New Year’s and Christmas Vocabulary in Portuguese

New Year’s and Christmas Vocabulary in Portuguese - Portuguese lesson

Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s that time of the year, and I love it ♥ Are you going to celebrate Christmas and welcome the new year with Brazilian family and friends? Maybe you will spend the holidays in Brazil. How awesome is that, right? Then let’s get your New Year’s and Christmas vocabulary in Portuguese ready […]

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Living here, it really feels like every other week there’s some sort of day off…either that, or there’s been an apocalypse (ie, everyone disappeared) and I didn’t get the note. The easiest way to tell there’s a holiday on a weekday is not to consult a calendar but to walk down the street. Virtually every shop will be closed and the neighborhood will resemble a ghost town. In fact, similar scenes can be found every weekend since Sundays are no different.