Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
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
