Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
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 [...]
PORTUGUESE DRIVING VOCABULARY Driving in Brazil can be a scary thing! Hopefully this comprehensive portuguese driving vocabulary list will make getting around in your car a less daunting experience PORTUGUESE ROAD VOCABULARY rua – road quebra mola or, lombada – speed bump trânsito – traffic engarrafamento - traffic jam pasarella – overpass (also means ”runway” in the fashion [...]
HOW TO ORDER IN A RESTAURANT IN PORTUGUESE Here is all you need to know in order to successfully order food in a restaurant in Brazil. This lesson includes a vocabulary list, useful phrases for ordering food and some tips on being polite in Portuguese when dining out. If you need to work on your [...]
PORTUGUESE FRUIT VOCABULARY Here’s a very basic Portuguese vocabulary list for the names of different fruits. If you would like to get more advanced, check out some of the links at the end of this post. Cheers! a fruta - fruit o abacaxi - pineapple a ameixa - plum, prune a amora (preta) - blackberry a banana - banana a cereja - [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
