Cara: 5 Expressions to Sound Great Speaking Portuguese

The other day I was talking to a good friend who is from São Paulo. We hadn’t had a good chat in a while. It was great to catch up. Being from São Paulo, my friend uses the word Cara quite a lot. She uses it as I explain in section 5 in this post. […]

Colloquial Portuguese from the Headlines: Livrar a cara

 

Josh, from our Facebook community, asked a good question: “What does ‘livrar a cara’ mean?”

Lately this expression has been very present in news articles about Brazilian politics. Everyone in Brazil is now discussing the newest huge corruption scandal: CPI do Cachoeira.