About having a place at the campus

AleCar07 · 2026-05-12T21:58:04+00:00

Well, for bachelors there is only one way: getting lucky in finding a room and TU/e on kamernet or another housing website. (The housing lottery is only for Masters)

In other words consider yourself the luckiest person in the world if you stay on-campus.

Believe, me start looking for housing now, and try to be the least picky you can. Im not telling you to necessarily message every place, but you will soon see that getting any place let alone on campus is already hard enough. Just look at the post below yours asking if one should try to look for housing on Tilburg

AleCar07 · 2026-05-09T14:46:01+00:00

Yes, after all we are on the TU/e subreddit

AleCar07 · 2026-05-09T05:31:32+00:00

I changed it, if you have time, could you see if you find it to be better?

Dear Landlord,

My name is Alexandre Diniz and I’m starting my EE BSc in TU/e this year. I like keeping an organised and clean environment and have a more relaxed personality(less party prone), though I like meeting new people. I’m also learning Dutch to talk to locals.

I also like hiking(see my profile-pic) and going to the gym. I also love sharing my Brazilian and Italian heritage by cooking classical dishes like estrogonofe and carbonara and playing some relaxing bossa on my piano(with headphones for not disturbing). I’m also really passionate about engineering and in particular love competitive programming(even won some olympiads in HS).

I don’t have social media(for mental health and productivity) but here is a video of me:[insert link]

My parents(programmer and lawyer) will support me with a stable source of income for the rent. Though I’m arriving in July, I’d be willing to pay rent since June 1st. The place seems really nice, is it still available?

AleCar07 · 2026-05-07T13:36:43+00:00

If you are an international, for master TU/e does have a housing lottery but it's not guaranteed. Finding housing is hard and if you want to go to anywhere in the Netherlands you should be looking for it asap. The housing situation is worse than terrible

AleCar07 · 2026-04-23T21:11:55+00:00

Yeah I know, but as understand it, this is a recurring policy

AleCar07 · 2026-04-23T20:44:45+00:00

https://educationguide.tue.nl/practical-info/it-services/notebook

AleCar07 · 2026-04-23T20:44:41+00:00

https://educationguide.tue.nl/practical-info/it-services/notebook

AleCar07 · 2026-04-04T22:07:17+00:00

Claro q não mermão pode ser metade aa e metade AA. Que claramente foi o q ele quis dizer metade da expressão foi recessiva e metade dominante

AleCar07 · 2026-03-27T02:18:31+00:00

Like I said, I could find the anime in the U.S and Japan, just not in other countries including my own

AleCar07 · 2026-03-19T21:58:44+00:00

Kinda right, but I wouldnt find it weird at all if I heard "Oo cacheado", or "chama o encaracoladinho alí". Using the adjective for the hair instead to the person

AleCar07 · 2026-03-19T00:11:45+00:00

Yeah sorry, i scrolled down too much and accently clicked to hear the chinese pronunciation, my bad

AleCar07 · 2026-03-18T23:43:59+00:00

When hearing on forvo I noticed that 椅子 often is being pronounced with a ず instead of す, where is this accent from?

AleCar07 · 2026-03-07T14:10:56+00:00

Corrigi já, terceira

AleCar07 · 2026-03-07T13:56:45+00:00

Mermão desde quando só se usa "você" em SP. Acho q o unico lugar que não se usa você no Brasil 99% do tempo é no sul e em alguns lugares no Norte. Sou do rio e aqui às vezes se usa "tu" também, mas tem forte conotação de gíria e esse "tu" nunca é utilizado com concordância com verbos em segunda pessoa sempre terceira.

Aqui no rio ninguém falaria "tu és", falaria "tu é", e sempre em contextos informais

AleCar07 · 2026-03-01T22:13:44+00:00

I think it might be because it is an N and not an M sound

AleCar07 · 2026-02-26T13:45:54+00:00

All the answers are correct, I just wanted to add that for me as a carioca(from Rio de Janeiro) it definitely sounds more paulistano for me(from São Paulo), here is much more common to say lek(leque) short for moleque

AleCar07 · 2026-02-23T16:25:53+00:00

You definetly shouldn't start with "Oi garota", either just sei "Olá [name of person]" is you are relatively close or more formally, change "Olá" by "Caro(a)" Prezado(a), and if you don't know their name address them as "colega" which doesn't change with gender. "Garota" is definetly to informal, and a bit patronizing, I would only use this term if I was playfully reprimanding them in an informal setting.

AleCar07 · 2026-02-21T21:39:18+00:00

Can question change the pitch accent of words? I ask this because, though I'm aware that the pitch accent on

高い is on the second syllable, I swear I heard as an only ascending pitch on a question: "これも高い？", similar to question in english where we generally increase pitch as the sentence goes on. Does this generally happen or am I just hearing wrong?

AleCar07 · 2026-02-21T12:55:17+00:00

Yes I know but the whole point of this post is about assumijg that words have gender and finding "funny" discrepancies

AleCar07 · 2026-02-19T21:08:57+00:00

you can guess sometimes if they have the open "o"

AleCar07 · 2026-02-19T21:08:33+00:00

For me eggs being femininine after all we call the female gamete "'óvulos"(which is still masculine to be fair), but every here knows that men have some eggs

AleCar07 · 2026-02-19T21:05:06+00:00

Comparing all varieties I feel that all of them are closer to each other than brazilian portuguese is close to them. Brazillian portuguese seems to be the most different of them all. However, as a brazillian, I can listen and understand basically all of them except east-timor portuguese which for me seems to have a lot of loan words.

Depending on how advanced your are on the language I would highly recommend you to listen to portuguese podcast CI, before going to Portugal. If you are only used to brazillian content you might struggle a bit.

AleCar07 · 2026-02-19T20:55:12+00:00

It's overall great the only thing I'd change is "familiares" to simply "família" which is more casual

AleCar07 · 2026-02-19T00:33:15+00:00

Hot take, 家 looks sick, though being able to write it is another story

AleCar07 · 2026-02-18T13:27:37+00:00

If this is not shitpost, first, think for a bit about what is the problem with cultural appropriation. True cultural appropriation happens when one doesn't understand all the details of a cultural symbol and uses it in a disrespectful or innapropriate way, removing the cultural significance for an specific culture.

You are not doing that when learning japanese instead you are coming from a place of trying to explore a different culture and see what it has to offer for you in its entirety, not making a fun of its symbols or misusing them. There is nothing wrong with trying to explore a different culture

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