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Archives for August 2010

Posted on 08.28.10

In my recent trip to Brazil, I spent quite some time in bookstores, as usual. I have always enjoyed livrarias. My mom says that when I was very little I would spend a long time in bookstores reading comic books. She said that by the very serious look on my face you would think I was reading about Read More

Posted on 08.25.10

I often see confusion in the use of 'tão' and 'tanto'. With this post I hope to show you that it is easy to use 'tão' and 'tanto' correctly. Even if you do not feel comfortable with grammatical terms such as adverb and adjective, you can benefit from this lesson: Just focus your attention on the Read More

Posted on 08.22.10

I am extremely happy to be able to pass on a little of Fernando Sabino’s work through our next Aula Viva Workshop. He is a part of our formation as students, us, Brazilian children… what boy or girl in Brazil, at least from the 80’s generation, didn’t read O Menino no Espelho (The Boy in the Read More

Posted on 08.21.10

Here is a great podcast in Portuguese: Café Brasil, by Luciano Pires. Café Brasil is not intended to teach Portuguese as a foreign language, but it''''s definitely a great learning tool, especially for intermediate and advanced students. Luciano Pires defines himself as an entrepreneur, multimedia Read More

Posted on 08.09.10

Last week I flew home (Recife, Brazil) to visit my family. I was pleasantly surprised to find a good selection of songs in Portuguese on the plane entertainment system. Their World Music channel had a total of 21 songs, 10 of which were in Portuguese from different places in the world. Below is a Read More

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