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.
Brazilian or
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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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Is Portuguese Very Difficult to Learn?
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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