I would submit to you that any foreign language has a level of difficulty which will be different to each person who’s attempting to learn it. It depends on your own life experience, your native language, your reason for learning that language, which method you use, and your attitude towards learning it. If you haven't started studying it and you are already thinking about its difficulty, that's the wrong way to approach it. Think about the
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Why Brazilian Portuguese?
According to the GDP (Gross domestic product), Brazil is currently the seventh-largest economy in the world. It is also the largest economy of Latin America and the second largest in the western hemisphere. In recent years, namely from 2000 up to 2012, Brazil has become one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world.
Brazil has a population of almost 200 million, and it's essential to point out that the middle class has been growing
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The Plural in Portuguese
In Portuguese, differently than in English, not only the nouns have plural forms, but the adjectives do as well. Remember an adjective in Portuguese has to agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and in number (singular or plural) with the noun it refers to.
Words Ending in a Vowel (a, e, i, o, u):
As a general rule, if a word ends in a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), all you need is to add an s to it. But as in English, there are some exceptions to
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How Brazil was named Brazil?
When Brazil was first discovered in1500, by the Portuguese captain Pedro Alvares Cabral, thinking that the new found land was an island, he named it Ilha de Vera Cruz (Island of the True Cross). Considering that the Feast of the Cross was around the corner on the liturgical calendar, May 3, it’s possible that Cabral named it that to honor the Cross.
Soon after realizing that Brazil was not an island, the name was changed from Ilha de Vera Cruz
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