How to talk like a Brazilian with Virginia Langhammer from

[@SpeakingBrazilian]

Foi um prazer fazer este vídeo com você! Obrigada por me convidar!

[@FlamingBasketballClub]

Hi! I just discovered your podcast after listening to Duolingo French Podcast. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@RennyLearning]

Portuguese is a beautiful language I love to speak with the people, the mistakes doesn't matters they are very patience with the foreigners

[@storylearning]

Yes, Brazilians are nothing but accommodating!

[@d.o.p.d.o.p.1775]

Except for that one teenager I encountered online.

[@doug911]

@@d.o.p.d.o.p.1775 it was a nightmare cs i only learnt it online :')

[@ktrngenevieve]

faleu mano

[@gh3slashguitar]

Sou nativo do Brasil e nós realmente adoramos ver estrangeiros falando nossa língua, especialmente quando preferem aprender o português brasileiro, que é muito diferente e bonito

[@nandomax3]

Amei, é um prazer encontrar outros poliglotas que falam português brasileiro

[@storylearning]

Valeu, Fernando!

[@KamilaSousamusic]

Eu quase caí da cadeira quando ele começou a falar português no canal da Virgínia, não esperava hahahah Estou chocada!! Parabéns, você tem o sotaque muito bom e a pronúncia também!!

[@carissahecker9843]

I'm from Texas and I remember one of the main greeting I got my first few weeks in Brazil was "E aí! Tá animada?" E eu fiquei pensando... animada sobre o que? É verdade que os brasileiros estão sempre animados.

[@josecostadonascimento3591]

Yeaaah, that's true, besides we like to laugh a lot. This makes us alive, it's our feeling, you know? Are you learning portuguese?

[@wypimentel]

Virgínia's channel is great, I strongly recommend it, I'm Brazilian, her accent is excellent, is very neutral, she speaks with a normal and natural Brazilian Portuguese, I speak in the same pace, but not so clear as her, I'm a little bit lazy...

[@jaredtallman7247]

Virginia has the best Portuguese learning channel on YT

[@ShaneGodliman]

Awesome timing, working more on my Portuguese at the moment and Virginias videos have been really useful!

[@storylearning]

Cool, Shane!

[@shannonweiss3534]

Virgínia is an amazing teacher. I have learned so much from both her free material and her classes. If you are serious about learning PortugueseI HIGHLY recommend her school!

[@DemoysView]

I agree

[@kauanprebianca9003]

Brazilian Portuguese is so Beautiful!

[@BrazilianInput]

6:51 So true! You need to be in contact with the language as much as possible while also making sure that what you're listening to is entertaining so you don't get bored.

[@Dahveed29]

Olly it’s funny you mentioned the only Portuguese book you found in London was a European Portuguese grammar book when the only one I found a few weeks ago was yours! Really nicely done and I’m happy I’ve found your channel. I’ve also been learning Brazilian Portuguese with Virginia’s channel which is excellent 👍🏻

[@desimora8]

Enjoyed the presentation. I am studing Portugues by myself at home with limited oportunity to speak Portugues but I use Virginia's material and attend all her videos as well as many of the other very good videos on line as well as listening to the CNN news and programs en Brasilian Portugues. Excelent material and very good ideas from both of you. I am on my sixth-month on this task and I think I am on the right track to become fluent in one year or less as my other instructors promise. Thanks for the video. Obrigado,

[@gabrielmoreirabr]

Brazilian following you here, keep up the good work! Thanks!

[@jeremiasremix]

Vi no vídeo dela que seu português é muito bom. Acho que na questão da gramática, se seu objetivo for socializar, fazer amigos, aprender o "jeitinho brasileiro" vai ser muito mais importante. É uma questão cultural muito forte da sociabilidade brasileira.

[@storylearning]

Obrigado Julio!

[@shannonweiss3534]

I completely agree with Virginia. I’m one of her students and in the beginning I was paranoid about saying everything correctly. I felt I NEEDED to understand the grammar. When I gave that up and really started to just speak and not worry about it I saw a huge jump in my confidence and ability. Now I’m learning more grammar and figuring out some of my errors. Then I practice those specifics. It has been great learning from Virginia and I’m so thankful for all the content that is available.

[@steveb851]

Great video. At one point Portuguese was my strongest language and I could converse freely and I understood a lot. But it was the one language where I NEVER focused on grammar and simple learned vocabulary and spoke as much as I could. Constant exposure and I just spent time enjoying the language. I’m sure I never spoke perfectly but I always received positive feedback when speaking with natives and made some great friends this way. Hope you’re well Olly, I’m really liking the videos 👍🏻 (Steve from London)

[@HarryHaller1963]

Great video, Olly and Virginia. I've learned so much more Brazilian Portuguese from Virginia's KZbin channel than from any other resource, and I'm excited to have found this (Olly's) channel just yesterday. You both are outstanding teachers. One thing struck me more than anything else--that you both say students struggle more with reading than with listening and speaking. Maybe it's just the way my brain works, but I find it much easier to learn to read non-native languages (English is my first language) than to read, and especially to speak, them. I found an app that has a half-dozen or so stories from classical literature, most, as I recall, originally written in different languages and translated into Portuguese--for example, Gulliver's Travels. What I found especially interesting (and this relates to your discussion of reading vs. speaking, writing vs. speaking, and formal written language vs. informal spoken language) is the almost archaic language in these older stories. Unlikely of much use to those who want to communicate with their contemporaries, but great for anyone who is interested in linguistics and literature. Getting back to the relevant point, your conversation got to some of the really interesting subtleties of learning a language, but most important for the majority of your students, I'm sure, are the differences between formal and informal speech and between textbook grammar and how people actually use the language. I, for one, have learned to be much more flexible about English grammar from the way I understand (and have experienced with Brazilian friends) that Brazilians can be all over the place.

[@mortyexplains]

Virgínia é a melhor !

[@FlamingBasketballClub]

Found this KZbin channel through her podcast 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@Xarmutinha]

My brain....cant process miss Virginia speaking English

[@Remmo_Uk]

Really nice to see you giving some love to this language. I hadn’t discovered Virginia’s video’s before but they’re super cool and useful.

[@corinna007]

I've been learning Finnish for six years now. My reading comprehension is pretty good, but I don't feel like I can say I'm fluent yet because my listening comprehension is not as good. I saw a comment on a post in a FB group a while ago that said "When you learn Finnish you're basically learning four languages; the book language, the spoken, slang, and dialect" (although you don't have to focus as much on dialect). I used English both times I've been to Finland because I wasn't confident in my Finnish, but I'm going to try and improve my listening comprehension before I visit again because I really do want to be fluent and converse with people.

[@Tehui1974]

Interesting hearing Virginia's thoughts on language learning. I'm at an intermediate level in my target language, and I'm not satisfied with where I am yet. I've got to keep working on it every day like she recommended.

[@abernardes2]

Just heard you speaking Portuguese on her channel and I’m very impressed! Beautiful pronunciation, well done 👍🏽

[@arieltineo1605]

I am loving your channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Restless318]

love your info and T shirt

[@carolinaparente5808]

The "formal" portuguese spoken in Brazil is way more related to your manners concerning the language than to the grammar rules themselves. You can be formal without sounding "antique" or "inadequate". Knowing how to use this "brazilian fluidity" is key for a person to sound natural as foreign speaker. A very formal language is reserved to excepcional occasions, such as talking to a judge, to an important politician etc. Xo from Brazil!! (:

[@vinirodriguesoliveira4159]

Amei esse vídeo

[@thomasrobertson2225]

I want to thank the author of the channel for making this beautiful and useful video for us! Many people are embarrassed to speak a foreign language if they have no speaking skills. People are afraid to hear criticism from others in their address. It all comes from having a psychological complex - to make a mistake. But, after all, he who does nothing is not wrong! In Yuriy Ivantsiv's workshop "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language" states that we need to talk as much as possible: with yourself, with the mirror, with inanimate objects, with children and with pets. Find an interlocutor in real life or online. Talk without shyness. People won't care how you speak. They understand that you are a foreigner, as long as they understand you. They may even acknowledge your progress in their language and compliment you. However, always be prepared for criticism of your speaking skills. If you have the will to speak, you will gain an interesting interlocutor to consolidate your knowledge. Everyone is strewn with mistakes - don't be afraid to learn from them. As the Latin wisdom says, "walk and thou shalt not go astray". In the book "Polyglot Notes" by Yuriy Ivantsiv an entire chapter is devoted to the development of spoken language. Here you will find many useful tips and each student can choose a technique that suits him or her best! I wish you all the best of luck in your language learning!

[@english9859]

opa vim dos dois canais, são top demais

[@gringoglot]

@Olly Richards Gostei mesmo da entrevista, muito legal! 👍🏻

[@storylearning]

Legal que vc gostou!

[@storylearning]

How hard is Portuguese to learn? 👉🏼 kzbin.info/www/bejne/imeaiKGaadp-aqc

[@jyuya6594]

im a 14 y/o native portuguese, as in, from Portugal, and i never really noticed how different brazillian portuguese can be from the european one for foreign learners. i'd say brazillians are way more slacked off and relaxed but still accentuating the syllables waayyy more. you really have to feel their vibe to blend in properly when i try to speak brazillian portuguese i feel like it's just speaking how i usually do but in a wrong way? 😭 except it's not-

[@ErickeTR]

E para nós, quando queremos falar com sotaque europeu, cortamos as vogais 😅

[@jyuya6594]

@@ErickeTR de certa maneira é assim mesmo sjjsjs

[@manfredneilmann4305]

Me apaixonei do cachorro da Virgínia! Como se chama ele/ela?

[@SpeakingBrazilian]

O nome dele é Wilson. :)

[@laudemara.b.1736]

Wilson😆

[@lourainevillalon3852]

obrigada por fazer neste vídeo! eu sou ainda aprender o português brasileiro. ainda beginner e falo e escrevo portunglês (português e inglês). eu been assistir professora virginia's vídeos. eu sou feliz to know that there are many pessoas trying to aprender neste linguagem. eu adoro o linguagem ever since eu heard meu colleague who was a native brazilian speaker. saludos desde filipinas! 🇵🇭

[@ryanagar7498]

Make more Olly Please! I found Brazilian português has very little sources compared to other languages unfortunately

[@adriankwok8093]

This really motivates me to learn Brazilian Portuguese for my next language. Btw I love your Stitch shirt Olly where did you get it?

[@josecostadonascimento3591]

I can help you with that, im a native portuguese speaker and a english learner either haha we can help each other if you want to

[@JamsODonnell100]

@@josecostadonascimento3591 You sound friendly and more than just a beginner at English. I’m taking some very baby steps into Portuguese… Feedback: ‘ a English learner either’ doesn’t make sense. I guess you meant something like - ‘also I’m learning English’. You seem to have most of it down though. Best wishes 😁

[@analuizahenriques1703]

It's funny that we really ignore most rules in conversations, and some accents almost murder the grammar in it's core, but we don't care and it's all part of our beautiful language

[@mariah2161]

Hi everyone! I speak brazilian portuguese and english fluently (I am brazilian and lived in the U.S. for 3 years.) If you are learning portuguese and are struggling with anything in particular, please comment on this post and I will help you to the best of my abilities! I love languages, and I'd love to help anyone who is interested in learning portuguese!

[@se2025]

How long did it take you to learn germen

[@kevinramos-aguilar7892]

Any Portuguese podcasts anyone can recommend?

[@feliipe1821]

Flowpodcast (advanced)

[@ShaneGodliman]

For intermediate try “Fala Gringo” and “Carioca Connection”

[@jeanlucas2592]

It's not a podcast, but it's a great channel kzbin.info

[@josecostadonascimento3591]

Hey buddies, im brazilian, btw a english learner. If any of you want to have a conversation in portuguese, to practice or learn either, Im here. We can help each other, cause im struggling to find some partner to practice my english :) if you want to, just lemme know right here below.

[@masmansp]

Ho hum! "Did travels"? A touch of the old Portuguese methinks. Michael

[@daviddrysdale8882]

Hmm!? How to talk (conversar) or how to speak (falar) like a Brazilian!?

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

The challenge for native Spanish speakers is not relying on the similarities in vocabulary. P.S. : I bugged for a second realizing this video is in English and the video in Virginia's channel is in Portuguese 😅

[@jyuya6594]

same for portuguese speakers learning spanish!

[@michellecavalcante5883]

It's so hard to not to use the Portuñol :(

[@laudemar-A.B.6386]

​@@jyuya6594KKK né 🤣🤷

[@ricardorojas5045]

Meus Deus! Oi turma, tudo bem? 😜 = Oh my God! Hi everybody, are y'all doing well? 😜

[@MaskFaceStup1dP4nc4kes]

a tradução literal seria "My God! Hi class, everything good?" mas, sim.

[@信者の男]

@@MaskFaceStup1dP4nc4kes turma pode ser só um grupo de pessoas, talvez Hi folks seria melhor

[@robert7y433]

O legal de aprender português é que se vc errar alguma coisa ao falar com algum brasileiro vc não precisa se preocupar pq até mesmo nos brasileiros falamos errado, então se alguem te corrigir de forma com que vc não goste vc pode dizer: "nem vc fala direito pq eu iria?" Kkkk

[@josecostadonascimento3591]

Pser kkk a gente é muito de boa com quem está aprendendo nossa lingua haha. Diferente dos norte americanos 🥴😬

[@Idgjfho]

Kkkkkkkkkkk

[@vfb.masta.k]

Olly in this video: 🍅

[@storylearning]

I think I'd just come back from the beach when we recorded this 😂