Hello and welcome to English in Brazil.
Well, the answer is:
most movies, yes.
But there's plenty of movies
that I might watch, that I might have troubles.
So for example,
movie from India,
where they're speaking English, they have a strong accent.
They have different terms,
different slang, I might not understand.
Scottish People are very difficult to understand.
So, Trainspotting, I think
was the movie they actually put subtitles in English,
for English movie.
And then, sometimes, for example,
movies with...
African Americans speaking of like, black slang.
I don't know some of the words.
-Really? -Yeah.
But it's... I guess I understand what they're saying,
I understand the word they're saying, I just don't know what it means.
Okay.
And also, I will say it, once in a while, it's not movies,
but I'm walking down the street, and I hear someone say something,
in English,
and I don't quite get it.
Like I can't quite figure out what they were saying.
And then I think, now I feel better
because when I hear something in Portuguese and I don't understand,
it doesn't mean that I'm terrible in Portuguese.
Of course not!
We're not gonna understand 100% over everything we hear.
Like, every time we hear something.
So it happens in Portuguese, in English...
-So... -All languages.
It makes me feel better as well.
Now that I...
Now I go to a restaurant the person sitting right across
from me, if the music is loud,
I don't understand anything they're saying to me.
Of course!
And another question,
is it hard for you to understand?
It's a good question.
I would say, most Americans would say that
British accent does not sound weird,
it sounds fancy.
And then you sound smarter
when you have a British accent.
And I would say also sexy. I don't know,
-I love the British accent, sorry. -Okay, can be sexy.
Don't you think so? Like, when a British woman is speaking...
Accent is sexy. Other people, not so much.
It depends on the person.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding! No...
But what I would say is, the English, the British will tell you that
when we think that someone is really smart from their accent,
they think they're dumb.
Because they might have a working-class accent,
in England.
So if you're from London,
you say, this person is working-class and not educated,
-Cockney english... -Cockney...
But I hear it and I think, this person won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Right? So... But we're very used to it.
There's a... I mean,
we watch some TV, sometimes movies,
there's actors who are British, actors who we we like.
So it's very normal.
I would say, we're less used to say like, Irish accents or
Australian accents, even though those are common.
Okay, so it's not hard for you to understand.
It's not hard for me to understand. They use words...
We actually did a video of these words you were testing me of...
-English terms. -Yeah, a long time ago,
-one of our 400... -But so...
There are words, but we learn most of the words from movies.
But in general, we don't have trouble understanding.
There's a lot of interaction between the United States and Britain.
I think it's easier for you to understand the British accent
than for us Brazilians to understand the Portuguese from Portugal.
-Yes, completely true. -Because...
it's hard even for me as a native speaker of Portuguese,
because sometimes I just can't understand!
It's totally different.
It's totally different. And that's exactly right,
-it's much easier to understand British. -Much easier, yeah...
I know what he's talking about. And sometimes I hear you saying like,
I "ardy" know. "Ardy." "Ardy" know.
But this is just speaking the language fast.
You would do the same thing, "mineiros" do even more.
We understand. We pick it up, but I...
I can talk really fast right now, and you know,
there's a lot of people that won't understand what I'm saying.
And I'm not pronouncing the whole word,
but an American would understand that
and many foreigners would not understand
because we're just taking letters out.