Accent Over Me

It was awesome talking to Luciana Diniz, an English and Portuguese teacher at Portland Community College in Portland (OR) in the United States. She lives abroad for 20 years and knows a lot about English. I made sure to ask you a lot of questions and she gave us a bunch of tips, including her free classes that you can attend starting next week. Hit the play button and let's learn together! 

FREE STUFF:

To apply for Luciana's free classes, send her an email at [email protected]!

To help with listening: https://elllo.org/

To help with conversations: https://www.hellotalk.com/?lang=en

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]!  See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more:  http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

This is one of the few rules that I really like in English and that I have so much fun talking about it. It's the Magic "E" Rule: it states when the letter “e” sits at the end of the word, it is usually silent and the “magical” E tells the first vowel or the preceding vowel to say its name or long sound. Did you get it? In this episode, I'm talking about some examples and we can understand perfectly after hearing that. Hit the play button and let's learn together! 

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

This episode is dedicated to my friend Juliana. She's Brazilian like me and has problems with pronouns. I mix them all the time as well and I studied about it to see if I can find a way to learn it faster and don't make so many mistakes. Hit the play button and let's learn together!

FREE STUFF:

Flocabulary - A website that uses hip hop songs to teach English

REFERENCES:

ENGVI - I X ME | ENGVID - PERSONAL PRONOUNS | GRAMMAR BOOK 

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;)

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Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

Happy Halloween!!!! If you don't live in the United States, you're probably not so familiar with this holiday. But even though you do, maybe you don't know how Halloween started. I'm from Brazil and we don't celebrate it down there which makes me curious about everything. In this episode, I tried to answer some questions about the origins of Halloween and some of the traditions that come with it and talk about some vocabulary related to the scariest day of the year! Boo! Hit the play button and let's learn together!!!

Click and watch the full History Channel documentary about Halloween here!

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;)

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Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

Do you know what "to show someone the ropes" means? What about "he's not playing with a full deck"? I picked some expressions that people who speak English use all the time to find out what they mean. Do you wanna know what they wanna say when giving someone the cold shoulder? Hit the play button and let's learn together!

FREE STUFF:

GreenGoDictionary - it's an Instagram profile with expressions Brazilians say all the time translated into English

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;)

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This episode was created to answer a question from my dear friend Daianne Schittino: how could I start to think in English? I really don't know how to answer this and I don't remember when English became so natural to me that I could think in this foreign language, but I realize that I did a lot of little things that helped me a lot to put English into my life more naturally. Besides that, I got some tips from Jason Whiting, a friend of mine and an English native speaker who speaks 9 different languages. Yes, nine! And I found some academic research too that say something about how our imagination and our process of decision making works when we think in a second language! This episode is full of information, right? So, press the play button, and let's learn together!!!

FREE STUFF:

Typing test  - a website to test your typing skills and see how fast you are

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;)

And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute

Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

When do we use to do and to make in a sentence? Can we know the difference between them when we're talking or writing? For me, this a frequent mistake because Portuguese just have one verb to use in both cases. If you have some problems with delexical verbs too, press the play button and let's learn together!!!

Free Stuff:

Youglish - a website that helps with pronounciation and listen in an awesome way!

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;)

Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

I'm always looking for ways to get rid of my thick accent. Not because I think it's horrible, but, as I always say, an accent is not that cute if you can't be understood. Doing some research on the internet, I found some tips from native speakers that can improve the way we speak, letting us more fluent as second language learners, and I figure out even a way that science can explain why we speak the way we speak. Just hit the play button!

Videos you should watch:

4 Secrets to Having an American English Accent: Advanced Pronunciation Lesson

How To Lose Your Native Accent | 5 TIPS

BBC Article: Can technology help you lose an accent?

Free Stuff:

Audible

Book: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind

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Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

English has a lot of words with double letters and when you wanna use gerunds or superlatives it becomes worse. But do you know when you double the letter when you add some ing on it? And how can you tell that a word has a double letter or not? Is it the sound or there's some grammar involved too? I tried to clarify this enigma a little bit and this what I got. Just hit the play button right now and let's figure this out together!

And these are the stand-up comedy shows that I mentioned in this episode:

Iliza Shlesinger

Ali Wong

Taylor Tomlinson

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Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.

The travel section at the book store is full of publications with basic sentences in English to teach you how to communicate in the country's native language.  But do you think this is an effective way to talk with people abroad using your second language? In this episode, I talk about some situations that I faced while I was traveling and how this basic stuff helped me (or not!) to solve problems on the way! Hit the play button and let's learn together!

Free stuff on this episode: Ted Talks

I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1  (503) 893-2105 or at [email protected]! See y'all! ;)

Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English.