Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
Going to Brazil: What to Bring & What to Buy If you are planning a trip to Brazil, here’s a guide of what you should bring with you, and the things you should wait to buy in Brazil. BRING 1. Bug Spray. It is overpriced in Brazil and you will absolutely need it. Lots of [...]
“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 [...]
Obtaining an Internship In Brazil & Making A Resume in Portuguese In Brazilian Portuguese, an internship is called an estágio. Like in other countries, it’s an opportunity for students or young people to gain experience in a company, either unpaid or with a small stipend or salary. In Brazil, interns are called estagiários, and to participate in [...]
Couch Surfing In Brazil? Special Report on Couch Surfing Featured On Fantastico I recently heard about couch surfing for the first time from a friend, but when I saw a whole segment dedicated to this phenomenon recently on the Brazilian news program Fantastico (TV Globo), I wondered more about whether couch surfing will become a [...]
List of The 5 Best Hostels in Brazil Thinking about staying in a Hostel in Brazil? The first thing that you should know is that Hostels in Brazil are not to be feared. As long as you are wise with your belongings, staying in a hostel is a great way to meet people and to [...]
CRIME IN BRAZIL GETTING ROBBED IN RIO DE JANEIRO: HOW WILL IT GO DOWN? This is the way that planned robberies often go down in Rio de Janeiro: a bad guy spots someone who he presumes has money (usually someone who works in a nice building, wears a business suit to work, has a decent [...]
Women Getting Their Hair Stolen in Brazil? Yes, This Is a Thing. That’s right, over the years hair-stealing has been one of those things that seems to come in waves in Brazil. Brazilian women typically like to have very long hair. So, a guy on a motorcycle comes up behind an unexpecting victim and cuts [...]
If you spend any time living in Brazil you will soon come across an institution that does not exist in the United States, but which is part of the everyday bureaucratic life of this country. Brazilian bureaucracy requires government-approved translators to translate all legal documents that originate in non-Portuguese speaking countries into Portuguese. Such a [...]
BRAZILIAN CURRENCY & ADVICE FOR TRAVELING The official unit of currency in Brazil is the Real, the plural is Reais, which the Brazilian government introduced in 1994 in an attempt to control inflation. While traveling, it’s probably a bad idea to carry large wads of cash in Brazil, but it can be helpful to bring a [...]
