Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
Popular Music in Brazil A Brazilian study recently surveyed top Brazilian radio stations and revealed what types of music that Brazilians listen to the most. The Brazilian radio stations that were surveyed were the following: Jovem Pan FM (São Paulo), Transamérica (São Paulo), FM O Dia (Rio de Janeiro), Beat 98 (Rio de Janeiro), Cidade [...]
Luiza in Canada This story is so hilariously Brazilian, it needs to be shared. The story begins with a random TV commercial that ran in Brazil about a construction project for a luxury apartment building in Paraíba. In the commercial, the man advertising the building uses his family in the commercial, but makes a point of [...]
Harper’s Bazaar Brazil Launches Its First Issue Harper’s Bazaar Brazil launches its first issue this week…and who else would be on the cover? …none other than Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen. The cover photo was shot by Terry Richardson.
Conspiracy Theories In Brazil Target TV Globo, Xuxa & Soccer Brazilians, suspicious by nature (normal when you come from a corrupt third world country), seem to love conspiracy theories at a level on par with the Americans. But perhaps where the famous Brazilian conspiracy theories diverge is that they are for the most part completely [...]
Comedy Central Set To Air In Brazil in January 2012! I was very excited to read this New York Times article about Comedy Central coming to Brazil. It will be interesting to see what shows will do well there, since they seem set on importing a lot of the American shows, at least at first, [...]
Nissan’s Evil Ponys Want To Sell You A Car I personally am not fond of this video ad, it may be creative but it’s also irritating, and i’ve been putting off posting this for a few days now to see if i could get away with never mentioning it. But i feel now that i [...]
DRUNK DRIVING IN BRAZIL: National A Epidemic RECORD DEATHS, BLITZ CONTROVERSY, POLICE CHECKPOINTS, PROVOCATIVE AD CAMPAIGNS, RANDOM BREATHALIZING, & A DRUNK VALET “a famosa lei seca, que esta apavorando muitos” If you’ve been to Brazil, you have probably seen ads like these, meant to make people think twice about driving drunk (although since they are billboards on the road, [...]
Fantástico is Brazil’s own, idiosyncratic answer to Sixty Minutes. Fantástico regularly lives up to its name and satisfies Brazil’s passion for the supernatural and the offbeat. In 1996 it created a major stir with exclusive footage of what it claimed to be two UFOs seen over Brazilian cities. And in 2001, it had a report [...]
THE MEDIA IN BRAZIL South America’s biggest media market is home to thousands of radio stations and hundreds of TV channels. Media ownership is highly concentrated. Home-grown conglomerates such as Globo, Brazil’s most-successful broadcaster, dominate the market and run TV and radio networks, newspapers and pay-TV operations. Brazilian-made dramas and soaps are aired around the [...]
