Madame Satã

Film NightPortuguese
Written By Sean Price

Tonight’s film comes from Brazil!

Madame Satã (2002)

Whether you’re learning Portuguese or just looking for something to watch, Madame Satã is worth seeing.

The film is a loose portrayal of the life of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã. Aside from incredible scenes of Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s, the film depicts the life of someone who remains an iconic figure for refusing to conform.

If you’re learning Portuguese, the following video is an online meeting and discussion with the cast, recorded in August 2021 :

Grande encontró do elenco de ‘Madame Satã’ com Lázaro Ramos, Karim Aïnouz, Renata Sorrah e mais - Canal Brasil

If you’re unsure when and how to use subtitles, advice can be found here :

How to Use Subtitles to Learn a Language

If you’re interested in learning Portuguese, there’s a How to Learn Languages guide :

How to Learn Portuguese

Take care, and enjoy the process!

Sean Price

This article was written by Sean Price, the Founder of How to Learn Languages.

When he's not teaching English as a foreign language, he creates eBooks and Courses that make learning languages affordable and enjoyable for anyone.

He learnt French in 2018 during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne, before completing a degree in History at the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in the summer of the following year.

During his final year, he taught himself Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, as part of dissertation research into fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Although he says ‘learnt’ and ‘taught himself’ in the past tense, he also says one of the joys of learning a language is that there’s always more to learn.

More recently, he's been teaching himself German, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian.

Since moving to Vietnam to teach English in 2022, he's been enjoying learning Vietnamese. In less than one and a half years learning Vietnamese, he was able to achieve Level 5 (the highest being Level 6) of the official Vietnamese proficiency exam of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University, Hanoi (Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội).

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