hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 9 of 16 21 November 2012 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
Outcast, stelingo kind of brings up a point. Where in the US are you? When I lived in
California TV Globo was offered "a la carte" on my Dish set up. It's also offered in
Chicago through my cable provider (RCN), although it's more expensive than Dish was.
I'm thinking that if you're in or near a major metropolitan area, you should be able to
subscribe.
R.
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FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian
| Message 10 of 16 22 November 2012 at 11:11am | IP Logged |
Bizarrely enough, Globo seem to have many full episodes for free in their international website, with subtitles!
edit:
typos, typos everywhere!
Edited by FireViN on 22 November 2012 at 12:18pm
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outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4947 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean
| Message 11 of 16 25 November 2012 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for all that treasure-trove of suggestions. I will follow up on all of them.
hrhenry, I have DTV. I will have to check on that, but I'm sure it won't be "cheap". I may consider it though, if all other options are exhausted. I am trying to learn on s small a budget as possible.
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 12 of 16 12 December 2012 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
I agree that it is very sad that it is so difficult to get Brazilian TV outside of Brazil. It is hard to even find news clips that I can watch outside of Brazil.
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Frieza Triglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5351 days ago 102 posts - 137 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German
| Message 13 of 16 14 December 2012 at 11:27am | IP Logged |
You may attempt to stream Portuguese TV station SIC, which airs a couple of Brazilian soaps/telenovelas after 11pm (PT time).
Can't give you any personal opinion, but I've heard very good things about 'Avenida Brasil' currently aired there.
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outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4947 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean
| Message 14 of 16 22 December 2012 at 3:30am | IP Logged |
Thanks Frieza. I will look up on that.
I should point out I do watch some clips from RTP btw. While for practical purposes (living in the American continent in a city with huge Brazilian presence), I need to be more familiar with the Brazilian dialect, I'm starting to tune more with EP material. It is a nice change from the Brazilian accent and it certainly doesn't hurt my vocabulary.
So if you have suggestion on a good portuguese tv show, I'm all ears.
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 15 of 16 22 December 2012 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
If anyone likes soap operas, the most recent one "Avenida Brasil" was the best in a loooooong time! Excelent acting, "cinematography", very good plot.
I don't watch soap operas because they're usually the same things over and over, but this last one was very good!
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Frieza Triglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5351 days ago 102 posts - 137 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German
| Message 16 of 16 26 December 2012 at 2:55pm | IP Logged |
I realise now you can actually watch full episodes (divided into smaller clips) of Brazilian shows on SIC's website
There you'll also find some Portuguese shows.
RTP also has a show specific for the language, named Cuidado com a lĂngua
Finally, there's Ilha dos Amores, considered one of the best Portuguese soap operas, all of its episodes seem to be available on Youtube.
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