Have you ever heard of the Christ Redeemer before? Well, if you haven’t, I’m about to tell you. It’s a beautiful statue of Christ which became a famous landmark in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Portuguese, we call it ‘O Cristo Redentor’. Locals also call it by the mountain’s name ‘Corcovado‘. Some people believed, and […]
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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
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Foreigners interested in learning Portuguese may wonder if there are a lot of differences between the Portuguese spoken in Brazil that spoken in Portugal, and which one they should choose to study.
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It’s true that there are some differences between the way Brazilian people speak Portuguese and the people in Portugal do. However, those differences are comparable to the way people speak English in the USA and England. And in spite of those differences, they are able to communicate and get along.
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