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O Grito do Ipiranga – Brazil’s Independence Day Posted by on Sep 6, 2010

O Grito do Ipiranga - Pedro Américo (1888)

Tomorrow is Sete de Setembro, Brazil’s independence day!  Many Brazilians don’t work today or tomorrow and use the holiday to head to the nearest (or not) beach, countryside, or wherever, to enjoy their day off.  But most Brazilians don’t “celebrate,” the holiday, saying there isn’t much to celebrate because Brazilians didn’t really go through much…

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Words in Portuguese You Don’t Want to Get Mixed Up – Part 2 Posted by on Aug 30, 2010

So  last week I wrote about confusing words in Portuguese, and I clearly didn’t write about enough because a bunch of you reminded me of some I couldn’t think of!! So I figured why not keep clearing things up with your suggestions?!  Let’s get straight to it, shall we? barato/a vs. barata barato/a = cheap…

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Words in Portuguese You Don’t Want to Get Mixed Up! Posted by on Aug 26, 2010

While travelling these past couple of weeks, I caught myself being victim to making false friends mistakes.  You know those words that sound exactly like a word in your native tongue but mean something completely different?  With making these embarrassing mistakes, I started thinking about words in the same language that sound alike, especially in…

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Telegrama – Zeca Baleiro – Lyrics & Video Posted by on Aug 24, 2010

For some reason I can’t get this song out of my head… Zeca Baleiro is one of my newest obsessions and the lyrics to “Telegrama,” make me laugh and smile and just feel good inside, so I thought I’d share with you all. Test out your listening (sort of) and try to figure out the…

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Travelling Portuguese Essentials Posted by on Aug 10, 2010

Hola from Barcelona!! This is my second time ever in a country where I don’t speak the language and the first time was in Argentina where everyone spoke Portuguese anyway because of all the Brazilian tourists and I also had my friend who speaks fluent Spanish with me…   I mean, I speak sooomme castellano and…

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Piadas – Brazilians Make Fun of Everything Posted by on Aug 2, 2010

A friend of a friend of mine just moved to Brazil from the US this past weekend and he’s been crashing lá em casa, and yesterday while strolling in the park with him and a friend of mine, we kept talking about how Brazilians love making fun of just about everything.  We cited the most…

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Mano na Comanda Posted by on Jul 26, 2010

Last Friday, many Brazilians were in a frenzy.  The new head coach for the national soccer team was to be chosen.  All day Friday, all anyone could talk about was how Muricy Ramalho, the carioca team, Fluminense‘s head coach, was going to take CBF’s (Clube Brasileiro de Futebol) offer.  However, when he did, his current…

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