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Olá, olá amigos!

Calm will help the time needed to learn, everybody is different, so here is a friendly “don’t give up”: You can do it!

You know you can :)

Following are some free online resources that will help you:

The good old Google Translate, for when you just beginning to learn or in a jam;

The Michaelis dictionary, one of the most traditional printed dictionaries of the Portuguese language (PT-PT);

The mighty Cambridge Dictionary, because there are never too many dictionaries (EN-PT);

Linguee, a wonderful tool that searches words and sentences as they are translated on materials published online;

EasyPortuguese, where you can find grammar and vocabulary tips

Check back the tag #ptresources for more,

Maria de Nazaré Esteves Tedesco, or best known as “Nazaré Tedesco”, is a fictional character played by actress Renata Sorrah on the Brazilian novela (soap opera) called Senhora do Destino (2004-2005).

Nazaré is not just a famous villain TV show character among Brazilians, she is also the woman in the math thinking girl meme popular all over the world.

Nazaré also does not know which is correct: cracker or biscuit, biscoito or bolacha?

Just as in English, the answer is easy: both!

These words have the same meaning in some regions, but generally, they simply mean cookies or crackers, and about half the country agrees with the use of one or another.

Olá amigo estudante de Português!

Hello friend Portuguese learner!

It’s Joice here and I would like to introduce you to my new podcast called “The Joice Vicentim Podcast.”

There I will talk about digital marketing and communication in general, with a twist of Brazilian culture on a weekly basis.

On the first episode, I shortly talk about business applications of social media and I share a personal story of when I worked at a digital marketing agency in Brazil and how this has influenced the person that I am today.

You can listen to the episode here:

Don’t shy away if you want to contact me,

“See” you here at Pontes Project and let’s talk!

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BILINGUAL TIP

Want to keep your communication concise? Keep it clean and easy as much as possible, just as if you were talking with a friend ;)

Quer manter sua comunicação concisa? Mantenha ela limpa e fácil, o tanto quanto for possível, como se você estivesse conversando com um amigo ;)

“Portuguese, a very complicated language, darling. Four thousand irregular verbs.”

- Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) 

[But hey, you can get used to it ;) ]

Have you noticed Portuguese has four different forms to say “why” and “because”?

Here they are:

Por que: used in questions (Example: “Porque você está indo embora?”/  Why are you leaving?)

Porque: used on the explanation of a cause (Example: “Comprei esta bolsa porque estava mais barata” / I bough this purse because it was cheaper).

Porquê: It is a substantive, used to substitute the “reason” (Example: “Não consigo entender o porquê de tanta raiva / I can not understand the reason for so much anger).