Que tal a apresentadora entrevistar o ouvinte agora?

Que tal ... ? is a very common way to make a suggestion in Brazilian Portuguese. In English, it often corresponds to:

• How about ... ?
• What about ... ?

So here it introduces the idea being suggested: that the presenter interview the listener now.

You can use que tal with:

• a noun: Que tal um café? = How about a coffee?
• an action: Que tal sair agora? = How about leaving now?

After que tal, Portuguese very often uses the infinitive to express the action being suggested.

So:

• Que tal entrevistar o ouvinte agora? = How about interviewing the listener now?

Not:

• Que tal a apresentadora entrevista... ❌

If you want to use a full conjugated clause after que tal, you normally need a different structure, such as que tal se...:

• Que tal se a apresentadora entrevistasse o ouvinte agora?

That version sounds a little more hypothetical or softer.

Yes. A apresentadora is the one who would do the interviewing.

So the structure is:

• Que tal = how about
• a apresentadora = the presenter/host
• entrevistar o ouvinte agora = interview the listener now

A natural English way to think of it is:

• How about [the presenter interviewing the listener now]?

Portuguese can use a noun directly before an infinitive like this to show who performs the action.

Yes, effectively it is.

Portuguese has a special feature called the personal infinitive, which allows the infinitive to show who the subject is. In this sentence, the subject is explicitly stated: a apresentadora.

The important thing for learners is this:

• in the 3rd person singular, the personal infinitive looks exactly like the regular infinitive

So entrevistar here looks unchanged, but the subject is still understood as a apresentadora.

You can see the difference more clearly with other persons:

• Que tal eu entrevistar o ouvinte agora?
• Que tal nós entrevistarmos o ouvinte agora?

Notice how entrevistarmos changes with nós.

Portuguese uses definite articles much more often than English.

Here:

• a apresentadora = the presenter / the host
• o ouvinte = the listener

In English, we sometimes omit articles in certain contexts, but in Portuguese they are very common before nouns, especially when referring to a specific person or role.

So this sounds natural:

• a apresentadora
• o ouvinte

and not:

• apresentadora
• ouvinte

by themselves in this sentence.

Because these two nouns behave differently with gender.

• apresentador / apresentadora changes form:

  • o apresentador = the male presenter
  • a apresentadora = the female presenter

• ouvinte is a common-gender noun, so the noun itself stays the same:

  • o ouvinte = the male listener
  • a ouvinte = the female listener

So in your sentence, o ouvinte tells you the listener is male.

Yes, absolutely.

• Que tal entrevistar o ouvinte agora? = How about interviewing the listener now?

That version leaves the subject more general or understood from context.

By adding a apresentadora, the speaker makes it clear who should do the action:

• Que tal a apresentadora entrevistar o ouvinte agora?

So the longer version is more specific.

Yes, agora can move around, although the original order is very natural.

Common possibilities include:

• Que tal a apresentadora entrevistar o ouvinte agora?
• Que tal a apresentadora entrevistar agora o ouvinte?
• Agora, que tal a apresentadora entrevistar o ouvinte?

Putting agora at the end is a very normal way to add now without giving it extra emphasis.

Yes, and it is a good sentence, but it is a different structure.

Compare:

• Que tal a apresentadora entrevistar o ouvinte agora?

  • more direct suggestion
  • built with que tal + infinitive

• Que tal se a apresentadora entrevistasse o ouvinte agora?

  • also a suggestion
  • built with que tal se + imperfect subjunctive
  • sounds a bit softer or more hypothetical

Both are possible, but the original sentence uses the simpler and very common que tal + infinitive pattern.

Yes. It sounds natural, especially in a context like radio, podcasts, or live hosting, where someone is proposing the next step.

The nouns also fit that context well:

• apresentadora = presenter/host
• ouvinte = listener

So it sounds like someone suggesting:

• How about the host interview the listener now?

Very plausible in media or broadcasting situations.