Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
Here is a great list of Brazilian Portuguese cooking terms! Please feel free to comment below if I have left anything out. Thanks! cozinhar - to cook grelhar – to grill torrar – to toast assar – to bake, roast, broil fritar – to fry regar – to baste ferver – to boil, simmer corar – [...]
PORTUGUESE KITCHEN VOCABULARY A Cozinha – The Kitchen Here’s a very comprehensive Portuguese vocab list for when you plan on cooking for your friends in Brazil and want to know the words for major appliances, smaller appliances, pots and pans, utensils (utensílios de cozinha) and everything else! Memorizing this list will really impress everyone, so good luck! [...]
AGUAS DE MARÇO IN ENGLISH In Honor of Spring, I thought I’d post a song called “Aguas de Março,” (“Waters of March”) sung beautifully by Elis Regina and Tom Jobim, with the complete lyrics translated into English. An added bonus, this song has a bunch of GREAT vocab words! Enjoy! É pau, é pedra, A stick, a stone, é o fim do caminho [...]
Who is Raul Seixas? Raul Seixas is hands down one of my favorite Brazilian rock atrists. This song is one of his best, in my opinion, and also one of the most popular, it even made an appearance in the fantastic film, City of God, (Cidade de Deus) from 2002. Finding great music and learning the [...]
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 [...]
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE NOUNS & WORD GENDER LESSON Portuguese Nouns are either Masculine or Feminine. In English, our words don’t have gender and so this will get some getting used to. Fortunately, the gender of most nouns in Brazilian Portuguese is quite predictable. For example, the world for girl, “menina” is obviously going to be feminine (a [...]
LEARN BRAZILIAN 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 on [...]
THE PASSIVE VOICE IN PORTUGUESE A passive sentence is one in which the subject is the recipient of the action. In Brazilian Portuguese, past participles are used with the verb “ser” (to be) to denote the passive voice. Here are some phrases demonstrating the verb forms which are used when speaking in the passive voice: “o dinheiro vai [...]
COMMON MISTAKES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: What’s the difference between Degrau, Grau & Grão? These are three similar sounding words that many people mix up when learning Brazilian Portuguese. Especially misleading is that “DEgraus” does not translate to “DEgrees.” But instead, the word for “degrees”, when talking about the weather, is “graus” and “degraus”… it just means [...]
