Tag: language

Five Challenges to Visit Brazil Through the Eyes of Foreigners Living There

A survey conducted by InterNations, the largest network and information site for people working ...

An Old Classic of Portuguese Learning Gets a Welcome Makeover

As a retired instructor of Brazilian Portuguese, I was pleased to receive last week ...

Five Million Brazilians Are Learning Spanish, Soon They’ll Be 41 Million

Brazilians, over five million of them, are learning Spanish, according to the latest edition ...

Brazil Ditches Portuguese and Adopts Brazilian as Official Language

When Brazil's President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, marks Independence Day on September 7 ...

Will Brazil and Portugal Ever Agree on a Common Language?

Brazil and Portugal have signed a few orthographic (spelling) reform agreements in the past, ...

Tales of 1001 Arabic Words in the Portuguese Language

An Arab named Tarif Bem Amer set up a fiscal stop in a little ...

Brazilians, Raise Up and Swear with Me!

Dear friends, attached as a Word document is the news published in today’s (Saturday, ...

US Envy Behind Brazil’s Linguistic Reactionaryism

About two years ago I wrote an article suggesting that President Luiz Inácio Lula ...