Comments on: How to speak Portuguese as if you were from Rio

By: Benny Lewis

Benny Lewis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Pode deixar

By: operário das artes x

operário das artes x — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:53:00 +0000

Interesting text. But why don’t you post a video showing your carioca accent?

By: Sherise Alexis

Sherise Alexis — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Very interesting! I always wondered why my teacher was always correcting words that I thought I was pronouncing perfectly fine.

I spent a year in Salvador and Bahians were impressed with my sotaque. Only to come to the US under a Portuguese teacher from RS and get corrected mercilessly.

It was those pesky ê and é!

By: chandlerbing

chandlerbing — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:54:00 +0000

I’m from rio de janeiro, visit my blog, maybe I can help you guys .. http://www.serfilgam.blogspot.com

By: Benny Lewis

Benny Lewis — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:24:00 +0000

I lived in São Paulo state for an entire month

By: Benny the language hacker

Benny the language hacker — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:45:00 +0000

The books I linked to are the biggest help. Otherwise try to watch novelas based in Rio to hear the accents

By: João Paulo

João Paulo — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:52:52 +0000

Benny,
Sou fascinado por línguas, gramáticas, pronúncias e etimologias há mais de vinte anos, e é sempre uma enorme satisfação encontrar análises como a sua, sob ângulos não padronizados.
Desta vez, o que me foi particularmente interessante foi isto: como sempre acontece, o Outsider (neste caso, você) fez-me perceber algumas coisas de que eu não tinha me dado conta em relação a minha própria língua. Na verdade, é por isso que, muitas vezes, gosto de ler as perspectivas de quem está de fora. O ponto de vista inovador sempre sai dos clichês acadêmicos e finalmente me ensina aquilo que eu ainda não sabia. Sabe como é, o peixe não vê a água.
Sucesso na missão húngara!

By: João Paulo

João Paulo — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:52:52 +0000

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My (Brazilian) Portuguese Cheat Sheet « Maverick Traveler — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:11:24 +0000

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Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:59:08 +0000

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By: Dominique

Dominique — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:27:13 +0000

Saluton Benny. Mi nur devas rimarki gravan aferon. Tiu cxi acxento, karioka acxento, por aliaj brazilanoj sonas kiel fi-acxento en la senso ke gxi sonas kiel la parolmaniero de sxtelistoj aux uloj kiu logxas en la faveloj kaj planas fari ion malbonan al vi. Klare, ne signifas ke ili estas nek ke kiu logxas en faveloj estas malbonaj personoj, ne temas pri tio. Temas nur pri kiel aliaj brazilanoj auxdas tiu cxi acxento.

Alia efekto estas ke kiam brazilanoj auxdas vortoj kiel: manero, mané, porra, já é, partiu playboy, demoro kaj la aliaj el karioka dialekto el portugala, kiel vi nomis gxin, sonas kiel la karioka ulo kiu parolas ilin ne respektas vin, ke li/sxi estas tre konvinkoplena kaj bezonas grandan spacon por montri ke tiu cxiu ulo gravas pli ol aliaj (portugale, li or sxi estas folgado/a).

Mi intervujis plimalpli 200 brazilanoj kiuj logxas en Dublino pri tio kaj 100% sentis tion. Ili estis el diversaj partoj el Brazilo (Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Distrito Federal, Bahia, São Paulo, Pará, Tocantins etc), sed cxiuj sentas la saman. Estrange, cxu ne? 100%!

Kiam mi demandis "kiu brazila acxento vi tute na sxatus havi kiel la via?" 100% diris: karioka acxento.

Mi ne scias se tiu cxi opinio gravas al viaj sercxoj pri lingvoj al en tiu cxi speciala kazo, portugala lingvo, sed jen mia kontribuo.

Gxis. Salutas Vin, Dominique, Brazilano el Dublino.

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:28:30 +0000

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By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:18:01 +0000

Your description of the Carioca accent is very good, indeed. I'd just like to emphasize that it while it may be totally appropriate to speak like that in order to “blend in”, caution should be used if you try to speak so outside Rio de Janeiro. While the Carioca accent is ubiquitous in television in arts and well accepted, some parts of your description makes you sound like a “malandro” and it is frowned upon outside Rio de Janeiro (and even in RJ, depending on whom you're talking to). I'm well aware it's a matter of stereotype, but I'd just like to make sure foreign learners of Portuguese may be able to distinguish regionalisms from what is spoken elsewhere (and reproduce them as they please). As you pointed out, there is also plenty of very interesting slang that can be used anywhere without making you sound “too” regional.

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:31 +0000

Definitely agree – I get teased now when I meet Paulistanos abroad because of my current Carioca accent. It's hard to turn off

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:16:53 +0000

English is musical compared to Japanese?? Wow… I'll get to that language soon enough and see for myself of course

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:16:09 +0000

huahuahuahuahua a palavra “porra” é usada como vírgula – adorei

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:15:25 +0000

Thanks for the compliment! It's always curious to hear people analyse the way you speak naturally; I know this from teaching English and analysing my own accent…
to hear me speak Portuguese, you can always check out my videoblog in Portuguese (click Brazilian flag on the right), but I haven't uploaded any videos recently so I don't have the Carioca accent in any video. I'll make a new video soon in Portuguese

By: Vítor De Araújo

Vítor De Araújo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:39:34 +0000

Also, this “alçamento das vogais” is nonexistent in the speech of many – if not most – Brazilians living in Brazil's three southernmost states (i.e. Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul).”

I am from Rio Grande do Sul, and while this is true for the inner accents of RS, this “alçamento” is present in the accent of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. (Though I guess it is less prominent than in RIo de Janeiro.)

By: Izabella Miranda

Izabella Miranda — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:58:42 +0000

Hello, I really like the way you've captured the Brazilian way of speaking. Even thou I'm from Brazil, I hadn't really noticed some of the things you've pointed out, as for example “mais um has the s pronounced as it would be if that were one word maisum”. Obviously I speak that way, but if I had to explain it to someone I wouldn't be able to do it as clearly as you have. Good job! Keep up the good work. I wish you could add (I don't know how) an option so that we could also hear you speaking. It's just an opinion… well anyways, love your website.

By: Gleydson Macedo

Gleydson Macedo — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:30:04 +0000

Oi Benny! Parabéns pelo blog e pela paixão pelas línguas!

Eu também gosto muito do assunto e no momento estou me concentrando no francês e dando umas olhadelas no japonês.

Morei no Rio por 1 ano e alguma coisa e você não poderia ter resumido melhor o “carioquêixxx”. Rererererere… Só uma outra observação: a palavra “porra” no Rio é também usada como vírgula. ))

Já adicionei seu blog na minha lista de favoritos.

Tudibom!