This is a short post, but I believe that you will find it very useful. In English we sometimes use the verb "to get" when we mean "to buy": I am going to get tickets for the concert. In a previous lesson, we saw that the verb "pegar" is often translated as "to get". This leads English Read More
Archives for April 2010
Eu adoro o San Francisco International Film Festival! The festival is always amazing, bringing interesting films from around the world and from the USA. After the festival some of the films go to the regular theatres... but usually just a few of them! So, if you are a cinema lover, don't count on Read More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siQvtbzN-S8 I love celebrating birthdays! I think of a birthday as that very special day that brought us to this world and put the people we love in our lives. Now you will be able to chat about birthdays in Portuguese and to send and receive wishes of happy Read More
In Brazil, the minimum-income employee is entitled to receive monthly a basket of goods containing basic food necessities as part of the Government strategy to combat hunger. This product is called the Cesta Básica (Basket of Basics) and it is the essential component of a great many Brazilian Read More
Check out our Picture Gallery from Aula Viva! We had our premier Aula Viva this past Saturday and to our delight it was a great success! The students were fully engaged in working hard and totally willing to learn and have fun. What a wonderful time Larissa and I had with the students. We worked Read More
Finalmente!!! Aula Viva is tomorrow, Saturday April 10! We are excited about it! Tomorrow you will meet uma brasileira que é super bacana. Our character is originally from Salvador. Her adventurous spirit and curious nature has taken her around Brazil and off the beaten path. You know that Read More
This past Sunday 30 Portuguese language enthusiasts got together to chat. What a great way to end the Easter weekend! Our bate papo was really great! I met some old MeetUp friends and made new ones. I learned about their experience with Brazil and the Portuguese language, got to know about Read More
Oi galera, I found this video on YouTube... American journalist Seth Kugel is interviewed by vejapontocom (Veja is a Brazilian magazine and Vejapontocom is its YouTube channel) . Seth graduated in Political Science in Yale and has a master's degree in Public Politics from Harvard. He has Read More