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what time is it? que horas são?

Fri, 01 May 2026 11:57:04 GMT

what time is it? que horas são? is about one of the most practical things you need in another language: time.

Numbers, days, morning, afternoon, night, today, tomorrow, later. These are small words, but they organize your whole life. They help you make plans, show up on time, understand schedules, and move through the day with more confidence.

This song keeps it simple on purpose. The goal is not to overwhelm you with every possible time expression. The goal is to get the basics into your memory through rhythm, repetition, and clear bilingual phrasing.

Say it slowly. Sing it again. Let the numbers start living somewhere easier than a worksheet.

study cards and the blog are at lingua.faafo.app --- all my shows are at faafo.app/radio

hi, how are you? oi, tudo bem?

Fri, 01 May 2026 06:18:01 GMT

oi, tudo bem? is where Lingua begins because every real conversation starts with something small. A hello. A name. A question. A moment where you decide to try, even if you do not have all the words yet.

This song teaches basic greetings, introductions, and question words in English and Brazilian Portuguese. The point is not perfection. The point is to get the phrases into your ear, your mouth, and your memory so they start feeling usable in real life.

This is language learning through rhythm, repetition, and real conversation. Start simple. Say it slowly. Let the melody do some of the work.

study cards and the blog are at lingua.faafo.app --- all my shows are at faafo.app/radio

que linda

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:10:00 GMT

brazilians give compliments constantly. que linda, tá maravilhosa, amei seu cabelo, você cozinha bem demais. it's not flirting. it's not flattery. it's just how people acknowledge each other in passing, and americans are bad at it on both sides.

i picked these phrases because i watched americans freeze when brazilians complimented them. they'd deflect, change the subject, say "oh stop," explain why the compliment wasn't true. it's exhausting to watch and it shuts the conversation down. brazilians don't do this. they say obrigada, smile, and keep moving.

the other half of the song teaches the giving side. saying que linda or você é muito gentil isn't a big deal here. it's small currency, used often. the trick is learning to say it casually without it sounding like you want something. tone matters more than the words.

the line that matters most in this song is "deixa o elogio entrar" --- let the compliment land. that's the whole lesson. you don't have to earn it. you don't have to prove you deserve it. you just say obrigada and let it in.

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want to go deeper? explore the blog at faafo.app/category/lingua. study, sit with it, and if you feel moved --- join the community at forum.faafo.app/public. full transcripts + lyrics are available to read at rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio --- from there you can select your favorite podcast platform to listen, or watch the full playlist on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBFD5i1Puw&list=PLCP4Dr3PfIddbWyisaZLN6eVhbIv1Rc9y

tô morta

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:57:06 GMT

people say tô morta all the time here. it means "i'm dead" but what they really mean is "i'm exhausted, i'm done, don't ask me for anything else today." it's the brazilian version of "i'm dead tired" except shorter and more dramatic.

i picked this phrase for the song because it's everywhere and americans never know what it means. i don't personally say it though. i don't want to put that energy on my body, even casually. words land. but i think it's important for learners to recognize it because you'll hear it constantly, especially from women, especially after a long day.

the other phrases in this song are the ones i actually use. preciso de um tempo. me deixa em paz. tô de saco cheio when i really mean it. these are the everyday phrases for being human and tired without needing to make a whole speech about it. brazilians have language for ordinary exhaustion and it's softer than the english equivalents. that's what i wanted you to hear.

dance to it anyway. the groove is there for a reason.

c9y

bicho, bicho

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:02:07 GMT

bicho, bicho is one of those songs that makes learning feel playful again. animals are some of the first words many of us ever learn, but hearing them in another language gives them a whole new life. this one is simple on purpose. catchy, rhythmic, and easy to come back to.

i wanted it to feel like something you could remember without trying too hard. the kind of song that slips into your head and stays there just long enough to be useful. that is part of the Lingua method for me. make it memorable first, then let repetition do the rest.

there is also something sweet about starting with familiar creatures. dogs, cats, birds, horses. everyday words that make the language feel less intimidating and more alive. small things, but they open the door.

want to go deeper? explore the blog at faafo.app/category/lingua. study, sit with it, and if you feel moved - join the community at forum.faafo.app/public. full transcripts + lyrics are available to read at rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio - from there you can select your favorite podcast platform to listen, or watch the full playlist on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBFD5i1Puw&list=PLCP4Dr3PfIddbWyisaZLN6eVhbIv1Rc9y

oi, tudo bem?

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:50:42 GMT

oi, tudo bem? is one of the first songs in Lingua because greetings are where so much begins. not the dramatic stuff. the everyday stuff. the quick hello, the small pause, the moment you decide whether to stay surface-level or keep the conversation going.

i wanted this one to feel easy, warm, and usable. the kind of phrase you can start hearing everywhere once it lands in your body. that is part of what i love about language learning through music. a simple greeting stops being something you memorize once and forget. it becomes something you can actually carry into real life.

this song is also about confidence. not waiting until you feel perfect. not needing the whole language before you can connect. just starting with oi, tudo bem? and letting that be enough to open the door.

me vê um

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:45:25 GMT

me vê um came from one of the most useful little phrases you can learn in Brazil. it is casual, practical, and something you can use right away when you want to order food, drinks, or just move through the moment a little more naturally. i love it because it does not sound stiff or textbook. it sounds lived in.

this song sits inside that everyday language space i care about most, where learning is less about performing fluency and more about being able to actually do something. order the thing. ask for the bill. point to what you want. get through the interaction with a little more ease and a little more rhythm. that is real language to me.

and of course, once music gets involved, even a phrase this simple starts to stick in the body. that is the whole Lingua idea. make it memorable, make it usable, and make it feel good enough that you want to say it again.

want to go deeper? explore the blog at faafo.app/category/lingua. study, sit with it, and if you feel moved - join the community at forum.faafo.app/public. full transcripts + lyrics are available to read at rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio - from there you can select your favorite podcast platform to listen, or watch the full playlist on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBFD5i1Puw&list=PLCP4Dr3PfIddbWyisaZLN6eVhbIv1Rc9y

que horas são?

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:37:29 GMT

que horas são? is one of those songs that proves the most ordinary phrases can still shape your whole day. asking the time sounds simple until you are the one trying to catch a number, hear it clearly, and answer fast enough to stay in the moment. that is exactly why i wanted it in song form.

for me, this one is about giving rhythm to something practical. time, days, little check-ins, the everyday phrases that seem small until you realize how often you need them. once they land in melody, they stop feeling like vocabulary homework and start feeling usable. that is the difference i care about.

this song is also part of the larger Lingua idea: learning through repetition that feels good in the body. not pressure. not perfection. just real phrases, real rhythm, and the kind of memory that music makes easier.

lingua by sisi in brasil

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:06:50 GMT

lingua by sisi in brasil is the doorway song. the one that opens the room and lets you know exactly what kind of school this is. not dry. not stiff. not built on shame, pressure, or perfection. this is language through rhythm, memory, repetition, and real life.

i created this because i know what it feels like to need melody in order to remember. sometimes a phrase does not stick until it has a beat. sometimes your mouth needs music before it can trust itself enough to try. that is the heart of this project. learning english and brazilian portuguese in a way that feels human, memorable, and alive.

this song is my invitation. come in. loosen up. say it wrong if you need to. laugh. repeat it. move your body a little. let the language live somewhere deeper than the brain. this is where the lessons begin, but it is also where the permission begins.

ainda estou aqui (i’m still here)

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:03:32 GMT

ainda estou aqui (i’m still here) is the kind of song that comes after the fire, after the confusion, after the seduction, after the memory, after the movement. it is not loud survival. it is quieter than that. steadier. this one is about what remains when you have been through enough versions of yourself to know that making it through is its own kind of music.

for me, this song carries that feeling of looking back without collapsing into the past. there is wear in it, but there is also grace. there is tenderness in realizing that not everything was meant to be fixed, explained, or tied up neatly. some things were only meant to be lived through. and sometimes the deepest truth you can tell is simply: i am still here.

this song is not trying to be dramatic. it is more intimate than that. it is the sound of staying. the sound of becoming. the sound of a woman standing in the life she has made and recognizing that survival did not erase her softness, her humor, her memory, or her light.

cousin bound

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:57:43 GMT

cousin bound came from the surprise of finding people in Bahia who made me feel closer to where i come from, not further away from it. i came here with every intention of keeping my distance from americans, expats, and all the familiar shortcuts. and yet, life did what life does. people found me, i found them, and somewhere in those gatherings i got reminded of parts of myself i did not expect to miss so deeply.

this song is about those moments when the music starts and suddenly the room feels like a Black family reunion across borders. the kind of songs my mother and father loved. the kind of grooves that make you think of long summer evenings, family reunions, soul train lines, albums stacked in the house, cousins running around outside, and grown folks laughing like the night is in no hurry to end. there is something about that sound that reaches me in a way almost nothing else can.

for me, this song is about recognizing kinship where i did not expect it. not sameness, not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but that deep feeling of being cousin-bound across lands, across water, across memory. and yes, maybe food helps a little too, but let’s be honest, only ranch dressing has that kind of power.

want to go deeper? explore the blog at faafo.app/category/lingua. study, sit with it, and if you feel moved - join the community at forum.faafo.app/public. full transcripts + lyrics are available to read at rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio - from there you can select your favorite podcast platform to listen, or watch the full playlist on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBFD5i1Puw&list=PLCP4Dr3PfIddbWyisaZLN6eVhbIv1Rc9y

tira o cavalinho da chuva

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:54:26 GMT

tira o cavalinho da chuva was inspired by one of those moments where language stops being academic and starts feeling like a prank. in Brazil, that phrase is a way of saying “don’t even think about it,” but the literal translation is basically “take your little horse out of the rain.” and the second i learned that, my mind went straight to the way some of us back home say, “i’m going to see a man about a horse,” which is really just a stylish way of saying: mind your business.

that is exactly the kind of wordplay and cultural overlap that fascinates me. same animal, totally different social function. one tells you not to get your hopes up. the other tells you politely that the details are none of your concern. and somehow both carry a whole mood.

this song let me play with that irony, but it also reminded me how much language lives inside tone, context, and culture. sometimes the funniest phrases are the ones that teach you the most. and sometimes a horse is never just a horse.

calma gringa

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:51:05 GMT

calma gringa came from that deliciously irritating cultural collision where one word can mean comfort, dismissal, flirtation, and provocation all at once. if you have spent any real time in Brazil, you already know that calma can either soothe you or make you want to throw something. and of course, that made it irresistible to me.

this song leans into the confusion, the chemistry, and the emotional whiplash that can happen when two people are drawn to each other but do not move through the world the same way. it is playful on the surface, but underneath it is also about misunderstanding, projection, desire, and the way language itself can become part of the seduction.

for me, this one has humor in it, but it is not a joke. it is about that maddening space where attraction and translation start feeding each other. where you are trying to understand the person, the culture, the tone, and yourself, all at the same time. and sometimes all anyone can say is: calma.

block by block menina run

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:44:44 GMT

block by block menina run came from the way childhood freedom expands in stages. first it is the yard. then the gate. then across the street. then the next block. then the other neighborhood. when you are little, that widening feels like power. like the whole world is opening one corner at a time.

this song is full of the textures that made those years feel endless to me: kickball with makeshift bases, bikes dropped in the grass, chlorine on the skin, towels over shoulders, cousins, fences, alley races, and the kind of summer heat that made everything feel alive. it is playful, but it is also about becoming. how a girl starts building her sense of self one boundary crossed at a time.

for me, memory in this song is not soft-focus nostalgia for its own sake. it is neighborhood geography as identity. it is motion as education. it is the little girl in me learning the map of freedom with her body before she ever had language for it.

a coleção de vinil

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:42:13 GMT

a coleção de vinil is about what music holds long after the moment is over. old records are never just records. they carry rooms, seasons, versions of ourselves, people we loved, people we survived, and whole emotional climates that come rushing back the second the needle drops.

this song came from that feeling of being pulled through time by sound. the kind of memory that is not neat or linear, but physical. you hear one groove and suddenly you are back in a living room, in a car, in a family gathering, in a version of yourself you thought was gone. that is what vinyl does for me. it does not just play music. it reopens atmosphere.

there is also something tender to me about collecting sound. what we save says something about what saved us. this one is for the songs that stayed, the albums that shaped us, and the quiet archive we build every time we decide a feeling is worth keeping.

the muse

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:39:02 GMT

the muse sits in that uneasy place where inspiration and desire start borrowing each other’s clothes. sometimes a person is not just a person. sometimes they arrive as a mirror, a spark, a projection, a disruption, or a dare. this song came from thinking about what happens when someone lights up your imagination before they ever make sense in your real life.

for me, a muse is not always soft or convenient. sometimes a muse brings clarity, and sometimes they bring confusion wrapped in fascination. they stir things up. they make you write, feel, remember, question yourself, and notice what was already restless inside you. this song lives in that tension on purpose.

it is less about certainty and more about charge. the pull. the beauty. the trouble. the way inspiration can feel almost romantic even when what it is really doing is waking something up in you.

want to go deeper? explore the blog at faafo.app/category/lingua. study, sit with it, and if you feel moved - join the community at forum.faafo.app/public. full transcripts + lyrics are available to read at rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio - from there you can select your favorite podcast platform to listen, or watch the full playlist on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBFD5i1Puw&list=PLCP4Dr3PfIddbWyisaZLN6eVhbIv1Rc9y

my people have arrived (meu povo chegou)

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:33:53 GMT

my people have arrived (meu povo chegou) is rooted in ancestry, but not in a dusty, distant way. this one is about presence. the feeling that your people are not gone, not abstract, and not silent. they are in the room. they are in the body. they are in the way you walk in, speak up, survive, build, and remember.

i wanted this song to feel like a bloodline entering the space with you. not as ghosts, but as force. as rhythm. as inheritance that still has heat in it. there is labor in this song, and pride, and movement, and that deep knowing that some people are still carrying whole generations every time they open their mouth.

for me, this one is not only about the past. it is about what arrives when memory becomes living sound. what happens when history stops sitting still and starts walking through the door beside you.

gosto de magia

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:11:43 GMT

gosto de magia came from that feeling of trying to explain something that was never going to fit neatly into words. sometimes a person, a place, or a moment does not just attract you. it alters the air around you. that is what this song is sitting with.

this one lives in that strange space between desire, intuition, memory, and projection. the part where you are not always sure whether what you are feeling is chemistry, recognition, illusion, or all of it at once. i wanted it to feel a little seductive, a little disorienting, and very honest about how quickly the mind can start making meaning out of energy.

for me, that is part of the story too. not just what happened, but what it felt like while it was happening. the atmosphere of it. the charge of it. the way some things taste like magic before you ever know what they are.

baía da bahia

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:55:43 GMT

bahia bay nasceu daquela sensação de perceber que eu não cheguei à Bahia por acaso. alguns lugares parecem escolhidos. alguns lugares parecem mais antigos do que a própria escolha. essa música fica exatamente nesse espaço para mim, onde ancestralidade, movimento, memória e água começam a conversar entre si.

tem algo na Bahia que me faz pensar no caminho longo que as pessoas percorreram, nas coisas que carregaram, nas coisas que perderam e nas coisas que, de alguma forma, ainda sobreviveram. essa música não tenta explicar tudo isso de um jeito arrumadinho. é mais eu sentando com essa sensação. a baía, a linhagem, o chamado, o mistério e esse reconhecimento estranho que pode acontecer quando um lugar parece novo e familiar ao mesmo tempo.

quer se aprofundar? explore o blog em faafo.app/category/lingua. estude, sente com isso, e se sentir vontade - entre para a comunidade em forum.faafo.app/public.

as transcrições completas + letras estão disponíveis para leitura em rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio - de lá você pode escolher sua plataforma de podcast favorita para ouvir, ou assistir à playlist completa no youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBFD5i1Puw&list=PLCP4Dr3PfIddbWyisaZLN6eVhbIv1Rc9y

bahia bay

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:40:09 GMT

bahia bay came from that feeling of realizing i did not just arrive in Bahia by accident. some places feel chosen. some places feel older than choice. this song sits in that space for me, where ancestry, movement, memory, and water all start talking to each other.

there is something about Bahia that makes me think about the long road people traveled, the things they carried, the things they lost, and the things that still somehow survived. this song is not trying to explain all of that in a tidy way. it is me sitting with the feeling of it. the bay, the bloodline, the pull, the mystery, and the strange recognition that can happen when a place feels both new and familiar.

want to go deeper? explore the blog at faafo.app/category/lingua. study, sit with it, and if you feel moved --- join the community at forum.faafo.app/public.

full transcripts + lyrics are available to read at rss.com/podcasts/faafo-radio --- from there you can select your favorite podcast platform to listen, or watch the full playlist on youtube.