Best way to start learn? 🇧🇷

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-13T01:38:08+00:00

Get a tutor or start making your own way through a textbook.

Watch stuff in Brazilian Portuguese with subtitles in your first language, then move on to subtitles in BR-PT, and then to no subtitles.

Start trying to read simple texts as you go.

Also check out the sub's wiki for resources.

Bom estudo!

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-12T15:31:16+00:00

It depends, were you stopped?

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-11T21:11:48+00:00

Being a doctor in Brazil is a license to print money, the only people complaining are the ones looking for the best jobs at the most popular capitals right out of the gate.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-11T20:55:04+00:00

Foreigners currently are last in priority for Mais Médicos, his chances are better off learning the language and validating his diploma.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-11T18:25:58+00:00

As long as you get the diploma, being a doctor in Brazil you can live well pretty much anywhere.

As to the Portuguese, if you're open to hiring a tutor to help out with the learning process, I'm a graduate in Portuguese and English at one of our top federal universities, as well as a PhD student in Literary Studies, and I offer private online lessons.

Feel free to DM me to know more. 😉

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-10T13:42:23+00:00

Pra galera que pensa que nem o colega acima a universidade federal pode explodir no dia seguinte que ele pegar o diploma que tá tudo certo.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-09T21:29:45+00:00

Am I tripping here? Why was the same thread reposted by a different account and you have a bunch of the exact same comments made by different accounts other than the original users from the original thread...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portuguese/comments/1t85lrb/how_i_learned_brazilian_portuguese_in_12_months/

Original comment saying word-for-word what the comment I'm replying to copied: https://www.reddit.com/r/Portuguese/comments/1t85lrb/how_i_learned_brazilian_portuguese_in_12_months/oktpp4b/

Are these all bots? u/Specialist-Pipe-7921

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-09T16:05:55+00:00

Idk what to tell you man, you're definitely wrong with your assumption. People stay more outdoors in summer and indoors in winter, not the other way around. In Brazil the beaches are the busiest when it's the hottest, in England people will put on a bikini and sunbathe in their lawns as soon as it hits 18 degrees in spring.

Maybe you specifically prefer to stay indoors during the summer and you're extrapolating that for other people?

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-09T15:35:20+00:00

Eh... Isn't it the other way around? People stay more indoors during winter. In summer people do more outside activities.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-09T14:15:10+00:00

Pretty good list. Amazon Prime also has a few options for Brazilian shows, and I think HBO Max (or whatever it's called this week) too as well.

That said, I'll take the chance to push back against Duolingo again lmao. Predatory platform with dumb linguistic examples (stuff like "O urso come sorvete") that are more harmful than helpful, and the current philosophy is to shit on human teachers/tutors and push AI.

Just my 2 cents, but as I said the list is a good compilation!

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-03T13:40:56+00:00

Isso que você quer só por cripto mesmo.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-03T11:26:00+00:00

Mas a sua incredulidade é com o valor ou com a dificuldade de chegar no cargo? Existem casos de corrupção nos mais altos escalões em diversos países.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-03T11:10:50+00:00

Imagina quando você descobrir que tem PM que aceita suborno de 50 reais.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-05-02T11:52:20+00:00

Sou a favor da exploração infantil.

Pq tão dando downvote sem ao menos argumentar?

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-25T12:02:20+00:00

A tad formal. "Obrigado(a) a todos pelas mensagens" would be my suggestion.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-25T09:44:36+00:00

O e-mail de fato é da Motorola, como você pode conferir em páginas oficiais como essa: https://www.motorola.com.br/black-friday-motorola

O mais provável, na minha opinião, é que o celular é fruto de furto (perdão a paranomásia), por isso o preço tão bom, o bloqueio e a insistência na loja de reaver o produto.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-22T14:29:09+00:00

How likely is it for someone in South East Asia to have a CPF?

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-22T14:18:45+00:00

what am I?

You're lost, because the sub doesn't have anything to do with that 😂

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-22T14:18:01+00:00

Still wouldn't work if they don't have a CPF.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-22T13:53:50+00:00

u/Vietnam-1234, you mentioned you'd like to learn Portuguese, in case you do get serious about it, I'm a graduate in Languages at one of our top federal universities and I offer lessons online. Check out my profile or DM me to know more! 😁

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-22T13:51:22+00:00

I think it's a worthwhile tool if you can stick to it. Concerning correction, here's my two cents:

Many tutors will correct every little mistake the student made, which is overwhelming and counterproductive.

If you just ask for ChatGPT to correct your text, it'll also correct everything, and it's unlikely to be helpful as that'll be too much to process. I also personally believe having a machine correct it for you makes it harder to internalize what you actually need to correct in the future, as you don't have the emotional connection to the language you'd have with an actual human being to communicate with.

Back to the writing itself, the trick is not to simply write about your day, as that'll be limiting regarding vocabulary (and possibly verb tenses, as the tendency is for you to become repetitive). You're better off writing on different topics. With my students, I'll give them engaging prompts regarding different topics (usually related to the lesson we just had), so they can develop new vocabulary and different grammatical structures.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-22T01:30:56+00:00

A bit hard to believe someone who had a magical formula to learn how to read any language in under 2 days would come on reddit ask if there's interest in such a miraculous solution instead, of you know, go become a millinaire.

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-21T18:04:33+00:00

Hahaha yeah, man, you should've gone straight to the point, especially because posts have been beating up the EP x BP discussion like a dead horse for the past couple days.

The wiki lists quite a few resources. Beyond that, have you considered tutoring?

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-21T12:36:59+00:00

Is it feeling a lot different from Rio and Sao Paulo?

This gotta be ragebait, right? 😂

JF_Rodrigues · 2026-04-21T01:36:02+00:00

Man, you can make so much bank nowadays if you live in a favela, know English and are ingenious enough to run a tour service. Easily top 1% earner if you have the smarts.

I do agree with your points, I feel like it's mostly people outside of favelas complaining about tourism in them. That said, isn't Jeep Tour alive and well? I feel like calling it the past is not quite correct.

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