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Recently, the Portuguese online community took the Internet to complain about the Brazilian Portuguese subtitles on HBO’s series ‘The Last of Us’. The streaming service provided subtitles only in Brazilian Portuguese, frustrating European Portuguese speakers.

We get it. It is hard to understand why a giant like HBO did not provide localized subtitles, but, for many Brazilians, this was another opportunity to feed the rivalry between the colonizers and the colonized, in this case, Portugal and Brazil. Boy, we love controversy! 😜

Today, Brazil has about 200 million people, while Portugal has about 10 million. Most content– whether is entertainment, literature, essays, material available online–ends up being translated only into Brazilian Portuguese.

That said, if Portugal is a relevant market for your brand, we definitely recommend localizing your content for European speakers, to avoid any kind of online backlash. At Peel The Pineapple, we also work with European Portuguese writers and offer services like adapting European Portuguese to Brazilian Portuguese, or vice-versa.

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For those who are not familiar with the Translation industry, the term Localization might not mean much, but, for creative copy that requires cultural knowledge, localization is essential because it adapts cultural references, expressions, idioms… They all differ depending on the country, and we cannot translate them literally. Think about this, Americans have the habit of buying coffee to go, but in Brazil we mainly drink coffee at home or at work. And this is just the start.

It is also important to take in consideration other aspects like class and race, if you want your copy to resonate well in the target market. Recently, we have been working on a job that, in a few instances, sounded ‘too white’? Even if the social angle has not been taken into consideration during the creation of the source copy, the transcreator must have this in mind while adapting the text, especially in a continental country like Brazil, full of intricacies and social issues.

More than a linguist, a transcreator should be a cultural expert, someone able to recognize when something sounds off.

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Hello, beautiful people!

In March, we are launching our first newsletter, and we would like to invite you to be a subscriber 😀

We love making videos for you, and we will keep making them, but, in our newsletter, we intend to explain a few things a bit more. In this first issue, named ‘Carnival is over’, we talk about the fact that, for Brazilians, the year only really starts in March. We are also highlighting a few trending topics that took over the internet during the festivities.

To sign up, just access our website, and insert your email in the pop-up. There is also a link to the Newsletter form in the homepage. New clients that sign up to our newsletter will get a 10% discount on their next project with us!

#newsletter #brazilianculture #culturalinsight #translation #transcreation #brazilianportuguese

We are always harping on the same string, but cultural insight is a pretty much untapped marketing resource that can definitely help brands everywhere. This is why we developed a new product, our Pop Report, an entertaining and effective way of knowing everything you need to know about your target market.

Talking about Brazil specifically, we are the 4th online community in the world, so what people say online will definitely impact your business, for better or worse. That said, your Pop Report may include:

❇️Info about the main influencers on your sector

❇️Info about viral memes

❇️Insights about consumer behavior/habits

❇️Insights about what people say when they go online

❇️And much more!

Each Pop Report is tailored to each client’s needs because every industry is unique. From our experience, the Pop Report can be very useful to:

❇️Develop a social media strategy

❇️Design and write content for website/apps

❇️Develop your marketing strategy

❇️Create advertising campaigns

❇️Prepare for a pitch

Ah, we also make sure you don’t get canceled 😊

Do you want to know more? Reach out!

🍍We can peel this pineapple for you! 🍍

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Yay, 2023 arrived, and we are here today to talk about the behavior and intricacies of Brazilian society. If you are not familiar with Latin culture, you might find our habits, beliefs, and social norms a bit different from what we’re used to. That’s the beauty of culture 🦋 But, when launching a new product or service, it's often recommended to get to know more about your target market. We’re here to help!

This is why we offer a wide range of Cultural Consultation services–from product name checks and cultural checks to our Pop Report. Our Pop Report is a fun way of presenting consumer habits to clients, and it comes in slides and in video!

Get in touch with us to know more. We can 🍍peel this pineapple🍍for you.

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In 1995, the internet became available in Brazil, and revolutionized the way we communicate with each other. The World Wide Web also brought loads of new terms to our daily lives—login, download, user, upload, and so on…

That said, how would people say these terms in Portuguese? Some of them have never been part of our language up to that moment in time, and the choices made back then by translators would define the way these words would be written and spoken for decades to come. Exciting mission, right?

Let’s take a look at the word ‘usuário’, our translation for ‘user’, for example. This word used to be attached to drug addicts, and it had a negative connotation in the 90s. Nowadays, it’s widely used when referring to internet users. It’s proof that translators can actively change language. Did you know that?

#brazilianportuguese #internet #translation #translators #transcreation #UI #90s

Love it or hate it, literal translations do exist, and sometimes they become the norm. Shall we fight them or embrace them?

Well, it depends.

Some words from the tech industry were translated literally (or kept in English) right from the start, and became part of the vocabulary of Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Think about ‘post’, ‘download’ and ‘suporte’ (from tech support). These words are already part of our lives.

But, can we say an online platform is friendly (amigável) in Portuguese? Oh my, this hurts our ears!👂🏾The thing is, a platform is not human, so it can’t inherit human qualities. ‘Intuitive’, for example, sounds much better in Portuguese, and it also conveys the idea that the platform is easy to use.

So let’s not be lazy, ok? But let’s not be language purists either 😉 We know this is a thin line, but, at Peel The Pineapple, we believe translations should reflect everyday use whenever possible and suitable.

What do you think?

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Cultural insight is marketing’s untapped resource. While consumer insight focuses on what consumers are doing right now, cultural insight is much broader, because it helps us understand how these wants and needs may change over time.

In order to do this, we must know a few things.

🗣️ What influences their decision.

🗣️ How things are shifting within the culture.

Think about it. People’s perceptions go through constant change. And how can we help you?

🍍 At Peel The Pineapple, we have a whole team dedicated to Cultural Insight. In order to help our clients, we developed a completely new concept called Pop Report, because we believe research can be fun and interesting, and we love Pop Culture. Who doesn’t?

Wanna know more? Get in touch, don’t be a stranger. Reach out at hello@peelthepineapple.com

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During 2020, with the kids at home watching more and more content online, Portuguese parents started noticing something different… Their sons and daughters were speaking Brazilian Portuguese! But how did that happen? 😱😱😱

Brazilian YouTubers, like Luccas Neto and his cousin Felipe Neto for example, together have more than 70 million subscribers, roughly 7x the Portuguese population. If in the past Portuguese people learned Brazilian expressions through soap operas--the first Brazilian soap to air in Portugal was ‘Gabriela’, in the 70s--nowadays the YouTubers are spreading the word.

Portuguese teachers are noticing the phenomenon, even at a very young age (4 to 7 year-olds). Portuguese parents fear that this might have an impact on their school performance, and are trying desperately to revert it. But is this really going to work?

All we know is that language is mutant and alive, and the Internet erased physical barriers and limits. Recently in Brazil, many people have been incorporating expressions from the Northeast and adding them to their vocabulary, also under the influence of popular YouTubers, and the same is happening across the Atlantic.

Who knows how Portuguese is going to be spoken in Portugal in 20 years? One thing is certain, it will be a bit more Brazilian 😃

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We usually help clients with our cultural knowledge about Brazil, but Lovinyl Records approached us with a different request. The Brazilian vinyl store, specialized in Brazilian vinyl rarities, was getting ready for a pitch. The aim? Get funding to open a store branch in Europe.

Armed with this info and after a brief chat with our client, we got to our task--proof that the demand for Brazilian vinyl is a real thing!

In order to do this, we decided to create a Pop Report. But you might be wondering, what is that? 🤔

The Pop Report embodies our different approach to research. By referencing pop culture and going down the rabbit hole of the Internet, our work is subjective, creative, approachable and entertaining at the same time. But don't get us wrong, we still backup out research with links and detailed info!

The Pop Report is presented in two formats:

Slides

Here is where we present the essence of our research, telling the story you want to know and providing valuable insights, in a very entertaining way. The report we created for Lovinyl Records is available on our website (in English and in Portuguese).

Video

For this client, we explored YouTube as it is the most popular tool among the vinyl community. We watched an almost infinite amount of videos with YouTubers talking about Brazilian music and created the story above, giving our client a little taste of the most loved Brazilian artists among foreigner fans. Afterwards, we also provided subtitles in Portuguese, so our client could know exactly that they meant!

Do you have a pineapple that needs peeling?🍍

Talk to us and we can provide the insight you need to launch your new product, campaign or business enterprise.

@lovinylrecords

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If you ended up following your page because of our cultural insight videos about Brazil, you might be wondering… But what does Peel The Pineapple do? One of our main expertises is Transcreation, an industry acronym for Creative Translation. But what does that mean?

Transcreation is a common practice to adapt advertising, marketing and branding materials. The idea is to preserve the original meaning while conveying the same emotion to appeal to a local audience.

Everything starts with a creative brief. From there, local copywriters adapt the client’s message, maintaining its intent, style, tone and context.

In order to make things even clearer for clients, transcreators may present rationales. They are great to explain our word choices, local expressions, idioms and puns. Our writers also provide insights about consumer behavior, market particularities, and social media trends.

Wanna know more? Get in touch!

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