Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
Luiza in Canada This story is so hilariously Brazilian, it needs to be shared. The story begins with a random TV commercial that ran in Brazil about a construction project for a luxury apartment building in Paraíba. In the commercial, the man advertising the building uses his family in the commercial, but makes a point of [...]
LinkedIn, the professional networking website, recently opened an office in Brazil to expand its business there. Brazil is LinkedIn’s fourth-largest market with 6 million users. Reuters Brasil wrote about the office inauguration in São Paulo: Além da subsidiária, também foi anunciada a nomeação do seu diretor-geral, Osvaldo Barbosa de Oliveira, que saiu da Microsoft -onde atuava como gerente-geral [...]
“Peixe Urbano” – Brazil’s Answer To Online Daily Deals Peixe Urbano, a Rio-based Groupon clone, is doing very nicely indeed by tailoring its service precisely to a brazilian audience and offering daily deals to brazil’s nearly 70 million Internet users. Brazil has its own version of Groupon, but Peixe Urbano (which means “urban fish” in portuguese) came onto [...]
The Rise Of Netflix-Like Services For Online Movie Streaming In Brazil It seems that Netflix, which was unleashed this month in Brazil, is facing some trouble adapting to the prehistoric nature of Brazil’s Broadband internet. The last time I checked, the internet in my family’s house Brazil was still dial-up, they can’t even use the [...]
Facebook Overtakes Orkut in Brazil Is this the beginning of the end for Orkut in Brazil?… …Looks like it. I closed my Orkut account about a year and a half ago because I was finding that all of my Brazilian friends were flooding to set up facebook accounts, making it unnecessary for me to use [...]
Social Networking: Where Are Brazilians Meeting Up Online? An interesting graphic representation of the use of popular social networks in Brazil, thanks to Marco Vergotti…
The Brazilian Sense of Humor I have often thought that I prefer the dry sarcasm and irreverence of American humor to Brazilian humor, which in popular Brazilian culture is often quite obvious, banal and lacking depth (I frequently use the movie “se eu fosse voce” as an example of everything I dislike about Brazilian humor for the masses.) However, if you search deeper, [...]
Facebook has opened an ad sales office in São Paulo, Brazil that apparently will serve as the social site’s headquarters for Latin America. Facebook head of marketing Carolyn Everson mentioned her company’s expansion in an interview with ClickZ at Cannes Lions on Wednesday. “There is a wonderful creative community happening in Brazil. We just opened our [...]
DICTIONARY OF PORTUGUESE INTERNET ABBREVIATIONS Most Brazilians use MSN to chat online with IM. Like in English, Brazilian chat lingo tends to shorten many words, so it takes a little getting used to. Here is a quick reference for some very common Portuguese internet abbreviations: rsrsrs – “risos”, dar risada (represents laughter) ñ, naum - não (no) [...]
SOCIAL NETWORKING IN BRAZIL Brazil adores social networking. A study from 2010 revealed that 86% of internet users in Brazil regularly used an online social network…10% more than Italy, the nearest contender. But rather than Facebook ruling the roost in Brazil, Google’s Orkut has always outgunned its social networking peers by quite some distance. In August, it [...]
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
