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Meet Brazilian models, activists and a feminist rapper fighting sexual harassment - Beyond Beauty with Grace Neutral - VICE Video

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Grace Neutral meets the Brazilian women fighting for expression within challenging surroundings, meeting the individuals leading the charge against male objectification, revolutionising beauty norms in the process.

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Top 7 Brazilian Pronunciation Errors in English: Company Names

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Top 7 Brazilian Pronunciation Errors in English: Company Names

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Top 7 Brazilian Pronunciation Errors - Company Names

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Um idioma (expressão idiomática) é uma palavra ou frase que tem um significado figurativo convencionalmente compreendido por falantes nativos. Este significado é diferente do significado literal dos elementos individuais do idioma. Em outras palavras, expressões idiomáticas não significam exatamente o que as palavras dizem.

Por exemplo ingles, "It is raining cats and dogs"

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Idiomatic Expressions Archives - Street Smart Brazil

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The verb Dar is extremely useful because we use it in so many colloquial expressions in Brazilian Portuguese. Today you will learn how to use the expression Dar-se bem with two different meanings: to get along well with someone and to do well in something.

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Você costuma dizer as coisas de maneira diferente dependendo se você está falando formalmente ou informalmente. Fale formalmente às pessoas que você conhece pela primeira vez, pessoas mais velhas do que você, ou como um sinal geral de respeito. Este vídeo está perguntando às pessoas nas ruas de Lisboa como saudam certas pessoas.

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Portuguese (european) Formal vs Informal - Part 1: Greetings

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We went to the streets of Lisbon and asked some folks how they would normally greet someone they did not know well and then someone they felt comfortable with, perhaps a friend. Check out the results.

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Tempo a gente tem
Quanto a gente dá
Corre o que correr
Custa o que custar

Tempo a gente dá
Quanto a gente tem
Custa o que correr
Corre o que custar

O tempo que eu perdi
Só agora eu sei
Aprender a dar foi o que ganhei
E ando ainda atrás desse tempo ter
Pude não correr pra ele me encontrar
Não se mexer
Beija-flor no ar

O rio fica lá, a água é que correu
Chega na maré, ele vira mar
Como se morrer fosse desaguar
Derramar no céu, se purificar
Deixar pra trás sais e minerais
Evaporar

we have time
as we give it
run the race
whatever it takes

we give time
as we have it
it costs what runs
it runs what costs

the time i lost
only now i know
learn to give
was what i earned

and i still look for
have that time
to not run
and it find me

to not move
hummingbird in the air

the river stays there
the water is what has gone
arrives in the tide
it turns into sea

as if to die
is the same as to recede
spill in the sky
purify
leave behind
salts and minerals
evaporate

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Este é uma série de televisão brasileira de drama e ficção científica no Netflix. A série apresenta um mundo pós-apocalíptico. É basicamente Hunger Games no Brasil. Somente 3% dos jovens sobrevivem neste mundo quando têm 20 anos.

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Cape Verde also known as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an African Island stretching over an archipelago of 10 volcanic island nations on a volcanic islands off the northwest coast of the continent.

Known for its Creole Portuguese-African culture and morna music, this strikingly beautiful country is part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, situated in the Atlantic Ocean, about 570 kilometres off the West African coast, close to Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania.

The country's largest island, Santiago is home to the its current capital city, Praia, and the old capital, Cidade Velha.
Interesting facts

Cape Verde is named after Cap Vert, which means Green Cape in Senegal, the westernmost point of continental Africa.

The islands are divided into two sections, the Barlavento islands which are windward and the Sotavento islands located on the leeward side . The Barlavento Islands include, Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista and the Sotavento Islands consist of Maio, Santiago, Fogo, and Brava.

Santiago is the largest Island, both in size and population and is home to the capital city, Praia.

The country boasts as West Africa's highest standard of living as a result of its stable political and economic system.

The country's president Jorge Carlos Fonseca is a Cape Verdean politician, lawyer, and university professor who has been President of Cape Verde since 2011.

The population is made up of a good mix of African and Portuguese heritage.

Portuguese is the official language but people also speak Crioulo, an Africanised Creole Portuguese.

The flag of Cape Verde consists of two white horizontal stripes above and below a red horizontal stripe in the lower half of a blue field. A circle of ten gold stars representing the major islands is centred around the red stripe on the hoist side.

President Jorge Carlos Fonseca is the 4th President of Cape Verde and he won the 2011 presidential elections in a second round of voting.

when the archipelago became independent on July 5th 1975, that the independence of Cape Verde was shared with Guinea-Bissau, they were a joint country until 1980.

Cabo Verde is the 3rd largest nesting site for Loggerhead turtles and it is illegal to capture turtles which are endangered species in the country, between June and February.

There are more Cape Verdians living abroad than in the country.

Brava is a little island called 'the Garden Island' of Cabo Verde, because there are many tropical plants and flowers. It has no beaches, just high cliffs, and you can visit it and hike the mountains.

Only a tenth of the land is suitable for agriculture. The soil is good but the production of food is hampered by the lack of water and the legacy of the inefficient land tenure system.

The tunnels were cut through the walls of the crater at Pedra de Lume in Cabo Verde to make it easier to transport the salt out of there.

In 1919 to make things easier a tramway was built for the purpose of transporting salt to the port.

Benito Mussolini the Italian dictator bought the rights to build an airport on Sal,Cabo Verde as he needed to refuel his aircraft on the flights between Europe and South America. Portugal bought the airport back off him in 1945.

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Cape Verde also known as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an African Island stretching over an archipelago of 10 volcanic island nations on a volcanic islands off the northwest coast of the continent.

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E mi ke Maria di Lida

Mudjer balida sempri na buska bida

Buska bida dia, buska bida noti

Nten dôs bóka, ku mi tres ke pan sustenta

Ai si bu tem ki dan ka bu nganan!

Si u tem ki dan ka bu nganan!

Nha maridu ba Lisboa, ka fla nada

Ka mandan karta nen telegrama, ki fari dinheru

Trabadju di strada sta paradu, inda ka abri

Ai si bu tem ki dan ka bu nganan!

Si u tem ki dan ka bu nganan!

Korbu ta ronda é mau sinal

Mar djan padja inda ka ronka

Tanberina kau xinega ka rabenta

Ai si bu tem ki dan ka bu nganan!

Si u tem ki dan ka bu nganan!

I’m Maria Di Lida

A courageous woman always struggling for a living

Searching for ways to earn it day and night

I have three mouths to feed

If you’re to help me, don’t deceive me

If you’re to help me, don’t deceive me

My husband left for Lisbon

He never got in touch, let alone sent money

They’ve stopped building the road, I’m out of work

If you’re to help me, don’t deceive me

If you’re to help me, don’t deceive me

The crows circle

The harvest’s late

If you’re to help me, don’t deceive me

If you’re to help me, don’t deceive me

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1er extrait de l'album de Lura à paraître en octobre 2015, c'est histoire d'une femme cap-verdienne qui doit lutter pour joindre les deux bouts et faire vivre sa famille.

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My attempt to learn some Cape Verdean Creole

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Jogar conversa fora: gíria para indicar um bate-papo, uma conversa despretensiosa, sem muita importância.

Esta base de dados que consiste em palavras e frases que são consideradas como muito informal, são mais comuns na fala do que na escrita, e são tipicamente restritas a um determinado contexto ou grupo de pessoas. Neste caso, é gíria na internet.

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I'll never forget the first time I chatted online with a Brazilian girl.

It was only a few days after I had arrived in Brazil, and my Portuguese was a mediocre Portuñol at best. Nevertheless, it was enough for me to fumble my way through conversations and win the favor of a cute girl.

We met at a party through mutual friends and added each other on Facebook so that we could stay in contact. Later on we got to chatting, and that's when things got interesting.

We started out with polite greetings,

"oi, tudo bem?"

"tudo bom, e você?"

Then some small talk.

"A festa foi muito bom."

The party was good, but my ability to make interesting small chat still had a long way to go.

"Você lembrou a festa? Nossa, nunca vi alguém beber tanto whiskey na minha vida kkk."

Now, I had a hard time understanding all of that, but the one thing that I got from this story was that she was a lifetime member of the KKK.

I was shocked to say the least. I didn't think that they had the KKK in Brazil. She was such a nice girl too! What a shame that she is a racist. And since racism is illegal in Brazil, I didn't want to have anything to do with her, so I told her goodbye.

"O BOPE está aqui, eu tenho que ir."

"tchau, bj."

Wait, did she just say she wants to give me a blowjob? Maybe a girl who is in the KKK is into bad boys who get their doors knocked down by the Brazilian SWAT? I'd heard that Brazilians are more direct, but I wasn't expecting it like this.

I told my roommate that the girl I met was really into me and she wanted to give me a bj. I showed him the conversation and he almost broke my eardrums with "huahuahuahuahuahua."

After he recovered from his bout of laughter he explained to me that Brazilians have different acronyms when chatting online. It turns out that what I thought was racism and sexual forwardness were actually laughter and a cute way of saying goodbye.

I felt like an idiot, so I went in search of other common acronyms that Brazilians use online.

In the interest of preventing future misunderstandings I now present to you my list of Brazilian acronyms.

add - To add someone in a contact list. They might say something like "me add pf"

aff - An interjection used to display shock, either positive or negative. Derived from Ave-Maria, another Brazilian expression.

bjoks (beijocas) - Little kisses

cê (você) - you

eh (é) - An easier way of typing é. (He is; She is; It is; That's right)

etm (eu te amo) - I love you

ets (eu tenho saudades) - I miss you

FDP (filho da puta) - Son of a bitch

FDS (fim de semana) - Weekend

flw (falou) - Bye, peace out!

gnt (gente) - Person; People

hum - The equivalent of saying umm

kct (cacete) - Literally translates as penis, but is often shouted in surprise. Can be used online as WTF.

kkk - The equivalent of lol

kd or cd (cadê) - Where, as in "cadê você?"

namo (namorado; namorada) - Boyfriend; Girlfriend

nd (nada) - Nothing

p (para) - To; For (learn the difference between por and para here)

po (porra) - I don't want to have to be the one to explain this one to you, not here anyway.

pqp (puta que pariu) - A rough translation would be "holy fucking shit."

putz - another expression used in shock

rs (risos) - Laughs. similar to lol

sqn (só que não) - This is the Brazilian equivalent of teenage girls saying, "except not."

t+ (até mais) - See you later

ta (está) - This can either be used to shorten está, or it can be used to say, ok. Check out my video on "ah ta"

tamo or tamos (estamos) - A shortened form of estamos

td (tudo) - All, everything

TDB (tudo de bom) - Take care

tipo (tipo) - Like. Can be used as umm as well. It's like, what you, like, say like, when you like don't know what to say.

to (estou) - A shortened version of I am. Also used in spoken Portuguese.

uau - wow!

vlw (valeu) - Thanks, it was worth it. See my video on valeu.

zapzap - What the cool kids call Whatsapp

Did I miss anything?

Have a funny story you want to share?

Let us know in the comments.

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Internetês: A Guide to Brazilian Internet Slang - Brazilian Gringo

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I'll never forget the first time I chatted online with a Brazilian girl. It was only a few days after I had arrived in Brazil, and my Portuguese was a mediocre Portuñol at best. Nevertheless, it was enough for me to fumble my way through conversations and win the favor of a cute girl.

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"Todo mundo gosta de dizer que não tem sotaque, quem tem são os outros! Mas algum tem de ser o oficial, não é? Pois bem, é o nosso X, cantado, o carioca que tem o sotaque oficial do Brasil."

http://diariodorio.com/sotaque-carioca-o-oficial/

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Uploaded by João Patrício on 2014-03-08.

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We three want to bet on the horse (that horse) that's wearing green.
Nós três queremos apostar naquele cavalo vestido de verde.

A [nɔiʒ treiʃ ke'remuʲz-apoiʃ'ta nɐ'keli kɐ'valu viʃ'tʃidu dʒi 'veh(~x)dʒ(i)]

B [nɔis treis ke'remuʲz-apos'ta nɐ'keli kɐ'valu vis(~ɕ~z)'tʃidu dʒi 'veh(~x)dʒ](i)

C [nɔis treis ke'remuz-apos'ta(ɹ) nɐ'keli kɐ'valu vis(~ɕ~z)'tʃidu dʒi 'veɹdʒ(i)]

D [nɔs tres ke'remuz-apos'ta(r) nɐ'keli kɐ'valu vis'tʃidu dʒi 'verd(ʒ)(i)]

E [nɔs tres ke'remuz-apos'ta(ɹ) nɐ'keli kɐ'valu vis'tidu di 'veɹd(ʒ)(i)]

A - Rio de Janeiro, Northern Brazil (red)

B - South Minas Gerais, Brasília, and possibly central East coast (light purple)

C - Interior (yellow)

D - São Paulo metropolitan(dark blue/purple)

E - Southern-Interior (green)

http://linguaphiles.livejournal.com/4664795.html

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As fontes alegam que há dois grupos de dialetos brasileiros: os do Norte e os do Sul. No dialeto do Norte, também se podem distinguir duas variedades: a Amazônia eo Nordeste. No Sul, encontramos quatro variedades: a baiana, a Fluminense, a Mineira e a Sulina.

http://www.linguaportuguesa.ufrn.br/en_3.3.b.php

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The common Brazilian speech is more consistent throughout the country than what is spoken in Portugal. This surprises many people, considering that Brazil is such a large country. Comparing the various Brazilian dialects with those of the Portuguese spoken in Portugal leads us to conclude that they are fusions of different inflectional forms of the mother tongue.

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Esta árvore de línguas seria perfeita se realmente tivesse "português" na seção de romance. Uma família de línguas é um grupo de línguas relacionadas através de uma língua ancestral da família comum. O termo "família" reflete o "modelo de árvore" da origem da linguagem na lingüística histórica, que faz uso de uma metáfora que compara as línguas com as pessoas em uma árvore genealógica biológica.

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Ao longo da nossa história, milhares de línguas se desenvolveram a partir de algumas línguas. Como existem tantas línguas? Este vídeo explica como os linguistas agrupam as línguas em árvores de linguagem, demonstrando como essas famílias linguísticas nos dão informações importantes sobre o passado.

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O português é uma língua antiga ea forma escrita pode ser datada do século XII.O latim vulgar, que era falado na costa oeste da Península Ibérica, basicamente substituiu todas as línguas locais anteriores. O latim vulgar evoluiu para a língua galego-portuguesa. Isso então rompou em Galacian e em português após a incorporação de Galicia em Spain eo desenvolvimento independente de Portugal.

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http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/?p=intro

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The Oxford Cantigas de Santa Maria database | Introduction to the Cantigas de Santa Maria -

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The Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM), composed at the Court of King Alfonso X of Castile in the second half of the 13th century, are a vast repertory of poetry in medieval Galician.

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Oração ordem para o inglês, mas há mudanças. Uma das coisas complicadas com a lingua português é uma forma como as alguns orações não podem ser traduzidas em inglês. Frequentmente, uma frase a dos adjetivos e substantivos são invertidos quando você traduz uma oração.

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Portuguese Word order.

Easy ways to remember.

Boas!
Today we are going to learn about how the Portuguese word order works.
We are also going to learn how you can put words together in order to build sentences and express your thoughts.

As you know, when you speak, you use sounds.

These sounds can be graphically represented by written words.

These words will build sentences.

These sentences have to be placed in a specific order to express your ideas and thoughts.

And this order shows the way you want others to understand you.

The spectacular capacity of your brain allows you to express your thoughts by mouth noises which, when uttered in a particular order, allow you to communicate.

This applies to all spoken languages and obviously Portuguese is no exception.

My point with all of this is to make you think about the way you speak in your own language first.

Then you may realise that when you speak, you convert your thoughts into words which together and in a specific order, allow you to say what you want to say, and want others to understand.

But, if you are thinking that getting used to the correct way of putting words together and making sentences in Portuguese is not an easy task, I have good news for you.

OK, if you read any text in Portuguese or if you listen to a native Portuguese speaker talking, you may notice that sometimes the word order in Portuguese is different than the word order in English. And that's true sometimes.

You may also realise, for instance, that, whereas you say in English "Maria has a beautiful car", a Portuguese native speaker would literally say "Maria has a car beautiful".

I know, I know, this is not always the case. But remember there is a reason for everything.

The good news is that, generally speaking, the structure of a sentence in Portuguese is not much different than the one in English.

You only have to pay attention to specific cases and, at the beginner, pay attention to the kind of sentence you want to use.

The Portuguese word order is Subject (S) > Verb (V)> Object (O).

Then, you just have to link the different small sentences together with clauses to construct your story.

Basically, in order for you to get a good Portuguese word order, you just have to take into account five aspects:

1. If your sentence is a statement.

2. If your sentence is an indirect question
(a statement with a question mark at the end).

3. If your sentence is a direct question
(with a question word at the beginning and a question mark at the end).

4. If your sentence is negative
(with a negative word in it, like "não").

5. If your sentence includes a description of something
(with an adjective).

Can't quite get what I'm saying here? No worries. Let me explain one by one with some examples:

1. If a sentence is a statement.

If your sentence is a statement, you are expressing a fact. Normally you are talking about a specific event. Let's analyse the following sentences in pairs - first the Portuguese and then the English, sentence by sentence. Please compare and contrast the Portuguese word order and the English carefully.

You see, only with these type of sentences you could easily tell a story to somebody, by placing one simple sentence after another using the correct Portuguese word order.

Another interesting thing is, as you can also see, you can use the same Portuguese word order in the present, past and future tenses.

Please be aware that, when speaking in Portuguese, the subject (eu, tu, você, nós, eles, etc.) is often hidden.

This means that the verb itself indicates the subject of that sentence: e.g. " Vamos estudar hoje e amanhã." to say " We are going to study today and tomorrow."

You can also place the adverbs "today" ' "hoje" and "tomorrow" "amanhã" either at the beginning or at the end of your sentence.

Did you get this? Great! Let's jump to the next case.

2. If a sentence is an indirect question
(a statement with a question mark at the end).

If you want to ask a question in Portuguese, the Portuguese word order is exactly the same as when you make a statement. All you have to do is to raise the intonation at the end to make it sound as a question.

Please note however that whereas in English you need to use a verb at the beginning when you ask a question, in Portuguese you don't.

So, if it helps, when you are transferring your thoughts from English into Portuguese try to imagine that you could ask questions in English without the words "do", or "are" or "will", etc. at the beginning of a question:

e.g. in English you would say " Are you (gentlemen) going to schedule a meeting for tomorrow?", but in Portuguese you would say "Os senhores vão marcar a reunião para amanhã?". You start your question with the verb straight away.

In order for you to understand the correct Portuguese word order, let's observe the same phrases as above as examples:

When asking a question out loud, please don't forget to raise the intonation at the end.

OK, did you understand this second rule of the Portuguese word order? Did you get it? Good! Let-s see number three.

3. If a sentence is a direct question
(with a question word at the beginning and a question mark at the end).

In this case, in order for you to get a good Portuguese word order, all you need is a question word at the beginning of your sentence and then a statement.

Let's, once again look at the following examples. Please read them carefully one by one and pay attention to the Portuguese word order.

You see, the Portuguese word order when you ask a question is not very different from the previous explanations.

You basically keep the normal structure that a statement has adding a question word at the beginning, and obviously raising the intonation at the end, when you are speaking.

Bang! Easy! Let-s go for number four.

4. If a sentence is negative
(with the word "não" in it).

If the sentence you want to build is a negative sentence, and I mean a statement a deny (e.g. "I don't like salmon" - "Eu não gosto de salmão"), you need to place the negative word before the verb in order to get a correct Portuguese word order.

Negative words are often " não" (no, don't), " nunca" (never), " nem" (nor).

Nevertheless remember: The word order in Portuguese is still the same:

Subject. (S) > Verb (V)> Object (O).

Let's analyse some more examples of the Portuguese word order:

Do you have everything under control so far? If yes, move on to Portuguese word order rule number five.

5. If a sentence is descriptive
(with an adjective).

Here there is a radical change if you compare both, the Portuguese word order and the English one.

The descriptive word (in other words, the adjective) needs to be placed after the noun all the time.

As I mentioned above whereas in English you place the adjective before the noun, e.g. "Maria has a beautiful car", in Portuguese you need to place the adjective after the noun like "Maria has a car beautiful".

I know! It doesn't sound right when you think in English, but in the Portuguese word order it makes all sense. Believe me!

Also, when it comes to using adjectives (or describing words) in a sentence, you may use more than one.

But let's illustrate this explanation of the Portuguese word order with some examples:

Did you notice that the adjective 1 was placed the other way round compared to English?

Well, this is not big deal either, is it? If you understand this structure, let's jump to the next step to fully understand the Portuguese word order.

Practice all the structures now!

Yes, this is your next step! Don't let yourself be satisfied just by reading this page. Do some practice now.

Try to make up a story with small sentences. Put them together in the negative, asking direct and indirect questions, using adjectives, and so on. Use the correct Portuguese word order now.

Just write sentences down in Portuguese and read them out loud.

You will see that your Portuguese will improve quickly!

If you need to consult the different types of words, click here .

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Boas! Today we are going to learn about how the Portuguese word order works. We are also going to learn how you can put words together in order to build sentences and express your thoughts. As you know, when you speak, you use sounds. These sounds can be graphically represented by written words.

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Esqueça tudo o que sabe sobre o português. Aqui estão algumas frases engraçadas no Portugal e no Brasil. As traduções não fazem sentido em inglês. É semelhante à forma como os americanos dizem "hold your horses". A frase pode parecer estranha, mas foi criada por uma razão.

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Diglossia is a term in linguistics, used to describe a situation where,
in a given society, there are 2 (often) closely-related languages, one
of high-prestige (H), and one of low-prestige (L). The high-prestige language tends to be the more formalized, and its forms and vocabulary often 'filter down' into the vernacular, often in a changed form.

L-variante é a forma falada do português brasileiro, evitada apenas
conversação muito formal (debate político)
A variante H é a forma escrita do português do Brasil, evitada apenas
escrita informal (como músicas, cartas de amor, etc). Professores até usam L-variante. Enquanto explicando os alunos a estrutura e uso de H-variante. Mas na universidade , todos os alunos usem a variante H.

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Beware the Diglossia!. 'You may talk like this, but you may not write like this'. This sentence gives us a picture of the way some natural, spontaneous forms ar

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português continental VS brasileiro português

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português continental VS brasileiro português

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Quais são as diferenças de frases entre português europeu e português brasileiro? No Portugal, o português brasileiro talvez tem erros e palavras constrangedoras e pode ser considerado uma variação " inculturada " da idioma. Existem algumas frases que parecem engraçadas em um país ou outro. Esse tem 6 maneiras práticas em que você pode saber se você está lendo português europeu.

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Six ways to know it's European Portuguese

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I've seen many people in many forums and communities who ask about the differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. Some people answer that with a history lesson, some say they are basically the same while others bring up a few phrases that seem funny in one country or the other.

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Conjugando verbos é difícil às vezes. Lembrar tudo na tabela de verbos regulares pode levar muito trabalho porque existem nove tempos portugueses simples, seis no indicativo e três no subjuntivo. Existem tabelas e fórmulas que podem ajudar. Eu encontrei um site que tem uma tabela que tem tudo!

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Duolingo: Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free

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Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!

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Se você tem aprendido português, já sabe que os substantivos têm um gênero em português: são masculinos ou femininos. As principais regras do masculino e feminino para o gênero de substantivos em português são bastante simples. Mas há sempre exceções. Aqui está uma lista de palavras que terminam em "Á", mas são masculine.

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Masculine words ending in á in Portuguese

Howdy, everyone!
Today, we are going to study the masculine words ending in á in Portuguese.

As we can see in our list, all the words ending in á, with an acute accent, are masculine. This is different from the words ending in a with no accent that are feminine.

List of masculine words ending in á

Now, let's take a look at examples with some of the words from our list:

Examples with masculine words ending in á

Nós compramos um sofá muito confortável.
We bought a very comfortable sofa.

Atrás da minha casa tem o jacarandá mais bonito que eu já vi.
Behind my house there is the most beautiful jacaranda I've ever seen.

O carcará é um animal da mesma família dos falcões.
The caracara is an animal from the same family of the falcon.

Ricardo adora comer pizza e beber guaraná.
Ricardo loves to eat pizza and drink guaraná.

Marta comprou um lindo vestido de tafetá.
Marta bought a beautiful taffeta dress.

Quando eu era criança comia muito cajá com sal.
When I was a kid I used to eat cajá with salt.

Remember, guys!
The accent helps you to know if the word is masculine or feminine, ok?

So, see you on our next A Dica do Dia!
Hugs from the Rio & Learn team!

Click on the links below to see more related Dicas
Genders in Portuguese
Words ending in Ção in Portuguese
Plural of the words ending in L
Plural of the words ending in ão
Plural of words ending in vowels

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Masculine words ending in á in Portuguese - A Dica do Dia

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Howdy, everyone! Today, we are going to study the masculine words ending in á in Portuguese. As we can see in our list, all the words ending in á, with an acute accent, are masculine. This is different from the words ending in a with no accent that are feminine.

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Here's a fact: Some foreign words just really don't have equivalents in other languages. It's too bad -- people who don't speak the native tongue may never fully know the true meaning of these often touchingly beautiful and expressive words.

But we're here to help. To start you off, here are five gorgeous Portuguese words that don't really have a sufficient English translation. They're sure to enrich your non-English vocabulary, or maybe just leave you wishing there was a better, more-accepted way to convey these thoughts or feelings in English.

1. "Saudade"

It's a mixture of longing for a person, place or pretty much anything in the world and nostalgia for someone or something that is no longer near or with you, whether its absence is temporary or permanent. This prominent word is used by Portuguese speakers A LOT.

Tem quase um ano que eu não vou ao Brasil e estou morrendo de saudades.

Rough translation: I haven't been to Brazil in almost a year and I'm dying of that longing feeling.

2. "Apaixonar"

To fall in love with someone or something. Technically, the word in English would be "impassion," however it's not used in the same way and doesn't share the same word tense. Apaixonar is essentially the act of falling in love, it's the word used for that period in between "I like you" and "I love you."

Cada dia que passa eu me apaixono mais por você.

Rough translation: With everyday that passes, I fall in love with you more.

3. "Cafuné"

The act of running your fingers through someone's hair -- yes, there's a word for that. However, this one may only resonate with Brazilian Portuguese speakers.

Eu queria que você me fizesse um cafuné.

Rough translation: I wanted you to run your fingers through my hair.

4. "Lindeza"

Prettiness, used as a noun to describe someone or something, and even at times as a term of endearment. When speaking English, we would never call someone "prettiness" -- a "beauty" perhaps, but never the former. The two words just simply don't carry the same weight in both languages.

Rough translation: What prettiness!

5. "Xodó"

Another term of endearment, used particularly in northern parts of Brazil to describe the person you're in a relationship with, however loosely or officially. It's how you refer to your significant other, without having to use the word "boyfriend," "girlfriend" or "spouse," but that carries the same meaning.

Estou com saudades do meu xodó.

Rough translation: I miss my boo (closest thing we've got).

Bonus: Words ending in -inho... like beijinho.

Pro-tip: If you add -inho to the end of almost any word in Portuguese, it's essentially the English equivalent of adding "little" before it.

Rough translation: Give me a little kiss!

And words ending in -ão... like amorzão.

Now reverse that... If you add -ão to the end of almost any word in Portuguese, it's the English equivalent of attaching "big" before it.

Rough translation: My big love!

We know, these are some pretty great words, right? Still wondering why we don't have them in English...

Us too!

Note: While there may be literal translations of some of these words in English, the way that they're used in Portuguese gives them their own unique meanings -- which is why we've included them here.

BEFORE YOU GO

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5 Beautiful Portuguese Words That You Just Can't Say In English

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Here's a fact: Some foreign words just really don't have equivalents in other languages. It's too bad -- people who don't speak the native tongue may never fully know the true meaning of these often touchingly beautiful and expressive words. But we're here to help.

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Este vídeo foi feito por causa de uma experiência engraçada. Um homem queria perguntar a seu amigo se ela tinha limpado sua cozinha. Em vez disso, ele perguntou se ela tinha limpado seu "atrás". Algumas palavras em português parecem semelhantes e podem ser confusas. As coisas podem ficar bastante embaraçosas. Então aqui está uma lista de palavras que podem salvar seu dia.

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Our YouTube subscriber Martin has asked me to create a video about words that are confusing in Portuguese. He had all the reasons to ask for this video. He wanted to ask his friend if she had cleaned her kitchen. Instead, he asked if she had cleaned her "behind". It sure gave me a good laugh, but I understand that things can get pretty embarrassing. So here is a list of words that can save your day.

Let's start with Martin's experience.

Depending on the Brazilian accent, the first syllable of the word can be pronounced like the "co" in "coal" or like a "u", in which case it would sound like this: koo - zee - nya

Cozinha is a feminine noun. Martin said it in the masculine, which made it sound just like a vulgar word for "little behind".

Exemplo:

Você já limpou sua cozinha? = Have you cleaned your kitchen?

Moral of the story: kitchen is always a feminine word.

My husband's coworker walked into a clothing store in Brazil and asked where the condoms were. He meant t-shirts, but used the wrong word.

Granted, camisinha also means "small shirt". No wonder this causes so much confusion. Now you don't have to worry anymore! If you are looking for t-shirts, say "camiseta". If you are looking for shirts, say "camisa".

Exemplos:

Que camiseta massa! = What a cool t-shirt!

Onde você comprou essa camiseta? = Where did you buy this t-shirt?

Both camiseta and camisinha are feminine nouns.

On a different occasion Martin asked his friend if she could make him a "passion fruit ball". Instead of asking for bolo, he asked for bola.

Bolo is masculine. Bola is feminine.

Exemplos:

Você poderia fazer um bolo de maracujá pra mim? = Could you make me a passion fruit cake?

Eu vou jogar bola hoje = I am going to play soccer today

Another set of words that can cause confusion:

In casar, the "s" sounds like a "z".

In caçar, the "ç" sounds like an "s".

Exemplos:

Ana e Felipe vão se casar em março = Ana and Felipe are getting married in March

Eu não gosto de caçar = I don't like hunting

Here is a cultural tip for you. Single people sometimes say that they are going hunting (caçar) when they are going for a fun night out with the intention to find a new date. It is just a slangish way to say that you would like to meet someone.

Imagine this situation: Say Melanie is going on her first date with her new Brazilian friend Tiago. She had quite a busy day, so she says: "Eu estou casada". Well, now her date is terrified thinking that she is married! At Street Smart Brazil we do our best to spare you such moments of awkwardness.

Exemplos:

Estou cansada = I am tired

Milena é casada = Milena is married

Here is another pair of words that cause a great deal of confusion:

Exemplos:

Minha casa é longe daqui = My house is far from here

Bianca tem cabelo longo = Bianca has long hair

Prepositions can make a big difference:

Exemplos:

Café da manhã é minha refeição preferida = Breakfast is my favorite meal

Eu tomei muito café de manhã = I had too much coffee in the morning

Café is a masculine noun. Café da manhã is masculine, as well.

I often see the words below mixed:

Exemplos:

Hoje está muito quente, quase 40 graus = Today is very warm, almost 40 degrees

A escadaria da Lapa tem duzentos e quinze degraus = The stairway of Lapa has 215 steps

Regarding temperatures, in Brazil we always mean Celsius, so we don't need to say it.

Both grau and degrau are masculine nouns.

Exemplos:

Camila está muito gripada e com uma baita congestão nasal = Camila has a bad cold and major nasal congestion

São Paulo tem engarrafamentos imensos = São Paulo has huge traffic jams

Congestão is a feminine noun. Congestionamento is a masculine noun.

The adjective for both situations is the same: congestionado/a

Exemplos:

Camila está gripada e congestionada = Camila has a cold and is congested

A avenida Paulista está congestionada = Paulista Avenue is congested

The Portuguese word "crime" sounds almost like the English word "cream". Please do not ask your server if s/he has any "crime" 🙂

Exemplos:

Odete adora café com creme chantilly = Odete loves coffee with whipped cream

Este é meu creme hidratante preferido = This is my favorite lotion

Eu gostaria de viver em um lugar sem crimes = I would like to live in a place without crimes

Creme and Crime are masculine nouns.

Once my husband said I was his "tesoura" (=scissors). Now you do not have to go through this 🙂

Tesouro is always a masculine noun. You may use it to describe a woman; just make sure to keep the word in the masculine.

Tesoura is a feminine noun.

Exemplos:

Preciso de uma tesoura afiada para cortar este tecido = I need sharp scissors to cut this fabric

Eu sonhei que tinha um tesouro no meu quintal = I dreamed that there was a treasure in my backyard

PEDRO: Ana, você é meu tesouro = Ana, you are my treasure

I hope this is helpful. If you have friends who can benefit from the lesson, please go ahead and forward them our blog: streetsmartbrazil.com/blog

Muito obrigada e até a próxima!

Street Smart Brazil: Portuguese Lessons and Intercultural Coaching

"Condoms" by trec_lit, flickr Creative Commons:

"Cake" by Carl242, flickr Creative Commons:

"- Quem não sonhou em ser um jogador de futebol?" by Juliana Coutinho,

"The Great Duck Hunt, part II" by Eirik Newth, flickr Creative Commons:

"Casual Friday" by Sister72, flickr Creative Commons

"lone tree in the distance" by angeloangelo, flickr Creative Commons:

"Measuring Up" by lowjumpingfrog, flickr Creative Commons:

"060527breakfast2" by Dan4th, flickr Creative Commons:

"Calor 001" by Unforgettable Solitude, flickr Creative Commons:

"Escadaria da Lapa" Courtesy of Blake Washington

"20060629_0001" by Andrew Michaels, flickr Creative Commons;

"Robbery not allowed" by Arenamontanus, flickr Creative Commons:

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Iberia’s children: A short history of why Portuguese and Spanish are different

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Iberia’s children: A short history of why Portuguese and Spanish are different

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"They look similar!" I can already hear you saying. "Look, just change this, and constituci ón becomes constituição. Todo is tudu and bien is bem. Lengua is lingua, and is idioma. They're just dialects of the same language."

Yes and no.

Now, no. Portuguese and Spanish are currently quite different. You can't learn one and expect to function effortlessly in the other. Portuguese sounds are quite different from Spanish ones, as are the two languages' vocabularies. And which variety of present-day Portuguese and Spanish are we talking about, specifically? There's Argentine Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, for starters, and Canary Islands Spanish and Guinean Portuguese, not to mention the regional differences between Portuguese and Spanish dialects within Portugal and Spain themselves.

But once upon a time, yes. Portuguese and Spanish were, basically, dialects of the same language. That language was Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, from which all Romance languages spring.

Hundreds of years later, how have Portuguese and Spanish grown apart, and why? And will they always be different?

Iberian siblings

Spain and Portugal presently occupy almost the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula, the spit of land that sticks out of Western Europe just below France. (Almost, but not quite: the tiny Principality of Andorra sits snug along the border of Spain and France, ensconced in the embrace of the Eastern Pyrenees.) The Iberian Peninsula is where Portuguese and Spanish were 'born' (if languages can be born) and it is also the main reason why Portuguese and Spanish are much closer to each other than to the other major Romance languages: it has allowed them to develop in relative isolation. Indeed, this is plain to see on a map: the oceans surround the western, southern and eastern edges of the Peninsula, while to the north, the Pyrenees form a natural border with France. It is for this reason also that Portuguese and Spanish are usually known as the Iberian or Iberoamerican languages.

But Portuguese and Spanish were not the first languages on the Peninsula, nor are they those first languages' descendants. They come from a very different place.

All roads lead from Rome

The story of Portuguese and Spanish, as with all Romance languages, actually begins in Italy. Or, more specifically, with the Roman Empire, which spoke Latin and spread the language across the lands that it conquered and governed.

At their height, the Romans controlled almost all the areas immediately surrounding the Mediterranean, including modern-day Italy, Croatia, the Levant (the area around modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Syria), the Maghreb (modern-day Morocco), and the Iberian peninsula (which the Romans called 'Hispania'). Latin, as the language of the Roman Empire, was thus brought into all these places, and it gradually began to supersede the use of many other languages on the Peninsula.

Aquitanian, Tartessian, Lusitanian, Celtiberian: these are some of the languages believed to have existed on the peninsula before the arrival of the Romans in 218 BCE. All have now been lost to history (except perhaps Aquitanian, which may have survived in its possible daughter language, Basque, and which you can read about here) because Latin superseded them all in the new Roman province of Hispania. At this time, there was no Spain or Portugal to speak of; there was only Hispania, initially divided into two sections, Hispania Ulterior and Citerior, which became three from 27 BCE: Lusitania (the south-west), Baetica (the south), and Tarraconensis (the rest); and then five from 284 CE, with swathes of Tarraconensis becoming the new provinces of Galicia (the north-west) and Cartaginense (the south-east).

Thus, for the next 600 years, Latin continued to reign supreme on the Iberian Peninsula, as it did in most of the other areas of the Roman Empire.

Latin, however, was itself changing. Just as there are formal and informal versions of Arabic and Tamil today, spoken in different contexts, so too were there different varieties of Latin emerging in the Empire. There was a standardised, 'higher' version of Latin, which we call Classical Latin, spoken in more formal contexts like matters of administration and, later, in churches; and then there was the more informal Latin that everyday people spoke, which gradually came to be called colloquial or Vulgar Latin.

Vulgar Latin developed differently in different parts of the Empire. Not all the reasons for the differences are known, but one main factor could be that different parts of the Empire had different indigenous languages that came into contact with Latin, and thus different parts of the Empire had different loanwords (and eventually vocabularies) in their versions of Vulgar Latin. For example, the Vulgar Latin spoken in Spain and Portugal might have included loanwords from Celtiberian, whereas the Vulgar Latin spoken in France might have loanwords from other indigenous languages instead such as Gaulish.

Of course, Vulgar Latin was frowned upon by authorities and those from the higher echelons of society, and Classical Latin remained their language of choice; they maintained it as a unifying language that was used for administration in all parts of the Roman Empire. Thus, as long as the Empire stayed intact, so too did Latin.

Gothic and Arabic

Like all great empires, however, the Roman Empire was destined to fall. As its influence and control over the territories on its periphery began to weaken significantly, territories like Hispania began in the 5 th century CE to experience several waves of invasions by Germanic peoples like the Vandals, the Alans, and the Visigoths. Eventually, Hispania came under control of this last group, the Visigoths, who were invited to rule the province for Rome by Emperor Honorius in 415 CE, and who gradually took complete control of it, especially after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.

The new kings were native speakers of Gothic, a distant but now extinct relative of today's German and English. Gothic never really caught on in Hispania, and remained the language of the upper classes, while the majority of the population continued to use Vulgar Latin for everyday communication and interaction. However, with Classical Latin no longer readily available for 'reference' as the standard to aspire to, Vulgar Latin in Hispania likely began to change further, incorporating several new features from Gothic.

Then, beginning in 711 CE, Visigothic Hispania was almost entirely conquered by the Moors of the Umayyad Caliphate, becoming the new Muslim kingdom of Al-Andalus. In a series of swift, lightning-fast conquests, the Umayyads took almost the entire Iberian Peninsula, and replaced Gothic with Arabic as the language of the elite.

However, the Vulgar Latin dialects continued to survive in large part because most of the population remained Christian despite now being subject to heavy Arabic influence. For this reason, the Vulgar Latin of this time is known as Mozarabic. As had been the case under the Visigoth kings, Mozarabic was spoken by a large majority of the population, while Arabic was only used by the upper echelons of society.

Whence Portuguese and Spanish, then? At last, with the Muslim conquest of Spain, they were beginning to appear.

Beloved Homeland

In the northwest corner of Spain, the tiny kingdom of Asturias successfully resisted the Moors, and was able to recover and grow in strength throughout the 9 th and 10 th centuries CE. This one remaining Christian bulwark on the peninsula thus served as the nucleus of the movement known as the Reconquista or the Christian reconquering of Spain, and also as the nucleus from which Portuguese and Spanish as we know them today were eventually born.

At its inception, Asturias was composed of the modern-day regions of Asturias and Galicia, which were never fully under the control of the Moors. Indeed, Galicia especially had remained fiercely distinctive since the 4 th century. In 409 CE, slightly earlier than the rest of the peninsula, it had become a separate Roman vassal state under the Suebi, a separate Germanic race from the Visigoths, and remained an independent Suebi kingdom until 585 CE, when Visigoth King Leovigild absorbed it into the rest of Visigoth Hispania. Galician dialects of Vulgar Latin were thus already rather more divergent compared to Vulgar Latin and Mozarabic dialects on the rest of the peninsula, and even compared to their Asturian brethren.

Enter a Galician nobleman named Vimara Peres, who at the end of the 9 th century CE, led an Asturian force to conquer a sizeable chunk of Andalusian territory between the Minho and Douro rivers. Asturian King Alfonso III awarded the entire region to Peres as a County, and Peres resettled the area with Galician colonists. He also named it after the largest port city in the region, Portus Cale -taken today as the origin of the name Portugal. From this point on, Portugal began to develop its own regional identity, and indeed, its own distinct Vulgar Latin dialects, separate from the Asturian ones.

Portuguese and Spanish

Eventually, Asturias splintered into several successor states as various kings and heirs fought for control over the area. Two of these successor states were the Kingdom of Leon, and the County of Portugal, the latter of which declared its independence as a separate Kingdom from Leon in 1143 under King Afonso Henrique, and by which time had expanded to fill out most of the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Portuguese was also by this time a markedly different dialect from the other Vulgar Latin daughter dialects, and Portugal's separation from Leon ensured that this would continue to be so.

Meanwhile, Leon, later the Kingdom of Leon and Castile, gradually began to assert itself as the dominant force in the central area of the Peninsula. It eventually defeated the Moorish kingdoms, and expanded to control the territory of modern-day Spain by the end of the 15 th century CE. The Vulgar Latin daughter dialect that eventually became the language that we know today as Spanish was the Castilian dialect that originated with Leon and Castile, and which became standardised in written form in the 13 th century around the city of Toledo through the work of the Toledo School of Translators. Under the official patronage of King Alfonso X, this group worked to translate a large body of various Arabic and Hebrew texts into Latin and, for the first time, Castilian, giving Castilian a sizeable body of "official" written language, and in doing so laying the foundations for Castilian's eventual dominance over the other daughter dialects of Vulgar Latin.

Differences today

Today, both Standard Castilian Spanish and Standard Continental Portuguese reflect this rich tapestry of linguistic and cultural history, with a sizeable number of loanwords from Arabic, Gothic and (in the case of Spanish) Basque. Both languages retain similar grammatical features and syntax, and also share many cognates, or root word forms, as a result of their common descent from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the peninsula.

However, Portuguese and Spanish differ mainly because of their different origins during the period following the Muslim conquest of Iberia and the advent of the Reconquista. Modern-day Portugal was conquered and consolidated as a stable kingdom much earlier than Spain, and thus the process of the standardisation of Portuguese began earlier than that of Spanish, resulting in Portuguese retaining more recognisable features of Vulgar Latin than Spanish, whose original core dialects evolved and became standardised much later. Geography, both natural and political, has also played a part-had Portugal not remained an independent kingdom and state, it is conceivable that Portuguese might have deteriorated, much as the other Vulgar Latin dialects have today. (The reverse with Castilian Spanish is possible too, though much more unlikely, due to the relative size of the two polities).

Other Vulgar Latin dialects?

What happened to those, I hear you ask? After all, there were other successor states to Asturias, like Aragon, and Navarre. Surely they had their own unique dialects. And what happened to Leonese and Galician?

The answer is that with the process of standardisation, other dialects that have not been chosen as the standard often become marginalised and are left to simply fade away. In many cases, this is exactly what happened with the other dialects up until recent times: Aragonese, Leonese, and Navarrese are all still spoken, but by relatively few people, as Castilian Spanish became the sole language of use in almost all domains of public life after the 15 th century. Nonetheless, Galicia has managed to maintain its strong distinctive regional identity, and Galician has survived quite well into the present day as a strong marker of that identity. Galician and Portuguese continue to be rather more mutually intelligible than Portuguese and Spanish as a result of Portuguese's evolution from the Galician Vulgar Latin dialects; indeed, most linguists agree that Galician and Portuguese form a sort of continuum of intelligibility. Two other languages that have experienced a resurgence on the peninsula are Catalan, which after almost near-extinction has reemerged as one of the primary drivers of the Catalan independence movement, and Basque, very probably the last survivor of the languages originally spoken on the peninsula before the coming of the Romans.

The New World

Now that you know how Portuguese and Spanish came to be, the question is, where are they going?

In the 14 th and 15 th centuries, Portuguese and Spanish explorers were an integral part of the European Age of Exploration, which saw the colonisation and domination of Africa, the Americas, and much of Asia by European colonists. Portuguese and Spanish came to override indigenous languages in much the same way Latin did, and with almost identical end results: Spanish is now the dominant language in most of Central and South America at the expense of many native languages, while Brazilian Portuguese has far outstripped Continental Portuguese in terms of number of speakers and influence. Both languages have also left their mark on daughter languages as far flung as Tagalog in the Philippines, Kristang in Malaysia, and Guinean Creole in Guinea-Bissau.

With the collapse of the Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires in the 18 th and 19 th centuries, all these varieties and offshoots of Portuguese and Spanish have been largely left to develop on their own, much as the various dialects of Vulgar Latin were left to their own devices after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. And already we are seeing marked differences: Brazilian Portuguese speakers, for example, often pronounce initial 'd' sounds with a sound rather like the English 'j', an innovation unknown to Continental Portuguese, while Argentinian Spanish speakers are famous for their almost lyrical intonation patterns, a feature not found in Castilian Spanish. Chilean Spanish is full of loans from Quechua, while informal Angolan Portuguese is filled with loans from Kimbundu.

It seems possible that both languages might go the way of their once dominant Roman parent. Already we sometimes speak not of Portuguese and Spanish, but Portugueses and Spanishes; in a hundred years, perhaps we might even speak of an Iberian language family. As the Spanish saying goes, no hay dos sin tres -never two without three.

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Iberia's children: A short history of why Portuguese and Spanish are different | Unravel Magazine

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Once upon a time, Portuguese and Spanish were, basically, dialects of the same language: Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. Hundreds of years later, how have Portuguese and Spanish grown apart, and why? And will they always be different?

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Portuguese Words Spanish Speakers Can't Pronounce

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Although Portuguese & Spanish may be similar, there is definitely a BIG difference in pronunciation. We put some of our in-house Spanish speakers to the test, did they pass or #FAIL? Multi-lingual @ TheFlama.com http://www.theflama.com Add us on Snapchat: http://bit.ly/FlamaSnaps https://facebook.com/TheFlama https://twitter.com/theflama https://instagram.com/theflama https://theflama.tumblr.com

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A stanza of Galician-Portuguese lyric by King Dinis

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A stanza of Galician-Portuguese lyric by King Dinis

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Proençaes soen mui ben trobar
e dizen eles que é con amor,
mays os que troban no tempo da frol
e non en outro, sei eu ben que non
an tan gran coita no seu coraçon
qual m' eu por mha senhor vejo levar

Tradução:
Os provençais sabem muito bem trovar
e dizem eles que é com amor
mas os que trovam no tempo da flor
e não em outro, sei eu bem que não
há tal grande coisa no seu coração
pela qual eu por meu senhor vejo levar

Translation:
Provençal poets know how to compose very well
and they say it is out of love,
but those who compose when flowers bloom
and at no other time, I know well that they don't
have in their hearts so great a yearning
as I must carry for my Lady in mine.