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A2 Portuguese listening practice · Brazilian Portuguese · Curated for beginners

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What is “chimarrão” in Brazil?

chimarrão
Brazilian Portuguese regional tradition
hot, bitter mate tea from southern Brazil

Chimarrão is southern Brazil’s version of mate. Ground erva-mate goes into a gourd called a cuia, gets topped up with hot water, and is sipped through a metal straw called a bomba. It’s strong and bitter, and it’s meant to be shared: one gourd goes around the group. In Rio Grande do Sul it’s part of local identity.

So the hint você gosta muito de chimarrão, né? (“you really like chimarrão, right?”) points straight to Rio Grande do Sul, and the game keeps circling back there. The cold version, tereré, is popular in Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay. The same clip mentions acarajé (Bahia) and Minas Gerais: in Brazil, food and region go together.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Portuguese listening practice listening practice?

96.6%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Portuguese.

General Portuguese frequency

93.2%
Top 1,000
96.6%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Spoken Portuguese frequency

87.7%
Top 1,000
93%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

acarajé
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
acarajé
chimarrão
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
chimarrão

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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