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Aprender Português? Vejo-me Grego! (Video)

Learning Portuguese? I'm Seeing Myself Greek (I'm Struggling)!

In this video, Joel (o Canadiano) interviews Pedro, a personal trainer in Lisboa. When he saw which videos and website his Greek girlfriend was using to learn Portuguese, he immediately recognized Rui and Joel as members of the gym!

Instead of just taking a photo together, we decided it would be a bigger surprise for her to see her boyfriend pop up in her YouTube activity feed! So we recorded this interview to make it happen…

During the conversation, we discuss:

• Common challenges that make Portuguese difficult for non-natives to master

• Learning your partner’s language while in a relationship

• Specific grammar and pronunciation peculiarities in European Portuguese

Disclaimer: Since this interview is spontaneous and Joel is not a native speaker, he makes a few mistakes (eg. “Isto é” instead of “Este é” when introducing Pedro!) Members who see the subtitles / transcription will see the corrections, and hopefully learn from these common errors. But for those who just hear the audio or view the video without subtitles, just make sure to take Joel’s grammar with a grain of salt and focus more on Pedro! 🙂

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  • 00:00:00(audio introduction)
    • 00:00:46Joel: Olá e bem-vindos ao Practice Portuguese. Agora vamos fazer um vídeo. Eu sou o Joel
    • 00:00:52e isto (*este) é... Isto não é [o] Rui!
      Pedro: Não, não sou o Rui.
    • 00:00:55Joel: Isto (*este) é o Pedro.
      Pedro: Sou o Pedro. Olá a todos, viva.
    • 00:01:00Joel: And Rui isn’t with us today because he is on assignment – vacation –, but Pedro
    • 00:01:05very generously offered to do this interview with me today and we have a very special reason.
    • 00:01:10So, now we’re going to switch languages and I’m gonna try and do the interview in
    • 00:01:14Portuguese. If I make any mistakes, then Pedro is gonna correct me...
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    a arquitetaarchitect a carreiracareer A entrevistainterview O fatorfactor Fluirto flow GregaGreek Reparar emNotice, realize, look at O seguidor, a seguidorafollower, fan (person) o sonhodream o tomtone
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    Para viver os doisto live together (2 people) Seja aqui, seja noutro lugar qualquerwhether it be here, or some other place Desde que estejamos juntosas long as we are together Portunhola mix between Portuguese and Spanish, (slang) Ter [a] vontadeTo want to, to feel like se Deus quiserGod willing O bicho de sete cabeçasseven-headed creature, something complex and difficult
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    Comments

    • Scrolling is not synchronous and refuses to keep in line. You may want to fix that.

      But very good video anyway. Joel should make more mistakes because the corrections teach us possibly more than normal speech.

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