Learn Portuguese with Charles Oliveira // pt. 1 

You will see tons of MMA fighters on my channel. What type of Brazilian music do you like? Maybe I can incorporate some of the stuff you like in future videos.

this guy will be the reason ima learn , keep making videos bro!

For sure! Just published another Charles video today if you haven't yet watched! You'll see a lot of him on my channel :)

@@DecodingWordswithAndrew for sure brother✊🏼 Ty

Thank you and glad you're finding it useful!!

Glad it was helpful! Yes, fighters in general are usually really tough to understand for Portuguese learners because they use a lot of nonstandard speech that you're not going to learn in textbooks.

Yes it is! He’s amazing

Awesome! So glad you found it useful!

100% you will! Any fighters in particular you’d like to see?

​@@DecodingWordswithAndrewAlex Pereira please! 🙏🏻

@@morganmartinez8420 stay tuned 😉

Yes, this is especially true of fighters since they use tons of "hood" slang :)

Will do!!! :)

So glad you enjoyed it Jeff!!

Great to have you here and glad to be a part of your Portuguese journey!

Thank you, that means a lot! Let me know if you there’s anything that you find confusing about the language and I’ll consider making a video about it. Or just any famous Brazilian that you’d like to see me do a break down of. Thanks again!

Mesmo aqui! Adoro aprender português brasileiro da vida real. Brigada!

So great to hear that Eric! If you're an MMA fan, I've got a lot of content on the channel to keep you busy :)

Obrigado!! e seja bem-vindo!!

Yeah, speed is definitely a factor, but fighters in general (especially Charles) are not easy for a Portuguese learner to understand because they speak what I like to call "hood Portuguese"...which is completely different from the formal stuff they teach in apps and textbooks.

@@DecodingWordswithAndrew lol yeah I speak Spanish with the Nicaraguan dialect and listen to a lot of Puerto Rican artist so I know about the hood style sound 😹. I’m going to Brasil this week and now have to use all the portugues I know for UFC301 😎

Yeah, a Portuguese learner trying to understand Brazilian fighters is like a Spanish learner trying to understand Bad Bunny :)

Thanks Nurettin, I really appreciate that!!

Will do Fatih!

Thanks Sean, let me know if there's anyone you have in mind!

@@DecodingWordswithAndrew just more Charles Oliveira content like this. It’s helping me learn Portuguese! I keep saying “Coracao Bomando”😂

@@seanfirat9019 lol for sure!

Obrigado mermão!!

Glad you enjoyed it!!

Glad you find it useful! :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

already have!!

Thanks man, appreciate it! If you want full length podcasts transcribed in Portuguese, I’d suggest finding someone on Fiver to do it (I’ve done it for Italian videos)….it would be pretty expensive though for a full podcast (it’s a LOT of work to do something like that). Even with the transcript, though, it would be hard to explain everything they say since fighters tend to use so much slang and non-standard speech, cultural references, as well as fight-specific terms. It’s hard enough trying to make a 5 minute video like mine 😂 my channel is really first and foremost a Portuguese learning channel, but you’ll see me using lots of figures from the MMA world as examples. More to come!

Just remembered that there's this Instagram account that you can follow that has subtitles of short interview bits with MMA fighters instagram.com/connect_cast/

Awesome man, glad you find them useful :) more coming soon!

Glad you liked it!

I appreciate it brotha!

Glad to hear it! Are you just beginning on your Portuguese journey?

@@DecodingWordswithAndrew Yeah, I am just starting. My Spanish is fairly good; so learning Portuguese could be slightly easier for me.

@@rentaroominnyc awesome!! My channel is perfect for you then :) I’m working on a long form tutorial all about Portuguese verb tenses and conjugations which will teach you pretty much everything you need for everyday conversations…stay tuned!

@@DecodingWordswithAndrew Ok great. I understand 80% of formal Portugués through guessing because it’s so strikingly similar to Spanish. My problem is the day to day conversation, the street language. I like the fact that you are pushing more of the coloquial Portugués. Take your time, I will be waiting for the tutorial.

@@rentaroominnyc this is exactly why I created this channel…the vast majority of Portuguese learning materials out there teach the standard, textbook form. My channel focuses solely on how people actually speak in the real world, which as you can see from my videos, is a whole different world.

Thanks for the comment bro! Agreed, "falar" in and of itself is not more or less informal than "dizer", but in the context that Charles uses it ("falar para" in the sense of "to tell") it's definitely something you see way much more in colloquial speech. In formal, written contexts like newspaper articles you will much more likely see "dizer a" used to express "to tell"...i.e. "Familiares disseram ao jornal que...."

@@DecodingWordswithAndrew yes that is true, good point. I stand corrected!