111 Cultural Post 3

[Oliver Cho]

For my teaching task I attempted to teach my suite mates how to play soccer using Portuguese words. I referenced actions and terms in soccer in Portuguese. For example score a goal I told them to say "Faze um gol" or pass the ball as "Passe a bola". This worked to some extent, as they were able to pick up on the vocabulary quite quickly. However, since when playing soccer you are pretty much playing on instinct, my friends often resorted back to English as they weren't really thinking about how to say pass me the ball in Portugese while playing the game. They did however enjoy slang terms in Portuguese. For example I thought them "Ele e um cai cai". Which means hes a flopper, or he fakes it alot. My friends took quite well to that term and started calling everyone on the field "cai cai's". Some of my friends also took Capoiera with me last semester and recognized meia lua, which means to play the ball around and run around the person in a half moon shape. This is similar to "meia lua de frente" which is a kick in Capoiera in the shape of a half moon in front of your body.