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…
How to use “whose” in Portuguese Posted by carol on Oct 22, 2017
Ei, gente! Como está o outubro de vocês? Hey, people! How is your October going? The word whose is very common in English and it indicates posse (possession). Whose can be used in two ways: as an pronome interrogativo (interrogative pronoun) and as a pronome relativo (relative pronoun). But how can we say that 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…
Rock in Rio 2017 Posted by carol on Sep 30, 2017
Ei, galera! Hello, guys! Como vocês estão hoje? How are you feeling today? From September 15th to 24th, the Rock in Rio festival, one of the principais e maiores (main and largest) musical events do mundo (in the world) since its first edition in 1985, hosted over trinta (30) attractions each day throughout cinco (5)…
[Portuguese listening/reading practice] – O menino, o lobo e o sapo na água fervendo Posted by carol on Sep 27, 2017
[Prática de escuta e leitura em Português] Ei, galera! Hey guys! It’s time for another one of our listening and reading exercises for the month. The text chosen for this instalment is called O menino, o lobo e o sapo na água fervendo (The boy, the wolf and the frog in boiling water) by comedian…
Offering, accepting and refusing in Portuguese Posted by carol on Sep 23, 2017
[Oferecer, aceitar e recusar em Português] Communicating something at a basic level in a idioma estrangeiro (foreign language) is a great achievement, but the ability to do that in a colloquial manner or not, according to each occasion, is a setp further towards fluency. In case you are, or intend to go, to a Portuguese…