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The word “papo” in Portuguese Posted by carol on Nov 27, 2017
A palavra “papo” em português Olá pra todos! Hi to all! Our previous post focused on vocabulary in Portuguese connected to talking and communicating. Today’s topic will expand a little bit on that and explain the term papo – a word that is also related to speaking – and show a number of expressions and…
[Brazilian food] – Tapioca Posted by carol on Nov 14, 2017
Ei, povo! Hi, people! Estão com fome? Are you hungry? Today’s delicious post is going to talk about tapioca, a Brazilian culinary symbol which consists of a sort of white crepe with grainy texture made with manioc starch. The starch is extracted from the mandioca (manioc or cassava in English) – also known in other…
[Brazilian Slang] – The “ué” in Portuguese Posted by carol on Nov 11, 2017
[Gírias brasileiras] – O “ué” em português Ei, pessoal, tudo bom? Hey, people, are you doing fine? Today we are going to cover a very popular idiom in Portuguese: ué. This interjection is used mostly in informal speech and online and very rarely in written form in non-colloquial situations. Its origins are unknown, but the…
The signs in Portuguese Posted by carol on Oct 28, 2017
Olá, pessoal! Hello, all! How are you feeling today? Are you in a good mood or in a bad mood today? And does the position of the planets has anything to do with that? Maybe that is not true about your country, but lately everything has been all about star signs here in Brazil. Whether…
The verbs ‘acostumar’ and ‘costumar’ in Portuguese Posted by carol on Oct 25, 2017
Ei, pessoal! Hi, guys! Vocês costumam estudar Português com frequência? Do you usually study Portuguese often? Today we will learn about two verbs that are frequently used in Portuguese: acostumar e costumar. Although they look practically the same and have very similar functions, they actually have slightly different meaning, in addition to being used in…
Children’s day in Brazil/ Children vocabulary Posted by carol on Oct 16, 2017
[Dia das crianças no Brasil] Olá, pessoal! Hello everybody! Last Thursday, on October 12th, we celebrated Dia das Crianças (Children’s day) in Brazil. Even though United Nations and Unesco have declared November 20th as Universal Children’s Day, the date is commemorate around the world in many different days. In Portugal and many other countries, for…
[Brazilian literature] – Brasil: Uma biografia Posted by carol on Oct 7, 2017
Biographies are, by definition, a literary genre that aims to provide a person’s life history, describing their experience, main events and relationships in detail. In Brasil: Uma biografia (Brazil: a biography) by scholars Lilian Schwarcz and Heloisa Starling, though the approach is the same, there is a little twist to it: the protagonist is our…