Feliz Dia da Independência, Brasil! 🇧🇷 {Happy Independence Day, Brazil!}

WEBVTT 00:00:00.776 --> 00:00:05.600 Hello, hello, hey sweet people and welcome to another episode of English Nui 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:08.202 Curu Hájú. My name is Foster. 00:00:09.143 --> 00:00:22.252 I am an English teacher, a podcaster, and as always, I am here with the one, the only… Alexia. 00:00:23.954 --> 00:00:27.097 Hello, everyone. Hello, Foster. How are you today? 00:00:27.097 --> 00:00:31.700 I am doing wonderfully. How are you doing, Alexia? 00:00:32.401 --> 00:00:39.726 I'm doing good. And as a matter of fact, I'm recording from home and Foster 00:00:39.726 --> 00:00:44.950 is recording from our co-working space because of logistics. 00:00:44.950 --> 00:00:54.297 Yeah, logistical difficulties. There was a lot of construction happening near 00:00:54.297 --> 00:00:59.080 our apartment, so we're doing it just like the old days recording remotely. 00:01:01.502 --> 00:01:07.665 Yeah, yeah, and before we can dive in in the episode. 00:01:08.745 --> 00:01:09.626 Before we can what? 00:01:09.626 --> 00:01:11.787 Dive in. 00:01:11.787 --> 00:01:13.948 Dive in. 00:01:13.948 --> 00:01:19.681 In. There we go. Dive in the episode. 00:01:21.993 --> 00:01:23.133 Happy Independence Day. 00:01:25.355 --> 00:01:32.119 Happy Independence Day. It is Brazilian Independence Day, the day of Brazilian independence. 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.073 I'm not totally sure how we say that in English. 00:01:37.624 --> 00:01:43.328 But happy day for you, Alexia, And happy day for all of our Brazilian listeners. 00:01:45.649 --> 00:01:53.034 Happy Independence Day. Happy Independence Day, 7th of September. 00:01:54.956 --> 00:01:57.918 Alexia, how are you feeling on Independence Day? 00:01:57.918 --> 00:02:03.301 Normal. I think, I don't know. 00:02:03.301 --> 00:02:09.666 The way that I grew up with the celebrations for Independence Days just like 00:02:09.666 --> 00:02:14.069 once per year on the 7th of September, 00:02:14.069 --> 00:02:23.076 we all went downstairs to our school's patio and we used to sing the hymn. 00:02:25.458 --> 00:02:26.219 The hymn? 00:02:26.959 --> 00:02:27.680 Yeah, you know? 00:02:29.061 --> 00:02:29.821 The hymn. 00:02:29.821 --> 00:02:32.244 Hymn. 00:02:32.244 --> 00:02:38.088 Yeah, so same pronunciation as like hymn and her. Hymn. 00:02:38.088 --> 00:02:39.589 Hymn. 00:02:39.589 --> 00:02:42.031 The national hymn or the national anthem. 00:02:42.431 --> 00:02:50.036 Ah, the national anthem, much better. And it was kind of like this, 00:02:50.036 --> 00:02:55.360 I don't know, maybe other people who were listening to us, they had more important 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.943 celebrations or something like that. 00:02:58.943 --> 00:03:05.547 But for my realities, it was only that and it was like, it is a national holiday. 00:03:08.129 --> 00:03:14.370 So no one will work or go to school or some things like that. 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:19.951 And we all would have a barbecue together and that's it. 00:03:21.362 --> 00:03:24.852 So it sounds very, very Brazilian to me. 00:03:25.532 --> 00:03:32.133 No one goes to work and everyone has a churrasco. Yeah. Beautiful. 00:03:32.133 --> 00:03:37.854 Alexia, can I, just coming from my experience growing up. 00:03:39.028 --> 00:03:46.093 July 4th, Independence Day in the United States, was such a big deal. 00:03:46.093 --> 00:03:55.600 Like it's an event where there are fireworks and we always celebrated at our 00:03:55.600 --> 00:03:58.082 lake house and there was a big party. 00:03:59.363 --> 00:04:06.708 And it's like a big thing. Everyone's super patriotic and it's like one of the 00:04:06.708 --> 00:04:07.829 biggest holidays of the year. 00:04:08.510 --> 00:04:17.216 And also, Americans, they have their flags everywhere, like not only on July 00:04:17.216 --> 00:04:19.357 4th, but throughout the year. 00:04:19.357 --> 00:04:24.661 So I think that you guys are a little bit more patriotic than us Brazilians. 00:04:27.343 --> 00:04:34.688 Yeah, I think I would agree with that. Americans tend to love the American flag 00:04:34.688 --> 00:04:37.610 and putting it anywhere and everywhere. 00:04:40.293 --> 00:04:47.117 So Alexia, I have a lot of questions for you, but I'm going to choose my questions carefully. 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:59.826 I think what I'm most interested in is how does it feel like for you as a Brazilian 00:04:59.826 --> 00:05:05.350 born and raised in Rio de Janeiro on Independence Day, 00:05:05.350 --> 00:05:15.474 you have not lived in Brazil for like five years and you are currently living in Portugal, 00:05:15.474 --> 00:05:24.557 the land which invaded your home country and which this entire day is celebrating 00:05:24.557 --> 00:05:27.979 the independence from the country in which you now live. 00:05:35.329 --> 00:05:39.532 Just like you have a lot of questions, but this one is very specific. 00:05:40.413 --> 00:05:42.154 I don't know. I feel okay. 00:05:42.154 --> 00:05:43.895 How are you feeling about it? 00:05:46.037 --> 00:05:51.640 The more the modern Portugal and the modern Brazil, I think that it's okay nowadays. 00:05:53.762 --> 00:05:57.224 I think no one remembers that it's the Independence Day. 00:05:58.586 --> 00:06:03.309 Like the Portuguese people, they don't remember that it's the Independence Day from Brazil. 00:06:03.810 --> 00:06:11.189 They will remember once they are studying in school, but like usually normal 00:06:11.189 --> 00:06:14.798 days talking to another Portuguese person, no. 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:22.444 And I think that if I ask someone like our friends, our Portuguese friends, 00:06:22.444 --> 00:06:27.308 like, how do you feel about that? They would say, yeah, good for Brazil. 00:06:27.698 --> 00:06:34.853 God, because Portugal is awful, you know, like you guys did great. Yeah. 00:06:34.853 --> 00:06:41.077 I don't think Portuguese people are, they're over it. It's water under the bridge. 00:06:41.077 --> 00:06:46.741 Águas passadas. That's a good phrase in English. Water under the bridge. 00:06:47.582 --> 00:06:53.525 Water under the bridge. But, but I'm talking about our generation of Portuguese people. 00:06:54.086 --> 00:06:54.386 Yes. 00:06:54.386 --> 00:06:59.611 Okay. Yeah. Let's, this is another discussion. 00:06:59.611 --> 00:07:07.938 Yeah. There are many, many very elderly people, older people in Portugal, 00:07:07.938 --> 00:07:11.000 and maybe they have different perspectives. 00:07:12.382 --> 00:07:17.746 We don't know. Alexia, can I give you a quick pronunciation correction? Yeah. 00:07:19.644 --> 00:07:20.964 That's why we are here. 00:07:22.946 --> 00:07:26.348 That's my job. Can you pronounce the word modern? 00:07:26.348 --> 00:07:39.537 Modern. There we go. Modern. So, the first vowel sound is a, ma, modern. Modern. 00:07:39.537 --> 00:07:41.979 Perfect. 00:07:41.979 --> 00:07:46.942 I was hearing you say something in between, like a, a. 00:07:48.543 --> 00:07:53.887 I'm not sure exactly, we can listen to the recording later, but modern. That's perfect. 00:07:53.887 --> 00:07:57.269 Awesome. Awesome. So, 00:07:57.269 --> 00:08:00.231 Pássaro, while we were doing our, 00:08:00.231 --> 00:08:05.094 um, like research, right, 00:08:05.094 --> 00:08:12.619 to, um, talk about the Independence Day of Brazil and give some vocabulary, 00:08:12.619 --> 00:08:17.181 because I I think it's very important to talk about important dates, 00:08:17.181 --> 00:08:23.306 for anyone who would like to know a little bit more of Brazil, but in English. 00:08:24.286 --> 00:08:31.181 I didn't know that Dom Pedro I, first of all, how would I say that in English, 00:08:31.181 --> 00:08:33.252 Dom Pedro I? Oh boy. Peter I. Oh, boy. 00:08:35.614 --> 00:08:36.994 Be it or the first. 00:08:38.596 --> 00:08:39.756 Yeah, something like that. 00:08:41.798 --> 00:08:50.083 Um, yeah, but I would like just to add to your point that it is very important 00:08:50.083 --> 00:08:57.209 and that's a really easy way to improve your English when you speak to native English speakers, 00:08:57.209 --> 00:09:02.373 they are probably going to be interested in Brazil, 00:09:02.373 --> 00:09:09.698 in your history, your culture, so just knowing like how to talk about these 00:09:09.698 --> 00:09:14.362 basic holidays and things like that, super useful. Good call, Alexia. 00:09:14.362 --> 00:09:28.291 Yeah. And then I learned that September 7th is the day of the feast of Our Lady of the Guide, 00:09:28.291 --> 00:09:32.874 which is an important religious celebration in Brazil. 00:09:33.855 --> 00:09:39.098 Guys, I don't know, I never heard about Nossa Senhora da Guia. 00:09:39.098 --> 00:09:46.163 I mean, I know that she exists, but I didn't know that it was chosen to be on 00:09:46.163 --> 00:09:50.608 the day of Nossa Senhora da Guia, Our Lady of the Guide. 00:09:51.249 --> 00:09:57.856 So Dom Pedro I chose the September 7th as an important date for the Independence 00:09:57.856 --> 00:10:00.799 Day because of this religious celebration. 00:10:02.482 --> 00:10:03.562 So here we go. 00:10:04.943 --> 00:10:06.504 You learn something new every day. 00:10:06.504 --> 00:10:08.105 Yeah. 00:10:08.105 --> 00:10:15.271 So it was not just like a totally random date. There is some significance behind it. 00:10:22.758 --> 00:10:27.410 Yeah, apparently. So allegedly, actually. Allegedly. So apart from like a churrasco, 00:10:27.410 --> 00:10:30.382 you guys don't do like big fireworks. 00:10:32.124 --> 00:10:37.247 I'm trying to think when I lived in Brazil, 00:10:37.247 --> 00:10:44.742 what I did on Independence Day, but I'm pretty sure I probably went to a church 00:10:44.742 --> 00:10:51.076 and did not really think about the history of the independence of Brazil. 00:10:51.076 --> 00:11:01.022 Yeah. And I think that another very important thing to talk about is the cry of Ipiranga, right? 00:11:02.083 --> 00:11:10.367 So it was when Dom Pedro Ipiranga went there, e deu o grito do Ipiranga, 00:11:10.367 --> 00:11:16.831 que é a Independência ou Morte, Independence or Death. So it's the cry of Ipiranga. 00:11:20.854 --> 00:11:26.356 Give me independence or give me death is very, very similar to the U.S. 00:11:26.356 --> 00:11:37.863 I think we say, like, give me liberty or give me death, which is quite a bold, dramatic statement. 00:11:37.863 --> 00:11:42.647 Yeah. But it's still happening, the Capitolium, et cetera. 00:11:46.170 --> 00:11:52.454 One more thing I would love to ask you about, Alexia, because it is Brazilian Independence Day, 00:11:52.454 --> 00:12:02.162 it seems to me that most of the Brazilians that I know personally are incredibly 00:12:02.162 --> 00:12:11.769 independent in the sense that Brazilians are everywhere and they're doing their own thing, 00:12:11.769 --> 00:12:19.615 like they're very independent, industrious, adventurous, happy people. 00:12:20.436 --> 00:12:28.082 Maybe that's just me and the people I know, but I think it is a fact that Brazilians 00:12:28.082 --> 00:12:30.944 are everywhere and I love that. 00:12:30.944 --> 00:12:36.806 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we can find Brazilians anywhere, that's 100% certain. 00:12:40.167 --> 00:12:47.750 For sure, like I was looking at TikTok the other day and there is a guy, 00:12:47.750 --> 00:12:50.411 a Brazilian guy who lives in the Arctic. 00:12:52.866 --> 00:12:53.687 Can I say that? 00:12:54.568 --> 00:12:58.750 Yeah, your connection dropped for a second. You said there was a Brazilian guy. 00:13:00.091 --> 00:13:07.256 So a Brazilian guy that I found on TikTok and he lives like in the Arctic. 00:13:08.318 --> 00:13:09.658 Yeah, you can say that. 00:13:10.098 --> 00:13:14.181 For almost like 12 years now with his dog Chico. 00:13:15.742 --> 00:13:19.685 And I mean, if there is a Brazilian with a dog in the Arctic, 00:13:19.685 --> 00:13:21.666 we are everywhere for sure. 00:13:22.367 --> 00:13:31.233 You guys are, are absolutely everywhere and my last point, Alexia, and then we'll close. 00:13:31.233 --> 00:13:37.257 No, but I would like to talk, no, but I would like to talk about our flag, our national flag. 00:13:37.257 --> 00:13:41.480 Oh, please talk to me about Verde Amaral. 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:49.706 Yeah, so our flag is yellow, green, and blue, right? 00:13:50.006 --> 00:13:52.127 So it's very beautiful. I love our flag. 00:13:53.589 --> 00:14:01.433 And now we can show how proud we are again of our flag, Entendido is Entendido. 00:14:03.194 --> 00:14:09.298 So there is a very special connection to the Independence Day because the green 00:14:09.298 --> 00:14:14.341 represents the house of Bragança, 00:14:14.341 --> 00:14:21.465 which is the Portuguese family, like Dom Pedro's family. 00:14:22.066 --> 00:14:23.827 And the other part, which is 00:14:23.827 --> 00:14:29.871 the yellow one, represents the house of Habsburg, which is from Austria. 00:14:31.212 --> 00:14:38.337 And the scholars, they came together to form the basis of Brazil's national 00:14:38.337 --> 00:14:41.419 identity after the independence, right? 00:14:41.419 --> 00:14:51.886 Because before that, the national flag was the same as the motherland, 00:14:51.886 --> 00:14:53.288 which would be Portugal. 00:14:55.311 --> 00:15:02.579 Yeah, now we have a new flag, which is our Brazil's national flag. CB. 00:15:02.579 --> 00:15:07.605 That's cool. I love the Brazilian flag. It's interesting no one really talks 00:15:07.605 --> 00:15:10.167 about the the Austrians, the Habsburgs. 00:15:12.757 --> 00:15:17.741 Yeah, everyone forgets about them. Excellent, Alexia. 00:15:17.741 --> 00:15:23.365 I have to say at the end, if you want to be more independent in your life, 00:15:23.365 --> 00:15:32.431 learning a new language is probably the thing that has given me the most independence in my life. 00:15:32.872 --> 00:15:34.813 I know it's the same for you. 00:15:35.734 --> 00:15:40.957 If you want to feel truly free to do whatever you want in the world, 00:15:41.377 --> 00:15:45.380 You're already listening to this podcast, so, good start. 00:15:46.562 --> 00:15:48.803 Yeah, good start. We are proud of you. 00:15:50.304 --> 00:15:55.268 I'm proud of you, Alexia. I'm proud of everyone that's still listening. We love you. 00:15:56.409 --> 00:15:59.190 Happy Independence Day. Mais alguma coisa? 00:15:59.190 --> 00:16:02.953 Não? Feliz Dia da Independência, galera. 00:16:04.255 --> 00:16:07.476 Go join your family, your friends, have a good show at high school, 00:16:07.476 --> 00:16:09.739 whatever you think it's best for today. 00:16:11.261 --> 00:16:14.584 Independence Day. And as always, keep up the good fight. 00:16:15.125 --> 00:16:16.305 And live well. Bye!