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Random Links

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I was looking to make a post this morning when one thing led to another and I ended up jumping around the web and finding a few interesting topics, so I’ll put them all in one post.

Bringing the Beach to Belo (via Street Smart Brazil)

“When at the end of last year, Belo Horizonte’s City Hall published a decree banning events of any nature from taking place at one of the most popular squares in the city, it was certainly not expecting to bring “beach life” to a Brazilian inland mountain town.”

Citizen Samba: The Lost Film (plus the lost soundtrack)

“…south of the equator in Brazil, on the 13th February 1942, there landed Orson Welles with a mission to film two episodes of It’s All True. The first would tell the story of carnival and its influences, such as samba and candomblé; the second would pay homage to four men from the northern state of Ceará…”

Mistura Urbana (for those who like the urban scene, in PT)

ProZ Term Questions – New Link

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Over at ProZ, “the translation workplace”, they have a section where members can ask and answer translation requests for words or expressions. It is pretty similar to Word Reference forums (which can be found in my links page) although on ProZ, you will mostly find requests which are professionally-oriented so the terms listed will probably be of a more formal or obscure nature.

Freebies, Links & Cybercafes in Belém

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While I close out my Eyes On Belém site, here’s some content that someone may find of use one day.

What to do for free/Coisas pra fazer de graça

Monday/Segunda-feira

A Walk in the Utinga Park/Caminhada no parque ambiental do Utinga
It’s worth it to get to know the Bolonha lake and all of the shades of green that surrounds it. Vale a pena conhecer o lago Bolonha e o tanto de verde que existe por lá.

Open from Monday to Saturday but given that on Mondays, the Emilio Goeldi Museum and the Rodrigues Alves Forest are closed, it would be a good thing to do on this day. De segunda a sábado…mas como segunda-feira o Goeldi e o Rodrigues Alves estão fechados, seria uma boa programação para esse dia.

Location/Local: Perto da Castanheira.
Time/Hora: 8AM to …anyone know?/das 8 até ..alguém sabe?.

Tuesday/Terça-feira:
Timbers of the Amazon/Timbres da Amazônia
Presentation of instrumental music produced by artists from Pará. Apresentação de música instrumental produzida por artistas paraenses.

Location/Local: Capela do São José Liberto
Time/Hora: Starts at 6PM/a partir das 18h

Egret Mangrove/Mangal das Garças
Ecological area with aviary, exhibits and lookout over the river. Um complexo turístico com quatro espaços de visita monitorada que lhe permitem uma aproximação maior com a natureza.

Location/Local: Passagem Carneiro da Rocha, Arsenal
Hours/Hora: 7AM to 5PM (external areas) and from 9AM to 5PM (monitored areas)/das 7h às 17h (área externa) e das 9h às 17h (espaços monitorados)

Wednesday/Quarta-feira
Theater of Peace/Theatro da Paz
Neoclassical theater from the golden era of the rubber boom. O maior teatro da Região Norte e um dos mais luxuosos do Brasil, com cerca de 130 anos de história.

Location/Local: Rua da Paz s/n, Praça da República, Campina, Nazaré
Hours/Hora: Guided visits on the hour, from 9AM to 1PM. Visitação guiada de hora em hora, das 9h às 13h.

Friday/Sexta-feira
Sound-Set/Pôr-do-Som
Celebration of the sunset with a presentation of popular groups from Pará. Celebração ao pôr-do-sol com apresentação de grupos da cultura popular paraense.

Location/Local: Orla da Estação das Docas
Time/Hora: Starts at 6PM/a partir das 18h

Saturday/Sábado
Open Rehearsal/Ensaio Aberto
Presentation of independent bands/artists from local music scene. Apresentação de bandas/artistas independentes do cenário paraense.

Location/Local: Espaço cultural da loja Ná Figueredo da Gentil
Time/Hora: 5PM/17h00

Sunday/Domingo
The Artisan Fair/A Feira de Artesanato

The Fair is considered a cultural heritage point in Belém and has been operating for over 20 years along the sidewalks of the Praça da República. A Feira é considerada Patrimônio Cultural de Belém e acontece há mais de 20 anos ao longo das calçadas da Praça da República.

Location/Local: Republic Plaza/Praça da República
Time/Hora: From 8AM to 2PM/a partir das 8h00 e até as 14h (se não me engano)

Sunset Theater/Teatro ao Pôr-do-Sol
Presentation of theatrical shows involving popular culture & Amazonian legends. Apresentação de espetáculos teatrais voltados para a cultura popular e lendas amazônicas.

Location/Local: Anfiteatro da Estação das Docas
Time/Hora: 5:30PM/17h30

Links on Belém

A quick apology to English-speakers looking for links on Belém in English. Aside from Wikipedia, they just don’t exist.

Blogs

Culture

News

Cyber Cafes

Upon arrival in Belém, it can be a bit hard to locate free wi-fi hotspots and cybercafes so this page will be dedicated to the latter.

Ao chegar em Belém, pode achar um pouco difícil localizar pontos de internet sem-fio e grátis e LAN houses também então vou dedicar esta página para o citado em segundo lugar.

Batista Campos

Canal 13 Informática
Avenida Serzedelo Corrêa, 1000, LJ 2, Belém – PA

Campina

Amazonet
Avenida Presidente Vargas, 882, SL F, Belém – PA

PlanetCyber
Rua Conselheiro João Alfredo, 357, Belém – PA

Cidade Velha

Empório Saber Café
Rua Ângelo Custódio, 85, LJ A TO, Belém – PA

Guamá

Snippers Lan House
Av José Bonifácio, 2146, Belém – PA

Tecnocenter
Rua Augusto Corrêa, 1, BL D, Belém – PA

Maracangalha

Al Cyber Games
Alameda Providência, 19, Belém – PA

Março

Cyberbotecco
Avenida Duque de Caxias, 219, Terreo B, Belém – PA

Universal Informática Ltda
Avenida Primeiro de Dezembro, 962, Belém – PA
Barrio: Março

Nazaré

Equant Brasil Ltda
Avenida Governador José Malcher, 815, S 201, Belém – PA

Pedreira

Qgweb Lan House Internet
Avenida Marquês de Herval, 2547, Belém – PA

Sacramenta

Lan House F4
Travessa Barão do Triunfo, 907, C F, Belém – PA

Umarizal

Pesquisa Pronta
Travessa Dom Romualdo de Seixas, 823, Belém – PA

Information pulled from Catálogo Fácil.

The Good Blood

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The other day, I was introduced to a site that like mine, covers just about anything and everything that’s cool about Brazil. When seeing both perspectives, it just goes to show that one person can’t possibly cover everything so it’s nice to see someone indirectly saying “hey, you missed a whole bunch of stuff”. It is run by a Brazilian woman named Eloise and she currently lives in Canada. I recommend checking out her site/blog, The Good Blood, as you’ll be sure to find interesting content.

Twitter & Brazil Part Deux

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The other day, I posted on how Twitter is gaining ground in Brazil and with that, I also gave my unfavorable opinion of the service. While I don’t take back anything I said, I did find a few minutes to add a little to the post later on. Here’s what I said,

“But to give Twitter some credit, it is useful as a link-rich news source. If I search for the word ‘Brazil’, I’ll get endless pages of tweets citing Brazil (even if most are teenage girls asking famous people to come to Brazil) and some offer up links to stories that I have started to post about here. Within a minute or two, Twitter told me that 50-odd more tweets had come in since my initial search results were shown to me. If only there were a ‘teenage girl’ filter so I could get more relevant results…”

Only very recently, have I been trying out Twitter (as a non-registered user) and its search in order to seek out relevant Brazil-related links. In this short time, it has been hit and miss, although today, in one page of results, I found around three usable stories. In the 20 minutes that I took to post some of these to my site here, 300 fresh results were awaiting my refresh of the search page. Does such a thing speak to the growing number of users (44m) or perhaps the growing interest of the users in Brazil? Or, just maybe, it speaks to the growing number of Brazilian users who speak English since my only search has been the word ‘Brazil’ (not that one needs to speak English to write Brazil with a ‘z’). In the end, I’m sure it is a combination of the three.

In the meantime, where else am I going to find links about not one, but two bodily functions that also tie into Brazil? ; ) Only on Twitter. Which brings me to how to do searches. Try out things like the ‘link finder code’ (brazil filter:links) to filter your search by term and link. Plus there’s always the quotes trick (“brazilian culture”) and let’s not forget the minus sign tip (brazil -soccer), for subjects you don’t care about.

Portuguese Help – The rainbow ends here.

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The other week, I spoke about a new website find which I dubbed the ‘Portuguese Pot of Gold‘, although I alluded to the fact that that particular pot of gold might not stay put as it was probably from a ripped dvd. Let me announce an even better pot of gold…in fact, I’m going to say the buck rainbow stops here. Ladies and Gents, Brazilpod from the University of Texas at Austin!

Funny, I’ve known of their Brazil Center and focus on Latin America for quite awhile yet I never saw this site. I’d love to give you all a breakdown of Brazilpod, but it’s best if left to your wandering eyes. If only I would have found it when I started out…

Here’s a description from the man behind it all, Professor Orlando Kelm,

“From this site you have access to our teaching materials here at the University of Texas at Austin for the study of Portuguese. As we develop instructional technology for our students at UT we are happy, in fact we think of it as our mission, to share everything with other institutions and the general public. Keep coming back because we seem to be adding new content all the time. Our philosophy is that all materials should be shared with everyone, with open access and without cost or password restrictions.”

Summing Up Portuguese Language Links

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Great Portuguese source for non-basic level help and links for further reading.

This one is great for random slang terms, with definitions you can add yourself.

Basic and Intermediate lessons with Audio.

With 200 tests from your language into Portuguese, varying levels.

Good site to learn those always useful connector words.

  • My Vox (Portuguese Audio Lessons)

Made by a Brazilian voice actor with lots of different subjects.

This site is run by Jackie at Adventures of a Gringa in Rio.

Here’s a list of written grammar lessons

And if you ever wondered how Brazilians from different regions sound in English…

If you are a flash card learner, this is a good site to use where you can add your own and vote.

This community has been my savior over the years and its where I get most of my questions answered.