Today, Portuguese Blog moved over to WordPress, so please be patient as we transfer our archives!  In the meantime, let’s take this opportunity to formally introduce the Portuguese Blog writer.

Rachel has written Portuguese Blog since February 2008. She is originally from New York but now lives in Rio de Janeiro. She began studying Spanish at age 13 and later studied in Spain, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. She began learning Portuguese in her sophomore year of college, which she studied for two semesters.

She traveled to Brazil for the first time in 2006 and traveled around the country. She met her boyfriend there and has spoken Portuguese every day ever since then. She has lived in Brazil since June 2007 with her boyfriend, who is originally from Rio Grande do Sul and from whom she has learned much of her slang and colloquialisms. He helps out with the Portuguese Blog podcasts by doing the Portuguese voiceovers.

Besides Portuguese Blog, Rachel also writes her own blog, Rio Gringa, and also writes an English language listing about Rio events, called “What’s New in Rio.” She also does freelance writing.

She invites her readers to give suggestions for a post or a series on Portuguese Blog by leaving a comment on this post.