Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE SOCCER / FOOTBALL VOCABULARY LIST This vocab list could be a great tool for soccer fans visiting Brazil, print this out and bring it to the 2014 World Cup games with you to understand what those around you are saying and to participate yourself in the heated discussion and cheering! PORTUGUESE SOCCER VOCABULARY [...]
LIST OF ADVANCED LEVEL / DIFFICULT PORTUGUESE VERBS If you have already mastered the Easy Portuguese Verbs List and the Intermediate Portuguese Verbs List, print out and memorize this list of challenging portuguese verbs to expand your Portuguese vocabulary! (At the bottom of this page in this list of sharing links, there is a button [...]
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL VERB LIST After you have mastered the Easy Portuguese Verbs List, Impress your Brazilian colleagues by memorizing this list of verbs (and then move onto the Advanced Portuguese Verbs List! atar – to tie assombrar – to astonish, shock, surprise, haunt assobiar – to whistle arrebentar – to burst, break, explode, pop (estourar [...]
HOW TO LEARN PORTUGUESE The best way to learn Brazilian Portuguese (or any language) is to expand your vocabulary by gradually memorizing lists of related words. This technique will help orient your mind to making connections between words in a certain category or taxonomy, which will facilitate your retrieval of the newly learned words later [...]
This list represents the most basic Portuguese verbs that I can think of: abaixar – lower abandonar – abandon abraçar – hug abrir – open acabar – finish acender – turn on (a light) achar – find acreditar – believe adiar – postpone adivinhar – guess adorar – adore, love agraceder – thank amar – [...]
Translating Brazilian Portuguese Legal Documents I have compiled this list of difficult Portuguese vocabulary and phrases from my experience with translating legal documents from Portuguese to English. I hope you find it helpful! And remember, if you do not see something here that you think should be added, let me know! Thanks! -Portuguese Blogger Words certidão – [...]
Here are a few slang phrases that are very commonly used in Brazil. Please feel free to contribute more phrases that you think belong here! – PortugueseBlogger@gmail.com. WHAT DOES “QUEIMAR MEU FILME” MEAN? phrase: “queimou meu filme!” literally: “you burned my movie!” actually means: “you made me look bad!” sentence: “Você está queimando o meu filme !! Sai fora !!” sentence: [...]
Here are some airport phrases in Portuguese with some great vocabulary, I hope this helps! “chuva provoca atraso de voos no Aeroporto de Salvador.” – “rain causes flight delays at the Airport of Salvador.” o vôo (voos) – flight o atraso – delay atrasar – to delay, be late atrasado/a (-os/-as) – late (adj.) “o avião correu a pista num pouso suave e tranquilo.” [...]
PLAYING CARDS IN BRAZIL Playing cards is an extremely popular pastime among friends in Brazil. So how do you talk about playing cards in Portuguese? Below is a list of words to help improve you brazilian portuguese card game vocabulary. Feel free to add to the comments section if I’ve left any words out. Also, [...]
Brazilian Portuguese Bird Vocabulary pássaro or ave – bird pássarinho – bird, a small bird pinto – a chick a águia (-s) – eagle a cegonha (-s) – stork a gaivota (-s) – seagull o gavião (-ões) – hawk o corvo (-s) – crow o falcão (-ões) – falcon o beija-flor (-es) – hummingbird o avestruz (-es) - ostrich o papagaio (-s) - parrot o [...]
INTERNET EMOTICONS IN PORTUGUESE Here are some pictures of emoticons used commonly on MSN, etc. and their description in Portuguese: Click HERE for a list of Brazilian Portuguese abbreviations commonly used in In MSN, Orkut or chat. ALSO SEE: Basic Portuguese Computer Terms Chat Abbreviations in Portuguese Social Networking in Brazil Portuguese Cloud Computing Vocab
