How Speaking the Language Helps Break Cultural Barriers
Going to work in a foreign country can be exciting and nerve-wracking, fun and scary. Cultural barriers are a very real thing that can make the experience that much harder. So it is important to rely on a set of strategies to break cultural barriers and make it easier to live and do business in […]
Questions of Fluency in Brazilian Portuguese
Something that comes up a lot in discussions about langauge is the argument between using the language as people actually speak it (with short cuts, slang, the “eating” of letters, etc) or using it more like the way one is taught to write it (properly, following all the rules, no matter if no one else actually follows them too). In linguisitics, it’s known as descriptivism and prescriptivism, respectively.
