I don't know about you but I think that English is a difficult language to learn. Based on that, I asked some Brazilian friends about their difficulties to learn the language and I tried to find on the internet how they can suffer a little bit less during this process. Hit the play button and let's learn together! Tips that I talked during the episode: Improve your speaking with yourself Rules to use have/has been Article about why English is so difficult to learn I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by  leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or send it to mycuteaccent@gmail.com! Besides these channels, Accent Over Me has a Facebook Group and an Instagram account as well. Join the conversation to learn and share even more! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazilian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

Slang words are not in the dictionary. You just find it talking to people. But you can be fluent in a particular language and don't understand some words that somebody just made up. I didn't have so much luck look for them on the internet. So, I ask my husband, who is American, to help us to understand it a little bit closer. Come with me to welcome Aaron and let's learn together!  I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or send it to  mycuteaccent@gmail.com! Besides these channels, Accent Over Me has a Facebook Group and an Instagram account as well. Join the conversation to learn and share even more! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

I was thinking about what inspired me to learn English and I found so many reasons that I thought I could share and inspire somebody else too. Hit the play button and let's learn together! And here are the links for the things I'm talking about on this episode if you wanna a deep dive on it: Yoga with Adriene Filmmaker Casey Neistat Ted Talks: "10 ways to have a better conversation", by Celeste Headlee Engvid: "How to understand native English speakers... and speak like them!", by James I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or send it to mycuteaccent@gmail.com! Besides these channels, Accent Over Me has a Facebook Group and an Instagram account as well. Join the conversation to learn and share even more! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

I was curious about what makes us memorize things that will stay in our brains forever. I've found a lot of research online and even read a book about the brain to find it out. Hit the play button and let's learn together! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by  leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com!  And Accent Over Me has a Facebook Group too. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/AccentOverMeGroup See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

I thought my accent was a problem and I will never communicate perfectly because of it. It's not true! Now, I'm reconciling with it and even change the name of this podcast! My Accent is all over me, all over us as second language learners. Let's enjoy this ride together, full of pride in being bilingual!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

Words that spell exactly the same but have different meanings. It's tiresome just to think about it, right? For sure! I have some examples on this episode and some free stuff to learn about swear words and their origins.  I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

This is so weird that we have to use some nouns just in their plural forms and in this episode I'm talking about why to translate things between languages cannot work AT ALL! And I have a story about Uncle Sam as well!!! Press the play button and let's learn together! ;) I  hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com!  And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now.  Join the  conversation to learn and share even more:  http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

I always struggle to say how the weather is outside, especially when it's raining. How should I say when there's a light rain out there, for example? It's difficult to have even small talks with native speakers when you don't know such essential vocabulary like that, right? Just hit the play button and let's learn together! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now.  Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

Tongue twisters are good to improve the pronunciation in any language you're trying to learn. Even when you're a native speaker, they help to make you say things faster. I picked 5 difficult tongue twisters that I like and tried to pronounce them correctly and as fast as I can. It's SO DIFFICULT!!!! Just hit the play button and let's laugh together! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com!    See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now.   Join the conversation to learn and share even more:  http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

I have a lot of trouble using other and another. I never know where to put what. I've found some explanations for that and tried to understand how to use it properly. And I test myself in a quiz to see if I learned it for sure. Click here to take the quiz with me, hit the play button, and let's learn together! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com!   See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now.  Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute  Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a  Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

It was awesome talking to Luciana Diniz, an English and Portuguese teacher at Portland Community College in Portland (OR) in the United States. She lives abroad for 20 years and knows a lot about English. I made sure to ask you a lot of questions and she gave us a bunch of tips, including her free classes that you can attend starting next week. Hit the play button and let's learn together!  FREE STUFF: To apply for Luciana's free classes, send her an email at diniz.luciana@gmail.com! To help with listening: https://elllo.org/ To help with conversations: https://www.hellotalk.com/?lang=en I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com!  See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more:  http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

This is one of the few rules that I really like in English and that I have so much fun talking about it. It's the Magic "E" Rule: it states when the letter “e” sits at the end of the word, it is usually silent and the “magical” E tells the first vowel or the preceding vowel to say its name or long sound. Did you get it? In this episode, I'm talking about some examples and we can understand perfectly after hearing that. Hit the play button and let's learn together!  I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

This episode is dedicated to my friend Juliana. She's Brazilian like me and has problems with pronouns. I mix them all the time as well and I studied about it to see if I can find a way to learn it faster and don't make so many mistakes. Hit the play button and let's learn together! FREE STUFF: Flocabulary - A website that uses hip hop songs to teach English REFERENCES: ENGVI - I X ME | ENGVID - PERSONAL PRONOUNS | GRAMMAR BOOK  I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

Happy Halloween!!!! If you don't live in the United States, you're probably not so familiar with this holiday. But even though you do, maybe you don't know how Halloween started. I'm from Brazil and we don't celebrate it down there which makes me curious about everything. In this episode, I tried to answer some questions about the origins of Halloween and some of the traditions that come with it and talk about some vocabulary related to the scariest day of the year! Boo! Hit the play button and let's learn together!!! Click and watch the full History Channel documentary about Halloween here! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

Do you know what "to show someone the ropes" means? What about "he's not playing with a full deck"? I picked some expressions that people who speak English use all the time to find out what they mean. Do you wanna know what they wanna say when giving someone the cold shoulder? Hit the play button and let's learn together! FREE STUFF: GreenGoDictionary - it's an Instagram profile with expressions Brazilians say all the time translated into English I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

This episode was created to answer a question from my dear friend Daianne Schittino: how could I start to think in English? I really don't know how to answer this and I don't remember when English became so natural to me that I could think in this foreign language, but I realize that I did a lot of little things that helped me a lot to put English into my life more naturally. Besides that, I got some tips from Jason Whiting, a friend of mine and an English native speaker who speaks 9 different languages. Yes, nine! And I found some academic research too that say something about how our imagination and our process of decision making works when we think in a second language! This episode is full of information, right? So, press the play button, and let's learn together!!! FREE STUFF: Typing test  - a website to test your typing skills and see how fast you are I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving me a message at +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) And Accent is not that cute has a Facebook Group now. Join the conversation to learn and share even more: http://bit.ly/FacebookAintCute Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

When do we use to do and to make in a sentence? Can we know the difference between them when we're talking or writing? For me, this a frequent mistake because Portuguese just have one verb to use in both cases. If you have some problems with delexical verbs too, press the play button and let's learn together!!! Free Stuff: Youglish - a website that helps with pronounciation and listen in an awesome way! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

I'm always looking for ways to get rid of my thick accent. Not because I think it's horrible, but, as I always say, an accent is not that cute if you can't be understood. Doing some research on the internet, I found some tips from native speakers that can improve the way we speak, letting us more fluent as second language learners, and I figure out even a way that science can explain why we speak the way we speak. Just hit the play button! Videos you should watch: 4 Secrets to Having an American English Accent: Advanced Pronunciation Lesson How To Lose Your Native Accent | 5 TIPS BBC Article: Can technology help you lose an accent? Free Stuff: Audible Book: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

English has a lot of words with double letters and when you wanna use gerunds or superlatives it becomes worse. But do you know when you double the letter when you add some ing on it? And how can you tell that a word has a double letter or not? Is it the sound or there's some grammar involved too? I tried to clarify this enigma a little bit and this what I got. Just hit the play button right now and let's figure this out together! And these are the stand-up comedy shows that I mentioned in this episode: Iliza Shlesinger Ali Wong Taylor Tomlinson I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support

The travel section at the book store is full of publications with basic sentences in English to teach you how to communicate in the country's native language.  But do you think this is an effective way to talk with people abroad using your second language? In this episode, I talk about some situations that I faced while I was traveling and how this basic stuff helped me (or not!) to solve problems on the way! Hit the play button and let's learn together! Free stuff on this episode: Ted Talks I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1  (503) 893-2105 or at mycuteaccent@gmail.com! See y'all! ;) Hosted by Gabi Freitas, just a Brazillian girl learning English. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accentoverme/support