, Brazilian
I've talked about the Brazilian way of communicating before… but it's never too much. If you have ever wondered how you can communicate effectively in Brazil…
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Being Mugged in Brazil
This isn't a happy topic, but it happens so often I couldn't afford not to talk about it. If you're in the country for a long time and have to move around…
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Traffic in Salvador
Brazil is a quite big country. And Salvador is a very big city. It stands to reason to assume that traffic in Brazil is not very pleasant — and Salvador is not…
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Sharing “Good” News
Brazilians are very talkative. And we do love talking about practically anything. In today's episode, you'll listen to the account of someone who decided to…
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Suing an Obnoxious Neighbor
You may have had problems with neighbors. But what have you done about that? Have you decided to sue them? That's what you're going to learn in today's…
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Binge Drinking, Hazing, and Refusing to Take Part
The entrance examination to a university in Brazil is just the first step to being accepted by the academic community. Drinking a lot and hazing are usually…
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Long and Tedious Situations and People Who Talk Too Much
In today's Portuguese vocabulary lesson, you will be introduced to a person who pretty much hates having a class with a specific professor. The reason?…
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Should You Work for Love?
“Choose a job you love and you won't need to work a day in your life.” Some people say it's a big load of BS, and other people believe this is true. Where do…
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Expressing the Future - Difference between Simple and Compound Forms
The difference between the simple and the compound future tenses in Portuguese | Portuguese grammar lesson | Portuguese with Eli You don't need to go far —…
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Political advertising in Brazil
Political advertising in Brazil | Portuguese vocabulary lesson | Portuguese with Eli it's just our luck that both Brazil and the United States are having…
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Asking for some time off in Portuguese | Portuguese vocabulary lesson | Portuguese with Eli
in today's Portuguese vocabulary lesson, you'll see that it's almost impossible to get some time off if you're a good employee. Not only that. You'll pick up…
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Speaking about movies in Portuguese | Portuguese vocabulary lesson | Portuguese with Eli
Speaking about movies in Portuguese is something you're going to do even if you are not that into movies. And in today's Portuguese vocabulary lesson you'll…
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The one word to speak Portuguese more naturally… Instantly
The one word to speak Portuguese more naturally… Instantly | Portuguese vocabulary lesson | Portuguese with Eli If you want to speak good Portuguese, you do…
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The problems of a weekend sports practitioner
The weekend sports practitioner is a staple figure in Brazil — usually a man, he doesn't have much time to practice sports during the week and he goes all out…
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Banking in Brazil... and Waiting in Line
In Brazil, you will probably want to have money on you. How do you say ATM? What are the bank branches called in Portuguese? That's exactly what you're going…
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Portuguese Filler Words
Portuguese Filler Words https://portuguesewitheli.com/2020/09/speak-more-fluently-with-these-portuguese-filler-words/ Portuguese filler words are little words…
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Using the Past Tenses in Portuguese
https://portuguesewitheli.com/brazilian-portuguese-grammar/when-to-use-the-portuguese-past-tenses/ Using the Portuguese past tenses isn't easy — the imperfect…
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Taking up a new hobby in Portuguese
If you have thought about taking up a new hobby in Portuguese, then this is the Portuguese vocabulary lesson for you. But in today's vocabulary lesson, our…
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Saying No in Portuguese
Saying no in Portuguese You might think it's hard in any language, but now saying no in Portuguese might become the easiest thing you can do…
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Do You Believe in Astrology? Talk about it in Portuguese
Do you believe your destiny is written on the stars? Do you think you can predict the future? Even if you don't believe this kind of thing, knowing the…
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Watching a police television show
Police television shows have been a common fixture of Brazilian TV for decades. They are controversial — people love them or hate them, and most of the time…
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Cheering Up a Friend
Is your friend feeling downtrodden, beaten up, overwhelmed? Do you want to help them? Discover how you can cheer up your friends using Portuguese. And is…
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Having a Crush on Someone in Portuguese
Falling in love, having a crush… how to talk about that in Portuguese? That’s what you’ll learn in today’s Portuguese vocabulary lesson. And a resource many…
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Talking about a Failure in Portuguese
The fact is, most of us will never strike it lucky and win the lottery. But is that the only measure of success that we can have? Well, in today’s Portuguese…
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Talking about Being Undecisive in Portuguese
Do you find it hard to make decisions sometimes? Then this Portuguese vocabulary lesson is for you! You’ll learn lots of expressions to talk about indecision…
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Wanting Praise, Being Demanding in Portuguese
A naggin’ boss who never acknowledges your hard work? A highly demanding job that offers no reward? We got it all covered in today’s episode of our…