Paraíso Perdido

8 Apr

Tonight’s film comes from Brazil!

Paraíso Perdido (2018)

Whether you’re learning Portuguese or just looking for something to watch, Paraíso Perdido is a moving film with a great soundtrack.

The film centres on an old nightclub and its eclectic family of singers. A cop moonlights as a bodyguard after stopping an assault against one of the singers - Imã - and gets to know the stories behind the family’s voices.

Each character plays a key role, but Imã - a cross-dresser - is perhaps the most pertinent. Violence against the LGBTQ community remains a significant problem, and it’s therefore moving when another of the singers - Angelo - reminds Imã of the following :

As pessoas não te odeiam pelo que você é, mas pelo que elas não conseguem ser. Não esqueça disso.

‘People don’t hate you for what you are, but for what they cannot be. Don’t forget that.’

If you’re learning Portuguese, the following videos are interviews with some of the film’s stars :

Entrevista com os atores Jaloo, Lee Taylor e Humberto Carrão sobre of filme Paraíso Perdido

Marjorie Estiano, Monique Gardenberg e Malu Galli - Paraíso Perdido

Entrevista com Seu Jorge, Julia Konrad e Julio Andrade - Paraíso Perdido

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!

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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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