Fun With Brazilian Portuguese is a website for people to practice or learn Brazilian Portuguese from scratch, with lots of free fun resources.
https://funwithbrazilianportuguese.com A page for all things Brazilian Portuguese! Curiosities, vocabulary, grammar, slang, word of the day, useful links, music, videos, etc.
27/06/2024
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✅ 8 fun and engaging short stories
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19/06/2024
“Não é a minha praia” is a Brazilian Portuguese expression similar to “It’s not my cup of tea.” or “It’s not my thing”. It literally means “It’s not my beach.”
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27/11/2023
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20/11/2023
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02/02/2023
🎉 Come join us this Saturday when we’ll be taking about the differences in pronunciation between the Northeast and South of Brazil! 🇧🇷
Um ótimo dia a todos! 😊🇧🇷☀️
👉 The equivalent Portuguese structure to the English *How + adjective!* is *Que + noun or adjective!*
Examples:
🇧🇷 Que gostoso! = How yummy!
🇧🇷 Que caro! How expensive!
🇧🇷 Que feio! = How ugly!
🇧🇷 Que lindo! = How beautiful
🇧🇷 Que delícia! = How delicious!
👉 The adjective “gostoso(a)” (yummy, tasty) can also be used to describe a sexy man or woman. The same with “delicioso(a)” (delicious). The original video from where this audio was taken actually shows a woman in a car looking out the window, commenting on how sexy a man in the street is!
🇧🇷 Os Brasileiros e o seu amor por leite condensado!
🇬🇧 Brazilians and their love for condensed milk!
🇧🇷 Nossa, que delícia!
🇬🇧 Wow, how delicious!
🇧🇷 Nossa, que delícia!
🇬🇧 Wow, how delicious!
🇧🇷 Que delícia!
🇬🇧 How delicious!
🇧🇷 Meu Deus do céu!
🇬🇧 Oh my God! (Lit. My God of the Sky/Heaven)
🇧🇷 Que gostoso, mano!
🇬🇧 How yummy, man!
👉 o mano = brother, bro, man, mate
🇧🇷 Não espere um presente bom do João, ele é mão-de-vaca.
🇬🇧 Don’t expect a good present from John, he’s tight-fisted.
👉 mão-de-vaca (lit. “cow’s hand”) = tight-fisted
🇧🇷 O nosso projeto foi rejeitado. Infelizmente voltamos à estaca-zero.
🇬🇧 Our project has been rejected. Unfortunately we’re back to square one.
👉 voltar à estaca zero (“to go back to stake zero”) = to go back to square one.
🇧🇷 Eu não quero assistir esse filme de terror. Filme de terror não é a minha praia.
🇬🇧 I don’t want to watch this horror film. Horror films are not my cup of tea.
👉 não é a minha praia (lit. “it’s not my beach”) = it’s not my cup of tea
🇧🇷 Ele me perguntou se eu voltaria lá, e eu disse: “Nem que a vaca tussa!”
🇬🇧 He asked me if I would go back there, and I said: “Not in a million years!”
👉 Nem que a vaca tussa! (“Not even if the cow coughs!”) = Not in a million years!
🇧🇷 Você sempre inventa desculpas esfarrapadas pra não sair comigo!
🇬🇧 You always make up lame excuses not to go out with me!
👉 desculpa esfarrapada (lit. “tattered/worn out excuse”) = lame excuse”horror
🇧🇷 Desenrola, bate
🇬🇧 Unroll, hit it
🇧🇷 Joga
🇬🇧 Throw it…
🇧🇷 Desse lado tem poder
🇬🇧 On this side there’s power
🇧🇷 Desse lado tem vitória
🇬🇧 On this side there’s victory
🇧🇷 Aqui na frente tem um irmão
🇬🇧 Here in front there’s a brother
🇧🇷 sendo batizado e dizendo:
🇬🇧 being baptised and saying:
🇧🇷 Glória, aleluia!
🇬🇧 Glory, hallelujah!
👉 The verb “passar” is sometimes used interchangeably with “sentir” (to feel) to express how we are feeling.
🇧🇷 Você tá passando bem? / Você tá se sentindo bem? = 🇬🇧 Are you feeling well?
🇧🇷 Você tá passando mal? / Você tá se sending do mal? = 🇬🇧 Are you feeling unwell?
🇧🇷 Não tô passando bem. / Não tô me sentindo bem. = 🇬🇧 I’m not feeling well.
🇧🇷 Tô passando mal. / Tô me sentindo mal. = 🇬🇧 I’m feeling unwell.
👉 mal = (adverb) lit. badly, unwell (the opposite of “bem” / “well”)
👉 Unlike England, where teachers address their teachers as “Mr”, “Miss”, “Mrs” or “Ms”, in Brazil, it’s common for children to address their teachers directly as “professor” or “professora” (teacher).
👉 Ô = an informal way of catching someone’s attention, a bit like “hey” in English.
👉 ó = short for “Olha!” (Look!”)
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🇧🇷 Tá passando mal?
🇬🇧 Are you feeling unwell?
🇧🇷 Tô.
🇬🇧 Yes.
🇧🇷 Quer que eu fale com a professora?
🇬🇧 Do you want me to speak to the teacher?
🇧🇷 Não, não precisa.
🇬🇧 No, there’s no need.
🇧🇷 Ô, professora, tá morrendo aqui, ó!
🇬🇧 Miss, he’s dying here! Look!