Check out this site: https://flixtor.gg/country/BR

Everything has subtitles too. You will have to import subs by going into the "inspect" area of the web page and looking for the subtitle file but it's a massive source of Movies and TV shows.

Taina do you know of any good Podcasts just covering certain regions of Brazil, maybe different cultural traditions or interesting if not remarkable events?

If I'm being honest after reading one of these news articles about the Literaryfest during the World Cup I kinda want to just get a map of Brazil so I can get a solid idea of where these are happening, might even look for recorded video of some of these events.

Hi, Joedaniels1993! I'm from Brazil and I recently wrote a post on medium recommending a couple of Brazilian podcasts to intermediate-advanced Portuguese students: https://medium.com/@TScartezini/20-podcasts-to-learn-brazilian-portuguese-from-science-to-true-crime-intermediate-advanced-fbb24f83c233

Terra.com.br seems to have many texts available for listening. I always get import recommendations from them on various topics.

Two further recommendations for learning Brazilian Port.:

• Technocracia podcast - nível: avanzado (C1/C2).

Apresentação: "Qual é o impacto das decisões das grandes empresas de tecnologia na sua vida? Goste ou não, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon e afins se tornaram tão poderosos que suas ações dão forma a como vivemos. Apresentado por Guilherme Felitti, o Tecnocracia é uma coluna quinzenal sobre as consequências de se viver sob o governo das grandes empresas de tecnologia."

URL: https://manualdousuario.net/series/tecnocracia/

LingQ: Some podcasts have already been imported into LingQ: https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/912048

• Português (Brasileiro) com Marcia Macedo - nível: baixo intermediário (B1)

Apresentação: "Sou apaixonada por ensinar e aprender, por isso me graduei em Letras e fiz pós- graduação no ensino de línguas estrangeiras. Adoro me conectar com novas culturas, pessoas e pensamentos. Espero que você aproveite ao máximo o conteúdo! Me encanta la enseñanza y el aprendizaje, por lo que me licencié en Lenguas y realicé estudios de postgrado en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras. Me encanta conectar con nuevas culturas, personas y pensamientos. Espero que disfrutes al máximo del contenido."

URL: https://www.youtube.com/c/Portugu%C3%AAscomMarciaMacedoBR

LingQ: Some podcasts have already been imported into LingQ: https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/1001518

Divirtam-se

Pedro

How about Portuguespod101? ^^

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzQlC9ppbvyaHYgBQ80Ip_D1b8UVbTpmm

One more new great youtube channel with accurate subtitles and audio you can import to LingQ reader/mp3 player:

It's called Porta Afora

It features one of the actors from Porta dos Fundos comedy channel. It also includes English and Spanish subs you can compare the original too in case there is some slang or an expression you can't figure out).

It's not sketch comedy for Porta Afora, it's a group of Brazilians discussing their travels around the world and the episodes are divided into seasons of around 10 episodes and each episode features a specific country. Amazing for very realistic chit chat and the stories and topics they discuss about each country are entertaining. Each episode is around 25 minutes and 4,000 words so lately I've just been doubling my daily reading goal by reading one of these episodes per day and hitting my daily active listening goal with it.

The only downside is that only seasons 4 and 5 have accurate subtitles but that's 20 episodes or around 10 hours of high quality content for free. Hard to beat that.

Season 4 Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gVZXlsLSe4vCLk_Jqyl1ZY3Uzzm22QZ

Season 5 Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1gVZXlsLSe4YImN-Rq4l7J4X8BpnXtzV

Being a history buff, I've been looking for Brazilian-Portuguese podcasts about history for the last few days. I found a few, but, unfortunately, most of them don't have transcripts. However, Christian Gurtner's "Escriba Cafe" podcast has both transcripts and audio files (at least for the newer episodes) that can be imported into LingQ.

• If you're interested, here's the LingQ course with all the episodes that I was able to download: https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/829568
• Language level: B1 / B1-B2
• Some info about the podcast (from the website): "O Escriba Cafe é o primeiro podcast de história do Brasil e, também, o primeiro no formato storytelling. Através de muita pesquisa e extremo cuidado técnico na gravação e edição, o resultado é uma experiência sonora diferente, que traz conhecimento com emoção. Produzido desde 2004, o Escriba Cafe já foi eleito duas vezes o melhor podcast do Brasil e ficou entre os finalistas entre os melhores do mundo pela Deutsche-Welle."
• Some info about the author (from the website): "O autor: Christian Gurtner é historiador, escritor, piloto comercial de aviões e também é autor de roteiros já produzidos, como Crime e Serial. Alguns de seus contos e livros estão disponíveis na Amazon. O Escriba Cafe é escrito, gravado e produzido por ele."
• The original website with more, esp. older episodes whose audio files can't be downloaded: https://www.escribacafe.com

Have fun

Peter

I recently found the TED talks in Portuguese. Here's a list of those from São Paulo:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1FF8AB20BBD89906

probably not the best content for beginners, but they have some benefits. They import well to LingQ. Many talks (most in that list) seem have manually written transcripts. The talks are well rehearsed, so the speakers usually speak clearly. They also try to explain the ideas clearly, so that even laypeople understand. And, well, they are "ideas worth spreading".

Hi Joe, you might find Português Pra Fora interesting: https://castbox.fm/channel/Portugu%C3%AAs-Pra-Fora-id2890973?country=us. Olavo talks about a wide range of different subjects. Some of the podcasts are recorded with his own students (who are learning Portuguese, generally at an intermediate or advanced level), so you also get to pick up the tips he is giving them to correct grammar/sound more natural. Good luck with your studies.

I was going to suggest "Fala Gringo" but someone already did :) so for an intermediate level maybe "Revisteen" is a good option. They approach all types of interesting news in a very light way bc it's focused on kids and teenagers - https://open.spotify.com/show/0zUy0UDdcpZZ6IO8I1iuDo?si=VymhONSrT2GGkYUkLbf7Gg

"A Nossa Língua de Todo Dia" by Pasquale is another great podcast! (not sure if it's too advanced but give it a try). He's the most famous portuguese teacher in Brazil. I remember getting tips on the language from him since I was a kid :) he was always on the radio/tv shows explaining the peculiarities of portuguese and answering questions - https://open.spotify.com/show/7s6b3n1C7GItFqYslY5zlN?si=bVALkViiQWm066PPSWGOAg

Hope that helps!

I have looked into that and have not found much luck. Please share if you find good material.

1 More resource is the UBOOK app. It has a lot of brazilian audiobooks for all levels (and a low subscription fee).

I'm not quite double your word count and I'm still struggling with finding good passive listening material where my comprehension rate is 90% and above haha.

For me the ones I usually can get at least 80% are

Virginia Langhammer's channel

Steve and Maggie Brasil - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7_KYQFGUiO-7ajWasTQjw

Not a sexy pick but it's super basic and pretty funny sometimes. Repeats words A LOT.

Also,

I'd recommend getting some old Glossika somewhere on the internet (PM Me if you want my source) because those are just sentences repeated over and over (choice of with english and/or without). Boring but if you want to understand every sentence spoken that's going on that's a good one.

Others you might try are Kids based too

Os Amiguinhos

https://www.youtube.com/user/osamiguinhosTV

Carrossel - I was introduced to this yesterday so im not 100% how easy it is for advanced beginner but the episode count is huge and lengthy.

https://www.youtube.com/c/carrosse

Chiquititas - Netflix

Lastly, I've been using

Gato Glactico a lot lately for reading/active listening and these are getting easier for me to listen back to afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/user/OGatoGalactico

Hi, Joedaniels1993!

You could try the following resources for your level (A2/B1):

• LingQ's MiniStories (for practicing grammatical patterns): https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/294576
• História do Brasil: https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/29774
• TaFalado (for pronunciation and grammar): https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/629765 and https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/brazilpod/tafalado/
• Conversa Brasilera: https://coerll.utexas.edu/brazilpod/cob/
• Lingua da Gente: https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/631051
• The wonderful Virginia Langhammer: https://speakingbrazilian.podbean.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGs6EbIt75S4IMKPRUU0JNQ
• FalaGringo: https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/pt/web/course/665431 and https://falagringopodcast.com/

Hope that helps

Peter