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Carnaval is in five weeks!  In exactly one month, I hope to be dancing in the streets of Olinda, Pernambuco for their traditional Carnaval festivities, and I can’t wait to share it with you all! Do any of you have plans for Carnaval this year?

For my next posts until Carnaval, I’ll be posting different songs from different Carnaval celebrations in Brazil.  Each region tends to have different styles of music or ways to celebrate, but one thing is universal: to dance and be happy!

One of the most famous blocos in Salavador’s Carnaval parades is Chiclete com Banana’s, and having seen them live before, I can understand why.  This song is supposed to be their signature hit for 2011′s Carnaval in Salvador which is why I couldn’t find a live version and there’s a creepy picture of the singer on the video.

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Não me Lembro de ti, mas já sinto saudade
Guardei meu coração, estou curado desse amor
Já me lembro de ti, já nem sinto saudade
Guardei meu coração, estou curado desse amor

Quem sabe um dia você vai me entender
Meus olhos secos como pedras pelo chão
Conchas vazias vem rolando com o mar
Trazendo o frio em forma de solidão
Ai quem me dera esse amor tão estrangeiro
Tão cobiçado pela fúria do prazer
Já tenho a Rosa entre todas margaridas
Já quis você pra nunca esquecer

Refrão: Chorarei amor quando preciso for,
Morrerei de saudade junto com a felicidade
que o vento levou,
Ô Amor…

Quem sabe um dia você vai me entender
Meus olhos secos como pedras pelo chão
Conchas vazias vem rolando com o mar
Trazendo o frio em forma de solidão
Ai quem me dera esse amor tão estrangeiro
Tão cobiçado pela fúria do prazer
Já tenho a Rosa entre todas margaridas
Só quis você pra nunca esquecer

Refrão…

But if you want to see what they’re like live – here’s another one they’ll definitely be playing in Salvador this year!

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Você quer Chiclete no Carnaval?!

Exciting news! This year, you’ll be able to watch Carnival live on YouTube for free, directly from Salvador, Bahia. The channel is already available here. Here are two of the videos they have up as a little preview for the festivities:

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From Jornal do Brasil:

“Levar a cultura brasileira para diversos países em tempo real é um desafio grandioso”, afirma Flávia Simon, gerente de marketing do Google Brasil. “Junto com nossos parceiros, nosso objetivo é oferecer um conteúdo diferenciado e rico para o usuário, que poderá aproveitar o Carnaval de Salvador como se estivesse lá.”

What does she mean by a “desafio grandioso”?

There will be a preview show featuring Ivete Sangalo, which will be streamed live on the Carnaval channel on February 19th. The actual Carnaval celebration will be broadcast from March 3rd to March 8th, so mark your calendars.

For more information on Carnival in Bahia, click here.

Big Brother is by far the most popular reality show in Brazil, when millions of viewers tune in to watch seventeen contestants live together in a house in Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro, and get voted off one by one until there’s one person remaining, who wins R$1.5 million. Cameras watch the contestants’ every move, and viewers can order a special 24 hour channel to watch different cameras throughout the house and yard at any time of day, if they can’t get enough of the regular programming.

Today, Globo announced the contestants for Big Brother Brasil 2011, who range in age from 22 to 40 who come from various parts of the country, although the majority are from São Paulo and Rio. Candidates were asked to send in videos explaining why they should be on the show, and thousands of people applied for this season.

Here are some of the applicants who posted their videos on Youtube, both for your listening comprehension practice and your entertainment.

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The 2011 season of Big Brother begins on January 11th on the Globo Network. Even if you’re not in Brazil, you can watch videos from BBB here.

There are two relatively new novelas out on Brazilian TV: Araguaia and Ti-ti-ti, both on the Globo network. Not only are Globo novelas among the most watched television programs in Brazil, but they are also a lucrative export: Globo soaps are translated and shown in countries around the world. So while these two shows are now on TV in Brazil, it’s only a matter of time before they pop up in Mexico or Russia.

Araguaia is a story that takes place on the Araguaia River in the Central West region of Brazil. The protagonist’s ancestors were cursed by an indigenous tribe, and the central theme is of course, a love story.

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Ti ti ti is actually a remake of a popular novela of the same name from the 1980s. The new version stars some of Brazil’s biggest names in TV, including Claudia Raia, Murilo Benicio, and Caio Castro.

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TV shows are a fantastic way to practice listening comprehension and to learn slang and new vocabulary. So watch more video clips, see photos, and get more info here and here!

For some reason I can’t get this song out of my head… Zeca Baleiro is one of my newest obsessions and the lyrics to “Telegrama,” make me laugh and smile and just feel good inside, so I thought I’d share with you all.

Test out your listening (sort of) and try to figure out the meaning of the lyrics by watching this video I found with images and then read the lyrics!

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Telegrama de Zeca Baleiro

Eu tava triste
Tristinho!
Mais sem graça
Que a top-model magrela
Na passarela
Eu tava só
Sozinho!
Mais solitário
Que um paulistano
Que um canastrão
Na hora que cai o pano
Tava mais bôbo
Que banda de rock
Que um palhaço
Do circo Vostok…

Mas ontem
Eu recebi um Telegrama
Era você de Aracaju
Ou do Alabama
Dizendo:
Nêgo sinta-se feliz
Porque no mundo
Tem alguém que diz:
Que muito te ama!
Que tanto te ama!
Que muito muito te ama,
que tanto te ama!…
Por isso hoje eu acordei
Com uma vontade danada
De mandar flores ao delegado
De bater na porta do vizinho
E desejar bom dia
De beijar o português
Da padaria…

Hoje eu acordei
Com uma vontade danada
De mandar flores ao delegado
De bater na porta do vizinho
E desejar bom dia
De beijar o português
Da padaria…

Mama! Oh Mama! Oh Mama!
Quero ser seu!
Quero ser seu!
Quero ser seu!
Quero ser seu papa!…(2x)

Eu tava triste
Tristinho!
Mais sem graça
Que a top-model magrela
Na passarela
Eu tava só
Sozinho!
Mais solitário
Que um paulistano
Que um vilão
De filme mexicano
Tava mais bôbo
Que banda de rock
E um palhaço
Do circo Vostok…

Me dê a mão vamos sair Prá ver o sol!

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