Portuguese of the Week

Howdy folks, this week's verb is....

estudar  - to study

For example:

Eu estudo para minha aula de portugues .

I study for my portuguese class.

That's for all you guys taking midterms this week. Good luck everybody and see you in class tomorrow. We'll do a few more verbs and then I'll show you how to conjugate them. 

Song of the Week

This is a song our good friend Ruben sung last tuesday that was written by CM Maquinho Coreba and sung by Carolina Soares, enjoy!

Quando a maré baixar
vá lhe visitar
vá fazer devoção
vá lhe presentear

No mar
Mora Iemanjá

Vários negros foram pro Brasil
Bantus , Nagôs e Iorubá
dentro do navio negreiro
deixaram suas lagrimas correr no mar

No mar
Mora Iemanjá

Sua lagrima que correu no mar
tocou no peito de Iemanjá
ela podia mudar a maré
fazer meu navio voltar pra Guiné

No mar
Mora Iemanjá

Vocab of the Week

This week's vocab is Bateria. Now, don't be afraid of words you can't read. It is mostly because you probably don't speak portuguese but it is okay. Bateria is a word you have probably heard before. Bateria is the band of a capoeira roda. These are the people who play berimbau, atabaque, and pandeiro (as well as agogo and reco reco) This is where all the music and songs come from, so of course you want to pay respect to them as well. Don't let this capoeiristas stay on an instrument for too long (unless they want to stay.) Also, don't stand in front of any of the musicians, mostly because it's hard to play through something (and you're blocking their view of the jogos.) Most imporantly, LISTEN to them. They are playing for you, the players, and the rest of the roda. Nobody likes to be ignored when trying to entertain you, so do them a favor, and be entertained. Enjoy your roda, and enjoy your bateria!

Video of the Week

Here's a video trailer for a Capoeira Brasil Batizado in France. It has good production value, and the games are definitely nice. Enjoy!
 

Portuguese of the Week

Howdy. I changed the title of the daily. Also, it's about 4 days late...happens. So, without further ado, the Portuguese of the week is:

começar - to start

 

Comecei a praticar capoeira nesta semana - I started to practice capoeira this week. 

I'll introduce a few more verbs, and eventually I'll add in verb conjugation. After that, MORE PORTUGUESE VOCAB! Aw man I'm excited about this news. I haven't been this excited since I learned the official date of the Capoeira Maranhao Batizado (Saturday, April 21,  2012) See y'all next week.

Song of the Week

Song of the Week!!!
This is one of the songs that Professor Maranhao was teaching us the coro on the white board about two weeks ago.

Joguei no quilombo, quilombola

[The chorus. you sing this part]  Le le le o!

Eu sou nego dos bantus de Angola

[The chorus. you sing this part] Nego nago

Fomos trazidos pro Brasil
Minha familia separou
Minha mae ja foi vendida
Pra fazenda de um senhor
O meu pai morreu no tronco
No chicote do feitor
O meu irmao nao tem a orelha
Porque o feitor arrancou
Na mente trago tristeza
E no corpo muita dor
Mais hoje em dia
Pra o quilombo eu fugi,
Com muita luta e muita garra
Eu tornei o guerrero de zumbi,
Ao passar do tempo
Pra fazenda eu retornei
Soltei todos os escravos
E a senzala eu queimei
A liberdade nao esta descrita em papel
Não foi dada por princesa, cujo nome é isabel
A liberdade veio do sangue e muita dor
Muitas lutas e batalhas foi o que nos libertóu

Joguei no quilombo, quilombola
Le le le o!
Eu sou nego dos bantus de Angola
Nego nago

Vocab of the Week!!!

Today's word is Roda. Roda is the circle that we spar in as well as the circle we also sing in. The Roda is game time in the capoeira world. You can compare it to the having a scrimmage at a soccer practice. It is the time to apply on all the sequences and moves that were worked on in the practice. It's a moment to test yourself against classmates in friendly competition. There's also an etiquette to the Roda. You can only enter in two areas of the Roda. The "doors" are at the two ends of the bateria ( the players of the instruments). Like you would knock when approaches someone's front door, you "knock" by asking the leader of the bateria ( in most cases the teacher of the class, or the highest mestre.) Roda etiquette will be expanded on in future dailies.