Building a Sentence
Now, let us take a look at the different ways of building a sentence. For instance, the question - What are you doing? In Brazil, it would be translated as O que você está fazendo? Whereas in Portugal, it would certainly be O que tu estás a fazer?. You can see that Brazilians use the pronoun você as their favorite pronoun and the same structure of the English language: the present of verb to be + main verb in the ing form.
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Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese (Part 1)
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you my good friend, Débora Fontenelle, creator, and author of Crônicas e Cores de Débora Fontenelle, who is our guest post writer. She attended the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and earned a language teacher diploma for both Portuguese and English. Thank you, Debbie, for writing this great and clarifying post about the differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese.
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Brazilian Portuguese In Real Life
Here is a list of some useful websites which will help you to immerse yourself in Brazilian Portuguese in real life while you're learning it. I recommend these sites to any student of Portuguese because with them he will be able to experience native speakers from different regions of Brazil talking, singing, and also expressing themselves in writing. You will be able to notice their particular accents and writing flavor permeated with their own
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Can Brazilian and European Portuguese Speakers Understand Each Other?
Absolutely! It’s true that there are some differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese. However, they do not hinder the communication between the people of those two nations. The level of differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese are comparable to the level of differences between American and British English. And as we all know, the American and the English people have been conversing without any trouble for years, haven't
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