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Live Class Overview
Date: June 13, 2025
Theme: Conversational warm-up + cultural vocabulary + food & affection in Brazilian Portuguese
Format: Speed dating breakout rooms → group sharing → vocabulary & culture deep dive
🧊 Warm-Up & Breakout Rooms
Icebreaker Prompt:
“Quais são os seus planos para o fim de semana?”
Participants paired up for speed-dating-style breakout sessions in Portuguese and English. Foster reminded:
“Mais 2 minutos! Se ainda não trocaram, troquem agora! Os dois devem falar e ouvir 🙂”
🎬 Film & Culture Chat
🎥 “Retratos Fantasmas”
- Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Personal weekend plans included protests, Pilates, and movies
🍽️ Food Vocabulary & Regional Expressions
Prompt: “Descobrir com detalhes qual é a comida preferida do outro.”
Highlighted vocabulary:
- farofa – seasoned cassava flour mix
- congelado – frozen
- abafado – humid, muggy
- cozinhar no vapor – to steam
- panela a vapor – steaming pot
- vaporizador – steamer
- couve – collard greens
- massa, macarrão – pasta
- gengibre – ginger
Foster pronunciation tip:jeng-gee-bree
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Biscoito vs. Bolacha
Definitions:
- In Rio & Southeast: “Biscoito” is common
- In São Paulo & South: “Bolacha” is preferred
Example:
biscoito de polvilho
bolacha de chocolate
Fun Note:
This debate is like “soda vs. pop” — playful, regional, and identity-loaded!
🧁 Bolacha Maria:
A beloved tea biscuit used in:
- pavê
- torta de bolacha
- doce de bolacha
Named after Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (1874).
🧀 Cheese & Emotion
Jamie:
“queijo = vida”
Alexia:
“Concordo plenamente. Morro de saudades do queijo de minas.”
Others: ❤️😂
💞 Word of the Day:
Chamêgo
Definition:
A Brazilian word for deep affectionate snuggling, cuddling, doting love. Often informal, regional, and used in romantic/familial contexts.
Example:
Ela adora um chamêgo antes de dormir.
(She loves some snuggling before bed.)
Cultural Context:
- Combines carinho + aconchego + mimo
- Common in forró and MPB songs
- Associated with saudade and tenderness