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Watching movies in Portuguese

Sep 11, 2022

Do you like to watch Brazilian movies in Portuguese to practice and improve your Portuguese? If your answer is yes, this post is for you. 


Watching Brazilian movies in Portuguese can help you improve your listening and comprehension skills, increase your Portuguese vocabulary and improve your Portuguese overall. 

In addition, you can learn slang, colloquial expressions used in spoken language and also bad words that you usually don’t learn in a language course or in a book.

 

There are many Brazilian movies and TV series like “The Circle Brazil” on Netflix, but some students complain that they cannot understand everything. Depending on your level, it can be really hard to understand everything, especially in the beginning, but you can rewatch the movies many times.

Skip the words you don't understand and watch only movies that you are interested in.           

 

There is a Google Chrome extension called "Learning Language with Netflix" that can help you watch a movies in Portuguese on Netflix and see the subtitles in Portuguese and English, Spanish, French, German, etc. like in the picture below.

What can you learn from watching Brazilian movies?

  • You can hear “real” Portuguese 
  • You can hear different accents
  • You can learn about the Brazilian culture
  • You can see Brazilian people and places

  

Have you ever watched any Brazilian movie in Portuguese?

What Brazilian movies have you watched in Portuguese?

What is your favorite Brazilian movies? 

Please share the name of the movies in the comments below.